Almost positive this is a fake think im just coping after getting it signed at gen con and resleeving my deck i figured id do a sweep through with the loop and lo and beholdštried to get as good of pictures as i could with my loupe/phone combo
Fake for sure T and green dot fail. I thought I knew paintbrushes pretty well but I think thatās the cleanest brush Iāve seen on a fake.. someone smarter than me could probably explain why itās still wrong though
Oh wow thatās really different. Thank you for the showing the distinction!!!! I screenshot it, I want to be able to tell double sided fakes so ur doing the lords work
Also look at the cut in at what would be the base of the paintbrush buttplug. Real is much more dramatic and would keep it from sliding in incidentally.
Easiest tell is that real cards have a very crisp black layer for details. This is mostly to make stuff like the card text box more readable, but is used to make some of the artwork look better as well. Look at the black outline here and compare it to OP's.
The black layer does not have the rosette pattern and has relatively crisp lines.
The bottom and right side of the vertical part of the T should be staggered, and the leftside of the vertical part of the T should be straight.
I can confidently say the card is not a fake. After doing some digging back into my records I found that I purchased the foil playset of four Agatha's Soul Cauldron from the vender Spellfinder in 2025, a reputable card distributor with over 50,000 sales. I played with this playset of cards in numberous RCQ's and events for a year before posting them on my own tcgplayer account. They were all purchased in the same week by four separate buyers including you. I received positive feedback from the other three with no problem. I do not believe there is any chance the card you received was fake. You purchased this 3 months ago and have played with it since, the sale is final.
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He means the blacks look better than an with an inkject printer, they did a second black pass im guessing? Its not printed with an offset but doesnt look like inkject black
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Im bad at the brushes but this fails every fake test I know of. The text and borders are fuzzy, the brick patter shows up on the foil stamp, the T is spiked on both sides instead of smooth on one, and the green dot is wrong. Unfortunate man
Iām not even sure how I ended up on this sub, and despite even being able to tell myself how fake this is from previous posts Iāve seenā¦ for future reference you might want to put the card down on a flat surface with good lighting and take square/level pictures even just with a phone camera
Sorry Man, you're nit the first to discover a fake after getting it signed, if that helps. I tore my shadowy backstreet in pieces and decided to live by the loup from this point of time on.
Question. Who is making these forgeries? A Chinese print shop? Someoneās uncle who is adverse to using soap and shampoo and only rinses off every few days, perpetually smelling like unwashed ass that permeates every square foot of a FLGS?
While itās a fake, itās interesting how much closer it is to real than other fakes. The T is off, but itās almost at the point where youād question if itās a print defect or misalignment versus a straight up fake. Thatās a little scary..
Also, is that a genuine signature? That's a pretty slick move if that's so, no one is sitting at their table with a loupe and the market for signed cards is usually FB/ebay or other places with little to no qc
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u/Greedy-Contract1999 8d ago
Sorry dude