How do you tell real Yu-Gi-Oh cards from fake ones?

Langauge - Official Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARDS are only printed in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, French-Canadian, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese. Cards in languages other than this (most commonly Chinese) are fakes.





Hologram - The hologram located in the lower right-hand corner should have the Eye of Anubis located on it. The foil that is used can sometimes be scraped off with a fingernail or is put on the card incorrectly. Fakes often have a blank/incorrect hologram or improperly placed hologram.





Coating - The coating on the cards that Upper Deck utilizes is not unlike that of a deck of playing cards. Counterfeits often use "shiny" coating with many layers applied to make the card "feel" thicker.





Card Back - The back of the card should have Konami in the top left hand corner and Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME located in the bottom right-hand corner. No markings whatsoever are a good indication of counterfeit. If the word "Konami" is mispelled the card is counterfeit.





Packaging - if the packaging has any of the following characteristics it is likely counterfeit: faded colors, blurry/illegible writing, or a flat/smooth anti-counterfeit seal.

How do you tell real Yu-Gi-Oh cards from fake ones?
i was trying to figer out the same thing about my card lol Report Abuse

Reply:the fake ones dont have the right names Report Abuse

Reply:actually the real ones smell too


1.on the back of the fake ones there the orange lining around the card is too big on one side


2. there is no koname on the back


3. on effect monsters, the effect is italisized(sry)


4. on regular monsters the flavor text is not italisized(sry)


5. there is no number on the bottom of the card


6.there is no number and letters between the card picture and text box.


i will type more when i think of them
Reply:chinese cards are fake and if the card is to shiny it's fake if it doesn't have that shiny thing at the bottom right hand corner it's fake.
Reply:The fake cards can be classified if they are


1#-chinese: yugioh is japanese so the chinese ones are fakes


2#-the little sticker looking thing in the bottom right corner: if it peels off or isn't there, then its a fake


3#-the relly cool shiny ones- those are fake because everyone knows the real ones too hard to get


4#-thin cards: sometimes if you hold a card in the light you can see through it, if you can its a fake
Reply:the fake ones dont have the shiny thing on the bottom... and they do its not hollow
Reply:the chinese ones are fake and the ones that are shiny are fake just get the normal ones
Reply:fake ones smells and are stickers
Reply:wat u on about#
Reply:Fake ones don't usually have an eye in the right hand corner of the card either in gold or silver.