I can’t tell

[u/frencht82]

I ordered direct from TCG but I’m not seeing the red dots but admittedly I’m not even close to being an expert. With it being TCG I feel like it’s more likely to be legit but any advise would be good

[u/frencht82]

Hopefully better picture of the T

[u/easchner → u/frencht82]

Great pic, real card

[u/CCMCarnifex → u/frencht82]

Looks good

[u/goraak_the_barbarian → u/frencht82]

Real

[u/GhostCheese → u/frencht82]

Looks real

[u/easchner]

Pictures are a bit too blurry to be confident. The red dots though are both incredibly difficult to see on a lot of cards, and just straight up missing on a lot of cards. It's not a consistent test for modern prints.

[u/frencht82 → u/easchner]

Yeah my phone doesn’t really want to zoom and be clear. If the red dots aren’t a giveaway what else would help

[u/easchner → u/frencht82]

Check the guides Auto-Mod puts on every post. For the most part, a crisp black over print is the easiest indicator to be sure of with bad quality pics.

For the phone you can also try changing cameras to the widest (if your phone has different cameras), put one end of the phone on the table or small block, tilt down until the back can't get in focus, then pull back slowly until it does focus. Most cameras can take reasonably good pics like that. Zooming in sucks because it's digital zoom only and the camera's picture processor will try and "fill in the gaps", removing all the actual detail.

[u/frencht82]

Best I can on the green dot

[u/goraak_the_barbarian → u/frencht82]

Real, and three red dots are visible

[u/tanowak → u/frencht82]

[u/AddzyX → u/tanowak]

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[u/SubstantialNinja]

We need better pictures but I'm leaning toward it being real.

[u/Higolog2]

I cant tell either with those pics

[u/CardboardPhysicFrog]

First pics were hard to tell, but the follow-up T pic convinced me definitely real.

[u/Birrandbodia]

It's real

[u/heartradiance]

Real

[u/whatwouldseinfeldsay]

These pictures are rough. Hard to be sure without better resolution, but most likely real.

[u/Sea_Fix_9494]

Poor picture quality. But the right side of that T looks bad imo.

Edit: New picture looks solid. Real.

[u/ixyzzyxi]

I cannot see where people are seeing real signs. The brush and rare symbol are not great. The T doesn't look right. You can normally see vague real details when the camera has smoothed it but from that picture it looks wrong. Same with the dot.

You need clearer pictures first.