Which do you prefer, black bordered cards from Xth or white bordered cards from 7th Edition and earlier that bear the old card face?
This only applies to a handful of cards that are difficult to get black bordered, such as Wrath of God and Underworld Dreams, but I would rather have the oldface white bordered card.
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I almost always take BB over WB with the exception of cards that were available in Unlimited. I love the heavy inking on Unlimited cards and their Beta counterparts are almost always WAY more expensive. Similarly I will alway enjoy the old card face more than the new one, even with foils. Seventh foil Painlands over 9th/10th, MM foil Brainstorms over FNM foils, Judge/MM/7th foil Counterspells over FNM foil, etc. Anyhow in you example of Wrath, I would take Unlimited WB old face over 10th BB new face any day.
Black Border every time. The white border detracts from the look of the card to me unlesss it is a white card, but even then the black border looks better.
Anyhow in you example of Wrath, I would take Unlimited WB old face over 10th BB new face any day.
Wrath in particular is an easeir call for me because of the artwork. Though I generally love Quinton Hoover and older cards, I find the new artwork much sexier. 7E Wraths are my favorite in spite of the white border - new art, old face.
Wrath in particular is an easeir call for me because of the artwork. Though I generally love Quinton Hoover and older cards, I find the new artwork much sexier. 7E Wraths are my favorite in spite of the white border - new art, old face.
That's why I heart the foils in that set so much. Amazing art, BB, old face, and shiny.
7th foil ARE indeed very pretty, i love drawing my 7th foil land. it had a cool symbol too. but i think black borders are much better than white. white just stands out too much.
I almost always take BB over WB with the exception of cards that were available in Unlimited. I love the heavy inking on Unlimited cards and their Beta counterparts are almost always WAY more expensive. Similarly I will alway enjoy the old card face more than the new one, even with foils.
I will echo this with the exception of the foil part. Honestly, I could do pretty much without foils. But if I had to pick a favorite, I much prefer the new foiling style to the old one. So something like BB, old card face, new foiling technique.
i am curious with Xth and assuming the next cores are BB will this actually put WB stuff into demand? (eventually?)
I doubt they will make a habit of printing core sets in BB. Doing so is a huge selling point that I see them doing every 10 years. In 2 years, look for the same WB garbage with a lot of the good cards included in 10th, disappearing.
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I actually kind of like the new face, honestly, and I will always want BB. The old/new cardface clashing doesn't bother me that much, but white borders do. I hope they completely do away with white borders, I don't think anyone will miss them.
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Newborder>old boder 100% of the time infact i go out of my way for new border cards.
Such as my swords of plowshares and disencahnts, from the coldsnap precons, its just the old borders are so ugly to me...
I dunno new borders are so much cleaner in my eyes ><
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I almost always take BB over WB with the exception of cards that were available in Unlimited. I love the heavy inking on Unlimited cards and their Beta counterparts are almost always WAY more expensive. Similarly I will alway enjoy the old card face more than the new one, even with foils. Seventh foil Painlands over 9th/10th, MM foil Brainstorms over FNM foils, Judge/MM/7th foil Counterspells over FNM foil, etc. Anyhow in you example of Wrath, I would take Unlimited WB old face over 10th BB new face any day.
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I'd take BB nonfoil 10th over any WB, though. WB is ugly in ANY card frame.
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To me, BB looks more professional and polished. WB doesn't look quite as classy. As for card faces, the new card faces are just going to be something we're going to have to accept, although the old card faces had a much more "fantasy" feel to it.
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Black-bordered almost always wins out over White-bordered, as does New-frame over Old-frame, at least for me. Although, the only time that I really care is when I like one artwork better.
Easy call. I happen to think any card face other than the Classic one is ugly (Windows XP much?), and I could care less about border color.
So white-bordered old card face for me.
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This only applies to a handful of cards that are difficult to get black bordered, such as Wrath of God and Underworld Dreams, but I would rather have the oldface white bordered card.
For card face's sake, I actually like the new one.
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i am curious with Xth and assuming the next cores are BB will this actually put WB stuff into demand? (eventually?)
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I will echo this with the exception of the foil part. Honestly, I could do pretty much without foils. But if I had to pick a favorite, I much prefer the new foiling style to the old one. So something like BB, old card face, new foiling technique.
I doubt they will make a habit of printing core sets in BB. Doing so is a huge selling point that I see them doing every 10 years. In 2 years, look for the same WB garbage with a lot of the good cards included in 10th, disappearing.
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Newborder>old boder 100% of the time infact i go out of my way for new border cards.
Such as my swords of plowshares and disencahnts, from the coldsnap precons, its just the old borders are so ugly to me...
I dunno new borders are so much cleaner in my eyes ><
also Black Border Core sets forever!!
Fusion Elemental is like riding a pony, which probably doesn't sound dangerous, except that in this case the pony is 300 feet tall and covered in chainsaws, and to get on the pony you have to take an elevator with sixteen live cougars.
QFMFT. I'm collecting 7th and Apocalypse foil painlands and not even accepting 9th/10th foil painlands, and desperately hunting for 7th foil Wraths and Birds because newer ones are ugly. I'm running Portal Wraths in my Legacy and Five-Color decks simply because textless are ugly and 9th/10th foils are worse.
I'd take BB nonfoil 10th over any WB, though. WB is ugly in ANY card frame.
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To me, BB looks more professional and polished. WB doesn't look quite as classy. As for card faces, the new card faces are just going to be something we're going to have to accept, although the old card faces had a much more "fantasy" feel to it.
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So white-bordered old card face for me.