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I've never noticed a print number on my mox or lotus. And I got them in 92 from flow-packs.
Ah, my mistake. They didn't even do collector numbers until Exodus. God damn, that's crazy in hindsight. Makes counterfeiting almost trivial.
We regularly planed the face off cards - like forests - and glued on a colour copy of a pricey card in its place.
But since we were good people, and even though the fakes would fool a kid or a noob, and even shuffle and cut the same, we intentionally sprinkled the copier with yellow confetti so each fake would have some obvious yellow dots.
And we'd ensure everyone knew: "these 6 cards are proxies for these other 6 cards, and in an ante game you win the real card with the proxy. Fair?" It was usually cool.
Our white-hat counterfeiting game was on point. And card sleeves were lame. ;-)
I mean, I played with people who would just scrawl the name of the card over the top of another card in sharpie. Some of them even had a real copy of a card (bricked up in some two inch thick display case), but others would just be - like - "This is a card I wish I had" and we'd have fun playing because it's fun to be across the table from someone with Power Nine tech.
Last time I was active was 10 years ago just as EDH was taking off. Buying the expensive early cards necessitated quite a lot of knowledge and a decent jewelers loupe. I can just imagine how hard it is today with the counterfeiters getting better.