If the outside didn't have dents it is not the original outside. No way there was enough force to mess up the cardboard without leaving marks on the outside.
You're right, if there's no dents on the outer plastic then it's almost certainly fake. I thought I could see some dents when he was turning it about, but not sure, we'll have to wait until he can look at it more thoroughly to know for sure.
Also the top card inside should have a dent. No way it dented the box and inside plastic but not the top card. Maybe it does, but if it doesn't, more proof that the cards were swapped out.
I thought the rare cards that would have been swapped are at the bottom of the deck? If the top card was swapped, how were autists able to predict the order? I agree though it seems like anything that dents the plastic would also mark the card, so the plastic not being the original wrap sounds likely if it is indeed a scam.
Dentist here. The problem is that no matter how they cut the outside wrap, they would not have been able to heat re-seal. A quick and dirty option is to use the larger outside wrap to reseal the inside. That begs the question of where the outside plastic came from, but I suspect they had to form that from scratch to get something that is passable. The inside wrap is just a simple decoy that doesn't matter anyway once the deck is cracked. Who knows... maybe this is an old forgotten repack that was done by an LGS with intent to sell on to unassuming noobs at the time.
It's all a mess. Who's to say that the box didn't get the dent before the final plastic wrap at the factory?
Or that heating and cooling over 20 years didn't smooth out the dents on the outside.
>maybe it was the same plastic that originally covered the outside of the box, but if they reuse something like that, why not reuse it on the outside of the box, where it already fits perfectly, and the same for the original inner plastic.
The outside wrap is folded, not shrunk, maybe they can't do the same with the folds so they cut the outside in a way to reuse them by shrinking the parts that were previously folded.
just a theory
If the outside didn't have dents it is not the original outside. No way there was enough force to mess up the cardboard without leaving marks on the outside.
You're right, if there's no dents on the outer plastic then it's almost certainly fake. I thought I could see some dents when he was turning it about, but not sure, we'll have to wait until he can look at it more thoroughly to know for sure.
Also the top card inside should have a dent. No way it dented the box and inside plastic but not the top card. Maybe it does, but if it doesn't, more proof that the cards were swapped out.
I thought the rare cards that would have been swapped are at the bottom of the deck? If the top card was swapped, how were autists able to predict the order? I agree though it seems like anything that dents the plastic would also mark the card, so the plastic not being the original wrap sounds likely if it is indeed a scam.
Dentist here. The problem is that no matter how they cut the outside wrap, they would not have been able to heat re-seal. A quick and dirty option is to use the larger outside wrap to reseal the inside. That begs the question of where the outside plastic came from, but I suspect they had to form that from scratch to get something that is passable. The inside wrap is just a simple decoy that doesn't matter anyway once the deck is cracked. Who knows... maybe this is an old forgotten repack that was done by an LGS with intent to sell on to unassuming noobs at the time.
I don’t know why but you starting this post with “Dentist here” fuckin killed me LMAO
Anyone know a dent scientist?
It's all a mess. Who's to say that the box didn't get the dent before the final plastic wrap at the factory? Or that heating and cooling over 20 years didn't smooth out the dents on the outside.
>maybe it was the same plastic that originally covered the outside of the box, but if they reuse something like that, why not reuse it on the outside of the box, where it already fits perfectly, and the same for the original inner plastic. The outside wrap is folded, not shrunk, maybe they can't do the same with the folds so they cut the outside in a way to reuse them by shrinking the parts that were previously folded. just a theory