What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

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What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

Post by cataclysm80 » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:52 am

I'm doing a little work on an interesting project, and need to know which Alpha cards were changed for the Beta print run.

Does anyone have a list?

Circle of Protection: Black (new card)
Volcanic Island (new card)
Plains 3 (new card)
Forest 3 (new card)
Mountain 3 (new card)
Swamp 3 (new card)
Island 3 (new card)

Cyclopean Tomb (casting cost)
Orcish Artillery (casting cost)
Orcish Oriflamme (casting cost)
Elvish Archers (power/toughness)
Force of Nature (text box mana symbol)
Phantasmal Forces (text box mana symbol)
Death Ward (artist credit)
Sedge Troll (artist credit)
Red Elemental Blast (card type)

Did I miss any?

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Re: What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

Post by l0qii » Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:23 am

Birds of Paradise (// removed from card text)

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Re: What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

Post by mmgun » Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:25 am

Rock Hydra, Demonic Hordes, Drain Life (text box mana symbol)

Tropical Island , Circle of Protection: RED (artist credit)

Unsummon Text Change CARDed->discarded

Red Elemental Blast -> Beside the Card type change, the Text in Name, Cardtype,Copyright and the Manasymbol are very shifted to the Right in Beta
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Re: What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

Post by markers » Fri Aug 14, 2015 4:43 pm

The Icy Manipulator Text was changed.
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Re: What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

Post by cataclysm80 » Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:38 am

Thanks.

Dave Howell was telling me about how they only burned film (color separations for making printing plates) for the Beta cards that needed changed from the Alpha printing. Carta Mundi then blanked out those cards on the Alpha films and made printing plates with the blank spots. Then they used a step and repeat process with their camera to put the Beta cards in the correct spot to finish making the Beta printing plates. That's why the changed cards could look different or be missing the little white spots in the corners. That's just a brief explanation, I'll write it out more thoroughly later.

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Re: What Alpha cards were changed for Beta?

Post by Neuron » Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:52 pm

cataclysm80 wrote:
Dave Howell was telling me about how they only burned film (color separations for making printing plates) for the Beta cards that needed changed from the Alpha printing. Carta Mundi then blanked out those cards on the Alpha films and made printing plates with the blank spots. Then they used a step and repeat process with their camera to put the Beta cards in the correct spot to finish making the Beta printing plates. That's why the changed cards could look different or be missing the little white spots in the corners. That's just a brief explanation, I'll write it out more thoroughly later.

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Thanks for that info, hope you will be able to tell us more about it soon.

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