I personally have pulled 2 cards ever that had this yellow haze misprint but I can barely find references to this type of defect on the internet. Mostly people just find crimping problems and miscuts. So how often is it that they go yellow ink crazy on a card? And is it even Cyan or Magenta instead or yellow?
I have a handful of cards from BFZ that just have different shading. I dont think it will be formally recognized as a "misprint" by collectors, but I could be wrong and will leave it to the experts.
I did notice that some of the Gideons were super white and some were a little tan but this one is downright yellow. It looks a little more yellow in reality than in that pic. I have another card that was absolutely, completely the wrong color with a yellow haze over everything so I assumed this was just a lesser version of that glitch.
I am by no means an expert on misprints, so this is my educated guess, not gospel.
In my experience, generally misprint/miscut collectors are looking for either "known" misprints (cards printed with incorrect text from an entire print run, cards printed in wrong color frame a la serendib efreet, "summer magic" printings, etc) or really severe misprints/miscuts (visible parts of another card on one of the borders, a card showing two halves of different cards, etc). Slight miscoloration probably doesn't rise to the level of interesting a lot of these collectors, so I would expect this to just be worth the same as a normal gideon, maybe slightly more.
I could be wrong though. Who knows. If this yellowing becomes a known error from some portion of the print run that is corrected, it might be worth more.
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The variation here is really close to normal, but possibly just far enough off to call a minor misprint. It's debatable. The question for me is, in person, is it yellow enough that you notice without holding up another card for comparison?
Even so, it doesn't stand out too much on its own which means that this card would not likely fetch a premium on the misprint market. However, it is somewhat unusual in that I have seen this with cyan and black a lot recently but not yellow. So it is still an intriguing find and I thank you for posting pics. I'll have to keep an eye out to see just how wide the print variations are with this set.
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I have a blue, indigo, and purple Wall of Frost but they're M10, M14, and M15 so I know what you mean But I used to work at a printing facility and I know a yellow ink rampage is definitely what we'd call a flaw. It shows up on top of areas that are supposed to be mostly white so in other words no ink is supposed to go there. I'd consider it slightly different than a slightly different tint, which happens all the time with reds and blues because they're on the edge of the visible spectrum so it's harder to mix the inks properly. Most people did notice the problem immediately when I showed them the Gidoen card even without a reference one next to it. But yeah, all I've seen people buy is double shadowered, double printed, double language, miscut, etc. I do have an offer for $50 though but it turns out that's what Gideon jumped to lately in price lol.
Anyway, here's a crappy pic of my yellow ink haze Gore Swine. It only covers the bottom half of the text and it's about 2x yellow than it looks in that pic. My cell phone sucks, lol.
It's not a big deal. I have a Zendikar full art Forest that looks like it was literally peed on. I actually believe that it is a misprint worth only slightly more.
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There's nothing particularly special about slight color variations on a card. It happens all the time. Hell, some color variations are nearly indistinguishable from certain kinds of sunlight damage.
I had very yellow cards in avacyn restored. It happened mostly in commons (phew!) and only white cards were "yellowish". It's very noticeable even without other cards.
Recently, I had problems with green cards from modern masters. They were weird faded green. I can't say they're very lighter or darker, they're just very faded, almost greyish green instead of vibrant green.
It looks like the printer was a bit low on blue ink that day. This is an incredibly common misprint. You've probably seen it before, and it just hasn't been as notable to you.
Furthermore, BFZ specifically has a whole bunch of misprints with what looks to me almost like bleach stains. I've seen it numerous places.
OMG I've seen those too They're hilarious! They must have spilled an ink-blocking material on them or something. I think it's a defect in the paper itself from the paper company prior to printing.
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Direct scan of the card next to a normal Gideon:
In my experience, generally misprint/miscut collectors are looking for either "known" misprints (cards printed with incorrect text from an entire print run, cards printed in wrong color frame a la serendib efreet, "summer magic" printings, etc) or really severe misprints/miscuts (visible parts of another card on one of the borders, a card showing two halves of different cards, etc). Slight miscoloration probably doesn't rise to the level of interesting a lot of these collectors, so I would expect this to just be worth the same as a normal gideon, maybe slightly more.
I could be wrong though. Who knows. If this yellowing becomes a known error from some portion of the print run that is corrected, it might be worth more.
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The variation here is really close to normal, but possibly just far enough off to call a minor misprint. It's debatable. The question for me is, in person, is it yellow enough that you notice without holding up another card for comparison?
Even so, it doesn't stand out too much on its own which means that this card would not likely fetch a premium on the misprint market. However, it is somewhat unusual in that I have seen this with cyan and black a lot recently but not yellow. So it is still an intriguing find and I thank you for posting pics. I'll have to keep an eye out to see just how wide the print variations are with this set.
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Anyway, here's a crappy pic of my yellow ink haze Gore Swine. It only covers the bottom half of the text and it's about 2x yellow than it looks in that pic. My cell phone sucks, lol.
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Recently, I had problems with green cards from modern masters. They were weird faded green. I can't say they're very lighter or darker, they're just very faded, almost greyish green instead of vibrant green.
Most people don't care about this though.
It looks like the printer was a bit low on blue ink that day. This is an incredibly common misprint. You've probably seen it before, and it just hasn't been as notable to you.
Furthermore, BFZ specifically has a whole bunch of misprints with what looks to me almost like bleach stains. I've seen it numerous places.