Following my post about potentially faking Matchprint cards, @qwachansey asked me if I thought it’d be easy to print “For Position Only” on a regular card to fake those, too. My initial response to him was that it’d be harder because you’d need to be able to print directly on cardboard, but theoretically possible. However, when trying to create a mock image for him (a Chansey with “For Qwachansey Only” over the artwork) I used a scan of a real FPO card to try to match the font, only to discover that all of the FPO cards differ from the regular cards in ways I wasn’t aware of before.
Other than having “For Position Only” printed on them, the FPO cards…
- all have the e-Reader strip on the left, whilst the regular releases do not;
- are missing the “ID :” prefix on the e-Reader IDs below the artwork;
- are copyright to Wizards rather than Nintendo;
- have the word “Medium” in the bottom left;
- have left-aligned attack text instead of central.
The Charizard card is interesting as well because instead of “100 HP” it just has “100”.
