Colored Borders
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TheLegendKiller
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With pen?? Ive seen little kids do that before,lol....
DragonairMaster8
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Let's Say you color all your claydols, roseannes, bebes, rare candies, and gardevoirs borders with red sharpie. While you shuffle, you can bend the cards up just enough to have the borders "pop out" compared to the other cards, and shuffle it in a way that you can know when you are getting close to drawing one of these cards
Chairman Kaga
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In casino cheating circles the technique is referred to as "edge reading". An imperfection visible on the edge of the card creates a situation where the card can be identified while it sits in the deck.
Try it yourself -- take a stack of Pokemon commons. Take one and use a Sharpie on one edge of it. Then shuffle it into the stack. Your edge mark is still visible so you can tell exactly where in the stack your card is.
Try it yourself -- take a stack of Pokemon commons. Take one and use a Sharpie on one edge of it. Then shuffle it into the stack. Your edge mark is still visible so you can tell exactly where in the stack your card is.
Broccili_ Boy
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What if u color the border but not all the way? like there is still the yellow on the outside
gashmoigidy
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I understand why this would be illegal. But is it ok to have a full deck of color-bordered-cards?
Qwachansey
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You could color it all yellow, but perhaps one would think certain yellows were darker than others, and that it was your way of marking.
yoyofsho16
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I have a friend who was best friends with one of the people who got DQ'd from this. The judges reviewed his deck, and through testing it and through subtle differences in how the edge was colored, they were able to get any card they wanted via the semi-reflectiveness of the Professor Sleeves.
dark_pokemon
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half my old cards r colored ohh the joys of being 8
Phazon Elite
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Which sucked, as he was 3-0 when he got DQ'd. Also, he went one step further, and actually colored some of the card images, too. This made one guy misplay against him at BR, just because he didn't immediately recognize the card's picture.
Granted, I highly doubt he was trying to cheat, but I figured something like this would happen.
yoyofsho16
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How much did he color on the card's picture?
I draw afros, smileys, and such on my Baltoys (and the moon in the Baltoy picture), but other than that most coloring should be fine.
Phazon Elite
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I can't recall EXACTLY what colors he used, but he used dark colors on Unowns and stuff like that. That guy thought an unown g was an unown q or something. He colored the Pokemon themselves, which looked awesome.
Hatter™
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He was DQ"d because the marker went to the top of the card and they told him it could be "marked" which is LUDACRIS since you can't look at them and if you did, I am sure it would be very noticable. So I am guessing if you do not run the marker onto the side, it is ok to do.
What part of "Don't color on your cards" do you not understand?? Sorry to sound harsh, but WHY risk a DQ a Nats or Worlds bc you want to make your cards "prettier"???? If you want to color, get a coloring book!
Keith
dark_pokemon
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i agree with keith u can have one of my brothers pokemon coloring books if u would liek 3 color pokemon but just dont color cards 2 reasons its bad 4 the cards and makes them those worth. and u cant use them!
Phazon Elite
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I do agree.
Worst part is, he colored on Rev. Foil Uxies and Claydols.
It makes me weep just thinking about it . . .
Blastoise_Trainer
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:lol: I didnt think this was a big problem until now.
Good that the kid only colored all the energys and some common and uncommon cards that can easily be replaceable. :smile: :tongue:
But i was thinking of doing that to all my energys but i guess not. Now that i have heard of the problems i dont want to do it anymore. :frown:
Well hope nobody else wants to color there cards. I will hate getting DQ for making my deck different. :frown:
Here is something to think about... instead of the standard yellow border, all the borders are a bright red. You are less likely to forget an optional effect (IE: Tyrannitar) if you can see a bright(er) color staring back at you from the table.
There is NO card game in the world where this seems like an acceptable practice. You are gaining an advantage on your opponent, who does not have different colored borders.
There is NO card game in the world where this seems like an acceptable practice. You are gaining an advantage on your opponent, who does not have different colored borders.
Hatter™
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You can take it off with Nail Polish Remover on Rev Foils.
And well now my Foil Uxie that I have used all year is useless >.<':lol::nonono:
