I mentioned Marker’s Volcanic Island in a discussion on the Beta dots on the FB Misprints and Oddities group and this eventually led to a thorough check of Marker’s card. His card unfortunately turned out to be an altered Unlimited copy.

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the list:

1-Arid Mesa

2-Jace the mind sculptor

3-Tropical Island

4-Temple Garden

5-Stomping Ground

6-Overgrown Tomb

7-Scared Foundry

8-Breeding Pool

9-Misty Rainforst

10-Celestial Colonnade

11-Flooded Strand

12-jace architect of thought

13-Wasteland

14-Inkmoth Nexus

15-Elspeth Sun’s Champion

16-Tarmogoyf

17-Scalding Tarn

18-Hallowed Fountain

19-Polluted Delta

20-Sol Ring

21-Underground sea

22-Maesh Flats

23-Reflecting Pool

24-Mutavault

25-Wooded Foothills

26-Windswept Health

27-Watery Grave

28-Godless Shrine

29-Savannah

30-Blood Crypt

31-Verdant Catacombs

32-Swords to Plowshares

33-Chalice of the Void

34-sword of war and peace

35-sword of fire and ice

36-demonic tutor

37-elspeth knight-errant

38-thoughtseize

39-pernicious deed

40-sword of feast and famine

41-goblin lackey

42-goblin pilcdriver

43-engineered explosives

44-lona shild of emeria

45-stoneforge mystic

46-karn liberated

47-tundra

48-Vampiric Tutor

49-Snapcaster Mage

50-Academy Ruins

51-Batterskull

52-Forcc of Will

53-Intuition

54-Sphinx’s Revelation

55-Rcanimatc

(It was taken from Apathy House’s guide for detecting fakes).

I wish I could show off my skills here, but I simply went to the page he got the images from and it literally says “The one on the left is real, the one on the right is fake.”.

If you can, compare to a copy of the same card from the same set or otherwise try to get as close as possible (same set, color and card type perhaps). While you might see differences between sets within a set the results should be comparable.

About the light test: how do you figure the right one in the picture is fake?

I’ve tested with several cards and some show a sort of “muddy” shadow (reminiscent of the left card in the picture above), while others look smoother (more similar to the right one). Other than that they let about as much light through. This seems random, but newer cards mostly have the more “muddy” shadow. I figured it’s just an insignificant printing difference. I don’t know if that’s what you’re talking about, can you explain your reasoning?

ya “some reasearch”…

They are unlikely to hold up well, and here’s why:

The dot pattern you see is a moire pattern, and is a result of the offset printing press process. There are four different colors of ink that are printed out as a set of halftone dots (a “dot screen”), and each screen is at a different angle. The interference pattern created by the overlaying of these differently angled screens is the moire pattern.

When someone wants to produce a counterfeit card using an offset press, they are not going to have access to the original artwork that Wizards used to print the card, so they are going to have to scan a card. That scan will not have the same amount and quality of image data as the original art scan, and will likely need to be blurred to eliminate the original moire pattern in order to have an image that can be used to create a new halftone screen for the counterfeit. You can see this on the Ancestral Recall in the article. This means that close examination of the card’s art will likely always reveal some telltale differences, even if the rest of the layout gets more sophisticated.

Theoretically, someone could do a very high resolution scan of a card and reverse engineer the CMYK and text K plates of a Magic card, and then print an exact-enough dupe on a printing press, but it would be an awful lot of work and would probably still have some kind of telltale visual flaw or fail to pass another test.

“Dear customer,

I am Sorry, our company was stopped by the police, so we can’t do MTG cards business no!

pls don’t response here to make the e-mail box full.

Thanks
Delson”

So hopefully the gig is up for them, for now, but I highly doubt it will stop them for long.

Surprisingly you can still read English card text with it :P.

o_O That loupe is chinese! 😛