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Posted By: Scott

If you consider game deck cards to be "true cards" because kids couldn't get them any other way, then by that logic you would have to consider Jay's Keeler cabinet a card as well...which leads to the inevitable conclusion that it's a rookie Unless you disqualify it purely because it's a real photo, in which case Old Judges wouldn't be cards either.

We had a really interesting thread on this a couple of years ago - I believe the conclusion was that a real "card" had to possess a certain number of qualities representing "card-ness", but not ALL - and I agree that the Keeler cabinet would fail the test. I'll try to dredge up that thread.