How to Identify a Fake Yu-Gi-Oh! Card

[@ClashMech]

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

[@VinegarPotato]

but if you listen really closely at the start you can hear the drumming in the background I swear

[@aiRCoft]

Agreed.

[@cephalonreaper9376]

I did hear the plane when i past by

[@silvertipstudio9622]

We CaNt HeAr It

[@emmanuelmty22]

I couldn’t hear anything lol

[@Swolelax]

Not a noise hearing channel

[@andrelee7081]

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*

[@SinfulSaint0102]

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"

[@BlueSparxLPs]

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.

[@johnsonderek482]

Wait?!?! Are you saying that my secret rare Man Machine is fake?!?! I spent 70 dollars on that card

[@TurntOddish]

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.

[@philthethotdestroyer4194]

op

[@shaynehughes6645]

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.

[@oliverg.1537]

Mtg fakes: "Legitimate problem, can be almost impossible to identify" YuGiOh fakes: *Lol lemme draw a card in crayon real quick*

[@tylerwhite2819]

"always just look at the stars." -Dzeeff, 2018

[@olddeon]

Out of context, that sounds really encouraging.

[@eldiabloricardo4795]

Not always the case knock offs are getting pretty legit looking

[@Restrictted]

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."

[@WarriorWerchii]

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!

[@ItsGooseIsland]

WarriorWerchii I thought I was the only one who noticed

[@D-Havoc]

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.

[@birdgirl69]

And another missed thing: the golden hologram (on bottom right) on the 1st edition cards. Fake cards don't have it.

[@chairwolf5446]

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]

If the counterfeiter have the exact same tech as the owner company, is it really a counterfeit? An interesting problem for capitalism.

[@johnwalker1058]

@@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?

[@OsirusHandle]

@@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.

[@ANARCHY-nr2lq]

Unfortionatly there are food LOB fakes. Got a fake 1st ed pot of geed from tcg player

[@Maybeknot666]

When the counterfeit is 1:1 replica then they are classed as “unofficial” identical just unauthorised printing.

[@andrewbader6927]

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

[@tsume9207]

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)

[@KuisineMS]

Emolga Emolga Thats sad

[@ketsura3618]

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..............

[@Nero35P]

come to brazil

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

Eduardo Augusto I think you got Bamboozled or con

[@ebox147]

I have a ton of fake cards and i have never seen a real one irl (i'm also from brazil)

[@giraton1]

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.

[@水页]

The expert man

[@AthenaAeon]

The hero they all needed and all hated...

[@mohamedahmed-qc1uf]

@@AthenaAeon but some loved him

[@phantomask]

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.

[@Adamantbby]

The stars on real yugioh cards look like they thought of the celestial body instead of the shape.

[@Fencer_Nowa]

When I was a kid I had loads of fakes like this. Its so nostalgic to see in a bizzare way.

[@Milklover1131]

With the obelisk i dont think it has the "limited edition"

[@sblower9410]

The Raging storm though can destroy spells and traps "entirely" which I guess is better than destroying them "partly" lol

[@shaynehughes6645]

Destroying them entirely is probably the problem-solving text version of "rip your opponents card in real life"

[@Danxv33]

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.

[@Stavros-ki7wn]

That’s not a dream. That’s a nightmare.

[@patirck024]

Owen Lloyd biggest low blow ever dude I'm sorry T_T

[@Treebornfrog5383]

Are you sure you weren't just playing yugioh GX tag force on the PSP

[@SakuraAvalon]

"Most Yugioh cards *these days* are fairly sturdy. Especially the old ones" Wait, what?

[@ShadowOfOurHearts]

They become stale so the older they are rhe sturdier they become

[@levig.7159]

@@ShadowOfOurHearts yup yup it's like bread, it should have been kept at room temperature rather than the refrigerator lol

[@butter5842]

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.

[@LordMarshalChristian]

I love reading the text on fake cards...comedy gold!

[@NerdFactorYGO]

"All biology become skeleton"

[@owenbegoin9727]

My name is.... M I S T A K E

[@zionaleem8795]

That hamon got the maximum gold rarity

[@BlueSparxLPs]

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.

[@goldendragonrider5237]

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).

[@JorgeSanchez-zk6zw]

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.

[@consomepaiichi]

The bootleg call of the haunted has the japanese art too

[@Bvetrayed]

Why doesn't konami sue this fake card companies?

[@NinjaKingAce]

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

[@asole100]

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.

[@souleaterevans101]

The gb1 gods did have the Japanese writing on the bottom so that wouldn't be a dead giveaway

[@arthurkurbedzis]

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.

[@RebelOnision]

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.

[@andrewbader6927]

I can’t hear it

[@levig.7159]

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

[@mohamedahmed-qc1uf]

@@levig.7159 that was not what he was talking about

[@DarkN3r0]

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.

[@milesrhea5650]

"There's a kid drumming outside" "this isn't a pack opening channel"

[@julianadams3710]

Harmon is just a thunder type, that’s actually surprising

[@derschokokuchen9410]

Oh god i got that fake obelisk too und until 2 minutes ago i thought it was original. You destroyed a part inside me (no critic bro). I remember i was 11 or 12 years old, sold like 20 games at gamestop with my mum and got like 20 bucks or so for all games. Then i told my mum i had to buy something and then we would meet later at the bus stop. I didn't want to tell her that i was about to spend all that money on one card (she would not understand). I went to a card shop where a lot of kids were hanging out back in the day an playing all kinds of card games, especially yugioh of course. It was in november and it was snowing. I entered the shop and the guy that wanted to sell me this obelisk was fortunately there. A couple days before that ge told me that i can have the card for 30 bucks. I told him that i dont got the 30 bucks only 25. He said no problem and sold me the card. I'm 27 now and still got this (fake) card after all those years even when i gave away all other yugioh cards to a friend some years ago, i wanted to keep this card. I'm not sure if he himself thiught this was original or not ( i will never know).Now my childhood ist nuked 😂😢 (mixed feelings right now).

[@Gold139]

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.

[@noclemency9686]

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.

[@SuperVini310]

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.

[@NinStarRune]

This video made my taco floppy.

[@Treebornfrog5383]

This man knows his garbage fire investments!

[@isnanesavant]

Oh you know about some ice age investments!

[@thunderbirds9001]

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.

[@darthcalanil5333]

*complains about noisy neighbors* *audience doesn't hear anything unusual*

[@TheUltimateRare]

I think he's just insane Kappa

[@timaeus22222]

Easy differences I noticed: - Fake Hammer Shot attribute says "MAGAC". :-P EDIT: 0:10:30 - oh hey, you noticed. :D - Fake Obelisk has a typo: "wibds" - Fake Hamon has broken english in its card text (though a lot of them do!).

[@igorzaric9648]

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

[@leogiroux6751]

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

[@Original-Yellow]

The fake obelisk looks cooler to me especially with the text box being more blue

[@CRISPY_BACON_Aquapyro]

I think that the fake cards look way more cooler...!!!???

[@Alexander-rk4cu]

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.

[@alexandrosapsis5171]

Mine doesn’t have the grey box down there is that bad pls answer

[@paoloazzini9003]

As a child i was always able to spot fake cards because the back and the stars had always overly saturated colors.

[@kinciscorner]

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.

[@s_ame1135]

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.

[@apathetk]

CAVALIER KIA, FRED??? Best card name ever! Of all time!

[@thegamingreaper1293]

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 😂

[@wkingston1248]

Glad you have your share of floppy toacos in yugioh, timmy. :)

[@monkeylemur]

Definitely hearing a lot of noise. Some guy keeps talking over some pack openings

[@ranbowdust]

You made a random other human giggle 6 years later congrats

[@WingedEspeon]

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.

[@phoenixrose1995]

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.

[@cesarcms6103]

Playing with fake cards is like playing in the anime

[@phantomask]

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.

[@strongside4565]

The text font and spacing is always a dead giveaway. It is super difficult to find an exact matching font. I saw a lot of bootlegs when I was younger where they didn't even attempt anything except common rarity. This was way before re-prints made that a common occurrence.

[@aiRCoft]

Stop mentioning sounds that aren't there; no planes, no motorcycles, no fireworks, no drums. XD

[@HinuHyuga]

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.

[@mahiru20ten]

[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?

[@amazedalloy]

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

[@Darkspeed666]

You can also spot fakes by looking at the stamp. 1st and limited edtion cards always have a gold stamp and unlimited edtion cards always have a silver stamp. The fakes from this video all say 1st edition but they have a silver stamp

[@davidtrstenjak3529]

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.

[@VinegarPotato]

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

[@YGOTolley]

The Yu-Gi-Oh! text font is called Bewle-Bold

[@ultraboy99x]

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.

[@Milklover1131]

Cards that are first/ limited edition have gold squares and most fakes just keep the silver one.

[@StealthNinja4577]

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

[@nzt29]

Hammer shot says "Magic" instead of "Spell". The last time we had spells as magic cards was during Magic Ruler.

[@el00morro00]

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.

[@R3ini3r525]

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

[@randallgarrett7565]

The first star is off on it. It’s lined up perfect with the symbol above it and it should be to the left

[@coryn7031]

I came here to find out if the only version of the god cards you have is the unplayable version.

[@manwithinternet]

I remember as a kid if a card was super shiny we would call it a fake

[@jh1716]

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.

[@Arvid5667]

you just made me super nervous because i think 80% of my cards are fake

[@matthewdavis9437]

That "King of Thunder Hameng" (lol they didn't try)" is ... incredibly yellow.

[@AztekGhost]

Fake cards makers predicted the premium gold rarity lol

[@StarWagi]

The first time I saw an ultimate rare, I legit thought it was fake.

[@MariusDSchiller]

I must admit, i do actually really like the sandpaper rarity.

[@Dee-jp7ek]

not to mention the bootleg Obelisk was missing a space between 'land. And'

[@hyoroemonmeto6874]

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.

[@rossomex12]

I know this is really late and you probably have realized this by now, I didn't see it in any of the top comments, but the real god cards from GBI do indeed have the Japanese text in the lower left corner instead of English text. I don't know how many other cards have been printed with that Japanese text. All of the reprints of the god cards came with the text translated. I'm looking at my PSA grade 8 GBI Secret Rare Winged Dragon of Ra so that's how I know lol

[@RW1A]

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

[@bryanpatrickong627]

One dead giveaway I see from the fake cards that I've seen about 10 years ago is the foil square at the bottom right of the cards. If it's a supposed 1st Edition card and the foil on the corner is a silver one, it's most likely a fake. The foil squares on the bottom right corner of the original 1st Edition cards have a gold hue instead of a silver one.

[@SakuraAvalon]

Another hint, that 'Hamend' has a silver sticker, even though it's '1st Edition'.

[@Gevo_A]

Damn im looking at my cards and literally the only sketchy looking thing on some of them is the coloring. Some cards have good looking medium ink while some others look faded

[@kentucky_ken]

I've got a lot of fake ones cause back then I don't have enough money to buy a real one. 😔

[@cutecommie]

Obelisk's kanji for its Divine type has a different font. It looks more hand drawn than the correct one.

[@darrellwhitney789]

Your hammer shot also says its a "magic" Card in the upper right

[@Suichkaa]

love the alpha investments shoutout! rudy is great

[@royalsoldierofdrangleic4577]

Funny enough, call of the haunted has the OCG artwork, lol

[@martingamer5591]

I had the really obviously fake ones with the plasticky finish, exaggerated stats and wrong attributes. My parents didn't think I was worth the $9 for a real structure deck at target so they got me fake shit from dollar general instead. Feels bad man.

[@TheSharpoint1]

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

[@Cortanarama]

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).

[@charmedrools1]

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.

[@MrShiki1134]

any silver seal on the bottom right instead of gold indicates its a bootleg... also the backside is easy to notice... im from asia and people wont play you if you have any bootleg on your deck since its very easy to get bootlegs here...

[@ace66654321]

ive watched a few of these videos now and a dead giveaway for people wanting to learn how to tell fake cards from real, especially well made fake cards (and for some reason this is almost never mentioned) is that NO MATTER WHAT a 1st edition card will always have gold foil in the corner, if its silver foil its a fake, and unlimited edition cards will always have silver, if any of your cards have no foil it is fake as well

[@JasonOon]

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