MTG Salvation

Quote from RocketPapaya413

Wow, there is some really good stuff on here! I've been working on pimping out my main deck for a while now, but I still have a long way to go. Only 16 of the cards are what I would consider the best possible versions, discounting foreign language. I prefer black bordered old art over foiled versions, so I have a Fellwar Stone from The Dark and that one's never getting foiled. I did see a pretty sweet German version today that I'm going to try to acquire soon. I'm also always going to play a Duel Deck Anger over the older version because the old art is just so bad. Finally, in the list of "perfect version caveats" I also play the Graveborn Animate Dead just to make sure that I always have the latest oracle text on hand to prevent confusion with people who may not know how the card actually works. Plus, it's already foiled as a bonus!

My basics are all non-foiled full-art Zendikar lands, with the exception of one shiny M12 land. It's not even one of the better arts from the set, I'm just really lacking good land arts it seems I did get a good lead on some Un- Mountains and Swamps today, though, which is going to be sweet.

Just a question for everyone with these totally sweet foreign language all-foiled decks: about how long did it take you to get there, and how much time/effort/money would you spend on this endeavor? Was it a decade of slow value trading, or did you just go on Ebay and buy all of your cards all at once?

edit: also, I've been looking around to get my commander the altered-art treatment. I sent a few emails to some alterationists about a week ago, but I still haven't heard back from them. Has anyone had any luck with a particular artist or website and would like to make a recommendation? In the meantime, I whipped this little thing up in MWS:

I think it could use a little work making the rules text more unwieldy and unnecessarily long. I'm really trying to capture that old card charm.

Quote from Zakman86

Reposting Rhys since it's had some major changes since Innistrad. Sadly, it's only 99% pimp at the moment. The last unpimp card will be fixed... soon.

Fixed! See below spoiler!

Quote from runningbear

It probably doesn't matter because people can just zoom out in their browser to view them completely. Make sure they're in spoilers though.

Alternatively, you can resize them in MS Word, Photoshop, or its free alter ego, Gimp.

Quote from my58vw

One of my older EDH decks at one point had all alpha basics. My thing now is that I do not mind non-foils that I can not get, as long as they are black bordered.

Quote from Shunma

Also: foil isn't the only type of "pimp." Yes, there are no foil dual lands, but that doesn't mean there are no "pimp" dual lands. You can get Beta, FBB German, altered by an amazing artist such as Poxy, and so on. Same for less expensive cards--you can get a foil Vampiric Tutor, or a Japanese one or perhaps an altered one.

There's a foil Demonic Tutor, but I don't like the art, so I went with FBB German for my decks instead. I am disappointed with the art on the new Mana Crypt foil as well, so I intend to stick to the old ones and get them signed\altered eventually. I have a foil Regrowth in Ghave, and an FBB German one in Damia. I have the judge foil Sol Ring in Ghave, FBB German in Kaalia, and FTV in Damia. I have, literally, thousands of foil basics, but went with normal Unhinged for Damia. There's a lot out there. Many forms of "pimp."

IMO, 100% foil diminishes the wow factor a bit. Having a certain percentage of FBB, Beta, or other non-foil pimp really makes the deck "pop." Of course, that's just my opinion.

Saying you don't run a card because there's no foil for it just starts to sound like excuses to me.

Quote from DanzBorin

I can see this theory if you weren't trying to foil the deck.

Foil shocklands are going to cost about the same as a scrubland.

I get that you might not want to do the duals, but no tutors? You can pick up vampiric, demonic, worldly, and enlightened for under $50. Take off the vampiric and you are under 20.

I love the pimp decks, but myself, can't justify pimping before making optimal card choices.

My sliver deck is a mess of white border, black borders, and foils. lol

Quote from Juju

I think it's because people who had them suddenly realised they had spiked in price, and rushed to sell them. I have one myself, and I'd like to sell at some point, but I can't bring myself to yet (what if they go up more??)

Quote from DanzBorin

Mutavualt you have there is quite nice!

Probably the hardest to get non-summer, non-garfield, non-test card out there!

Good going!

Quote from The Aardvark

Is it wrong that the card I am most excited about in this is the Cauldron Dance? I haven't actually seen a Japanese foil copy before.

Quote from DJ Troll

Here's my Niv-Mizzet deck I have been working on for a while. As pimped as I can make it at this time. Enjoy, I know I do:

Unfoilables