Fake Magic cards: what's the problem with counterfeit cardboard? – TheSixthAxis
Conjurer of cheap tricks. 11/04/21 When I was a kid, Pokémon cards were all the rage. We’d spend our lunchtimes playing and trading cards. Times were good. And then one day it all changed. A kid showed up with an Articuno card — rare and sought after, he was trying to trade it for as many Charizard cards as he could get in one go. But the problem was that, word has it, his Articuno was a fake, and wasn’t worth the card that it was printed on. The only way to tell, playground lore had it, was to destroy it.
Source: thesixthaxis.com