MTG Salvation

Just curious to see how other people are coming along with blinging themselves out. How much of your deck is currently foiled, what do you have left to foil, what is it impossible for you to foil, what are you having difficulty finding as a foil, etc.

So I currently have 58/100 cards in my deck foiled out. Of the 42 cards I do not have foiled, 9 of them are impossible to get in foil. Those cards are:

• Ashnod's Altar
  
• Basalt Monolith
  
• Force of Will
  
• Helm of Obedience
  
• Lim-Dul's Vault
  
• Mana Vault
  
• Mind Over Matter
  
• Necromancy
  
• Time Spiral

Of those cards both Time Spiral and Force of Will can be considered "pimped out" as they are both signed, my Force of Will actually have 2 signatures and having been altered by Terese at GP Anaheim last year.

So that means I have a total of 33 cards left to foil, those cards are:

• Bojuka Bog
  
• Brainstorm
  
• Bribery
  
• Capsize
  
• Chromatic Lantern
  
• Consecrated Sphinx
  
• Cryptic Command
  
• Darksteel Ingot
  
• Deadeye Navigator
  
• Demonic Tutor
  
• Deserted Temple
  
• Dimir House Guard
  
• Forbid
  
• Hinder
  
• Living Death
  
• Mystical Tutor
  
• Pact of Negation
  
• Palinchron
  
• Phyrexian Altar
  
• Phyrexian Arena
  
• Rings of Brighthearth
  
• Sensei's Divining Top
  
• Stifle
  
• Thran Dynamo
  
• Temple of the False God
  
• Trickbind
  
• Underground River
  
• Vampiric Tutor
  
• Voltaic Key
  
• Venser, Shaper Savant
  
• Watery Grave
  
• Yawgmoth's Will

Some of those are quite difficult to foil due to availability or price.

What really gets me are the cards that should be a piece of cake to snap up as foils, they're relatively new or common, not very expensive, but I just cannot find them locally at all. I mean something like Deadeye Navigator, Bojuka Bog or Dimir House Guard shouldn't be so freaking elusive, but they're proving harder to find than some of the ungodly expensive foils I don't have. My Watery Grave is signed at least, so that'll suffice until Gatecrash comes out and prices on foils hopefully drop down a bit from the $40 I've seen at the only local shop to have any. Those judge promos are gonna really hurt though....

Edit: For anyone interested in representing Magpie pride, I made a banner for use in signatures:

I only foil my basic lands, but I just have 4 more plains to go! :3 (You'd think I'd just go out and get some, but I like pulling foil lands... those are the ones that go in ;D )

I'm trying to foil my maelstrom wanderer, list, I'm at about 60%, but I'd be at about 80 if I was content with using any old foil basics instead of foil unhinged basics.

The cards that will prevent me from ever being at 100% foils:

• Mana Drain
  
• Tropical Island
  
• Volcanic Island
  
• Taiga
  
• Time Spiral

...which are understandable, because of the reserve list, however nature's lore and stranglehold really, really need foil versions.

I have 33 non-basic land cards foiled out in my Uril deck. Probably about 8-10 cards that are not available in foil... including Taiga, Plateau, and Savannah.

For cards that are not available in foil, my plan is to have them altered.

Norin is all foil outside of the cards that were never printed as foil.
Less:
Alpha/Beta Fork
Bloodstained Mire
Wooded Foothills

These will be picked up soon!

Aside from the 23 foil Unhinged basics I am slowly collecting, my Kiku deck only has 3 cards left to foil; Deserted Temple, Urborg, and Maze of Ith. I prefer the pack foils/judge foils, so these have been alluding me for some time. There are also a few cards I'd like to upgrade to oldest possible pack foils, like Withered Wretch and Sensei's Divining Top.

I built a multiplayer Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon last February this year and made it all bling along the way except for four more to foil. Charcoal Diamond & Worn Powerstone prevents me from blinging everything. I got 'em all from random people's binders and it's fulfilling when a guy asks where I got a certain card luckily I still remember where LGS or mall I acquired it. It's taking forever to acquire a foiled; Night's Whisper, Promise of Power, Graveborn Muse & a Coldsteel Heart so I asked a favor from a friend to order them in Abugames.com. If the stars aligns tonight, I'll get 'em all by tomorrow.

Quote from Greggy

Charcoal Diamond & Worn Powerstone prevents me from blinging everything.

Charcoal diamond was in 7th! Get some!

7th ed? FUUUUUUUUUUUUU yes sir right away! thanks mate.

34/100 cards foiled in Jenara. Not going to go into specifics however I believe there are 9 cards in total that cannot be foiled. That leaves like 56 that I could foil yet.

Considering the deck with 34 foils in it costs like $1,300 or so and to finish it would probably take like $1,000 - $1,500 I dont foresee it being completed anytime soon. I suppose foil shocks should be a bit more obtainable now days though so that helps.

Exactly 51/100 of the cards are foiled in my Lord of Tresserhorn deck currently, but only two more that are big money to go (Demonic tutor and Scalding Tarn). It has 9 cards in it that can't be foiled, and I plan on having those altered eventually.

66/100 in my Azami, Lady of Scrolls. There are 14 that can't be foiled though. I only need a black bordered Braingeyser for the whole deck to be black bordered

About halfway done foiling up my Rafiq deck. I'm also a shtick for promo foils, which means I need to get a judge Maze of Ith instead of a FTV one.

Big ticket items I still need to get:
Judge Maze of Ith
FNM Swords to Plowshares
Arsenal Sylvan Library
Judge Onslaught fetches
Judge Wasteland

Also a few odds and ends that I keep swapping in and out as I toggle the deck between aggressive and control builds.

39/100 for my Gisela deck. Still a pretty long way to go.
Almost all of my Snow-Covered basics are Foil though! =)

Impossible to foil:
1 Thalakos Deceiver
2 Mana Vault
3 Recall
4 Force of Will
5 Mind over Matter

So that gives me 95 possible foils.. I'm missing 9. So 86/95 foiled in my Azami deck.

I have a Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deck that is 100% foiled. I don't run awesome stuff like Mana Drain and Volcanic Island, obviously, but I felt it was a nice trade-off for being to have evverything made shiny. Commander's Arsenal Chaos Warp and Desertion made me extremely happy

Inside the Deck actually did a Deck Tech for Izzet week that's up on GatheringMagic.com.

Still trying to get a foil Champs Promo. If anyone has one, I'd gladly work something out with them

my arcum dagsson deck has 90 foils. Getting 23 foil unhinged islands was the hardest part. The cards that aren't foiled are cards like mishra's workshop, mana drain, force of will, power artifact, transmute artifact, mana vault, etc. Some of the non-foil cards are altered.

Edit: fellow 'magpies'? I don't get it.

Check the sig there is a deck list and pics of the deck.

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Edit: fellow 'magpies'? I don't get it.

Term I've heard used in a somewhat insulting manner by non-foil types referring to people that like to bling out their decks, basically comparing them to birds that like to grab all the shiny for their nests. I decided to adopt it.

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Term I've heard used in a somewhat insulting manner by non-foil types referring to people that like to bling out their decks, basically comparing them to birds that like to grab all the shiny for their nests. I decided to adopt it.

I like it. Fits perfectly.

Impossible to foil:

Mana Drain
Temporal Manipulation
Gilded Drake
Tundra
Tropical Island
Savannah

Missing:

Judge Foil Survival of the Fittest

so 93/100 foiled, 93/94 possible foils

I am NEVER pimping out a deck again - WAAYYYY too much money.

It is beautiful though.

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I like it. Fits perfectly.

Yeah it does, really grew on me actually.

Quote from Killane

I am NEVER pimping out a deck again - WAAYYYY too much money.

It is beautiful though.

I hear ya man, it is a bad addiction. It looks so god damn pretty though when all is said and done.

I'm at 21/100 foiled so far out of my Kozilek EDH, with the other 2 Urzatron lands coming in later this week. I must say I really do enjoy this project even though it will be extremely expensive.

(My ultimate plan is to foil every single one of my EDH decks, all 26, when I build them. Out of all of them, Kozilek is by far the most expensive.)

53/100 foiled in my Captain Sisay deck.

I'm debating continuing, as all of the rest of the foils in that deck are crazy expensive, and I want to actually build other decks at the moment.