[hn773746483]

A couple years back one of the original Pokemon TCG designers was outright printing off fakes of pre-release cards and peddling them with the help of a western company, and people only found out because they decoded printer patterns and found out they were printed with a recent printer.

[cryzinger]

It was this, right? https://www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-the-pokemon-playtest-c...

[rjh29]

And they were specifically graded as legitimate by a supposedly reputable grading company. I wonder what was the fallout from that.