My son Peter is home sick today. He showed me these interesting cards from his collection which he is reorganizing: Here are four fake Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. They are recognizable as fakes by the following traits:
- They are printed on generic holographic paper rather than having the pattern of the holography match the images.
- The holographc square present with authentic cards is either printed simply in black and white or is missing.
- The text on the cards seems to have been written by someone whose native language is not English and may or may not make sense.
- The printing of the art is muddy and some images show obvious evidence of Photoshopping.
- The printing of the back of the cards is of poor quality and in one case the logo is wrong.
- The logos in the upper right-hand corners (front of card) are wrong.
- The formatting of the cards is idiosyncratic and does not follow the format of the originals faithfully.
You can read the text on the full-sized version of the image. Here is a sample:
Activate it when your opponent declare the attacking on you. Your opponent will select will select one card on hand at random.
ANOTHER of today's sick-day activities was watching Defenders of Wildlife's 60-second cartoon, "Toast the Earth," commemorating Exxon's Mobil's declaration of the largest annual corporate profits in US history. It's got a nice little jingle. My 3-year-old asked to see it again, again!
