How to spot One Piece Reprints
One Piece Reprints
Identifying reprints in One Piece can be a little difficult. There is no single identifying mark for reprints, and all reprints to date maintain the Collector Number of the original printing. In some cases, this can actually make it impossible to differentiate between and original printing of a card and a reprint of the same card. However, in all of the most important cases, there is always SOMETHING that will help you identify the original vs the reprint.
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Before Premium Booster -The Best- there had been some reprints used to fill out various starter decks. Is that actually a reprint, or just including an original print in a start deck? Who knows, we'll leave that distinction to the reader and instead focus on all of the different ways to identify Premium Booster -The Best- reprints against the original printings.
The Star
A wide variety of cards feature a Star above a cards rarity symbol. It is generally used to mark 'hits' or 'chase' cards. In many cases, this helps identify cards that are unique printings of previously printed cards. This incldues alternate arts, full arts, and textured or alternate foilings.
Some of the alternate foilings may not be immediately obvious, so always look out for the star, original printings (no matter how similar) do not have them.
Illustrator Name
Another distinguishing factor between reprints and original printings can be found my looking carefully above the illustrators name on a card.
The abesence of the pencil icon is not unique to Premium Booster -The Best- printings, it is a more commonly used indicator of reprints in general. This can also be used to distinguish original copies of a card vs start deck copies of a card.
One Piece Watermark
Some chase cards from Premium Booster -The Best- also have a One Piece watermark in the bottom left corner. These watermarks aren't always found on 'reprints' but are found on chase versions of cards with alternate or full art.
We've done our best to capture the watermark in a picture - they're a lot easier to see in person.
Jolly Roger Foil
There are a lot of examples of alternate foiling in Premium Booster -The Best- and we'll close out with the most common of them all. Basically all of the basic reprints of cards can come in a Jolly Roger foil version, these versions will basically be original copies of the card, but with many Jolly Rogers scattered in the foil pattern repeated all over the card.
Again, it's not super obvious in pictures that a Jolly Roger foil is present, but if you look carefully you can catch it in this pictures and many others on Check This.
Indistinguishable Reprints
At this point, we've listed all of the core ways to identify a reprint. It's important to note that it's not always possible to tell the difference between an original and a reprint. For whatever reason, there are cards that do not include an Illustrator Name. When this happens, the reprint winds up being effectively identical to the original - unless you opened the card yourself, it's going to be impossible to place it in a specific set.
In these cases (when rating cards on Check This) it's best to associate a card with it's original printing. We track prices exclusively for the original printings when cards are not uniquely placed in Premium Booster -The Best- or a starter deck. This also seems to be a community best practice as well and the vast majority of cards that fall into this category are valued at pennies.
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