With growing excitement around Pokémon cards, there is also a market for fake or reproduction cards. And when you are building your collection, there may be times when you are unsure if a card is authentic or fake.

While we would love to say there is an easy answer, fake cards get better and better, and they come from different sources so potentially have differences between them. So, we decided to ask our trading card vendors that their tips and tricks are and below is an amalgamation of their responses.