I purchased foil MTGO redemption sets of the Alara block on eBay last year, and ended up selling them (sleeved and in binders) because they had some clouding on the borders, and what looked like sprinkles or splotches of foiling material on the surface of some cards too. Nothing that my buyer would ever notice, but for me it was enough that they weren't worth keeping for long term collecting.
The question is, will every foil sealed Alara block redemption set be pretty much the same? There are some on eBay again now that I'm thinking of bidding on, but if they'll likely be the same then I won't bother.
No one ever replied to this, but I'm still wondering about it, because I just opened a foil redemption set of Torment, and the cards were overall in beautiful condition, but some did have an occasional small spot of clouding visible along a border, etc. A couple also had a thing I've seen before, where the backside of the card actually has what looks like slits of foiling somehow projected onto it or something, I don't know exactly how to describe it.
Can these imperfections in old foil redemption sets be caused simply by the cards having rubbed against each other a bit over the years as its been handled/transported/etc?
I guess it's too much of a risk to open older sets like Onslaught or 7th Edition if the clouding or imperfections can be worse in some cases?
Gives you some informations in general to clouding.
Its quite unlikely to be a damage thats a "general" issue, as there are cards without that damage.
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Especially for old foils getting a good one is much harder, as a lot of people did not put them in sleeves or even just a binder, and let in the open foils completely get destroyed in long sunlight over time (curling like mad, clouding a lot, all that kind of stuff).
So just keeping cards in a reasonable state is something that asks for a more professional seller, so if they opened some boxes before and the cards look fine in them, which they vouch for, chances are the other packs are fine too.
The question is, will every foil sealed Alara block redemption set be pretty much the same? There are some on eBay again now that I'm thinking of bidding on, but if they'll likely be the same then I won't bother.
Thanks!
Can these imperfections in old foil redemption sets be caused simply by the cards having rubbed against each other a bit over the years as its been handled/transported/etc?
I guess it's too much of a risk to open older sets like Onslaught or 7th Edition if the clouding or imperfections can be worse in some cases?
Gives you some informations in general to clouding.
Its quite unlikely to be a damage thats a "general" issue, as there are cards without that damage.
----
Especially for old foils getting a good one is much harder, as a lot of people did not put them in sleeves or even just a binder, and let in the open foils completely get destroyed in long sunlight over time (curling like mad, clouding a lot, all that kind of stuff).
So just keeping cards in a reasonable state is something that asks for a more professional seller, so if they opened some boxes before and the cards look fine in them, which they vouch for, chances are the other packs are fine too.
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