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At a local store last week, I watched someone open a pack of cards. I don't even remember what kind of pack or what set because I wasn't really paying attention until he exclaimed, "What's this!?" One of the cards that came out the pack had the magic back but was blank on the front....... I bought it for a dollar and now am wondering What is it? What do I have and is it worth anything? From the same store someone else said the same thing happened to them and had another one so I picked that one up as well. Two of these things..... Any ideas?
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2005, 10:59:42 pm » |
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Sometimes a foil card's foil falls off (or is never put on), and that's probably what you have. I don't think it'd be worth anything, but I might be wrong.
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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2005, 12:58:56 am » |
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Blank card = proxy  . |
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2005, 01:29:24 am » |
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Blank card equals hot. Franklin, don't you dare proxy on that thing I want it!
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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2005, 06:41:46 am » |
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Why? Just pull the Foil layer off a Foil common, and voila -- blank card. It's easy to make them, and they are excellent to have artists drawing on them (or as proxies, of course).
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2005, 09:00:28 am » |
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While on the topic, I have two blank cards as well. The only differene is that they are both foils that have no ink on them with Magic: the Gathering backs.
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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2005, 06:21:12 pm » |
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It's a filler card. Regular magic back, completely blank front. Collectors want them. Don't ask how you tell them apart from foils with the foil ripped off; I have no idea. I'm told one can notice the difference. From magic library: "Magic cards are printed on sheets. Usually the number of cards in a set and the rarity distribution are chosen in a way that all slots on a sheet are filled but occasionally, especially when printing box sets or preconstructed decks, some slots remain unused. These slots are then occupied with filler cards. Normally these cards are sorted out prior to packaging, but sometimes a few of them slip through." Here's a list of all known filler cards. |
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2005, 02:56:24 am » |
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Filler cards have a black border on the front, foils ripped off don't.
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2005, 04:31:03 am » |
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You're thinking of Mirrodin / Portal fillers. There's many different filler cards, depending on which set they appeared in. Click this link to see all possible filler card. If he did indeed SEE it being ripped out of a booster, and it has a regular back and no black border (completely white front) then it must've been a Seventh Edition booster (since they only appeared in english 7th ed. boosters, english 8th ed. box sets, and beatdown box sets). |
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<j_orlove> I am semi-religious
<BR4M> I like that. which half of god do you believe in?
<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
<j_orlove> but not the half that tells me how others should live theirs
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« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2005, 04:48:19 pm » |
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I have heard of those fetching alot of $$$ from collectors, don't proxy them!
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