Hello everyone, my little puppy accidentally got ahold of one of my volcanic islands, luckily it was double sleeved, but it pretty damaged. I want to have it restored as much as possible. Does anyone have ideas/tips/tricks on how to restore magic cards?? Right now I'm talking to an alterist who thinks he may be able to paint the front (adding rigidity) and use a clear glue layer on the back to make it more stiff. Is this a good idea? Attached are some pics of the volcanic island.
I have had the island sitting under 100lbs of free weight for about a week to try to get it flattened.
Hello everyone, my little puppy accidentally got ahold of one of my volcanic islands, luckily it was double sleeved, but it pretty damaged. I want to have it restored as much as possible. Does anyone have ideas/tips/tricks on how to restore magic cards?? Right now I'm talking to an alterist who thinks he may be able to paint the front (adding rigidity) and use a clear glue layer on the back to make it more stiff. Is this a good idea? Attached are some pics of the volcanic island.
I have had the island sitting under 100lbs of free weight for about a week to try to get it flattened.
The card will never be tournament playable, as the creases will start showing on the sleeves after few shuffles, but for casual play it should be doable. There's few posts about card restoration projects on the alter-thread, so that's a good starting point. The card will need to be painted on both sides with a relatively thick layer of paint, which will keep the card somewhat straight. Then the artist will need to paint on top of the bottom layer. All this will lead to pretty thick card, which will always be a marked card.
Check your local judges. Usually proxies are for damage that happens during the game, but maybe you can bring this to a tournament in a hard case and use a proxy/playtest card in its place?
If your goal is to make it tournament playable, here's what I would do:
1) Cut off all of the crinkled portion
2) Cut off part of a second card to match the excised area on the first card
3) Glue them together somehow in a way that makes them flat
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I have had the island sitting under 100lbs of free weight for about a week to try to get it flattened.
I'd say have it altered
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1) Cut off all of the crinkled portion
2) Cut off part of a second card to match the excised area on the first card
3) Glue them together somehow in a way that makes them flat
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Cost to alter and have it accepted might equal that.
Selling some cards I don't want.
Generally less than tcg mid.