true or sun decolored ?

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morphilou
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true or sun decolored ?

Post by morphilou » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:56 am

hi

I need your assistant
Can say to me if these cards are true or discolored in the sun ?

In advance, thank you

friendly philip



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Post by mystical_tutor » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:58 am

Philip;

From the scans I can not tell. If something is sun bleached, however, it usually degrades the paper--not sure how it would affect foil.

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Post by Gryfalia » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:34 am

Usually a bleached card is caused by the complete lack of a color, and those seem to have all of them. Sun-faded cards are just..less colorful.

I would guess sun-faded, but this is one of the reasons that they aren't a hugely valuable rarity, because you can't be sure.
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Post by mystical_tutor » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:50 am

Gryfalia wrote:Usually a bleached card is caused by the complete lack of a color, and those seem to have all of them. Sun-faded cards are just..less colorful.

I would guess sun-faded, but this is one of the reasons that they aren't a hugely valuable rarity, because you can't be sure.
Ya, thats why 3rd edition looked so bad. I think CM spread them all over the yard after they printed them--just to fade them a bit........
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Post by Gryfalia » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:42 pm

No, that would be because they were intentionally printed with less ink, making the entire run very weak color-wise.

I think a terminology clarification might help. I used bleached fuzzily below, which gets confusing.

When I said bleached the word I was searching for (and had a total mental blank when I was posting) is Albino. Pardon the confusion.

So, using the term 'bleached' to refer to cards that are 'weaker than they should be' (which doesn't include Revised, which is as weak as it was intended to be..just intended poorly), I'm not sure I've see cards that are bleached out both in the middle and on the edges. I have a ton of Stronghold cards whose center colors are very washed out but whose edges are sharp and black. Same some 10th edition.

With those foils, it's really hard to tell the depth of the black color on the edges, partially because the nature of foils. In person how does the black look to you?
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gryfalia mystical tutor

Post by morphilou » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:37 pm

thanks at all

I received cards and for me it is false (sun decolored)
It is not grave, I did not pay to them

delete post , please

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Post by Magik321 » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:19 pm

How about this card? Person I got that from said he pulled it out of a booster.

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Post by psrex » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:01 pm

The Forbidding Watchtower looks legit. You would lose your reds and be left with primarily blues if the card was bleached by the sun.

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Post by Gryfalia » Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:29 pm

Is it me or is there a swath of yellow across the middle of the card?
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Post by agzz » Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:24 pm

Gryfalia wrote:Is it me or is there a swath of yellow across the middle of the card?
not you.

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Post by Magik321 » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:17 am

Gryfalia wrote:Is it me or is there a swath of yellow across the middle of the card?
Yes, there is a swath of yellow across the card. So is this a true misprint?

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