Mirage card stock

berkumps · Post by **berkumps** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:00 pm

Not sure if anyone cares, but I was bored at work/school, so I measured the difference between the card stock thickness for the two Mirage printings (aka. made in USA/Belgium).

USA - 0.01175" (avg)
Belgium - 0.012" (avg)

Does it mean anything? Who knows!

Pretty repeatable over the cards I measured, which was by no means a statistically significant sample size. Meh.

berkumps · Post by **berkumps** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:48 pm

At the request of another member, I also measured the card stock for glossy/regular Ice Age.

For the glossy IA, all card thicknesses were > 0.01225", and all regular had thicknesses < 0.0119".

Take what you will from it.

l0qii · Post by **l0qii** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:11 am

I believe these are imperceptible differences except with a micrometer.

berkumps · Post by **berkumps** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:26 am

l0qii wrote:I believe these are imperceptible differences except with a micrometer.

You would be correct.

mystical_tutor · Post by **mystical_tutor** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:19 pm

berkumps wrote:
l0qii wrote:I believe these are imperceptible differences except with a micrometer.
You would be correct.

Probably very noticable, however, when using Interferometry--as most Magic players do..........

magicdude · Post by **magicdude** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:50 pm

mystical_tutor wrote:
berkumps wrote:
l0qii wrote:I believe these are imperceptible differences except with a micrometer.
You would be correct.
Probably very noticable, however, when using Interferometry--as most Magic players do..........

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Jeppe · Post by **Jeppe** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:44 pm

It would be interesting to know if there's any difference between Conflux cards and, say, Shards of Alara or any other newer set.

mystical_tutor · Post by **mystical_tutor** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:29 pm

Jeppe wrote:It would be interesting to know if there's any difference between Conflux cards and, say, Shards of Alara or any other newer set.

As Magicdude pointed out, there is in the tokens from Conflux. They do not use card stock, only paper.

Tenacious_Dyl · Post by **Tenacious_Dyl** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:06 am

The Alara Reborn cards have a slightly different process than Shards or Conflux. Shine the front of them in the light at an angle, and you can see that Reborn cards seem faintly 'textured' while Shards and Conflux cards seem 'smooth' (tried this with cards fresh of boosters of each set to confirm - every time)

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