So apparently there will be another wave of NFC test print cards coming onto the market once CGC finishes grading them.
These don’t belong to me but someone on instagram messaged me and asked if I wanted to buy any. Upon closer inspection it appears to look like those Halloween trick or trade packs. If it were any of the main sets I probably would have considered it but I spent a little too much at the Arita events this year and need to save some cash on hand for Worlds.
Ghost holo is visually a really cool sheet to see. Still a bit sad to see it cut but I think these will look really cool in a cgc slab.
At least they don’t appear to be purposefully botching the cuts this time. 
Haha ya those Jungle ones were a bit iffy. At least whoever cut this seemed to have done a much better job.
I’ve never seen a ghost holo sheet sold as a whole. I wonder what that would have fetched.
What would cause this effect, or what would the test sheet be testing (or is it a botched printing)? Just curious about how a card might end up looking like that.
A puppy dies every time a package of NFC cards is sent to CGC.
Those look great. Remind me of the YGO ghost rares. If they are cheap enough I’d definitely pick one up
Oh that’s a good point. After seeing a few of those ghost cards in person, I do kind of wish Pokemon had something like that. I can only imagine how easy the holo would scratch on those though.
Another puppy dies every time they’re graded instead of being rejected (a lot of puppies die to this) 
Just thought I’d share that the person with this will probably start sales around the low to mid $400 range. It’s a little more than what I’d like to spend personally considering its the trick or trade halloween ones, but the ghost appeal is pretty neat. But like @ragingkraken mentioned, the holo would probably scratch very easily and I can’t imagine it being easy to grade.
These just do absolutely nothing for me. To me, they just don’t look that great and the appeal of the Halloween set is near zero IMO. I can see why they will be well liked though.
The flood gates of modern uncut sheets really seem to have opened over the last six months or so. Someone needs to watch the trash cans a bit better
There was a factory that closed down and it seems that someone took advantage of that in the final hours while things weren’t being guarded. A ton of sheets came from the same person. TPCi already hunted them down and the people who sold for him, but they aren’t enforcing retrieving the sheets that were sold off for some reason. The guy who sold them notified everyone (that he sold sheets/cards to) that TPCi wanted them back but that was it. So now we have a sheet-ton 
of stolen sheets and cards on the market. To make matters worse there are people in the community who are buying those sheets to cut them and round the corners to pass them off as legitimate errors - many of which have been graded already (insert diatribe about how ___ grading company sucks at verification).
Sometimes the people in this hobby suck and as an error collector it’s really gross to see people manufacturing fake errors by stealing test sheets and cutting them to pass them off as real errors. Just another day in Pokemon I guess :^)
Banner-worthy.
Pretty interesting. Its kinda crazy to imagine TPCI wouldn’t have it guarded. That’s poor oversight on them. Or at the very least they should have a giant shredder for stuff like that if they didn’t want it going out. I guess the factory doesn’t do bag checks or didn’t seem to care when it was shutting down.
It is also interesting to see how the market absorbed so much of it. I would love it if the market got saturated with error cards and you could pick it up for dirt cheap…but I don’t see that happening.
That took no time at all…
Pikachu is a strong test grader.
I’ll ask once more because I’m curious. Does anyone have a guess at how the cards came out this way given what we know about the printing process? It’s kind of weird that there seems to be a very light layer of all colors. Not sure how that would happen.
maaybe @pfm would know since he’s made guides about vintage printing before
