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A fan-made card, sometimes referred to as a fake card, is a custom or fictional card based on cards from any particular trading card game, but created by one or more fans of the game rather than the original creators. They are distinct from counterfeit cards, which are duplicate or fictional cards that are created by some other person, group, or company than the original creators to sell to unsuspecting consumers.

An example of a Pokémon TCG fan-made image fake card

Since the release of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, several groups of fans have formed creating their own versions of Pokémon cards, and still continue to do so to this day.

Types of fan-made cards

There are three main categories of fan-made cards: text fakes, hand-made cards, and image fakes.

Text fakes

Text fakes are cards that are created only in text or written form with very little, if any, imagery used to create them. They are generally simple and easy to make. Message boards with a sizable Pokémon TCG community typically have a fake card creation forum, such as The PokéGym's Create-a-Card forum.

Hand-made cards

Another popular method of making custom cards involves creating them by hand using tangible art tools. Usually, creators will take an existing card, cover up parts of the original card using correction fluid, and write in their own text. Other methods include using blank templates, such as those provided by the staff at various Pokémon TCG tournaments, including Wizards of the Coast's own Create-a-Card templates. These templates had spaces to draw a Pokémon and write in all the text necessary for the card, and sometimes also included a sheet of energy symbols for its attack, type, weakness, and resistance.

Beckett Pokémon Unofficial Collector was known to publish custom cards which had been sent to the magazine.

Image fakes

Image fakes are cards created using a computer and a system of blank cards and other elements to create completely new cards from scratch, such as by including new text or original artwork.

At one point, image fakes may have been the most popular fan-made cards within the Pokémon TCG community. They gained prominence when Nick15's first fake, Missingno., was posted on one of the largest Pokémon TCG websites of the time, the PokéCenter at CCGNews.com. He later shared his creations on his own website, Pokémon Aaah!, which included instructions on how people can make their own image fakes. This system gradually grew in popularity and was adopted by other sites, like Pokémon Zeo!. Over time, however, image fakes began to fall out of favor, even though sites such as PokemonCardMaker.org continued to promote them. Despite this decline in popularity, some fake card creation sites, such as mypokecard.com, still remain active.

At times, image fakes have been found on auction sites sold by people who did not know that they were unofficial.

External links

FakeCard.com Archive of the first Pokémon TCG fake card website, previously known as Pokémon Aaah!, created by Nick15
Pokémon Zeo The second ever Pokémon TCG fake card website, created by The Echidna and purity
My Pokecard An easy-to-use card making site
PokemonCardResources DeviantART group dedicated to creating fan-made cards

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-{{samename|article about counterfeit copies of regular cards from the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game]]|Counterfeit cards}}
+[[File:Missingno000.jpg|right|thumb|An example of a Pokémon TCG fan-made image fake card]]
-[[File:000s.missingno.jpg|right|thumb|An example of a Pokémon TCG fan-made image fake card]]
+A '''fan-made card''', sometimes referred to as a '''fake card''', is a custom or fictional card based on cards from any particular trading card game, but created by one or more fans of the game rather than the original creators. They are distinct from [[counterfeit card]]s, which are duplicate or fictional cards that are created by some other person, group, or company than the original creators to sell to unsuspecting consumers.
-A '''fan-made card''' or '''fake card''' is a general term to denote any kind of custom, fictional or duplicate card based on cards from any particular trading card game, but are created by someone other than the original creators of that game, generally either by fans of the game or by some other company to sell to unsuspecting consumers. Since the release of the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game]], several groups of fans have formed creating their own versions of Pokémon cards, and still continue to do so to this day.
-There are three main categories of fan-made fake cards: fan-made text fakes, custom cards created by fans that exist only in text or written form with very little, if any, imagery used to create the card; Fan-made custom cards, custom cards created by hand by fans using tangible tools like markers and correction fluid, either using an existing card as a base or using a blank template to draw their card on; and fan-made image fakes, custom cards created by fans using computer and a system of blank cards and other elements to create a completely new card from scratch, including new text and even an image they drew themselves.
+Since the release of the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game]], several groups of fans have formed creating their own versions of {{TCG|Pokémon|Pokémon cards}}, and still continue to do so to this day.
-==Fan-made text fakes==
+==Types of fan-made cards==
-Probably the first kinds of fakes made by fans, text fakes are simple and easy to make. Most message boards with a sizable Pokémon TCG community have a fake card forum as well, like [[The PokéGym]]'s Create-a-Card forum.
+There are three main categories of fan-made cards: text fakes, hand-made cards, and image fakes.
-==Fan-made custom cards==
+===Text fakes===
-Another popular method of making fake cards are custom cards, where creators will make their own fakes using tangible art tools. Usually they will take an existing card, cover up many of the existing bits using correction fluid, and writing in their own text. Other methods include using blank templates provided by the staff at various Pokémon TCG tournaments, including Wizards of the Coast's own Create-a-Card templates; these templates had spaces to draw your Pokémon, write in all the text necessary for the card, and sometimes also included a sheet of energy symbols for its attack, type, weakness and resistance.
+Text fakes are cards that are created only in text or written form with very little, if any, imagery used to create them. They are generally simple and easy to make. Message boards with a sizable Pokémon TCG community typically have a fake card creation forum, such as [[The PokéGym]]'s Create-a-Card forum.
-[[Beckett Pokémon Unofficial Collector]] was known to publish fan-made custom cards which had been sent to the magazine.
+===Hand-made cards===
+Another popular method of making custom cards involves creating them by hand using tangible art tools. Usually, creators will take an existing card, cover up parts of the original card using correction fluid, and write in their own text. Other methods include using blank templates, such as those provided by the staff at various Pokémon TCG tournaments, including [[Wizards of the Coast]]'s own {{DL|Illustration contests|Pokémon Trading Card Game League Create-a-Card Activity|Create-a-Card templates}}. These templates had spaces to draw a Pokémon and write in all the text necessary for the card, and sometimes also included a sheet of energy symbols for its attack, type, weakness, and resistance.
-==Fan-made image fakes==
+[[Beckett Pokémon Unofficial Collector]] was known to publish custom cards which had been sent to the magazine.
-Fan-made image fakes make up the largest and most popular fake card community within the Pokémon community. This format was popularized by Nick15 when his first fake, Missingno., was posted on one of the largest Pokémon TCG websites of the day, the PokéCenter at CCGNews.com. Eventually Nick15 began posting his creations on his own website [[Pokémon Aaah!]], as well as instructions on how people can make their own. This system began to grow in popularity and was adopted by other sites, like [[Pokémon Zeo]]. Although image fakes are not nearly as popular as they were in the past, there are still plenty of people and sites who continue to promote them, like ''PokemonCardMaker.ORG''. At times these kinds of cards can be found on auction sites like eBay, sold by people who don't know that they aren't real cards to begin with.
+===Image fakes===
+Image fakes are cards created using a computer and a system of blank cards and other elements to create completely new cards from scratch, such as by including new text or original artwork.
+At one point, image fakes may have been the most popular fan-made cards within the Pokémon TCG community. They gained prominence when Nick15's first fake, [[Missingno.]], was posted on one of the largest Pokémon TCG websites of the time, the PokéCenter at CCGNews.com. He later shared his creations on his own website, [[Pokémon Aaah!]], which included instructions on how people can make their own image fakes. This system gradually grew in popularity and was adopted by other sites, like [[Pokémon Zeo!]]. Over time, however, image fakes began to fall out of favor, even though sites such as PokemonCardMaker.org continued to promote them. Despite this decline in popularity, some fake card creation sites, such as mypokecard.com, still remain active.
+At times, image fakes have been found on auction sites sold by people who did not know that they were unofficial.
 ==External links==
 *[http://www.fakecard.com/ FakeCard.com] Archive of the first Pokémon TCG fake card website, previously known as ''Pokémon Aaah!'', created by Nick15
 *[http://www.sugarshock.net/zeo/ Pokémon Zeo] The second ever Pokémon TCG fake card website, created by The Echidna and purity
+*[http://www.mypokecard.com/ My Pokecard] An easy-to-use card making site
+*[http://pokemoncardresources.deviantart.com/ PokemonCardResources] DeviantART group dedicated to creating fan-made cards
+==See also==
+* [[Counterfeit card]]
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