Hey everyone! As you may have seen from last year's thread, I've agreed to take on the duties for distributing this years cards. I'll even be participating! You might not know this about me because I'm not particularly active in custom cards, but I was a professional graphic designer for several years and I occasionally made the convention circuit with some friends selling my T-Shirts and other Designs.
Please note there are some slight differences with the rules. My wife and I are expecting our first kid at the end of December, meaning contest entries MUST be in to me by the deadline, or there is no guarantee I can process them.
For 2014, the MTGSalvation Holiday Magic Card Exchange returns for its eighth year!
Here is an introduction for those of you new to this - or - a refresher for the old timers:
How the exchange works
The premise is simple. First, MTGSalvation members from all over the world send me personally altered cards. Then, as Christmas approaches, I randomly send their cards to someone else who participated. It's a fun gift exchange that's always a blast.
What do I mean by personally altered? Does that you mean you have to be as good as the people over in the official altered art thread? Not at all! What's important is that you personalize your cards. For example, here are just a handful of cards done over the past few years:
As you can see, there is a lot of variation in what people choose to do. Featured is wide range of artistic talent, from doodles to full-blown alters. Just make it fun. In general, if you wouldn't be happy with receiving it from somebody else, you should alter it until you would be.
How to Participate
Participating is easy! Just send me a PM with your address, and I'll send you mine back. All you have to do after that is send me your cards along with appropriate packaging and postage to mail your cards along to the next person. After that, just relax and wait for your return package to make its merry way to you. It's that simple!
All participants must have their cards to me by December 11th, 2015. This means I MUST have the cards in hand by this date, NOT that you should mail it by this date.. They will be redistributed and sent off over the weekend, and hopefully everybody will have theirs by December 25th. Please remember to budget enough time for your cards to arrive. For reference, I live in Maryland, USA.
Brand new accounts are excluded to avoid gaming the system. If you try and game the system to get more presents, I will catch you. Please don't do it. It will just result in a sad face for both of us.
This event is not sponsored or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast in any way. It is purely something done for fun by people who love Magic, and is not for for any financial gain or otherwise.
Tips and Checklist
Over the past three years, previous exchange runners saw a lot of cards come through. Here are some recommendations to help make the holiday exchange fun for everybody!
Try and modify cool cards. They don't necessarily have to be rares, but it's great when somebody can play the cards they receive in a deck and then tell the story of how they received them! If you are on a budget, think an altered playset of playable commons, an EDH staple, or basic lands are great... as long as it's playable it's cool!
Stumped for cards to alter? Try sending cards related to your name, avatar, or signature! That way there's a connection between MTGSalvation and the card's you're altering.
What you receive is random and a gift from someone else to you. Regardless of how you feel about the quality of cards you received, please be grateful. After all, it's a gift!
Part of the fun is ripping open the package when it finally arrives to see what you received. Do not post the alters you did ahead of time - though vague hints can be fun. We don't want to ruin the surprise!
Sending items such as letters, notes, or pictures along with your cards to the other person is not only allowed, but encouraged!
You might want to take a picture of your cards before you send them so that you can still show them off if the recipient has no way to upload an image.
You may submit as few or as many cards as you would like. Take your time and make some great alters!
IMPORTANT RULES --> READ THIS!!!
1. You absolutely must, must, must include a stamped envelope (NOT SELF ADDRESSED) envelope with enough postage for up to a 6 oz package. If you do not include one, I cannot promise you that you will receive any cards back. Make sure this envelope has enough postage to mail the stuff you sent. Again, DO NOT send a self-addressed envelope! You must provide an envelope that will be sufficient to mail your items further out.
2. In the past, a couple of people have sent extra large/heavy items. This is great, and often these items are very cool! However, if you're going to do this, please include an extra envelope that is the appropriate size and/or has the right amount of postage on it.
3. If you are an international participant, please tell me in your PM so we can discuss how international shipping will work out best in your case. The US Postal prices have done some crazy things in the last few years, and shipping times may be a concern.
4. Along with your cards and Stamped envelope, please include a slip of paper with your MTGSalvation username. There will be a lot of cards coming in and if I don't know who sent me something I can't really let them know - which I'd like to do
Checklist
Send me a PM with your address
Check you inbox daily, I'm on all the time and will generally be quick to reply.
Alter cards!
Write your MTGSalvation username on a slip of paper.
Send me your cards, that slip of paper with your MTGSalvation username, and a stamped envelope with enough postage to mail your cards, inside another envelope. Don't forget any of those steps!
Time travel to later in December and check your mail. Enjoy your gift!
Count me in. I've not missed one since I started doing this. You should still have my address from that last thing. I'm sure I can find yours from those last things.
[edit]NEVER take the "Roja Lands" off the preview stuff. I still use those to this day.
Boomshakalaka. Wouldn't be the holidays without it. I'm slowing getting enough cards to be able to put together a full EDH deck full of Christmas alters!
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Just a reminder that submissions are due to me by December 11th! My son is measuring big, so it's likely that my wife will be delivering early, making it VERY important to every get their submissions to me early. I can't guarantee when or if I'll be able to send out late submissions.
Just a reminder that submissions are due to me by December 11th! My son is measuring big, so it's likely that my wife will be delivering early, making it VERY important to every get their submissions to me early. I can't guarantee when or if I'll be able to send out late submissions.
Sent! Also, saving this spot to post sweet pix of my loot!
Sick goods provided by Aquila Noctis:
Hedron Christmass Trees! The snowball I least want to be hit by! A holiday adventure! And Italian Narset wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
Additional baubles and sweets provided by bobthefunny and grant1.
And a thank you to the mysterious provider! It worked out well for me :}
Hey people, I've got a number of questions about this so I want to make it clear:
DO NOT SEND ME A SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE
DO SEND A BLANK STAMPED ENVELOPE
The envelop you send will be used to send your contribution on to the next person. You will get an envelop provided by another person. It has to be this way because people send packages that are frequently vastly different sizes, and if you self-address, some people will get a tiny package in a big envelope, and some people I will have to buy additional envelopes for because the bigger package they would get will not fit in the tiny envelope they provide.
I'm excited about this. Whoever gets mah loot, if you can't take pictures, I took some before it shipped. I will probably hide the pictures somewhere either the end of next week or the beginning of the week after. I'm like a 5 year old dancing in front of the tree Christmas morning. I'd like to thank everyone who participated in this, and especially Jay for taking the time out to do this. I would also like to apologize to whoever gets my "loot".
Are all of the participants alters mailed to Jay13X? How many need to get to you?
Just curious when all of the cards will be mailed out? Since the date is the 11th to get to Jay, I hope they'll be shipped out no later than Dec. 14th, w/ hopes they are all to us before Christmas (state-side, that is. Other nations will get to feel the international lag of the world's snail mail).
Sent yesterday morning. I've got scans. I know I'm pushing the deadline a little bit. Hopefully that baby will hang out just a couple more days so this gets done! Also, much congratulations due on the baby! Hope everything goes safely!
I also can't wait to upload the scans of my cards. As per the usual, my wife also included some altered cards. Here's a teaser of what might be happening.
You may be required to pay Christmas Ornaments for upkeep on one of the cards.
Don't be a scrooge and enjoy the cards!
Hope you're not Russian around too much to enjoy the holidays!
There's snow way that you won't enjoy the picturesque scenery!
The elements of snow and ice are often combined to make a snowman.
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Proud Owner of: Extremeicon's Hamster-balled soul Istanbul's Soul, Bidder of Myself votan's Linux-loving Soul grappler12's Poop-smithing Soul Sir Blakely's Fencing Soul CraZedMiKe's Soul Transferred Back at His Request HAWKEYE 7's Calvin and Hobbes Loving Soul Tanthalas' Greek Alliance Soul Avatar of Kokusho's Island-Hating Soul Salubrious' Rather-Belatedly Added Soul
Please note there are some slight differences with the rules. My wife and I are expecting our first kid at the end of December, meaning contest entries MUST be in to me by the deadline, or there is no guarantee I can process them.
For 2014, the MTGSalvation Holiday Magic Card Exchange returns for its eighth year!
2007, 2008, 2009 , 2010.,2011, 2012, and 2013, 2014
Here is an introduction for those of you new to this - or - a refresher for the old timers:
The premise is simple. First, MTGSalvation members from all over the world send me personally altered cards. Then, as Christmas approaches, I randomly send their cards to someone else who participated. It's a fun gift exchange that's always a blast.
What do I mean by personally altered? Does that you mean you have to be as good as the people over in the official altered art thread? Not at all! What's important is that you personalize your cards. For example, here are just a handful of cards done over the past few years:
As you can see, there is a lot of variation in what people choose to do. Featured is wide range of artistic talent, from doodles to full-blown alters. Just make it fun. In general, if you wouldn't be happy with receiving it from somebody else, you should alter it until you would be.
Participating is easy! Just send me a PM with your address, and I'll send you mine back. All you have to do after that is send me your cards along with appropriate packaging and postage to mail your cards along to the next person. After that, just relax and wait for your return package to make its merry way to you. It's that simple!
All participants must have their cards to me by December 11th, 2015. This means I MUST have the cards in hand by this date, NOT that you should mail it by this date.. They will be redistributed and sent off over the weekend, and hopefully everybody will have theirs by December 25th. Please remember to budget enough time for your cards to arrive. For reference, I live in Maryland, USA.
Brand new accounts are excluded to avoid gaming the system. If you try and game the system to get more presents, I will catch you. Please don't do it. It will just result in a sad face for both of us.
This event is not sponsored or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast in any way. It is purely something done for fun by people who love Magic, and is not for for any financial gain or otherwise.
Over the past three years, previous exchange runners saw a lot of cards come through. Here are some recommendations to help make the holiday exchange fun for everybody!
IMPORTANT RULES --> READ THIS!!!
1. You absolutely must, must, must include a stamped envelope (NOT SELF ADDRESSED) envelope with enough postage for up to a 6 oz package. If you do not include one, I cannot promise you that you will receive any cards back. Make sure this envelope has enough postage to mail the stuff you sent. Again, DO NOT send a self-addressed envelope! You must provide an envelope that will be sufficient to mail your items further out.
2. In the past, a couple of people have sent extra large/heavy items. This is great, and often these items are very cool! However, if you're going to do this, please include an extra envelope that is the appropriate size and/or has the right amount of postage on it.
3. If you are an international participant, please tell me in your PM so we can discuss how international shipping will work out best in your case. The US Postal prices have done some crazy things in the last few years, and shipping times may be a concern.
4. Along with your cards and Stamped envelope, please include a slip of paper with your MTGSalvation username. There will be a lot of cards coming in and if I don't know who sent me something I can't really let them know - which I'd like to do
Checklist
Questions?
Please post below.
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I'm also in the EU, and as I understand, we now have enough critical mass to exchange between people in Europe.
These are the decks that I have constructed, and are ready to play:
01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
Proud Owner of:
Extremeicon's Hamster-balled soul
Istanbul's Soul, Bidder of Myself
votan's Linux-loving Soul
grappler12's Poop-smithing Soul
Sir Blakely's Fencing Soul
CraZedMiKe's Soul Transferred Back at His Request
HAWKEYE 7's Calvin and Hobbes Loving Soul
Tanthalas' Greek Alliance Soul
Avatar of Kokusho's Island-Hating Soul
Salubrious' Rather-Belatedly Added Soul
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Thanks Jay for making this possible !!!
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Also, saving this spot to post sweet pix of my loot!Sick goods provided by Aquila Noctis:
Hedron Christmass Trees! The snowball I least want to be hit by! A holiday adventure! And Italian Narset wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
Additional baubles and sweets provided by bobthefunny and grant1.
And a thank you to the mysterious provider! It worked out well for me :}
DO NOT SEND ME A SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE
DO SEND A BLANK STAMPED ENVELOPE
The envelop you send will be used to send your contribution on to the next person. You will get an envelop provided by another person. It has to be this way because people send packages that are frequently vastly different sizes, and if you self-address, some people will get a tiny package in a big envelope, and some people I will have to buy additional envelopes for because the bigger package they would get will not fit in the tiny envelope they provide.
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URGEDH Biovisionary.dec BShirei WBSelenia
The brain is the muscle that pumps stupid through the body
Just curious when all of the cards will be mailed out? Since the date is the 11th to get to Jay, I hope they'll be shipped out no later than Dec. 14th, w/ hopes they are all to us before Christmas (state-side, that is. Other nations will get to feel the international lag of the world's snail mail).
I also can't wait to upload the scans of my cards. As per the usual, my wife also included some altered cards. Here's a teaser of what might be happening.
You may be required to pay Christmas Ornaments for upkeep on one of the cards.
Don't be a scrooge and enjoy the cards!
Hope you're not Russian around too much to enjoy the holidays!
There's snow way that you won't enjoy the picturesque scenery!
The elements of snow and ice are often combined to make a snowman.
Proud Owner of:
Extremeicon's Hamster-balled soul
Istanbul's Soul, Bidder of Myself
votan's Linux-loving Soul
grappler12's Poop-smithing Soul
Sir Blakely's Fencing Soul
CraZedMiKe's Soul Transferred Back at His Request
HAWKEYE 7's Calvin and Hobbes Loving Soul
Tanthalas' Greek Alliance Soul
Avatar of Kokusho's Island-Hating Soul
Salubrious' Rather-Belatedly Added Soul
DCI Advanced Organizer
TerribleBad at Magic since 1998.A Vorthos Guide to Magic Story | Twitter | Tumblr
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