The Magic Librarities

Hmmm... My memory says dark blue, not black.

The Nightmare jackets were definitely given out at the Alliance pre-release. (I was the tournament organizer for WotC for Northern California - I remember giving it out at my event.) Additionally, the "cool trophy" was a crystal box with the Alliance logo engraved on the top. Maybe 6" wide x 3" tall...

Hmmm, The initial print run of Mirage had a slightly different finish on it. At the time (iirc) it was attributed to it being the first print run from a US plant.

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Rainsford

LOL - there are a few NM in the lot. Not worth getting graded. (They are nice cards, but not grade-worthy, if that makes sense.) And I have another 60+ more left in my collection. I may have to look through those and grade the best 10 or so. :-) the good thing about Island Sanctuarys is that there i...

Hello, I have a group of 55 Alpha Island Sanctuarys up for sale right now. (5% of the print run.) :-) Anyway, I have a potential buyer asking for high res scans of all the cards. Questions: Is there anything that can be done nefariously by the buyer if I send the high res scans to him? Or is the req...

The term God Book was coined early on. The books originally had one of each card released to date in them. The actual cards in pocketed pages. Later they were just photocopies (for obvious reasons.) They were created so the customer support team could speak about specific cards and be able to read t...

Question: What are these worth? I was cleaning out a box of misc MtG accoutrements (sleeves, plastic boxes, a life counter, etc.) and found I had ten of these. I believe I was using them as card dividers... Anyway - anyone know if they are worth anything, and how much that might be if they are worth...

Argh - i hate the spam account creators. I am the forum moderator for a popular band. I went on a 2 week vacation once and a series of spam bots decided that was the time to hit the forums hard. I had 42,000 fake accounts waiting to be activated by the time I came home. I spent many, many, many hour...

Considering how well Dominion and the expansion have done - I would hazard that Donald has been doing very, very well these last few years. :-) Winning the Spiel des Jahres is like winning Best Director or Best Movie at the Oscars. It is not an insignificant thing. Add to that that Dominion is one o...

Very pleased you have returned.

Best regards,

Rainsford

Hello, For the Edge of the World section (Non-Official Cards section), additional known info could be added: 1. Donald X. Vaccarino went on to create the 2009 Spiel des Jahres winning board game, Dominion. 2. At the time of the convention, four known complete sets were in existence (2 to the executi...

This issue has been around for years (off and on). Back around Revised there was a Canadian group using a full offset print house to counterfeit the power cards from Beta and Unlimited, along with things like Gauntlet of Might and Cyclopean Tomb. I think a small mix of Arabian cards as well... Not s...

A decade or so ago I was trying to get a complete set of beta APs. I got about 2/3 of the way through and then my interest ebbed. It wasn't the power so much as the mediocre cards that made this hard to do. But also, when I first started looking into these, the artists were given between 50 and 150 ...

Magic61983 , While we both can have our own opinions - the inclusion of non-WotC cards (the whole "Non-Official Cards" section) and non-card items (many of the items in the "Life Counters" section) means that this site tracks more than just WotC items, and more than just cards, and "People here buy ...

Magic61983, You are clearly incorrect that we only buy cards on this site. People here collect all rarities. Decks of playing cards, pins, original art, the old beta posters, etc. As it is, I have sold one or two of my old mats on eBay - I believe I sold one for $350.00 (I think if was a "personal m...