Bakugan DOOM CARD 48/48 ???

[garagemdatiagui]

Hello all,

I think I can use some of your expert help to identify this bakugan card.

First some history. I was walking around with my wife trying to find some old collectible playing cards. I wasn’t looking for nothing in particular. It could be Pokemon, Bakugan, Magic, etc, etc. I was just looking to see if I could find some of the first editions on the local and older stores.

Well, I found it. I found a kind of boosters with 28 cards each plus one thicker card. There are mixed cards from 2 expansions – 15a and 48 (with no letters.)
All the cards are write only in english, no french version.

Before I continue I must say that I know zero about Bakugan cards. I just made a research today.

At the store there were 4 of this giant boosters. I don’t think this is a deck at all. There are not 2 equal cards on this 28 (the thicker card can be repeated) so I will call it “giant booster”. Feel free to correct me.

I bought the four.

The cards are in a card board box and the cards are not sealed by no mean neither the card board box. I ask to the shop’s lady why they weren’t sealed. She respond “it came like that”.

So I went back home and I search on Ebay for the most expensive single Bakugan card .
I was amazed. I have one Doom Card 48/48. And yes, that was what really amazed me.
The set number is 48/48 instead of 46/48 like all the other cards that I saw on pictures online.

The cards are brand new, great quality and I don’t think they are fake.

Pictures link bellow. What do you think? I got a fake or a rare printing mistake??

s12.photobucket.com/user/silmel/library/Bakugan%20Cards

Thanks to you all.

GaragemdaTiaGui

[Keto]

So, you're saying those were not sealed?
That is weird. They should have been sealed.
I have around hundred of cards and all were sealed.

To be honest, I'm not sure whether those are fake or not, but just the fact those were not sealed grinds my gears. I don't know for other places, but here they MUST be sealed

[Carson Michaels]

Hey man, I've been playing since the game first came out in the US and went to the US nationals, so I think I can help you out a bit, but I'm far from an expert in detecting counterfeits. I'll give it a shot though.

Bakugan cards are usually sealed within a cheap plastic covering, but there were some products where that wasn't the case, namely some of the earlier starter packs. Since you bought an assorted pack of cards, though, that wouldn't happen. A lot of other card games have assorted packs like that which aren't sealed either.

I know that knock off bakugan had absurdly high G Powers, but I'm not too familiar with counterfeit cards. I don't think Bakugan got to the point in popularity where people would make counterfeit cards like what has been done in games like Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Pokemon. It just never got that big.

As for the thick card, that might just be one of the few Gate Cards that you have, unless I'm mistaken. If that's the case, though, that's normal since they have metal inside of them. The Gate Cards have the gold, silver, and copper card bodies.



I'm not too familiar with how the foreign packaging looks, but that looks to be like an English packaging, maybe something they did for the first card renovation. Bakugan had a much different playing system when it first came out which they completely revamped and changed for when the show hit the airwaves.

I think you've stumbled across a good thing, my friend. A lot of these first season cards are hard to come by nowadays. I think you made a good purchase. The Doom Card looks legit, and is one of the rarer ones from what I remember, but I think it was reprinted at least once, which could explain the different set number.