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runscottThe recent SGC/Dell thing got me to wondering what others consider a card to be. Here are my thoughts on items that could be considered cards, but barely.
1. If there are perforations or dotted lines around the image, indicating a place to tear or cut to separate the item from the sheet.
2. If there are no dotted lines or perforations, but there is information on the reverse that relates directly to the image on the front, and the images on the sheet are separate entities.
3. If the item does not meet the above criteria but was obviously intended to be a card - evidenced by the existence of "real" cards that represent a final state of the item - then it's a card. An example would be cards hand-cut from a sheet that contains a blank back.