Comment by sidewndr46
2 months ago
I never played anywhere that allowed fakes but most players were ok with you taking a otherwise worthless card (hello Lapras my old friend) and marking the face to count as something else in Pokemon or otherwise.
Actual fakes were problematic as you can tell the back of the card apart generally.
Card sleeves are now generally required, at least in Magic the Gathering, because of double sided cards.
I have a (casual, goofy) deck with some proxies and I earnestly cannot tell the difference when they're sleeved.
What we used to do when I was a kid (before online stores were common to use, and had ~4 hours to the closest store selling magic cards so only got a new pack once a fortnight) was to use plastic sleeves for the whole deck. Then you can't really ser from the back if it's a printout or a real card.
Yeah I can't really imagine not using sleeves, any cards left unsleeved got worn out incredibly quickly.
you're going to sleeve it anyways, unsleeved card backs are too easy to mark. I've never played against or with an unsleeved deck in a magic tournament, even a draft.