How common/uncommon were EMA cards being gray-scaled/faded? All of the boxes at my local shop had a few gray-scale/faded cards but when I went to another city some people had never seen some of the misprints so my assumption that it was common was internally questioned.
I'd say that it's fairly common? Maybe not some in every box, but there are widespread accounts of them happening. I have a couple that I just picked up incidentally. They're kinda lame. Also, when I say "common", I mean that the ones that I've seen are all random commons, in addition to it being widespread.
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Was just looking through my collection and found this Incinerate that is severely off center on the print. Was wondering if there is any market for this type of thing. Any help is appreciated!
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It'll fetch a higher value, but from a narrower market. You'll have to find a misprint collector (not too hard to do via eBay or Facebook), which makes it slightly dicier than just jamming it into your trade binder. Be aware that some misprint collectors (such as yours truly) won't touch security seal error cards. Have patience, and you'll be able to move it.
Was just looking through my collection and found this Incinerate that is severely off center on the print. Was wondering if there is any market for this type of thing. Any help is appreciated!
There is a market (see what I was just saying to the other guy about misprints), but be aware that since QA was pretty atrocious back in Ice Age, off-center cards are not terribly rare. So you're not looking at your new college fund.
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Last night as I was going through my cards to assemble a deck, I realized that three of my legendary creatures from Dominaria have a square top left corner (not rounded like the other three corners). Has anyone else seen this? I've never had a square corner, and I even have other copies of those cards with all normal corners.
Last night as I was going through my cards to assemble a deck, I realized that three of my legendary creatures from Dominaria have a square top left corner (not rounded like the other three corners). Has anyone else seen this? I've never had a square corner, and I even have other copies of those cards with all normal corners.
Sure, square corners are a subset of miscut. Typically you'll see one, two, or four corners squared. It's a problem with the machine that rounds the corners (duh). Which legendaries are they?
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Sure, square corners are a subset of miscut. Typically you'll see one, two, or four corners squared. It's a problem with the machine that rounds the corners (duh). Which legendaries are they?
Just some of the uncommons - Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, and Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive. I'd just never seen that before. Also, on the backside, the square corner on Raff and Tetsuko is black all the way to the point, while Tatyova's back corner has black ink to the normal cutoff round and then light gray to the point.
Sure, square corners are a subset of miscut. Typically you'll see one, two, or four corners squared. It's a problem with the machine that rounds the corners (duh). Which legendaries are they?
Just some of the uncommons - Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, and Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive. I'd just never seen that before. Also, on the backside, the square corner on Raff and Tetsuko is black all the way to the point, while Tatyova's back corner has black ink to the normal cutoff round and then light gray to the point.
I have a Joraga Worldcaller with a similar corner - since the card is actually a sandwich of several layers, one layer is cut off and you're seeing an internal layer (I think. Pictures always help). Since they're not foils, but they do range from solid to quite good in EDH, you're probably looking at a 2x-5x multiplier.
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I have a sealed German Ice Age Deckmaster Box (Gift Box). I think it is quite rare, especially if it is still sealed. As far as I know, there was never an English Gift Box. But I could be wrong... Any idea about the value of this oddity?
That is hard to gauge on the value. Either way, if you would like to work something out, I'm interested and love all things German.
tough to say. The market for miscut cards is very dependent on the audience. I'd go over to the misprint Facebook page and try to auction it there. It is from Mercadian Masques which is an older set, but it's also not a very useful card. It also shows another card which is a HUGE plus on these things. I'd guess the value at $10, but I could easily be very wildly off here... It all depends on finding the right buyer.
Artists proofs are generally very niche - especially something that is easily reprinted like Polluted Delta. Given the right audience I think it'd be worth somewhere around face value but that's completely a guess and you'd have to find the right buyer. I'd go over to the facebook groups and either try to auction it there or ask for more specific advice.
I did some research though, and if I had to guess, you might be able to ask a couple hundred bucks for it. There are quite a few artist proofs on ebay, and those will surely influence the boundaries of the price you can command.
I'm in the process of selling my cards and in my collection I have an artist proof Polluted Delta with signature from Onslaught. The backside is white (nothing has been drawn by artist or other persons).
I have tried to search around but I have not been able to find an estimate on what this card could be worth. Can anyone here come with a good guess or at least a rule of thumb for artist proofs.
Thank you very much
Couple hundred seems pretty high. AP prices are up a bit lately, and Delta is pretty iconic, but it's generally not thought of as a terribly beautiful card, and with no sketch I don't think that you'd really get more than $50 for it.
I've been buying artist proofs since 2004, and there really is no rule of thumb, or formula that lets you put in a card's TCG price and spits out an AP price. The set is relevant, the signature is relevant, the individual artist is relevant (some of them just don't sell their stuff), the sketch on the back is SUPER-relevant (on eBay, I'll often buy one on the basis of sketch alone, and that's often up to personal preference), and the power of the card is relevant as well but not as much. Sure, some people like having APs of their favorite cards that they sleeve up, and I'm sure that you'll find those people (at least, I really hope that you do!).
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Curious as to what the value of these are.
A guy at my FLGS wants to trade them but I have no idea as to their value.
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Curious as to what the value of these are.
A guy at my FLGS wants to trade them but I have no idea as to their value.
First: THANK YOU for the photoa! They make evaluation significantly easier.
Second: Mark Poole goes to GPs and conventions, and while he does charge $2 per signature, that's not really a game-changer. I'd value these like any other damaged Beta Counterspell (Market is $158, but there's only one for sale and the asking price is $250) and Island. Someone's bidding up a NM Counterspell to about $500 on eBay, but that's NM. The Island is probably closer to $15 - Market is $23, but there are multiple sellers offering HP, MP, and DMG copies of that exact Island (Island A, for the curious) for under $15 shipped.
Third: Point of clarification - I'm evaluating these as damaged because they're damaged, not because of the signature. A signature doesn't automatically ding the condition down to damaged. The big crease in the middle, however ...
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thank you for your help.
as for photos, id think it was a no-brainer.
the counterspell is more like water damage and the island is only damaged around the edges.
don't know if it is hard to tell.
again, thanks.
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thank you for your help.
as for photos, id think it was a no-brainer.
the counterspell is more like water damage and the island is only damaged around the edges.
don't know if it is hard to tell.
again, thanks.
You'd be surprised at how many people have a weird thing that they try to describe instead of just uploading a picture.
It does look like the Island has a big white crease down the center, but that could just be the glare I guess. That doesn't really change my valuation - the edges are still worn enough to qualify it for HP or MP (and, oddly, the DMG copies on TCGp are actually MORE than the cheapest HP and MP copies).
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I got this foil misprint from a collection I bought. The card is just a common, and not a regularly played card. What makes it unique is the foiling mistake. Can anyone give me an approximate value of it? I think it is normally around 35 to 40 cents as a foil.
Also, is problems w/ foiling like this a typical error found when foiling mistakes happen?
I got this foil misprint from a collection I bought. The card is just a common, and not a regularly played card. What makes it unique is the foiling mistake. Can anyone give me an approximate value of it? I think it is normally around 35 to 40 cents as a foil.
Also, is problems w/ foiling like this a typical error found when foiling mistakes happen?
Yeah, that foil blotch isn't terribly uncommon. I have a handful of them. Turns a fifty-cent card into a two-or-three dollar card. Nothing spectacular.
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I just bought some cards from another off of OfferUp. I found among all of them this really strange Ice Age Incinerate. Now, I know it's on worth a few cents and to boot, is in MP condition.
What struck me odd is how it felt & looked like a proxy. I looked at it sideways and it looked normal, i.e. wasn't thicker than other cards, no "extra" level of paper or signs that there was a thin sheet of printed paper.
Other odd signs of it is that the top is cut a bit off (not a perfect straight line). Also, the back feels the same as the front: ever so slightly rough, not the typical way a Magic cards feels, w/ the smooth finish. It has an unusual rigid feel when giving it a slight bend, as it feels stiffer than a regular Magic card. All clues point to fake, but maybe I have something unusual here.
I am really perplexed by this, as why would anyone make a proxy/fake card for something only worth a few cents. This is a strange mystery.
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I'd say that it's fairly common? Maybe not some in every box, but there are widespread accounts of them happening. I have a couple that I just picked up incidentally. They're kinda lame. Also, when I say "common", I mean that the ones that I've seen are all random commons, in addition to it being widespread.
It'll fetch a higher value, but from a narrower market. You'll have to find a misprint collector (not too hard to do via eBay or Facebook), which makes it slightly dicier than just jamming it into your trade binder. Be aware that some misprint collectors (such as yours truly) won't touch security seal error cards. Have patience, and you'll be able to move it.
There is a market (see what I was just saying to the other guy about misprints), but be aware that since QA was pretty atrocious back in Ice Age, off-center cards are not terribly rare. So you're not looking at your new college fund.
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Sure, square corners are a subset of miscut. Typically you'll see one, two, or four corners squared. It's a problem with the machine that rounds the corners (duh). Which legendaries are they?
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I have a Joraga Worldcaller with a similar corner - since the card is actually a sandwich of several layers, one layer is cut off and you're seeing an internal layer (I think. Pictures always help). Since they're not foils, but they do range from solid to quite good in EDH, you're probably looking at a 2x-5x multiplier.
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Sorry about that, I started to reply to you and got distracted, and I guess it got eaten. Bradstone's pretty much got it right.
One note for future reference: the correct abbreviation for "Japanese" is "JP".
That is hard to gauge on the value. Either way, if you would like to work something out, I'm interested and love all things German.
Depends on the severity and depth of the crimp. As always in this thread, pictures are VERY helpful.
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I did some research though, and if I had to guess, you might be able to ask a couple hundred bucks for it. There are quite a few artist proofs on ebay, and those will surely influence the boundaries of the price you can command.
I've been buying artist proofs since 2004, and there really is no rule of thumb, or formula that lets you put in a card's TCG price and spits out an AP price. The set is relevant, the signature is relevant, the individual artist is relevant (some of them just don't sell their stuff), the sketch on the back is SUPER-relevant (on eBay, I'll often buy one on the basis of sketch alone, and that's often up to personal preference), and the power of the card is relevant as well but not as much. Sure, some people like having APs of their favorite cards that they sleeve up, and I'm sure that you'll find those people (at least, I really hope that you do!).
A guy at my FLGS wants to trade them but I have no idea as to their value.
Photos: https://imgur.com/gallery/eaJAObM
First: THANK YOU for the photoa! They make evaluation significantly easier.
Second: Mark Poole goes to GPs and conventions, and while he does charge $2 per signature, that's not really a game-changer. I'd value these like any other damaged Beta Counterspell (Market is $158, but there's only one for sale and the asking price is $250) and Island. Someone's bidding up a NM Counterspell to about $500 on eBay, but that's NM. The Island is probably closer to $15 - Market is $23, but there are multiple sellers offering HP, MP, and DMG copies of that exact Island (Island A, for the curious) for under $15 shipped.
Third: Point of clarification - I'm evaluating these as damaged because they're damaged, not because of the signature. A signature doesn't automatically ding the condition down to damaged. The big crease in the middle, however ...
as for photos, id think it was a no-brainer.
the counterspell is more like water damage and the island is only damaged around the edges.
don't know if it is hard to tell.
again, thanks.
You'd be surprised at how many people have a weird thing that they try to describe instead of just uploading a picture.
It does look like the Island has a big white crease down the center, but that could just be the glare I guess. That doesn't really change my valuation - the edges are still worn enough to qualify it for HP or MP (and, oddly, the DMG copies on TCGp are actually MORE than the cheapest HP and MP copies).
Also, is problems w/ foiling like this a typical error found when foiling mistakes happen?
Yeah, that foil blotch isn't terribly uncommon. I have a handful of them. Turns a fifty-cent card into a two-or-three dollar card. Nothing spectacular.
What struck me odd is how it felt & looked like a proxy. I looked at it sideways and it looked normal, i.e. wasn't thicker than other cards, no "extra" level of paper or signs that there was a thin sheet of printed paper.
Other odd signs of it is that the top is cut a bit off (not a perfect straight line). Also, the back feels the same as the front: ever so slightly rough, not the typical way a Magic cards feels, w/ the smooth finish. It has an unusual rigid feel when giving it a slight bend, as it feels stiffer than a regular Magic card. All clues point to fake, but maybe I have something unusual here.
I am really perplexed by this, as why would anyone make a proxy/fake card for something only worth a few cents. This is a strange mystery.
Photos attached.