Fake alter arts...

[Hunteroffire9]

a little while ago there was a large buz over the fake Chinese mtg cards being printed. I was looking at some really cool alternate arts online one day and was about to buy them but then I thought, how can it be proved that they were real? If most of a card is painted over besides name label, minor mistakes can be covered. One of the key ways for identifying a fake was to look at the copyright symbol, if it's painted over what do you do? What test won't work? Bend test might destroy paint? I'm kind of worried,

Thoughts?

[LinkCelestrial]

Microscope and the side of the card for a blue check. Or you could rip one...

[Dudecore]

Well it's kind of a loophole in the whole thing. Because someone can just print a fake over a real card and paint over it...its kind of a rough area to find yourself in.