Recent content by Inferniooo

Looks like a standard "Green wing charizard" which was a regular issue between first edition and the common shadowed cards.

It's my understanding that identifying counterfeit cards is easy. WOTC had special paper made for the cards that included an opaque core to not allow light to pass through the cards. As I said, I know these are genuine. FWIW, I was in the printing industry in the Northwest at the time which...

So I should just toss them in the garbage?

I plan on taking them to a well-reputed card shop next week. Otherwise, how to prove authenticity?

How do I put this without getting into too much trouble? First, what is a backdoor card? A backdoor card is a card that left the printer through the back door, if you get the drift. It's also, in this case, a card that shouldn't exist. It doesn't officially exist. Imagine that the printer...

I dealt with a lot of shadowless packs back in the day. I had two full boxes come to me that were shadowless. The packs were significantly longer than my other packs and, if memory serves me, the printing on the wrapper was not as clear. I thought I still had one of these packs but I can't find it.

Back when Pokemon was first out, I was supplementing my income by buying and selling Pokemon cards. Through these adventures, I managed to get some of the more collectible cards along with far too many, basically, worthless ones. I couldn't tell you the first rule of how to play but for a few...