Weird card identification

[Harpo]

SO.
I was looking through my old cards and found this weird guy.
It's supposed to be a Brock's Graveler card, But there is a Clefable instead of a graveler on it.
list of differences:
- The name is Clefable instead of Brock's graveler
- The name is not red like the HP text (i think thats supposed to be red)
- there is this weird charmeleon on the down right corner

Please help!

 

[donavannj]

SO.
I was looking through my old cards and found this weird guy.
It's supposed to be a Brock's Graveler card, But there is a Clefable instead of a graveler on it.
list of differences:
- The name is Clefable instead of Brock's graveler
- The name is not red like the HP text (i think thats supposed to be red)
- there is this weird charmeleon on the down right corner

Please help!

K, so, what it is, it's a fake/counterfeit. First, I'll address the 3 differences you bring up:

1. The name not matching the entries on the rest of the card is a big tell, typically.
2. There's stuff wrong with the name's font, but it's the correct color. In fact, only the first 6 international sets (the sets released in any language that's not Japanese) have red HP font color. However, the name is in the wrong typeface/font (it uses one that's too thick).
3. That Charmeleon is another tell. I think that was photoshopped off of some other card and shrunk down to fit there.

Other tells:
The Clefable looks like it was photoshopped into there by being cut from another photo. It doesn't have that consistent black outline around its entire body, which wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't clearly there on some parts of it.
The "2 Edition" symbol is another tell. Such a symbol just simply never existed on official cards.

 

[Harpo]

Thanks a lot! Now I can identify fake cards easily.
Thanks!