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Ask a question, or photograph a card to identify it, see what it's worth, and check it against what the real card says.

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What this can and can't do

A photo can identify a card, date it, price it, and catch details that contradict the real card — a wrong illustrator, the wrong collector number, a 1st Edition stamp on a Base Set card that also has a drop shadow.

It cannot tell you whether a card is genuine. The checks that decide that need 10–30× magnification of the print pattern, a light test, physical texture, thickness and weight. Modern counterfeits are also built specifically to pass the light test, while genuine Japanese, older and textured cards can fail it. Anyone offering you a verdict from a photograph is guessing.

Answers come from 16 cited guides and our own card data. Where no guide covers your question, you'll be told so rather than given a confident guess.