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From the Wiki:

"Summer Magic
The Summer Magic print run of Revised Edition were printed in the summer of 1994.[11] This print run intended to fix some of the errors with Revised, including the washed-out color. As it turned out, the Summer Magic run had problems of its own. The colors were considered too dark and the artist credited for Plateau stayed uncorrected as well as the artist credited for Serendib Efreet, although the Efreet had received its original color and art again. Also a famous new misprint occurred with the card Hurricane; the so-called "blue Hurricane" is one of the rarest and most sought-after cards in the entirety of Magic because of its misprint with a blue border.[12] On the secondary market it sells for thousands of dollars. The print run was recalled and destroyed; however, about 40 booster boxes that were shipped to England and Tennessee survived. No more than 11 or 12 of each rare exists.[13]

This print run is known primarily for its extremely scarce and valuable cards and packs. Cards are distinguished by dark coloring and a 1994 copyright date displayed at the bottom, along with the artist credit. Booster packs look identical to normal Revised Edition packs, and as such, telling them apart is impossible without opening them.No starter decks were made."

You sure about that bro?

Time to sell your sliver overlords. They are almost at $20

Sliver craze not gona end?

The old slivers, Queen and Legion, are higher dollar cards too. Sliver decks are very popular in EDH and with kitchen table casual players.

Snagged my last couple of cards for legacy Maverick last night. Bored to death of Delver decks, so I figured I would try something new. I realize it isn't all that well positioned in the overall meta, but it should be fine at my local shop.

Clearly I'm missing something.

Maverick, aside from a couple of 2 card synergies, and a couple other "good stuff" cards, looks like a pile of junk. Knight + land, ooze, mystic + jitte. Everything else seems Ehh, and none of it seems to synergize.

Here is the deck I played today for a 6-2-1 finish with my team at GP Portland:imgur: the simple image sharerSadly the draw was to a team that, despite being dead on board on turn five, wouldn't concede out of spite. Which sucked since a draw is a loss on day one of a GP like this. Even had a judge tell me they thought it was crap that they didn't concede but as a judge they could not do anything.

The Obelisk of Urd was in the sideboard for the mirror match and black decks running Festergloom. My team was also running a red deck wins with five Inferno Fist, two red Paragons and more. It was overall a good experience.

Oh and yes, I made a lot of bee jokes.

Wuyley_sl said:

From the Wiki:

"Summer Magic
The Summer Magic print run of Revised Edition were printed in the summer of 1994.[11] This print run intended to fix some of the errors with Revised, including the washed-out color. As it turned out, the Summer Magic run had problems of its own. The colors were considered too dark and the artist credited for Plateau stayed uncorrected as well as the artist credited for Serendib Efreet, although the Efreet had received its original color and art again. Also a famous new misprint occurred with the card Hurricane; the so-called "blue Hurricane" is one of the rarest and most sought-after cards in the entirety of Magic because of its misprint with a blue border.[12] On the secondary market it sells for thousands of dollars. The print run was recalled and destroyed; however, about 40 booster boxes that were shipped to England and Tennessee survived. No more than 11 or 12 of each rare exists.[13]

This print run is known primarily for its extremely scarce and valuable cards and packs. Cards are distinguished by dark coloring and a 1994 copyright date displayed at the bottom, along with the artist credit. Booster packs look identical to normal Revised Edition packs, and as such, telling them apart is impossible without opening them.No starter decks were made."

You sure about that bro?

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I bought quite a number of boxes of Revised towards the end of its run. I don't know if it was the case across the run or if it were just the boxes in my area at the time but they contained a disproportionate quantity of dual lands. I've never seen it commented on so I've tended to think it was not across the whole run.

Now I would suspect that some of them were actually the same print run referred to above and not all of them were destroyed because I still have some of those cards and the difference between the same cards sitting side by side with earlier prints in my card folders is striking (offhand I'm thinking of oneWheel of Fortunecard that has very intense color sitting in between two other Revised examples). If anyone is interested I'll take a photo and post it, though I'm going away for a couple of weeks in the next day.

Nothing will ever beat four of the six boxes of Legends boosters I bought that had 4 rares in every single pack, though.

As an aside, I came very close to buying the original Melissa Benson artwork for Shivan Dragon, Nightmare and Lord of Atlantis end 93/early 94. I was in the UK - intercontinental commerce was very rare back then and I had a heck of a time getting in touch with the guy selling them. By the time I was successful he'd just sold them. I have no idea if they'd be worth much now but it would have been a very cool thing to own then and now. They went for a minor sum, I'm thinking around $100

I'd post the pic, because if the cards are actually from summer magic they are worth an absolutely hilarious amount of money.

Everything in summer magic is worth a hilariously large amount of money. Last I had paid attention even commons were over 100$.

Yea I traded a bunch for a ton of shit since that's right when I started playing Mtg, had lots of them sitting in boxes and I was surprised how much they were worth. Just like the foil MM brainstorms I had, sold for over 100 dollars a piece. Now I just need to find someone with shitloads of cash to buy my alpha lotus and beta mox sapp~

All the big chain card stores want to fuck you, and finding a private buyer is hard since I dont play competitive any more or do fnm etc and fuck getting shafted on a card like that which only had 1100 ever made.

Ninen_sl said:

Clearly I'm missing something.

Maverick, aside from a couple of 2 card synergies, and a couple other "good stuff" cards, looks like a pile of junk. Knight + land, ooze, mystic + jitte. Everything else seems Ehh, and none of it seems to synergize.

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The whole is stronger than the parts. GSZ and Knight let you run two interlocking toolboxes for a surprising number of situations, and those "good stuff" cards are things like Deathrite and Mother of Runes, which are both very powerful. It plays on the board rather than the stack, which is unusual for most legacy decks, but you have a lot of gears you can switch into. It's fundamentally a hate bears deck, but it can protect them well and is VERY consistent. You can also go over the top of people with Dark Depths combos off a Knight, or just beat them down on an empty board.

It's not a popular deck right now, primarily because of splash hate to control True-Name Nemesis, but it does a good job of combating Delver decks. It can be weaker to combo, but that's a fact for any deck that doesn't run Force of Will.

Why are nerds paying top dollar for old cards? Why not get them printed from China, done deal?

We've had that conversation at my local game store. Printing technology should be good enough to create almost indistinguishable fakes.

Arbitrary_sl said:

We've had that conversation at my local game store. Printing technology should be good enough to create almost indistinguishable fakes.

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I've seen it years ago with a mox pearl a friend of mine had, which he used in tournments. It was pretty sold looking, and you wouldn't know it was fake without some of the key tests.

My nerd friends tells me there are sites that does this. No need to collect 'rare' shit that Wizards could print again if they wanted to. Free your mind. And wallet.