I bought out a collection recently and noticed that one of my Unlimited Ninetales had a black flame as a background as compared to the mostly purple background that you usually see. I compared it to my other unlimited ninetales (this collection had about 20 of them) and checked online and couldn’t find any that had a black flame background. I found plenty of 1st edition and shadowless but none that were unlimited.
I don’t want to look too deep into small printing defects but this one really stood out to me and was more significant than an ink blot, thinner text, printing dot, etc. I couldn’t find any others like it…although more must exist.
Anyone have info on this? Maybe it was a certain print run from the unlimited printing or maybe just high levels of ink or lack thereof? Apart from my own collection which as mentioned has 20+, Maybe I didn’t look hard enough on ebay?
congrats, that’s a special card. It’s real, just extremely rare.