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Heylel_sl said:
So I bought a Library of Alexandria from a local shop that had a large, old collection sold to it. At the shop it looked fine, but when I got it home something looked a tad off. I'm probably just being paranoid because I didn't buy it from a large vendor, but I showed it to the local vintage guys anyway. There's a corner that might indicate it's a really good scan, but it otherwise holds up under high magnification and feels right. It's a little glossy, but no more than a new card. It just looks like it sat in a sleeve for 20 years. The vintage guys were 95% sure it was real, but that last 5% is bothering me.
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i ordered some fake betas online, the only way to see they were fake were the obvious printing mistake (lacking the small white corners within the black border), and tearing the card up

bend test, water test, magnifying glass, all passed

this was perhaps 2 years ago

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It was how everyone played in 93/94. I still do.
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only 6 digit DCI number players seem to realise this
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Kuro

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Real men play the way the MTG Learn to Play Rulebook from the first box-set told you to... all of your cards in a single row, none of them stacked on top of each other, no re-arranging after play. Fuck board-state comprehension!
 
Sterling

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Plus you needed more space than the corner to corner length of a card between your permanents to avoid losing multiple cards to Chaos Orb!
 
Heylel

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Took the Library to our judge conference and had the RC look at it along with some long-time vets spotting fakes. Looks like I'm in the clear.

In other words, the packet from that conference + credit at the local shop snagged me a Twister. Finished my 9 + 1 in a tad under 6 months.
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Heylel_sl said:
Took the Library to our judge conference and had the RC look at it along with some long-time vets spotting fakes. Looks like I'm in the clear.

In other words, the packet from that conference + credit at the local shop snagged me a Twister. Finished my 9 + 1 in a tad under 6 months.
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Pics of them all together for us plebs?
 
Enzee

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That's awesome man, congrats. Maybe one day I'll go for them too..

Anytime I see a pic of power 9 though, it reminds me of a guy I originally met at the trading tables of a SCG open in Dallas, through a vendor buddy, and then again in Vegas. He has the most ridiculous collection I've seen, outside Dan Bock (long time vendor/trader guy that has hundreds of Black Lotuses, runs the High End Magic group on facebook,https://www.facebook.com/groups/highendmtg/that group pic is spelled out with Black Lotuses that he owns).
He's got 6 or 7 trade binders, all 4x3 pages, so he can put a playset of each card in a row. Think he had a binder for each color, one for artifacts/lands, one for 'big' stuff, etc.. 80% of it was foiled out, and/or foreign/special versions. Basically, if it was worth over $5, he was collecting it. With a preference for the rarest version of the card.

Grabbed a few pics of some of the first few pages in two of the binders to show a friend. The dark confident/tarmos page is all foils.
 
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There are folks like that in every area. We have a local guy who is a very long time vintage player and has just never sold his cards. Even when he didn't play, he kept everything. He's had the same beta set of power sleeved for ages, and we all wince when we see him riffle shuffle it. Most of it is also signed, and it's functionally priceless since he never has any intention of selling it. There was one event I wasn't present for, but a fellow judge told me about, where this particular player began using a stack of Ancestral Recalls as tokens. He got bummed when he ran out of beta and had to start using unlimited ones.

Funny enough, that beta Mana Vault is probably the most expensive non-power card in those images besides Workshop. White border versions are only a couple bucks, but a black border one is more than a goyf foil for sure.

edit: I stand corrected. The most expensive non-power, non-Workshop card in those pics is probably the basic Island. Pretty sure that's summer Magic. It's a $500-600 basic land.
 
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Sterling

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I sold my power about 10 years ago. Was mostly Beta in good but not pristine type condition. That wasn't the worst though. Selling off my Shops/Bazaars/Tabernacles etc was the worst part. Those have appreciated far more than the power has. Nobody around played Vintage so it was kind of pointless. We now have Legacy firing fairly regularly though which is something at least. Now I just need to convince people to play Team Rochester and we're golden. In general I also have a very different feel for collections now that I actually own a store.
 
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Heylel_sl said:
edit: I stand corrected. The most expensive non-power, non-Workshop card in those pics is probably the basic Island. Pretty sure that's summer Magic. It's a $500-600 basic land.
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Yea, I think it is. But, some of those proxy print cards are hard to find prices for, certain ones are ridiculously rare. It kinda becomes whatever someone will pay, similar to Summer, but with less price data.

Every area has a vintage collector guy, sure, and there's a few locally that have power 9 and such.. but this guy had a playset of every card you could possibly think of (for vintage cards, that means 1, though) in foil/special version, that's what was so impressive to me. Each of those binders had like 30-40 pages like that, and he had a giant duffel bag full. He only trades to get everything, never buys the cards themselves, so if I brought him a card he was missing, he'd trade me like 3-4x the card's value in standard/modern stuff for it, which was great for me selling on tcg. I got to move obscure, but generally pricey, cards for staples and at a huge value increase. Love those trades, cause both parties are happy and understand whats going on. He has someone else searching out obscure stuff that's hard for him to find, and gets to unload cards he doesn't need/want at all for it.
 
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Sweet power. Did you insure them?

If I ever win the lottery I'm going to drop so much money on pricey magic cards.
 
Heylel

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Yeah, those kind of collectors are rare, but great for finding staple value.

As for our local scene, we're looking at starting monthly vintage events now that enough of us have the cards for it.
 
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Heylel_sl said:
Yeah, those kind of collectors are rare, but great for finding staple value.

As for our local scene, we're looking at starting monthly vintage events now that enough of us have the cards for it.
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I so wish we could run vintage. It's just not the same on MODO.
 
Kuro

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Amusing watching the internet melt down after Wizards confirmed the Colorless Mana Symbol change.
 
Lasch

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Wizards' coverage is so fucking terrible. I tried watching it work several times at work, and every time i'd turn on the stream it would be the usual crowd either talking to each other, talking to the camera, or interviewing someone.
 
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Derpa_sl said:
I must have missed the meltdown
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It's MTG nerds and it's a change to a basic part of the game to make it "mechanically relevant" when... I mean I don't give a shit one way or the other I guess but did it really need to be? As far as game play goes they just added a "sometimes 6th color". I'm sure quite a few people are vigorously telling other people how wrong they are on the internet somewhere over it. It would tickle my pickle if signets etc. were errata'd to require colorless just because though. I'm sure it opens design space, just who really gives a shit about "the wonderful implications of colorless only mana".
 
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