Tough to tell from the picture as I don't really see a yellow stain. Given that this is an Unlimited card, I'd actually call it lightly played (depending on the stain). The scan isn't very high quality so it's hard to see exactly how much edge wear it has. At absolute worst I'd call it moderately played, but this is still a pretty nice card. You're also lucky that the 93/94 format errata'ed this card to take away the flipping part and just made it a destroy target permanent. That made this the best removal spell in the format and the price has tripled because of it. Either way you should be able to get somewhere between $200 and $240 or so for it depending on how quickly you want to move it.
A higher quality picture would certainly help on grading though. Nice card either way!
thanks! I have scans in PDF format, but was easier to do an image and put it on imgur. I was offered way less and was told it was an hp/damaged card because of the yellowish stain on top (front) which look actually really light to the naked eye. Was thinking maybe I was overestimating the card's value. I definitely won't let it go as low as I was offered!
thanks! I have scans in PDF format, but was easier to do an image and put it on imgur. I was offered way less and was told it was an hp/damaged card because of the yellowish stain on top (front) which look actually really light to the naked eye. Was thinking maybe I was overestimating the card's value. I definitely won't let it go as low as I was offered!
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Glad to help. I can't really tell about the stain though. In the future, 600 DPI scans or better really help. Typically if a card has stains over some portion of the card, they do consider it HP/damaged. I just can't tell from the picture how bad the yellowing is. If it's just that very small part on the top middle, I'd call the card moderately played and caveat it to be safe. Even saying that you should be able to get $200 for it on TCG given it's condition.
One thing to note is that there just aren't many of these cards out there. only 11,000 unlimited rares were ever made, and only a total of 15,000 chaos orbs total. It's an extremely hard card to find in decent condition. And outside of the yellowing, this one is in pretty good shape. If I were trying to sell it (as long as you aren't buylisting it to a major vendor like SCG), I'd expect to get at least $200 for it.
It's MP due to the stains and the damage to the upper right corner on the back. Anyone who sends me one of these and advertises it as LP/SP is going to get negative feedback and/or a dispute opened. This Orb would probably end on Ebay for like $175.
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what would you think be a fair price for this chaos orb?
yellow stain looks brighter on scans than actual card.
would you grade this as a HP card?
http://imgur.com/a/HcmZ3
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Tough to tell from the picture as I don't really see a yellow stain. Given that this is an Unlimited card, I'd actually call it lightly played (depending on the stain). The scan isn't very high quality so it's hard to see exactly how much edge wear it has. At absolute worst I'd call it moderately played, but this is still a pretty nice card. You're also lucky that the 93/94 format errata'ed this card to take away the flipping part and just made it a destroy target permanent. That made this the best removal spell in the format and the price has tripled because of it. Either way you should be able to get somewhere between $200 and $240 or so for it depending on how quickly you want to move it.
A higher quality picture would certainly help on grading though. Nice card either way!
Cheers
Glad to help. I can't really tell about the stain though. In the future, 600 DPI scans or better really help. Typically if a card has stains over some portion of the card, they do consider it HP/damaged. I just can't tell from the picture how bad the yellowing is. If it's just that very small part on the top middle, I'd call the card moderately played and caveat it to be safe. Even saying that you should be able to get $200 for it on TCG given it's condition.
One thing to note is that there just aren't many of these cards out there. only 11,000 unlimited rares were ever made, and only a total of 15,000 chaos orbs total. It's an extremely hard card to find in decent condition. And outside of the yellowing, this one is in pretty good shape. If I were trying to sell it (as long as you aren't buylisting it to a major vendor like SCG), I'd expect to get at least $200 for it.
Truth! I can really only see some wear on the back of the card - the front looks fine at that resolution.
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