This should have it's own thread. Not as dark as the etched cards in Commander Legends & not as lacking as Strixhaven. The Goldilocks Zone of etched foils.
I still don't understand why wizards is playing it so conservatively with the weird foil treatments on their cards. The Force of Will tcg had really neat, elaborate "etched" foils years before wizards started dipping their toes into alt foil styles. There are probably production considerations, and I guess I could understand wizards being phobic about producing a stinker foil cycle (not that they haven't released some questionable frame styles over the years). Just puzzles me why they're so late to the game on interesting, creative foil treatments.
It is insane to me that they are still going ahead with "traditional" foils (which will pringle) as well, at the same time in the same set, when we've also got sketch versions (of some cards), full-art variants (of some cards), borderless alternate art variants (of some cards), and classic frame treatments (of some cards)!
So wait, are there non-foil, old border Fetches or not?
I thought they confirmed there weren't and those those graphics say "Regular or Foil" on them.
They confirmed the old bordered cards are all foils IIRC. I assume the "regular or foil" on the fetches is cause you can get regular MH2 border versions of the fetches.
Edit - Maybe they just confirmed the MH1 old border reprints are the ones that only come in foil? Jesus they need to chill on the million different types of cards, it's impossible to keep straight.
So wait, are there non-foil, old border Fetches or not?
I thought they confirmed there weren't and those those graphics say "Regular or Foil" on them.
They confirmed the old bordered cards are all foils IIRC. I assume the "regular or foil" on the fetches is cause you can get regular MH2 border versions of the fetches.
Edit - Maybe they just confirmed the MH1 old border reprints are the ones that only come in foil? Jesus they need to chill on the million different types of cards, it's impossible to keep straight.
That is incorrect. Old bordered cards are not "only" foiled out also in the Twitter feed is a simple chart explaining what packs the regular, sketched, extended border, full set, old border, and MH1 old border reprints. Everything is accessable except full art foils and MH1 reprints in old borders.
I am supper stoked that we have chances to get the fetches in old border, as I was worried that they may have only been available in the collector packs.
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The showcase they did for the first edged foils was super artificial and the cards looked nothing alike in real (borderline misleading advertisement).
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Cold edged so far all looked really really bad, as the card gets tremendously darker, instead of shiny and bright like the classic old foil.
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Yeah, you can even tell those cards are still hella dark. Look at how dark the plains art is when it's not directly catching the light.
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I thought they confirmed there weren't and those those graphics say "Regular or Foil" on them.
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They confirmed the old bordered cards are all foils IIRC. I assume the "regular or foil" on the fetches is cause you can get regular MH2 border versions of the fetches.
Edit - Maybe they just confirmed the MH1 old border reprints are the ones that only come in foil? Jesus they need to chill on the million different types of cards, it's impossible to keep straight.
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That is incorrect. Old bordered cards are not "only" foiled out also in the Twitter feed is a simple chart explaining what packs the regular, sketched, extended border, full set, old border, and MH1 old border reprints. Everything is accessable except full art foils and MH1 reprints in old borders.
I am supper stoked that we have chances to get the fetches in old border, as I was worried that they may have only been available in the collector packs.
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