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Before watching this video I'm going to guess no. Otherwise I'm not sure you'd post it haha.

He noticed a 0.1 gram difference. Dude's a goddamn monster of a pro.

Fully understanding this was basically an advertisement/guarantee about fake cards, I think it was awesome! Pretty cool to see how quickly he identified the fakes.

As others have pointed out, it's no secret that the answer is going to be no. The real joy and purpose of watching the video is seeing how Tarik works it out, and getting a little behind the scenes on the tests used! Very entertaining video, and very informative as well! Thank you so much!!

I think that almost 100% of the people who are watching the video can tell the fake scalding tarn and Charizard just because the way the foiling is captured on video. In person probably would be closer to the real thing, but in the video they looked way off. Really interesting to know.

Fun video! Great advertisement too! And probably a good warning for people trying to pass off counterfeits on your storefront.

As a shop worker and buyer/trader of magic cards, I appreciate the consumer education. I do wish someone had mentioned the false positive rate. WOTC has cut corners in the past 3-5 years, using more print facilities and materials. In some cases, legitimate cards do not meet all the usual heuristics and tests for fakes, meaning real cards can be tested as fake. This has created a lot of paranoia and confusion in the community. Something can fail a test and still be within normal print variance, but requires a lot of experience and scrutiny to confirm.

I love how this was a way to promote and prove your anti-counterfeit policy... But man, was it was fun learning about these little details and watching a pro show just how good he is. As someone who has worked with detailed work on photographs before, I was able to pick up on some of the tricks but it's fascinating to see how some of my old work applies to TCG cards as well. Absolutely amazing.

Tarik used to be such a nice guy at customer service. Nice to hear that he has other expertise as well... 🤗.

this dude: nah man, that card is 0.1g too heavy me: wtf

Ha! Now I know how to counterfeit magic cards! All I need to do is steal all of Wizard's printers, ink supply, cardstock, and card files! Super simple!

I bought a Snapcaster Mage back when it was a good card and it turned out to be fake. Got my money back in no time. I can confirm, the system works. 😅

I love how creative you guys are with the topics!

I love the look behind the scenes and the education of it. Great videos! Especially since you all seem to have fun and just really good energy.

Fun video! I really enjoy these behind the scenes videos about how the company works.

I'd love to see you do this again, but next time could you do a close up of the discrepancy between the real and fake factors?

nice video, cardmarket! good trust in your anti-counterfeit measures.

That was a lot of fun! I'll have to watch the YGO video about the printer next.

Oh wow, somehow I missed Adam’s video on that. I’ll have to check it out later. Great video!

Will you make more videos similar to the Red deck wins? It was really well made and interesting

Thanks for giving out so many tools to check our purchases !

This was very unique and awesome!

9:10 he asks "which one is fake" while casually flicking an unsuspecting, unsleeved dual land

Ah yes refering to when bandai had operations of yugioh back in 99 that lead to the whole lawsuit. Back to topic i had fun watching this video thank you for this.

Happy to hear cardmarket is doing something against sellers of fake cards. 3 years ago I bought a few cards for like 60€ on cardmarket from a seller. All where fake. Cardmarket told me to send them back to the seller and I received a refund. The seller excused himself and said it was a mistake. I doubt they'd mistakingly send 3 fake cards from different edition. After a month or so his profile was back on cardmarket and you could buy cards from them again. I was pretty surprised he was allowed to sell again.

This is how you make an ad people wanna watch. amazing video concept

I will say whilst Im lucky enough to never have a counterfit sent. shoutout to cardmarket customer support. they are legit great.

its amazing how fast he got those. Ulamog didn't even settle on the table before he knew it was fake.

Please more videos with Tarik! He is a great expert that could share a lot of stuff about the different generations of genuine and fake cards! Or spotting resealed packs and boxes, misprints etc. This is a very interesting subject that can broaden this channels (and companys) reach in the collector community, which generates most of your revenue, one might imagine.

That man has talent, knowledge and looks sharp af. A catch if I've ever seen one.

you can detect counterfeit cards by smell and even licking, if you know the cards from that era well. at least with magic cards

Not so long ago I bought an Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger on cardmarket and was worried for the first time for a counterfeit, but then I remembered a quick solution for this. If the edges of the mana symbols in the cost are razorsharp it is a real one, otherwise they are blurry as a counterfeit

This is really impressive, not gonna lie. Especially that he not only finds them for one game but for multiple too.

As a card shop employee and the go to guy for spotting fakes, it was vindicating to be able to detect some of them through the screen (Except the ones that got spoiled for the audience of course, or that were impossible to intuit without handling the cards) I love seeking out counterfeit cards. It's amazing how much you can intuit by feel after handling thousands of cards.

Awesome knowledge gained here. A friend of mine had a possible case with a Mercadian Masks "Food Chain".

what a pro :D I'd hope to see the UV test, since that can be used to. seeing this in a video would be nice. thanks

Cardmarket with another gem of a video 😂

Love it! It was fun to guess along

The fact that a German expert in counterfeit detection looks like a Red Dead II character just makes so much sense, and I don’t know why

i'd love to see him do this process with a batch of cards, where he doesn't know how many are fake and how many are real and see how he goes about determining if they're fake. also have them all sleeved ;)

The red 'L' isn't on every card. There are other traits of the green dot you should also ompare. The right side of the black border should appear flat, and the left side should have 4 bumps.

5:48 you could tell right away, because the fake one is missing that iconic curving!

That red dot L is crazy. I checked one of my cards to see if they had it and lone behold they're there. Had to squint my eyes, but sure enough, all four accounted for.

It's actually super interesting to look at faked collectables, because obviously many people do try, but they are also some of the very hardest things to fake simply because (with a few exceptions) there are many examples in circulation which can be compared. Obviously the fakers are only trying to fool the foolish... But it's really interesting to look at the things that they choose to care about. I think that most people wouldn't ever EVER notice the weight difference. And yet most of the cards you showed were actually close enough in weight that it wasn't obvious. Clearly some of these guys have made a good effort to match the card stock. But that actually makes sense because card stock is something that people who handle cards all the time do actually notice. Maybe not down to the tenth of a gram, but the texture and shine and how it bends is really familiar to us, so the fakers have found something that feels right otherwise they won't get ANYWHERE. Things like the red dots on the back are interesting too because that is something that we know about, and there's no specific reason why you couldn't recreate that. They are small, but they are also just ink and not a specific security feature, so they could reasonably be placed into a fake if you know about them and adjust your files. They don't even necessarily have to be a perfect match, just be close enough, because simply seeing the dots will make people feel confident. I get the feeling that this sort of thing is almost a hobby in itself to a certain kind of person, in the same way that a certain kind of person has a weird interest in forging paintings or whatever else. It's not something that you do as a full time job, it's more something that you do to see if you can get away with it because its an interesting hobby. Clearly you can't be using a professional print shop, and you also can't really ask anyone else exactly how to fake things, so it's just trial and error and then seeing if you can pass off a couple of cards and make some money... But honestly not as much money as you spent trying to perfect the process.

Great Video! Are you guys visiting by any chance the command fest franktfurt in june? Would love to see you there :D

Now I am terrified to look at the green dot on my Mark Tedin signed Legends Mana Drain lol.

If this video didn't go so well, I'd assume we wouldn't have an upload today :D fun vid!

The green dot test is not always easy to perform. There are cards, where the red spots are invisible with a normal magnifying glass.

Awesome video, super fun Thank you guys for the amazing content

I would have loved if he could tell the difference of a real double faced card vs a fake one, I get an hard time with those

lol i noticed the pokemon right away. that bad foiling is always a dead give away when youve played long enough, the foil also has a weird waxy feel most times too.

This guy notices a .1 grams difference, so, wow, he deserves a raise.

I love this! How about allowing people outside of Europe // the Euro zone to buy, sell, and trade on cardmarket? I have an inventory of over 100,000 cards available as a mid level speculator working out of a home office in the United States and loved dealing with Europe, not to mention having counterfeit detectors available.

Nice video for people who don't know how to recognize a fake card I received a fake card last year and mkm was very reactive. 👍

I got my first ever fake card from a TCG player seller. I highly recommend getting a jeweler's loupe! The card was pretty obviously fake just from holding and looking at it, but looking at the back of the card and the holo stamp through the loupe confirmed it.

He is so good at spotting fakes he knew about the differences on the back before even turning the card over...

absolutely losing it at the fact they keep unsleeving the real ones RIGHT in front of Tarik with the fakes already out of sleeves!

thanks for the vid on how to make better fakes :)

Even though I didn't think he wasn't going to be able to identify everything, the tips really made this video it didn't really feel like just an ad or something

Damn, Tarik's a master at this, this is REALLY impressive and he's a HUGE flex for Cardmarket. As someone new to MTG, I was already recommended to buy off of Cardmarket, but now I just fully trust you folks, that's an eye for detail I wish every shop had. Tarik you're insane at this!

I'm sure there's some way of creating an undetectable counterfeit card. But, you said it: by the time you do so, you're spending so much money on the counterfeit that it's not worth doing it anymore if you're trying to make a profit.

daaaaaamn i only wish to be this wise about tcgs , great video guys , new sub

what a machine he is. "it feels 0.1g too heavy."

"The card feels heavy" >0.1 grams Reminds me of "the trees look polish" incident. Absolutely insane

"I'm not Aaron Paul" lol. Clearly the best Paul brother - tied with Lena

I always get sad when no Thoralf appearance, but this guy was super cool!

WOW that RED-L is awesome!

You should get Tarik to make a video about some methods to spot fakes. I'm sure many people would love to see a deep dive into the topic

super interesting video, thank you!

First time I've seen that Jamin has a tattoo of Toad lol. Or in the word of Panga, Todd

this was awesme. clearly an expert

0:27 Something just feels right about a disheveled Carl holding a banana

That was very educational!

Putting the cards next to the real ones makes it FAR easier to catch fakes, even if you don't tell them which is fake. You also need a few false negatives. Give him one of the real cards with poor quality control and see what he says. Some of the RTR 'blurry ink' cards or something.

this is educational plus just wow for the details if it's fake or not~

Welcome back, Carl!

Man said "feels point 1 heavier" and nailed it. This guy is legit. Damn..

I could tell the yugioh card immediately from the way the light shined against the card and the font.

Pro tip, if your phone camera has an optical zoom you don’t even need a magnifying glass or jeweler’s loupe to do a green dot test; modern phone cameras are crazy good.

I received a card that was a counterfeit and confirmed by a local game store. Card market refused to accept the card for further investigation. Claimed I closed the transaction when it autoclosed. The weight was off (1.6 g), feel (shine did not match scuffing level on edges), and front face print pattern. Thankfully, the remaining power and more expensive cards I bought were authenticated, so the loss on the one Grim Monolith was a drop compared to the rest, but I wish the claim would have been taken seriously and just checked.

Is jamins loupe also with 60-120x or did he get a smaller one? I have the same model and the 60x focus is still too high 😅

I've been practicing sussing out fake Magic cards and I was able to spot the first two fakes just by eye :)

That green dot thing is actually super interesting.

I think I might have received a fake card when I bought cards at cardmarket last year, but since the card was included as an extra that I didn't pay for I didn't raise an issue. It was a WoW tcg hero card, which are supposed to be two-sided but this one was with a regular card back, which meant that half of its abilities were missing from the card.

Red dot is a good test but its not 100% decisive on it's own, there are legit cards that fail it. You should deck the red dot, the clarity of the rosette pattern, mana cost and deckmaster printing. (Cost should be clear, deckmaster should be jagged) its also good to compare against a known real card from the same set. And of course with a scale. Haven't seen a fake that could pass on all fronts.

this was great!

Looking at these cards through the video, you can clearly see a difference in all the cards.

The single cards I buy almost never go above 8 euro's, but I have zero experience with fake cards so I have zero reference material. I always stay below a certain price range like I said, so the risk is very mnimal but when I buy large quantities from different sellers It sometimes still ads up. Exactly how carefull and suspect should I be when I order cards through mcm?

I enjoyed watching this ad.

There’s a lot of negativity in the comments, some people always assume the worst from others. It was a fun video and it was different from your usual content, that’s always nice to see :)

Almost every authentic card does indeed have the red dots but I own a mutavault that I opened myself that doesn’t have them. I only found out when I bought another copy and was checking it then freaked out until I checked mine!

Without watching the video, the answer is going to be "No we can't". Otherwise they're just saying we might sell you fake cards.

I think the fake magic cards were quite easy to spot, except the duals, since you announced it and with the Ugin/Atraxa I actually kind of knew as well, but it wasnt that clear, if I just had the feeling, since you announced it or not.

i took a look at the dominaria remastered Juggernaut i keep in my wallet (i'm normal) and i can very faintly see those tiny magenta dots on the green dot. it's crazy how small that is

green dot test NEVER fails me

Forgetting proxies are sometimes just used to play magic. Like, I have a ton of decks and many of the same lands. I am not pulling my 12 Arid Mesa cards out and not buying another Arid Mesa either. Or another player of lands I own, such as true duals.

The question isn't if you can sneak them past him. It's if someone is actually checking every single card closely. The guy I get mine from... you aren't gonna tell without magnification

11:03 Not necessarily. The issue has more to do with the programs used and the original source file being converted. It just so happens that the original print files were made using a program that’s only available on a 90s version of Mac OS. But if you get that version and set the angles of the rosette pattern to Cyan 15°, Magenta 75°, and Black 40° And most importantly, most counterfeiters don’t even use offset printing. They just use digital printing, which means the dots are gonna be all over the place

dunno if its changed over time, but the gold sticker used to be 1st edtion card and silver used to be 2nd onwards for yu-gi-oh.