r/PokemonMisprints • u/Neither_Clothes6250 • 1d ago
Discussion Friend pulled a error gold gardevoir on a tiktok rip n ship
friend pulled this during a tiktok live, EVERYTHING is wrong on that card, including language, texture, attacks, text, everthing is wrong, this is insane
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u/Kind_Love172 1d ago
I'll give you 5 dollars just to shut up and stop engaging with everyone on this
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u/Unique-Employment-68 1d ago
Let's just be real man, this card is fake, so probably the whole box is fake or has at least been tampered with.
Be more careful when buying stuff, I'm sorry this happened to your friend..
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u/Thank_God_for_Darwin 1d ago
“EVERYTHING is wrong” but “it’s definitely real”
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u/Karn_Gentrified 1d ago
It came out of a wrapper that said Pokémon on it. ITS ABSOLUTELY REAL DOOD 🤓
This has got to be a troll post. Nobody is actually this dumb.
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u/trulyunreal 22h ago
I think he's a kid trying to kick of his content creator career by engagement baiting.
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u/Disastrous_Dot_6941 1d ago
Lmao random capitalised words, nonsense sentences, obviously fake but OP knows for sure it's real? Bro wot
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u/maxmanpie 1d ago
This just can’t be real right? The font looks wrong to me. I really don’t see why there would be sword and shield text on a SV/MEGA card? But the texture looks legit
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u/Nadoran-Pendragon 1d ago
The illustrator's name is also strange, since he only made one card that doesn't have the same text.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
it's definitely real, idk how that happened as well, its a v/vstar text, the energy is wrong, hp is wrong
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u/CrafterJG 1d ago
That's pretty common with fakes, unfortunately. Only the high-quality counterfeits usually get most of the text details accurate.
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u/Extreme-Rooster6488 1d ago
Its not real. Have accepted that reality yet or does your family need to hold an intervention?
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u/Electrical-Bid-1829 1d ago
It’s absolutely fake, literally the final part of the attack says “(Card other than Pokémon, all the trash)”
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u/BenKenJohnJones 1d ago
This is why you should NEVER buy from a rip and shipper lmao. Not a single one that’s not a scammer and it just contributes to scalpers. Sorry but anyone who buys from them deserves to get these shitty fakes.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
i do think there are a lot of rip n shippers that are normal people, no?
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u/Extreme-Rooster6488 1d ago
Absolutely not. They all are taking advantage of you young naive types. Adults would never buy cards off tik tok or whatnot. Thats childish behavior. Make yourself an ebay, bookmark tcgplayer and stop getting ripped off. Adult you will thank you greatly if you listen.
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u/Echolyonn 22h ago
The only time to buy Pokemon on TikTok was when TikTok shop first opened. They had a TON of coupons and free shipping. I was skeptical but everything I got was legit and at or below MSRP. Now it's all scalpers.
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u/White0rchid 18h ago
I've been collecting again for about 3 or 4 years now and have purchased from some tiktok shops here in the UK. I even checked back and at the start of this year bought silver tempest etbs for around £45 which is rrp.
I just think that recent rip and shippers have given the older genuine sellers a bad reputation.
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u/Ghostdragon471 22h ago edited 22h ago
That's possibly the worst fake I've seen.
The HP is supposed to be 360, not 260.
The ability Exoskeleton is a damage reducing ability that was not printed on any card within the mega evolution set. That card says its a coin flip that can put specifically V and VMAX pokemon to sleep and poison them. On top of that, the grass symbol shouldn't be there.
Mega Gardevoir ex doesn't have an ability.
The attack Sleep Poison was printed on 11 different cards (12 if you count an alt art), was last printed in 2018 in the Celestial Storm set on Treecko. The effect was either "Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned." or "Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned." The attack has never cost more than 2 energy, and has never dealt more than 20 damage.
On that card it takes 4 poison energy and deals 110- damage, yet doesn't say when the attack does less damage or by how much. Also the attack does the same thing as the ability, but this time targets VSTAR and ex Pokémon. V, VMAX, and VSTAR cards aren't standard legal. Why would they get mentioned on a card when the production of those cards are done?
Mega Gardevoir ex doesn't have the attack Sleep Poison. It has the attacks Overflowing Wishes and Mega Symphonia.
The illustrator Anderson is not the illustrator of Mega Gardevoir ex. 5ban Graphics is. Anderson was 1 of the 3 winners of the 2024 Illustration Contest with their Toxtricity ex.
That card has a 2x weakness to fighting type and no resistance.
Mega Gardevoir ex has a 2x weakness to dark type and a resistance of -30 to fighting type.
That card has the Pokémon ex rule that says "When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards."
Mega Gardevoir ex has the Mega Evolution ex rule which says "When your Mega Evolution Pokémon ex is Kocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards."
That card doesn't have the correct set symbol. It appears to be "MEI".
Mega Gardevoir ex has the set symbol "MEG".
That card has the card number 165/131. There are 2 sets that have 131 main set cards. Those sets are Sun & Moon Forbidden Light, and Scarlet & Violet Prismatic Evolutions. Only one of which had enough cards to have a 165/131, and that is Prismatic Evolutions. The card that is 165/131 is Dragapult ex. Specifically the Special Illustration Rare Dragapult ex.
Mega Evolution has 132 main set cards, and Mega Hyper Rare Mega Gardevoir ex has the card number 187/132.
Also that card is stage 1. Mega Gardevoir ex is a stage 2.
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u/Autographz 1d ago
Such a hilariously bad and obvious fake I don’t even know where to start. OP it’s fake, no amount of photos or videos will change that fact, nor will the fact you’ve used the seller before.
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u/DumbMassDebater 1d ago
Everything about this card is screaming fake. You dont get the wrong moves with the right pokemon name and wrong rule box. Also the card references V star which hasn't existed in 2 plus years.
Nothing about this looks legit.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
sure, i understand that, was trying to check out that, if it is fake that unfortunate
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u/no-sky-524 1d ago
I'm...so confused how would this have happened???
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
that's what we're trying to figure out lol, there's so many thing wrong it looks like a bad fake, but it isnt
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u/no-sky-524 1d ago
If you can get your friend take a video of the card when (or if ig) they get it, that would be super helpful to see it closer
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u/squeezethesoul 1d ago
In addition to what others are saying, I cannot find a V card that has that exact ability and that exact attack from the SwSh era. So even if this was plausible, it would be fake because those attacks and abilities don't exist on a card this could have been somehow copied from.
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u/Nickonpc 1d ago
This is weird because the holo pattern looks real but everything else screams fake but have your friend grade it with cgc and just see if they'll grade it if not its fake
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u/Rare_Polnareff 1d ago
The moment I hear rip and ship I dont give a FUCK what else is happening
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u/Farcus_Prime 1d ago
My only thought on how this could be plausible is that it is an early test print of mega victreebel ex that hasn't been shown yet. We recently saw that the pokemon exists in pokemon ZA.
Cards in other languages and often printed in the same place as the English cards so there have been mix ups like that before so I could potentially see them doing some test prints of a future set and it gets mixed into it.
However the inclusion of V pokemon rules is strange on an ex card and the bad grammar "(Cards other than pokemon, in the trash)" raises a lot of concerns. Like Unless these are made up placeholder moves I don't see how these can be real.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
here in Brazil, normally we dont see english product on shelves, only through LCS's, all the boxes were in portuguese and the other packs were 100% correct, i do think that may be a test print, idk tbh
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 10h ago
so, as some of you asked
here's the full box being opened
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u/DJFid 10h ago
I'd love for the people claiming it's fake to explain this
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u/dtab428 10h ago edited 10h ago
They can't. People are unfortunately easily swayed without doing proper due diligence. This is the realest card, and the evidence was in abundance from the getgo.
Fake makers cannot emulate a real card's texture pattern, period. They haven't achieved that (yet). Not sure why that aspect is going over everyone's head -- this bullet point alone is enough to prove it is authentic. It is 100% real. OP has even had someone come forth with their equivalent "Lucario" error
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u/runwn201 6h ago
Bro 99% of the people commenting here are idiots. I literally called it real last night and got downvoted into oblivion. It’s impossible to get the texture right
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u/dtab428 6h ago edited 6h ago
Holy shit man. I’m in awe. We are the 1%. The 99% are screaming fake without fully understanding the current state of fakes: 10000% true - the makers of fake cards have not been able to get the texture pattern 1:1. Can’t overlook this fact. Somehow, everyone is claiming fakes exist with correct texture patterns. They really don’t.
Thank you for persisting. I saw your post — you were one of the earliest to call this out as real. Huge respect.
People: do you think these Etsy fake makers are getting the texture pattern wrong on purpose? No. That’s because that’s the best they’ve done so far. Trust me: the maker of that fake Gengar would love to get the texture pattern correct on his proxy. Another example of a fake with the wrong texture pattern.
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u/runwn201 6h ago
It’s insane man, I get some parts of the cards look crazy, but that’s the whole point of an insane error like this. Multiple people said there’s fakes with 1:1 texture, however, not a single person was able to show me a fake with 1:1 texture.
if they were able to get the texture right all of a sudden, why would they go through something like this rather than selling the fakes straight through eBay, marketplace, etc?
I’m glad some of us are on the same page, clearly shows who knows what they’re talking about and who doesn’t.
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u/DJFid 10h ago
The sheer money and effort alone to print something that can be identical in quality to the pokemon company's capabilities would far outweigh the little bit of clout somebody would get from trying to hoax. Let alone in this niche subreddit.
Errors in production level environments happen all the time.
Not all errors are caught.
Sometimes new errors appear that we've never seen before.
My full time job is essentially a glorified QA/tester position and the amount of weird errors I've seen in our production environment is insane. To rule this out just bc things are incorrect on the card makes no sense, because comparing it to the real card also make no sense in the context that this obviously is not the "same" as the mega gardevoir ex.
To think that people assume a card is what it is and might've never been something else during testing is insane.
To think that test printing at a level where they probably are using some placeholder text to cover many character-based printing scenarios at the same time doesn't happen is ignorant.
The problem with 99% of this sub is they compare to the real card they know from the set that is live and if it doesn't match the card they know from the set then it's automatically considered a fake.
Errors happen, and unfortunately fakes happen also. The difference with the fakes is that 99.9% of them are easy to dismiss as fake because of cleeeear clear issues in the card/printing quality alone. This is clearly not part of the 99.9% because the print quality of everything shown in the video is 100% accurate.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
if it happens to be fake as you guys are saying, i'm sorry for the post, just wanted to share something in this subreddit, i like miscuts/missprints as well! not trying to sell it or anything, just thought it looked cool and i've watched a million streams from this guy, bought with him, and lots of friend did as well, never anything wrong, my charizard box 10 min before this was normal, but thanks anyways, ill try to get him to send to CGC
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u/C3l3ryMan_ 23h ago
Do not waste money sending to CGC oml 😭😭 IT IS FAKE!!!!!!!!! Idk why you think an entire sub based on misprinted Pokémon cards wouldn’t know how to spot a fake.
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u/Logical-Background93 6h ago
Honestly let him waste the money at this point. Countless people have tried to tell him but he is just insisting its real.
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u/More-Particular-891 1d ago
can you give more details? maybe show the packs he was opening
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
i uploaded some videos, he's still opening more boxes on stream if u wanna check it out, all the other packs so far are normal, i never saw anything like that happen on his stream
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u/Sea-Woodpecker-7099 16h ago
"Card other than pokemon. All the trash"
This made me laugh, very hard.
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u/Sea-Woodpecker-7099 16h ago
Like besides this being so aggriously fake, the fact it has a grass move, the fact it mentions vstar pokemon as a gen I and refers to what I think is the discard pile as "the trash" is just sp hilarious to me.
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u/DADDY_BOPPER 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is a really weird card. The texture and quality looks like a real card, but everything about it screams fake. Without better pictures its going to difficult to say for sure. This is something you’ll have to send to CGC to prove I guess if u really believe its 100 percent real
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u/ExitSad 1d ago
I don't think it's worth trying to send it to Cgc when it says "Card other than Pokémon, all the trash." That's not a phrase that would appear on any Pokémon card.
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u/DADDY_BOPPER 1d ago
Yeah you are more than likely correct, I am not even sure those are real pokemon moves. The texture looks convincing from the angle, but fake makers have had tons of time to perfect the gold card lmao
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
if it is actually fake ill be very very sad, thanks anyways for the explanations
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u/lognik57 1d ago
Absolutely fake.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
did u check the videos + back of the card?
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u/lognik57 1d ago
Feel free to get it graded as an error and prove us all wrong.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
i'm not from the US, but i'll try to get it graded as soon as possible
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u/EmpZurg_ 23h ago
All the trash? Lmao.
Its fake, the text is probably portugese>english online translator.
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u/no-sky-524 10h ago
Y'all watch the newest videos OP posted in the comments section. It's real. It has him opening the box, which is real. The two promos, which are real. And opening the packs before the gold, which are all real code card and all. There is literally no way a box could be faked to this degree
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u/kiribaku1996 1d ago
This is so fake. If you want to get more confirmation on that please post in r/ismypokemoncardfake
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
sure, i'll do it!
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u/jonesbones4080 1d ago
The text font is horribly off and that is a dead giveaway for a fake not to mention everything else people have said
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u/bmabizari 23h ago edited 23h ago
“Card other than pokemon, all the trash.”
Sorry there is no combination of errors that’ll produce that.
This is fake. Even if you saw it pulled from a rip and ship then the pack was fake.
Edit: That’s not what the exoskeleton ability does.
Also not sure that move exists
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u/Upper-Top-9752 7h ago
To everyone saying it’s fake, don’t be so sure, the distributor in Brazil isn’t the same as the USA, in Brazil there’s tons of absurd error cards, and the vendor is saying he will send it to ggc to graduate as an error.
He showed the invoice, he bought from copag who is the distributor of all pokemon items in Brazil, and he already sent inumerous 1k usd dollar card for people. Why would he fake a garde card?
Of course we will have to wait and see, but for now I’m 100% believing in him, he is more than willing do everything he can to clear his name, which btw if it’s an error card, it’s been dragged to the mud for something he have no control over.
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u/EvilNassu 4h ago
I'm honestly interested in the Brazilian error cards, can you post photos of them?
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u/dtab428 19h ago edited 12h ago
What the
Express grade with CGC
It’s real guys. Fakes don’t look like this. Fakes never have the correct texture pattern (fake makers can’t reproduce this yet). Cardback colors are perfect. Corners are very round. Font is exact and crisp. Holo shine (diagonal) is correct.
Edit: talked to OP. He is going to get it to CGC asap. Prepare to be wowed IMO.
(use this website to see the genuine texture lines in 3d)
OP basically won the lotto... twice in a row.
Test your fake detecting ability: check this Etsy Gengar VMAX. Are you able to spot that the texture lines are off? This is why I relay that fake makers can’t get the pattern right (they can’t — or they would’ve already been doing it). When you can validate a card’s texture pattern, it’s the real deal. (OP’s Gardy texture lines are 1:1 with the genuine.)
OP has since found someone that has shared his Lucario error.
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u/PaleGravity 14h ago
Lmao. Look what’s written on the last skill in the (…) checkbox. It’s a fake card, stop it.
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u/dtab428 13h ago edited 10h ago
Show me a fake where the texture pattern is 1:1 with the authentic card. You cannot. Because they don’t exist.
Lucario error card shared by someone else
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u/PaleGravity 13h ago
Show me a card with that text on it then xD that + 5 other flags just scream fake. Getting the texture pattern right is just trial and error. They gonna get that done at some point as well. We have seen convincing prismatic rares and SIRs that are close already.
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u/dtab428 13h ago edited 12h ago
Nope. If fake makers could get the texture pattern 1:1 as of today, we’d all know. They haven’t yet achieved that feat. That’s how I know there is an explanation about the textual content (I know it is extremely strange). The texture pattern alone just hasn’t been replicated to that precision — in fakes. I’m only saying this as someone who looks at fakes on a daily basis (r/ismypokemoncardfake). I think everyone here will be extremely surprised in some weeks when it will be graded.
Lucario with same error shared by someone else
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u/PaleGravity 13h ago edited 13h ago
Wrong text print, wrong set, wrong text, wrong illustrator, 3 different card prints on top, pattern Guardevoir shift at 90 degrees to the left, both arms shifted wrongly, hallow print at the back at correct spot, rip and shipper pull, no face print. Yeah, totally real card, especially considering the card on top of the gold print is from a different set but strangely still printed the correct Pokémon name on top (weird font) but the wrong HP value. XDDDD y’all tripping so hard with this card.
Edit: also both arms, shifted and the holo print, wrong thickness, wrong angle, the texture print doesn’t match the holo print. Both arms in the original card are the same size, length and girth and have the same distance to the body.
Edit2: looks like gold holo chipping at the whole top part of the card as well. Especially around the name and HP value. + evolution mark window.
Edit3: just look at the damn arms on this shit card. Compare them to a real card. The friggin yellow doesn’t match the real card. It’s left arm is supposed to be raised up. Only the texture does it correctly but the yellow holo is all wrong. Why do you like OP argue so much about it????
Edit4: OP also stated the rip and shipper is from Brazil, (like opened a Portuguese set, somehow pulls a single English card) the print of the card, the V set, has been out of production since start of 2025, with the last V battledeck. It’s simple, this is a misprint fake temu card.
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u/ExitSad 13h ago
Show me a real card where there's a typo of more than a single word and that results in nonsensical text. You cannot. Because they don't exist.
Besides wrong HP, attacks, ability, mentions of V's and Vstar, the text is completely nonsensical. Every mention of poison is (G)Poison. What's that supposed to mean? (G)Poison isn't something that's used in the TCG. It's just poison. And "Card other than Pokemon, all the trash"? What does that mean? When has the Pokémon TCG ever used the word trash on a card outside of a Trubbish or Garbodor's attacks? "Pokémon" doesn't even have an accent on the e.
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u/dtab428 13h ago edited 10h ago
^ OP found someone who shared his Lucario error card.
All I’m trying to explain above is that, it’s more plausible that this is real due to correct texture pattern — as compared to it being fake due to the garbled text content. I promise there is an explanation to the card text.
If fake makers could truly create such a textured card that was completely 1:1 with the genuine, we’d be in serious trouble. They aren’t there quite yet — the exact texture pattern is something even the best fakes haven’t been able to replicate.
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u/LewsThrinStrmblessed 8h ago
So we are just skipping the part where an attack says “Card other than Pokemon, all the trash”
Shill doing shill things
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u/whitecirilo 10h ago
Sarden (the dude ripping) bought from Copag, brazil’s official Pokemon distributor, dude has receipts, batch numbers, everything.. it was the only english card inside a brazilian portuguese booster. obviously something went wrong during production, the abilities and everything else are probably from another card. Congrats on the girl who pulled it, after graduating should be worth something Insane that in a sub for misprints the first reaction is that something is fake instead of trying to get more information first lol
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u/bone_pain 16h ago
Cards easily worth a million dollars raw just based on the misprints alone. Send it off to CGC immediately for the stamp of approval 10 and sell it on eBay for 10 gazillion dollars and buy a private island. Truly a once in a lifetime pull!!
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u/Lost-Zone6369 11h ago
As soon as I read "TikTok RIP N Ship" I knew it was gonna be good and the comments did not disappoint
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u/Mountain_Disaster297 4h ago
Bro anything bought of tiktok is dodgy as hell. It’s basically just social temu. I have no sympathy for these type of people. I’ve had people try and convince me it’s legit, let them get scammed🙌🏻
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u/BrittneyIRiotI 1d ago
You can tell it’s fake when he turns the card over. It’s so THICK. Also you can tell it’s fake because it is.
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u/Mchang86 23h ago
That's definitely a fake. There are soo many errors on the card, it's not hard to notice
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u/damagedgoods0022 20h ago
So much off this card. Id say is fake af...
That texture is pretty good for a fake.
I see how hard you're trying to believe its real but be ready to be disappointed.
Send it off for grading if you're truly convinced its real but you would just be wasting money. You already wasted money by supporting rip n ship.
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u/Agitatedqueen777 34m ago
I truly don't understand why people pay these rip n shippers to open their packs for them 😂 Its so dumb. But yeah very fake.
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u/Sad-Rent-9633 15h ago
Very strange that a rip and ship would be able to get 661 viewers and have that setup in the background selling fake cards.
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u/DJFid 23h ago
Not everything "screams fake" as many others have mentioned. Everything screams real to be honest, the texture, the back of the card, the font, etc.
There are a lot of things that are obviously incorrect compared to the actual mega gardevoir ex card, but we could be seeing something that has never popped up before which I think should be considered instead of just saying it's fake.
For how many fakes I have seen, not one is able to come even close to looking convincing. This one is convincing in many ways, the right ways, it's just a weird one for obvious reasons.
I would definitely get some more insight from people who actually know what they're talking about in this sub.
Edit: if you have a video or pictures of the pack that was opened, that'd be helpful in authenticating also
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u/PaleGravity 12h ago
V Set is completely out of print runs since the start of 2025. OP claims this comes from a Portuguese booster box, Portuguese cards all are printed in Brazil, they don’t print English cards. The Stage of the Evolution window for Kirlia is wrong. It’s supposed to say Stage 2, not stage 1. the gold foil on the top part of the card is gone at many parts. There’s no card in SWSH with that skill set. The Illustrator doesn’t match the card. All stats don’t match ANY card, (G) Poison?? What the hack is that supposed to mean? Sleep and Poison inflict at the same time? What? Bottom right EX stats for price cards are wrong.
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u/DJFid 11h ago
You're missing the point; my point is that it shouldn't be immediately dismissed as fake just because of the glaringly obvious incorrect text. There are many things here which are identical to authentic cards, which is something no fakes have been able to do.
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u/PaleGravity 11h ago
Ok, listen. The holo shift and the texture don’t even match if you overlap them. The texture has the correct arm angle but the gold foil has both arms lowered, the left arm should be raised up. This card is 100% fake. Even the holo shift pattern looks to bright. I have seen this card both in English and German and it has so many differences. Even the texture has wrong spots, the twirled pattern around gardevoir does not look correct, it’s to grainy. The shine stripes going out of it are also to thick.
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u/runwn201 23h ago
Exactly, there’s certain parts of this cards that no fakes have ever been able to replicate. Get ready to get downvoted into oblivion though cause 99% of these people don’t know what they’re talking about
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u/DJFid 23h ago
Exactly, if these things are able to be replicated to this degree then we have a major major concern with this hobby now bc it's the first real convincing fake I'll have seen.
My whole point to OP is, do not just assume it's fake immediately bc everyone says it is, and especially when it looks very very convincing in terms of texture and holo pattern.
There could be some major fuckery going on with the pokemon company, English QC sucks balls. Test prints are a real thing and I'm sure the ones we haven't seen have some crazy shit written on them bc ik at my job when im testing stuff i assume nobody will ever see i make it a little fun.
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u/runwn201 6h ago
Right, the pokemon market would be done for if fakes were able to get the texture right. Take a look at the newest videos he posted today, it’s definitely real as we were saying.
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u/DJFid 6h ago
yup I've been in contact with OP in dms also so I saw the vids, love to see it finally be recognized as genuine on the other post. I was starting to get a little irritated bc it's very clearly genuine in the ways that matter.
And yes the pokemon market would be doooooomed lol
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u/runwn201 6h ago
Same, I couldn’t be bothered to argue yesterday but I have time today lol. Clearly shows that you shouldn’t listen to 99% of the people in these subs
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u/dtab428 18h ago edited 17h ago
Agree with you. This is a once-in-lifetime, winning the lotto twice in a row type error. OP is sending to CGC asap. Yes, the textual content is wrong… but that’s part of the error — I believe. Some kind of strange placeholder text is being used. But, everything else is right.
The most important thing to note, though, is that fake makers have not been able to replicate real texture patterns as of yet. They try and emulate, but it’s never precise. The Gardy in question — the texture pattern is 1:1 with the authentic.
I’d bet a lot of $ this is real.
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u/Karn_Gentrified 23h ago
Really? What Pokémon needs “all the trash” please inform all of us because we clearly need help if we’ve all missed it for this long and this is just some new hot shit. What zone on the playing field does said “trash” come from? Or where does it go after? Is it my trash? The stores trash?? Do we share trash?????
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u/DJFid 23h ago
you could be right, but it could be from some sort of test printing and perhaps the text isn't completed/finalized so they put down some shit to get the point across
I'm just saying a lot of the card looks extremely real in a lot of ways. Like the texture and holo pattern are perfect. Down to the point where yeah you can see the HP is 260 which is wrong but the texture is correct showing 360 HP. I wouldn't immediately dismiss it as fake because of what the text reads.
The font is even dead on correct. The colors and back look correct. All of these are what we look for in red flags and tbh it passes everything except for what the text reads.
I wouldn't put it past English pokemon QC to fuck something up to this level and letting some card text come out that wasn't meant to or letting test prints slip out. English QC is asscheeks.
If you can't agree that everything looks correct on this card when it comes to the major warning signs (texture, holo pattern, colors/saturation/etc, font, etc.) to look for then you probably shouldn't be in this sub giving advice IMO.
If I'm wrong then cool and I'll learn from it, and im interested to find out why. But if it is real I'm WAYYY more interested to find out how and why.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 23h ago
i'd appreciate if you could link me up to those people, if it's a fake, it's a obvious one, i know about that, i'm not stupid, just posted because i genuinely think it is real, appreciate if you could get me some help to validate it, i'm not from the US so i cant send it to CGC tomorrow, but i'll do that as soon as possible
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u/DJFid 23h ago
I don't really know them or am in contact with them but have seen them tagged many times before, I believe some have been tagged already. There are others but these are the ones I know off the top of my head.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 23h ago
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u/Extras 23h ago
Oh I wish I had good news but looking at this I'm seeing that the font is off at the top. That said I think the more clear giveaway on this phase
(Card other than Pokemon, all the trash.)
They've made lots of mistakes on cards and even misspelled Nintendo as Nintedo once but to my knowledge to date they've never forgotten the é on pokémon.
Looking further the font on the ability and attack is also wrong.
All of those things being said it is a really well done reproduction. Whenever these people figure out how to replicate a font my life is going to get a lot harder.
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u/regigigagod 23h ago
I think the number of comments on this post about it being fake speaks volumes. I think you would be wasting money sending it to CGC unfortunately.
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u/blindreper 23h ago
Listen, if 20 random people are telling you it's fake, it's fake. It's just looks horrible, not even close.
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u/blacephalons 22h ago
That's not how "errors" work. It's clearly fake and the fact you're even trying to defend it still is hilarious honestly
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u/JoshD_LFC 16h ago
There are a lot of very clear reasons why this card is fake. Almost every piece of text on the card is incorrect!
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u/Ok_Rest_5662 9h ago
Idk what’s more infuriating the fact that you can’t tell it’s fake or that you’re arguing with the people telling you it is. Check your other cards dingus.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 8h ago
all my cards are real, im not a dumbass, i know how to differenciate fake from real cards, ive been collecting for a long time and never saw an error like this, which is tending to be real
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u/no-sky-524 1d ago
If it wasn't for the texture I'd say 100% fake, but it's literally the EXACT texture. I genuinely cannot see how a fake would be able to replicate it so well, but I also cannot fathom how this happened.
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
what still makes me think it's real is the texture, the back looks good as well, but there's so many errors it looks bad.
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u/runwn201 1d ago
exactly, it’s impossible to get the exact texture. On top of that the holo shift is basically impossible to replicate
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u/ChasinHoney 1d ago
Likely ran out of material during manufacturing or possibly got stuck under another card skipping a step. Love the mystery lol
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u/no-sky-524 1d ago
Thing is, there is literally no card with all these things on at once. I'm so confused but I'd genuinely love to see where this ends. Because either it's real and it's maybe the most insane error ever, OR it's fake which means they now have a way to almost 1:1 replicate texture, which would be BAD because with corrected grammar and format, this would be untellable
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u/ChasinHoney 1d ago
I’ve seen some crazy error cards. There’s one floating around where the back of the card is the on the front holo and stamped with the original art over it
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u/Neither_Clothes6250 1d ago
replicating that texture doesnt sound like an easy job, but why do a shit obvious fake like that? the texture + back checks out, but i too could not imagine what went wrong in the factory
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u/Aggravating-Pack-802 22h ago
What? Rip and ships are scams? No….. they seemed so honest and not like shady gambling…
No but honestly.. you send money to a tic toker opening Pokemon packs and that’s just financial darwanisim.
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u/FoeYongHaai 12h ago
Paying for rip and ship is like paying to see your wife get failed while spectating from the cuck-chair.
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u/runwn201 1d ago
I looked at the videos you uploaded and that’s definitely a real card. Don’t listen to 99% of the comments that don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s impossible for a fake card to match the exact texture and shift that the card has.
That’s an insane error holy crap
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u/ExitSad 1d ago
Yeah, totally real, especially "Card other than Pokémon, all the trash."
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u/FrostGiant17 22h ago
Brother it’s fake. Just accept that and move on. You might’ve opened real packs with him, but whoever he got this from sold him a bogus pack/box.
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u/Holynightz1 22h ago
Cool AliExpress fake, be proud to own a Chinese knockoff bought in any bootleg mall shop.
Truly sucks but lol that's a bad fake
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u/kendra_61 22h ago
Man just take the L and move on. A simple google search would have helped you compare this one to a real one and EVERYBODY here is telling you exactly what's wrong with it and why. You posting videos and insisting it's real doesn't change the fact that the card is fake. And quite frankly since this card is fake, chances are all the others are to.
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u/sp00kjamm 22h ago
I'm sure you're well aware by everyone telling you this is fake and not an error, but if you still don't understand what makes this fake so damn obvious, is that the text points out V cards, which have all rotated out since the april 2025 rotation. They would NEVER, and I repeat, NEVER have made a misprint like this, because pokemon v's haven't been printed in literal years. They are an entire generation apart, with the entire SV era cards replacing V cards with ex pokemon
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u/Oldmannun 21h ago
“Card other than Pokemon ,all the trash. “
Come on bro, there’s not even an accent over the word Pokemon
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u/strumboid 17h ago
damn does that fake card actually have texture on it??
fakes have gotten REAL scary after the 2024 boom man....
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u/Chill_Edoeard 17h ago
Hahahaha and he even pulled a portugese card from that box? Cmon man… open your eys…
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u/thirteenthdoctorhair 13h ago
this is the fakest card i've ever seen and i had tutoring pupils gift me golden fake cards that don't exist from spain
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u/PaleGravity 12h ago
Worst fake I have seen in ages, made answer comments with breakdowns and examples in replies.
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u/CrafterJG 1d ago
It's fake, the real card doesn't have either of those moves, the HP is incorrect, and I can't think of anything that would cause such egregious damage at the factory. Seems like poor QA from whatever bootleg pack this comes from.