What dzeeff thinks his neighbors are doing: *peering through window* dzeeff's recording, kids! Bring out all your instruments and speakers! Call the airport to fly a plane over! What viewers hear his neighbors doing: *absolutely nothing*
You forgot the final boss of yugioh bootlegs: Flea market yugioh cards. These cards have really vibrant colors, hilariously incorrect card names, and insane attack values. I remember seeing a Jinzo as "Man Machine" with the attribute being "Darkness". So apparently Man Machine is a Devil junta effect monster that "if trap cards are exist, they no longer exist if this card is placed alive"
Omfg yesss these were the best. The most goofy looking fake cards with super round edges, absurd card names and descriptions and cheesy "prismatic" holographics. Aah the memories...kinda wish I still had some or knew where they were stashed at.
I have two "carousi fighters" that are fake BLS ritual editions and two different fake blue-eyes, but one is called "white dragon wiht blue eye". That spelling mistake has been the funniest thing in my life probably for a consistent ten years at least.
King Of Thunder Hameng effect reads: "This card can not be summoaned ordinarily, three sustainable magic cards in one's own field shall be sent to tomb and can only be summoned. When This card destroy opponent beast and is sent to tomb, it shall bring a damage of 1000 basic scores to opponent. When this card has a side defense and has field of presence, the opponent can not choose other beasts as attacking target."
I love that like, with Magic counterfeit cards they've gotten really good the cardstock is the same the foil stamp is the same the font is the same the thickness is the same old tests that people used to use don't work anymore and the time where the counterfeiters have the same printing technology as the company is fast approaching and with Yu-gi-oh! it's like, "you can tell it's a fake because they made one little mistake - the name of the card is just completely fucking wrong"
@@OsirusHandle That could be an interesting philosophical problem in general, like a Theseus' Ship of card printing. If a third party acquires enough of the same equipment that the actual company uses to print their cards, and if that third party gets all the characteristics of their cards exactly right so that there is no difference between the card printed by the third party and the original company, is the card even a counterfeit anymore? Or can it now be considered a legitimate copy?
@@johnwalker1058 Legitimacy here, at least how Konami would want you to believe, would depend purely on who the money trail lead to; Konami execs or some rando card printer. Capitalism is often a bit rediculous like this, but thats how the law would have it work.
You missed an obvious mistake with the fake Call of the Haunted, well at least for those who play the game - the artwork on the fake is taken from the OCG artwork of the card instead of the TCG work. The OCG art has gravestones in the shapes of cross which got censored in the TCG to avoid any religious connotations. Just thought I'd point that incase you missed! Anyways loved the vid, and keep up the awesome content you make!
Indeed. I was waiting for dzeff to point that out too. The most ridiculous fake YGO card I've seen was the one that combined the artwork of all five pieces of Exodia and actually has the word "Infinite" for the ATK and DEF. I say _combined artwork_ because due to the face of Exadia being zoomed in its own card, the shoulders looked disproportionately big to the shoulders of the "Arm of the Forbidden One" cards.
Yugioh fakes aren’t as a advanced as magic because most of valuable yugioh cards are foil and harder to fake.magic non foil cards are more valuable then commons in yugioh
My entire childhood i bought a ton of fake cards thinking they were real, the first time i bought and touched a real one i almost cried to death. (i'm from brazil btw)
For me it was worse, because I was aware of original cards, then I asked in my birthday for decks, and my rich aunts bought me a fake one..............
I had a dream about fake cards last night, I was walking around a random school and on the ground in 3 different places, I found 3 copies of evenly matched, and I was really excited, so I pocketed them, and later in the dream I showed them to my friend, and they turned into 2 copies of sakuretsu armor , and a random fake card which I didn't know the name of, I was so sad.
I was the fakes expert at school when I was young, partially because I got so many. I would be able to tell any card if it was fake or not, and of cause there was arguments and stuff but looking back I was nearly always right, nearly. Some cards that had weird official releases would confuse me though like the god cards themselves. These skills stuck with me through to today as I'm able to tell fakes for MTG fairly well (gosh are MTG fakes hard to catch), but we really didn't care too much at school anyway, fakes were expected, reals were the exception and just valued higher. Nobody played tournaments so it never mattered.
Can you Judge my recently bought cards if they are real or Fake? I would appreciate that since I can't tell which are fake or real. They are random cards I bought from a seller online.
As a kid, I was fooled by that fake Obelisk (except the version I had didn't have any typos in the card text). I spent $12 via Ebay on a set of counterfeit Egyptian Gods back then and didn't realize they were fake until my cousin pointed out the font and image quality issues. Another scam I remember well was when my mom would go to flea markets and buy me sets of cards; they'd always put a real card at the top of the stack (usually something trash), but then every other card would be counterfeit, so my mom would often come home with a stack of fake cards for me.
A common way I remember telling if a card was fake or not when I was young was if there was a gold or silver square on the bottom right-hand corner of a card. If there was a silver square there shouldn't be a 1st edition text on it. Many of the fake cards at the time were like that and so it was a general rule of thumb for myself. Whether or not that was actually the correct way of identifying fake cards I'm unsure.
Yugioh fakes aren’t as a advanced as magic because most of valuable yugioh cards are foil and harder to fake.magic non foil cards are more valuable then commons in yugioh
When I was in high school, there was a guy who I played Yu-gi-oh with at lunch. One day he came in with a couple of faded and/or off-color Obelisk the Tormentor cards, which he claimed were "misprints." Looking back, it was pretty obvious they were fake. Not sure how I fell for that. I traded him what I thought would be a fair trade. (Valkyrion the Magna Warrior, if I remember right (which may have also been a bootleg, now that I think about it)) Once I actually got a good look at the Obelisk card, I realized it was literally just a print-out glued to a real card. (likely a common) I confronted him the next day, and to his credit, he admitted it, and even offered to trade back. In the end, I decided to keep the fake Obelisk, just for the novelty
I had a friend who did this with a Slifer 😂 Except he later told me how he did it after I asked where he got it from. I legit thought it was real entire time.
Omfg thank baby Jesus for 1080p 🤣 makes seeing what you're talking about so much better. Lol. Also idk if it's so much the stars on the obelisk, but more the position of the card name box thing. U know what I mean? Also position of the attribute is funky. That whole top area is wack 😂
where you said set number, in reference to the numbers on the bottom left side of the card, those were actually passwords that would unlock said card in the ygo games.
Got an impression that in the very past there was a whole big monopoly around fake card printing because I remember having so super random types of fakes where all info was collected from different cards.
I'm so glad I watched this. I think based on your tips that I have 3 real ones. I also noticed how the pattern of the card itself (the sort of stains in blue on the front if that makes sense) look different from the fake ones.
One thing you didn't mention is that 1st Edition and Limited Edition cards have Gold Stickers on the bottom right of the card instead of Silver. This would've been a very easy way of seeing that those cards were fake as they all said 1st Edition but had Silver Stickers.
You forgot several obvious signs. "1st edition" cards must have golden hologram and the fakes ones you've shown have silver. Also, there is a common fake sign at the back of the card - the white border around the text "TRADING CARD GAME". Fake cards have this border entirely white, and this border on real cards is shady white, not as bright and solid.
so i was replacing all the commons in my dark magician deck with rarer varieties of the same cards and i obviously bought like tins and boxes to try pull some of the cards instead of buying each as a single. but i only wound up pulling one magician's rod, so i went online and bought two singles from the same set. but when they came in the mail they were less shiny (super) the one i pulled was much more distinct in it's rarity. and since i just noticed this video and you said you're open to questions, i'd just like to ask your opinion, is it normal (i've only recently gotten back into the game, maybe a year ago) or did i get scammed by the tins? (because the place i bought the singles from came highly reccommended by the peeps at my local hobby shop) literally the only difference is the foil on the picture.
There is actually a card shop in a shopping centre where I live that, for a while, used to sell fake Yugioh cards and tins in addition to selling originals when I was like eleven or twelve (they've stopped srlling them since). The tins actually looked pretty good at first glance, but the text on the back was a bit messed up and there'd be things like "official booster pack tin", but when you open it it's just a stack of fake cards in a plastic podium-like thing. I used to own so much of that shit as a kid, lol
I've a set of 6 cards in that gold border, rough surface cards. They came in a set which looked right except they were desaturated. Those gold borders are some of my favourites
4:45 As far a I know (graphic designer), the typeface used in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is either "Matrix" or some modification if it, to give it some uniqueness (which might be), the type being in "Book" font with "smallcaps" for the card name and regular Upper and Lower case for the effect text and italics for the normal monsters flavor. Those bootleggers are really cheap if they don't want to spend the $40 or so to purchase the whole type family and just make them look genuine or they are just too dumb.
i remember back then in vietnam (10 years back alrd) we only bought bootleg cards. Well there's no official konami vendors there so it's the only thing we could get our hands on. Some cards looked exactly the same as the ones in videos, but we got our hands on the best fake cards before. Everything was perfectly on spot (the font, color, the level stars etc) except that there's no glossy surface so the image will be damaged with white spots over time due to friction (we didnt have sleeves either). They were hella cheap though, 1 usd dollar for like 40-50 cards.
Why does the duel master's guide dark paladin have a silver anubis hologram? It's limited edition. Every picture and listing has the card with a sliver hologram. Does anyone know?
Sometimes real cards have miscuts too. I remember a certain fluffal I had was real, cause it came with all the other boosters and we all open it together. It had quite a bad miscut. Not sure which pack though, its been so long.
Yup. miscut happens on authentic cards too. Commonly, the cut can be seen at the top and bottom part of the cards. Rarely on the sides. Miscuts mostly happens at the front part of the card and should be equal at the back.
[Enod of world] comes. Eight cards in field and hands together shall be regarded as sacrifice. When this card is used to fight and damage opponent monster, it can be used to attack for once. That's not a typo, it's indeed written like that on the bootleg card. Maybe it uses 8 cards from the field and hand to be summoned? I still don't know... and maybe after it attacks and damages it can attack once again?
So I just found out that all my yugioh cards from YEARS ago and thus my only yugioh cards, are all fake. Example : lv 10 beaver warrior atk/1200 def/1500 [beast-warrior]. Another one: Trojan Horse lv 8 atk/1600 def/1200 [beast series.effect]. As well as the prominent stars and other clear mis-spellings. But still thanks and great video.
Also, note how the fake cards have "1st Edition" written in them, but the square on the bottom-right is SILVER rather than GOLD. And fake Call of the Haunted uses the OCG artwork.
I mostly listen through my built in phone speaker at half volume so background stuff you can hear on a larger speaker on a desktop for example aren't as noticeable
I remember going into this small shop in this big mall and there was a shop that has a box full of yugioh cards that had these firework shiny effects there was even these tiny boxes that had characters from the anime with their respective card. I even told the owner if they were real and he said they were real lol
Does the sticker matter if it’s silver or gold cuz most yugioh cards I see have a gold sticker but then I see people not bating an eye at the silver sticker
I have 2 of the same cards from the same deck, they look identical and both have the right text and font but one card has a darker hue, that's the only difference otherwise both of them are the same so i cant tell if it's a fake or not. Also i pretty new to collecting
Just starting to watch the video, but i already would love to send you all my fake cards... It's amazing how many of them are and how many you buy as a child that really wants to play his game.
also the text on Obelisk is much "longer" then the OG one. if you look at the last 2 words on the OG one, the second last word is up one line, then all the way on the far right, and the final word is one line down, and all the way on the far left. on the fake one, both second last and last word are both at the bottom.
Hello i wanted to ask something i got a blue eyes ultimate dragon from a pack it seems legit not fake but it dosen't have a card id does that makes it a fake card?
i have a d-hero doled guy and it is genuine but the art is different( its a picture from the anime) and i cant find one like this anywhere so is it real or a new card idk
To be fair, I did hear a single drum note right after you mentioned your neighbors kids playing drums in the street. That is the only background noise I heard though.
On the cards like Tornado Wall and Hammer Shot, you can notice they are 1st Edition but the Eye of Anubis in the bottom right is silver when it's supposed to be gold for 1st ed. I owned a ton of fake cards and sometimes that was the only difference.
I just got a Toon Mermaid from Magic Ruler set. The set number and text were touching some of the borders and it looked a little off. Everything else checks out, so I'm just going to roll with it. If it is a fake, it's Hammer Shot-esque.
Thanks for the help, though I am still unsure if the Exodia card I recently bought is fake. I got it from Core TCG and they list it as a "single card from the gold eldorado set" my suspicion lies in the "Dark" attribute, the Japanese character is a bit smushed
Stupid question: one of my kids got a crad that has no markings on hte back. All of his cards have Konami on the upper left corner and no YuGiOh! on the bottom right. I am thinking this is a fake card but just want to me sure.
I had so much fake cards when I was young. Maybe 1 to 2 meters tall cards if you stack them. Taller than me. I know they are fake because I buy them For 1 Philippine peso per pack ( each pack has 5 or 10 cards, I can't remember). So they were so cheap. Looking back. Didn't have regret buying them since it's what I look forward buying after school. I don't know where they are now. It magically disappeared. I wish I still had them. They are very nostalgic.
Normally, I don't hear anything in the background whenever a CC mentions it, but this time, I do, surprisingly. It's really faint though, good enough that it won't annoy me at all
I have 2 MST, but each has different wording. [YS15-ENL17 Target 1 Spell/Trap Card on the field; destroy that target.] [SD3-EN015 Destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field.] Is it like being updated or something? What I really want to ask is that can I still use it?
You can't call yourself a true old school yugi-oh player if you haven't come in contact or owned a fake Tornado Wall, I swear they did a million of that one.
The Call also has the (OCG) non-censored art with English language, but that probably requires some research (I’ve been building collection lately and looking into obscure stuff like that).
I wish I'd kept hold of some of my fake cards, they're kinda interesting in their own way. I actually know of someone that goes out of their way to get fake cards, just because of how interesting they can be
dzeeff's apologizing for a noise that isn't there is only matched by his insisting of this not being a pack opening channel when it is
but if you listen really closely at the start you can hear the drumming in the background I swear
Agreed.
I did hear the plane when i past by
We CaNt HeAr It
I couldn’t hear anything lol
Not a noise hearing channel
What dzeeff thinks his neighbors are doing: *peering through window* dzeeff's recording, kids! Bring out all your instruments and speakers! Call the airport to fly a plane over!
What viewers hear his neighbors doing: *absolutely nothing*
"always just look at the stars." -Dzeeff, 2018
Out of context, that sounds really encouraging.
Not always the case knock offs are getting pretty legit looking
You forgot the final boss of yugioh bootlegs: Flea market yugioh cards. These cards have really vibrant colors, hilariously incorrect card names, and insane attack values. I remember seeing a Jinzo as "Man Machine" with the attribute being "Darkness". So apparently Man Machine is a Devil junta effect monster that "if trap cards are exist, they no longer exist if this card is placed alive"
My mom fell for those all the time and brought me decks of fake cards on multiple occasions as a kid. I relate to this way too deeply.
Wait?!?! Are you saying that my secret rare Man Machine is fake?!?! I spent 70 dollars on that card
Omfg yesss these were the best. The most goofy looking fake cards with super round edges, absurd card names and descriptions and cheesy "prismatic" holographics. Aah the memories...kinda wish I still had some or knew where they were stashed at.
op
I have two "carousi fighters" that are fake BLS ritual editions and two different fake blue-eyes, but one is called "white dragon wiht blue eye". That spelling mistake has been the funniest thing in my life probably for a consistent ten years at least.
Mtg fakes: "Legitimate problem, can be almost impossible to identify"
YuGiOh fakes: *Lol lemme draw a card in crayon real quick*
King Of Thunder Hameng effect reads: "This card can not be summoaned ordinarily, three sustainable magic cards in one's own field shall be sent to tomb and can only be summoned. When This card destroy opponent beast and is sent to tomb, it shall bring a damage of 1000 basic scores to opponent. When this card has a side defense and has field of presence, the opponent can not choose other beasts as attacking target."
I love that like, with Magic counterfeit cards they've gotten really good the cardstock is the same the foil stamp is the same the font is the same the thickness is the same old tests that people used to use don't work anymore and the time where the counterfeiters have the same printing technology as the company is fast approaching
and with Yu-gi-oh! it's like, "you can tell it's a fake because they made one little mistake - the name of the card is just completely fucking wrong"
If the counterfeiter have the exact same tech as the owner company, is it really a counterfeit? An interesting problem for capitalism.
@@OsirusHandle
That could be an interesting philosophical problem in general, like a Theseus' Ship of card printing. If a third party acquires enough of the same equipment that the actual company uses to print their cards, and if that third party gets all the characteristics of their cards exactly right so that there is no difference between the card printed by the third party and the original company, is the card even a counterfeit anymore? Or can it now be considered a legitimate copy?
@@johnwalker1058 Legitimacy here, at least how Konami would want you to believe, would depend purely on who the money trail lead to; Konami execs or some rando card printer. Capitalism is often a bit rediculous like this, but thats how the law would have it work.
Unfortionatly there are food LOB fakes. Got a fake 1st ed pot of geed from tcg player
When the counterfeit is 1:1 replica then they are classed as “unofficial” identical just unauthorised printing.
You missed an obvious mistake with the fake Call of the Haunted, well at least for those who play the game - the artwork on the fake is taken from the OCG artwork of the card instead of the TCG work. The OCG art has gravestones in the shapes of cross which got censored in the TCG to avoid any religious connotations. Just thought I'd point that incase you missed! Anyways loved the vid, and keep up the awesome content you make!
WarriorWerchii I thought I was the only one who noticed
Indeed. I was waiting for dzeff to point that out too. The most ridiculous fake YGO card I've seen was the one that combined the artwork of all five pieces of Exodia and actually has the word "Infinite" for the ATK and DEF. I say _combined artwork_ because due to the face of Exadia being zoomed in its own card, the shoulders looked disproportionately big to the shoulders of the "Arm of the Forbidden One" cards.
And another missed thing: the golden hologram (on bottom right) on the 1st edition cards. Fake cards don't have it.
Yugioh fakes aren’t as a advanced as magic because most of valuable yugioh cards are foil and harder to fake.magic non foil cards are more valuable then commons in yugioh
My entire childhood i bought a ton of fake cards thinking they were real, the first time i bought and touched a real one i almost cried to death. (i'm from brazil btw)
Emolga Emolga Thats sad
For me it was worse, because I was aware of original cards, then I asked in my birthday for decks, and my rich aunts bought me a fake one..............
come to brazil
Eduardo Augusto I think you got Bamboozled or con
I have a ton of fake cards and i have never seen a real one irl (i'm also from brazil)
When I was a kid I had loads of fakes like this. Its so nostalgic to see in a bizzare way.
The stars on real yugioh cards look like they thought of the celestial body instead of the shape.
With the obelisk i dont think it has the "limited edition"
The Raging storm though can destroy spells and traps "entirely" which I guess is better than destroying them "partly"
lol
Destroying them entirely is probably the problem-solving text version of "rip your opponents card in real life"
I love reading the text on fake cards...comedy gold!
I had a dream about fake cards last night, I was walking around a random school and on the ground in 3 different places, I found 3 copies of evenly matched, and I was really excited, so I pocketed them, and later in the dream I showed them to my friend, and they turned into 2 copies of sakuretsu armor , and a random fake card which I didn't know the name of, I was so sad.
That’s not a dream. That’s a nightmare.
Owen Lloyd biggest low blow ever dude I'm sorry T_T
Are you sure you weren't just playing yugioh GX tag force on the PSP
I was the fakes expert at school when I was young, partially because I got so many. I would be able to tell any card if it was fake or not, and of cause there was arguments and stuff but looking back I was nearly always right, nearly. Some cards that had weird official releases would confuse me though like the god cards themselves. These skills stuck with me through to today as I'm able to tell fakes for MTG fairly well (gosh are MTG fakes hard to catch), but we really didn't care too much at school anyway, fakes were expected, reals were the exception and just valued higher. Nobody played tournaments so it never mattered.
The expert man
The hero they all needed and all hated...
@@AthenaAeon but some loved him
Can you Judge my recently bought cards if they are real or Fake? I would appreciate that since I can't tell which are fake or real. They are random cards I bought from a seller online.
Why doesn't konami sue this fake card companies?
The bootleg call of the haunted has the japanese art too
"Most Yugioh cards *these days* are fairly sturdy. Especially the old ones"
Wait, what?
They become stale so the older they are rhe sturdier they become
@@ShadowOfOurHearts yup yup it's like bread, it should have been kept at room temperature rather than the refrigerator lol
Something to look for is that if the card says 1st edition, it won't have a silver square in the right corner (see that fake Call of the Haunted).
As a kid, I was fooled by that fake Obelisk (except the version I had didn't have any typos in the card text). I spent $12 via Ebay on a set of counterfeit Egyptian Gods back then and didn't realize they were fake until my cousin pointed out the font and image quality issues. Another scam I remember well was when my mom would go to flea markets and buy me sets of cards; they'd always put a real card at the top of the stack (usually something trash), but then every other card would be counterfeit, so my mom would often come home with a stack of fake cards for me.
A common way I remember telling if a card was fake or not when I was young was if there was a gold or silver square on the bottom right-hand corner of a card. If there was a silver square there shouldn't be a 1st edition text on it. Many of the fake cards at the time were like that and so it was a general rule of thumb for myself. Whether or not that was actually the correct way of identifying fake cards I'm unsure.
That hamon got the maximum gold rarity
I can’t hear it
Yugioh fakes aren’t as a advanced as magic because most of valuable yugioh cards are foil and harder to fake.magic non foil cards are more valuable then commons in yugioh
@@levig.7159 that was not what he was talking about
Harmon is just a thunder type, that’s actually surprising
When I was in high school, there was a guy who I played Yu-gi-oh with at lunch. One day he came in with a couple of faded and/or off-color Obelisk the Tormentor cards, which he claimed were "misprints." Looking back, it was pretty obvious they were fake. Not sure how I fell for that. I traded him what I thought would be a fair trade. (Valkyrion the Magna Warrior, if I remember right (which may have also been a bootleg, now that I think about it)) Once I actually got a good look at the Obelisk card, I realized it was literally just a print-out glued to a real card. (likely a common) I confronted him the next day, and to his credit, he admitted it, and even offered to trade back. In the end, I decided to keep the fake Obelisk, just for the novelty
I had a friend who did this with a Slifer 😂 Except he later told me how he did it after I asked where he got it from. I legit thought it was real entire time.
Omfg thank baby Jesus for 1080p 🤣 makes seeing what you're talking about so much better. Lol. Also idk if it's so much the stars on the obelisk, but more the position of the card name box thing. U know what I mean? Also position of the attribute is funky. That whole top area is wack 😂
where you said set number, in reference to the numbers on the bottom left side of the card, those were actually passwords that would unlock said card in the ygo games.
Got an impression that in the very past there was a whole big monopoly around fake card printing because I remember having so super random types of fakes where all info was collected from different cards.
"There's a kid drumming outside" "this isn't a pack opening channel"
I'm so glad I watched this. I think based on your tips that I have 3 real ones. I also noticed how the pattern of the card itself (the sort of stains in blue on the front if that makes sense) look different from the fake ones.
One thing you didn't mention is that 1st Edition and Limited Edition cards have Gold Stickers on the bottom right of the card instead of Silver. This would've been a very easy way of seeing that those cards were fake as they all said 1st Edition but had Silver Stickers.
You forgot several obvious signs. "1st edition" cards must have golden hologram and the fakes ones you've shown have silver. Also, there is a common fake sign at the back of the card - the white border around the text "TRADING CARD GAME". Fake cards have this border entirely white, and this border on real cards is shady white, not as bright and solid.
Glad you have your share of floppy toacos in yugioh, timmy. :)
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so i was replacing all the commons in my dark magician deck with rarer varieties of the same cards and i obviously bought like tins and boxes to try pull some of the cards instead of buying each as a single. but i only wound up pulling one magician's rod, so i went online and bought two singles from the same set. but when they came in the mail they were less shiny (super) the one i pulled was much more distinct in it's rarity. and since i just noticed this video and you said you're open to questions, i'd just like to ask your opinion, is it normal (i've only recently gotten back into the game, maybe a year ago) or did i get scammed by the tins? (because the place i bought the singles from came highly reccommended by the peeps at my local hobby shop) literally the only difference is the foil on the picture.
There is actually a card shop in a shopping centre where I live that, for a while, used to sell fake Yugioh cards and tins in addition to selling originals when I was like eleven or twelve (they've stopped srlling them since). The tins actually looked pretty good at first glance, but the text on the back was a bit messed up and there'd be things like "official booster pack tin", but when you open it it's just a stack of fake cards in a plastic podium-like thing. I used to own so much of that shit as a kid, lol
I've a set of 6 cards in that gold border, rough surface cards. They came in a set which looked right except they were desaturated. Those gold borders are some of my favourites
4:45 As far a I know (graphic designer), the typeface used in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is either "Matrix" or some modification if it, to give it some uniqueness (which might be), the type being in "Book" font with "smallcaps" for the card name and regular Upper and Lower case for the effect text and italics for the normal monsters flavor. Those bootleggers are really cheap if they don't want to spend the $40 or so to purchase the whole type family and just make them look genuine or they are just too dumb.
The gb1 gods did have the Japanese writing on the bottom so that wouldn't be a dead giveaway
i remember back then in vietnam (10 years back alrd) we only bought bootleg cards. Well there's no official konami vendors there so it's the only thing we could get our hands on. Some cards looked exactly the same as the ones in videos, but we got our hands on the best fake cards before. Everything was perfectly on spot (the font, color, the level stars etc) except that there's no glossy surface so the image will be damaged with white spots over time due to friction (we didnt have sleeves either). They were hella cheap though, 1 usd dollar for like 40-50 cards.
This video made my taco floppy.
This man knows his garbage fire investments!
Oh you know about some ice age investments!
Thank you so much for this 👏
Why does the duel master's guide dark paladin have a silver anubis hologram? It's limited edition. Every picture and listing has the card with a sliver hologram. Does anyone know?
CAVALIER KIA, FRED??? Best card name ever! Of all time!
I remember having a polymerization on my deck with the flavor text of the Elemental hero Wingman
Mine doesn’t have the grey box down there is that bad pls answer
The fake obelisk looks cooler to me especially with the text box being more blue
Those "best fakes" some in these really nice looking but flimsy metal tins which makes them appealing, I have gotten several just for the tin
Definitely hearing a lot of noise. Some guy keeps talking over some pack openings
Sometimes real cards have miscuts too. I remember a certain fluffal I had was real, cause it came with all the other boosters and we all open it together. It had quite a bad miscut. Not sure which pack though, its been so long.
Yup. miscut happens on authentic cards too. Commonly, the cut can be seen at the top and bottom part of the cards. Rarely on the sides. Miscuts mostly happens at the front part of the card and should be equal at the back.
Good. So how does Goodness of Wreckage Luying effect work? Cause I stopped the video to read it, and i have no clue what it does.
[Enod of world] comes. Eight cards in field and hands together shall be regarded as sacrifice. When this card is used to fight and damage opponent monster, it can be used to attack for once.
That's not a typo, it's indeed written like that on the bootleg card. Maybe it uses 8 cards from the field and hand to be summoned? I still don't know... and maybe after it attacks and damages it can attack once again?
So I just found out that all my yugioh cards from YEARS ago and thus my only yugioh cards, are all fake. Example : lv 10 beaver warrior
atk/1200 def/1500 [beast-warrior]. Another one: Trojan Horse lv 8 atk/1600 def/1200 [beast series.effect].
As well as the prominent stars and other clear mis-spellings. But still thanks and great video.
do real japanese cards have blank back sides? like it doesn’t say anything on the back
Also, note how the fake cards have "1st Edition" written in them, but the square on the bottom-right is SILVER rather than GOLD.
And fake Call of the Haunted uses the OCG artwork.
I mostly listen through my built in phone speaker at half volume so background stuff you can hear on a larger speaker on a desktop for example aren't as noticeable
I remember going into this small shop in this big mall and there was a shop that has a box full of yugioh cards that had these firework shiny effects there was even these tiny boxes that had characters from the anime with their respective card. I even told the owner if they were real and he said they were real lol
That "King of Thunder Hameng" (lol they didn't try)" is ... incredibly yellow.
@dzeeff do u live in GA?
What about those sucky sparkly ones with faded backs? I actually have a lot of those from when I was a kid
can someone help me? i have frightfur sabre-tooth but on card its called frightfur sbre (not sabre) tiger, does it means its fake?
I just ordered a handful of random cards off Amazon and going through them I noticed a few of them were cut weird so I'm assuming those are fakes
Does the sticker matter if it’s silver or gold cuz most yugioh cards I see have a gold sticker but then I see people not bating an eye at the silver sticker
i got a question is yugioh cards with the silver stamps fake or counterfits? because i got alot of cards that have silver stamps
Yesterday I got ones that doesn't have the copyright text on the bottom left corner
I have 2 of the same cards from the same deck, they look identical and both have the right text and font but one card has a darker hue, that's the only difference otherwise both of them are the same so i cant tell if it's a fake or not. Also i pretty new to collecting
Just starting to watch the video, but i already would love to send you all my fake cards... It's amazing how many of them are and how many you buy as a child that really wants to play his game.
also the text on Obelisk is much "longer" then the OG one. if you look at the last 2 words on the OG one, the second last word is up one line, then all the way on the far right, and the final word is one line down, and all the way on the far left.
on the fake one, both second last and last word are both at the bottom.
love the alpha investments shoutout! rudy is great
I've got a lot of fake ones cause back then I don't have enough money to buy a real one. 😔
Hello i wanted to ask something i got a blue eyes ultimate dragon from a pack it seems legit not fake but it dosen't have a card id does that makes it a fake card?
not to mention the bootleg Obelisk was missing a space between 'land. And'
i have a d-hero doled guy and it is genuine but the art is different( its a picture from the anime) and i cant find one like this anywhere so is it real or a new card idk
How do you end up with fakes when the packs you buy are from stores like Walgreens, etc?
To be fair, I did hear a single drum note right after you mentioned your neighbors kids playing drums in the street. That is the only background noise I heard though.
On the cards like Tornado Wall and Hammer Shot, you can notice they are 1st Edition but the Eye of Anubis in the bottom right is silver when it's supposed to be gold for 1st ed. I owned a ton of fake cards and sometimes that was the only difference.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! text font is called Bewle-Bold
It's similar,but it's not the same font. Take a look at the W on the Bewle bold and compare it to the W on Blue Eyes White Dragon. It's different.
bought a lot ygo cards when i was a kid at stationary shop and night market, now looking back i realise i have a huge box of fake cards, lol
Here i was, thinking i got a 1st edition of the winged dragon of ra, only to learn it was a fake.
Now i need to go through my whole box
I just got a Toon Mermaid from Magic Ruler set. The set number and text were touching some of the borders and it looked a little off. Everything else checks out, so I'm just going to roll with it. If it is a fake, it's Hammer Shot-esque.
Rank10 in his Blue Eyes vid, pointing that BEUD is imported in 2008. I then realized the one I played with in 2006 is fake.
Thanks for the help, though I am still unsure if the Exodia card I recently bought is fake. I got it from Core TCG and they list it as a "single card from the gold eldorado set" my suspicion lies in the "Dark" attribute, the Japanese character is a bit smushed
Stupid question: one of my kids got a crad that has no markings on hte back. All of his cards have Konami on the upper left corner and no YuGiOh! on the bottom right. I am thinking this is a fake card but just want to me sure.
Funny enough, call of the haunted has the OCG artwork, lol
Obelisk's kanji for its Divine type has a different font. It looks more hand drawn than the correct one.
How do they make Fake card look shiny? :(, i've a old forgotten card game and i need to make shiny ones.
My older brother gave me the UR holo dark magician is that a rare card or normal?
Stop mentioning sounds that aren't there; no planes, no motorcycles, no fireworks, no drums. XD
I had so much fake cards when I was young. Maybe 1 to 2 meters tall cards if you stack them. Taller than me. I know they are fake because I buy them For 1 Philippine peso per pack ( each pack has 5 or 10 cards, I can't remember). So they were so cheap. Looking back. Didn't have regret buying them since it's what I look forward buying after school. I don't know where they are now. It magically disappeared. I wish I still had them. They are very nostalgic.
Normally, I don't hear anything in the background whenever a CC mentions it, but this time, I do, surprisingly. It's really faint though, good enough that it won't annoy me at all
I have some very unusual cards from about ten years ago, all fakes but what was interesting what that the tins they came in said Shonen Numps.
in the card number ( or the set number) actually im pretty sure always has 4 letters (sometimes numbers) in the first dash
Most older packs only use three letters (LOB, IOC, etc). I wouldn't suggest using this method
well call of the haunted had the ocg artwork with english text, thats a megadead giveaway
If I ever see a fake card when playing with friends, for the most part I don't say anything just because I know things can get expensive.
I have 2 MST, but each has different wording. [YS15-ENL17 Target 1 Spell/Trap Card on the field; destroy that target.] [SD3-EN015 Destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field.]
Is it like being updated or something? What I really want to ask is that can I still use it?
The YS15 is the newer text, but you're allowed to use both (although even the old one will be played as if it had the newer text)
You can't call yourself a true old school yugi-oh player if you haven't come in contact or owned a fake Tornado Wall, I swear they did a million of that one.
The Call also has the (OCG) non-censored art with English language, but that probably requires some research (I’ve been building collection lately and looking into obscure stuff like that).
I wish I'd kept hold of some of my fake cards, they're kinda interesting in their own way. I actually know of someone that goes out of their way to get fake cards, just because of how interesting they can be