SM3 Card Quality

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Card quality on Common/Uncommon is really bad for a Japanese set. Give those of you who are putting the set together a heads up. The Rare and better cards seem to be ok.

I am guessing dull blades. Lots of nicks/scrapping along the top/bottom of cards. I think half of my cards have at least 1 speck of white with some cards.

Here are two of the worse cards. I guess the other cards would be ok for English collectors, but I am sure some Japanese collectors won’t be happy to get English quality cards in their Japanese boxes.

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Thanks for sharing, don’t remember seeing anything similar with various XY boxes I’ve opened.

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I actually noticed this with CP6 for a small amount of boxes out of the ones I opened.

I guess you pay more attention when you grade every card from the set though lol

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I could say something. :new_moon_with_face:

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Oh wow :S Kinda disappointing, but if the holos and better are still fine then it’s not a huge problem I guess… I’ll definitely check all the cards out when I receive my boxes to see if there’s something similar going on

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oh noes, how the mighty hath fallen.

thanks for the headsup Kanagawacards.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pack fresh Japanese card with that much whitening :confused: Hopefully it’s just for one print run… Heck sometimes English has an amazing print run, then they go back to their crappy ways.

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That’s unfortunate :confused: From what I hear Japanese is always very good.

I’m curious though, how many cards are roughly being printed for common sets and for a print run and how many of those print runs are there? I really don’t have a single clue for how long cards are printed for example… Do they print all cards for a set within a week, a month, several months? How much would simply replacing the cutting blades for every new print run cost? Why would they not want to produce mint cards? As I said I’m really clueless about this, would be cool if someone with experience on this area would jump in :blush: