Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

[nah2009]

The thing is it doesnt even take “basic tools” to realize they’re fishy. I feel bad for anyone who bought these things but a few moments of critical thinking was all it took to keep me from pulling the trigger.

And yes, I’ve been trying to tell people for months and months when I talk about this on here and instagram and anyone else that I’ve talked to about it - that these could have been easily printed in 2024 but considering I wasn’t about to spend thousands to get one and investigate, I wasn’t going to be going into the detail that @pfm did

I’ve lost count of the prototypes

I mean supposedly these are all coming from one source and we have no idea how many of each card there are. There could be several people with several copies of each play test card. They also could be faked or reproduced. Nobody should be so foolish as to think that these “mounted on card” cards can’t be faked in 2024 by malicious actors. For all we know there’s former Pokemon employees that have the files and could print new copies of these play test cards and nobody would know any better

I’ve lost count of the prototypes

They’re undeniably cool looking, I’ll give them that. I wonder who has the original files on their computer. Clearly Akabane has tons of these…but who controls the original print files? If I were someone considering purchasing these I’d be more concerned about that than how many of these are out there right now. Maybe it is because I’m not a millionaire but I can’t comprehend how people are so willing to spend 40 or 50k on these Charizard/Venusaur etc when there very well could be SO MANY of …

I’ve lost count of the prototypes

I mean, they appear to be relatively hi def (for the time) scans of said analog work, printed on paper and glued to cardboard…the chance those scan files exist still and can be printed again is relatively high in my opinion.