I’m wanting to buy a few sdcc promos for my collection. How is the foiling process? I’ve never found a good quality pic of the foiling. I’m wondering if they curve as bad as from the vault or regular foils too.
I took a couple pictures with my phone so hopefully they give you some information. I took pictures of the SDCC 2016 and 2017 Jace and Gideon.
The foiling seems pretty close to the From the Vault foiling. I don't notice a huge difference between them anyway.
I have not seen any issues with curling. The images show the side view of each card and you can see they are pretty straight. Note that these cards, like all my cards, have been in Perfect Fit sleeves since I got them. I took them out to take the picture, but having them in perfect fits is probably a big part of why mine don't curl.
On the issue of FtV curling, I will note that I bought From the Vault Annihilation and they were curled out of the box. As it is now, they are perfectly straight which I attribute to having in Perfect fits. Maybe being in a 800 count box with other cards affected it too. I just want to call this out since my experience is with using Perfect Fits and I know it affected FtV foils so it is tough to say these definitely don't curl like FtV foils do.
I do think the foiling is supposed to be the same. Now, looking at them in person, it does seem like the SDCC17 foiling is slightly "muted" when compared to the SDCC16 and FtV but the other two look pretty close. However, I am not sure if it is just the lighting or something else and there is still not a huge difference between them. Here is a picture showing them all side by side (and I realized after I took the picture that I should have just used Jace for all 3). I did take this picture at a different angle so the lighting is slightly different than the last ones to hopefully show the similarities:
The foiling seems pretty close to the From the Vault foiling. I don't notice a huge difference between them anyway.
I have not seen any issues with curling. The images show the side view of each card and you can see they are pretty straight. Note that these cards, like all my cards, have been in Perfect Fit sleeves since I got them. I took them out to take the picture, but having them in perfect fits is probably a big part of why mine don't curl.
On the issue of FtV curling, I will note that I bought From the Vault Annihilation and they were curled out of the box. As it is now, they are perfectly straight which I attribute to having in Perfect fits. Maybe being in a 800 count box with other cards affected it too. I just want to call this out since my experience is with using Perfect Fits and I know it affected FtV foils so it is tough to say these definitely don't curl like FtV foils do.
SDCC 2016 Front
SDCC 2016 Side
SDCC 2017 Front
SDCC 2017 Side
I’m hoping that Jace will be super cheap for 2018. It seems that Jace is the cheapest of each year, aside from flip walkers