First post updated:
- Updated top row of Exodus Belgian Commons (based on color).
- Updated top rop of Urza's Saga Belgian Commons (based on color).
- Added Urza's Destiny Belgian Common sheet.
- Added Mercadian Masques Common and Uncommon sheets (probably shared between Belgium and USA).
- Added Nemesis Belgian Common and Uncommon sheets.
- Added Prophecy Belgian Common sheet.
- Added Sixth Edition Belgian Common sheet.
- Added Starter 1999 Common sheet.
- Added Dominaria USA Common and Uncommon runs plus notes on rares, lands, and tokens.
- Added Guilds of Ravnica USA Common and Uncommon runs plus notes on tokens.
- Added Guilds of Ravnica Belgian Common runs.
- Added Core Set 2019 USA Uncommon runs plus tap-land run plus token notes plus foil notes.
- Added Battlebond Common and Uncommon runs plus token notes.
- Added Ultimate Masters Common and Uncommon runs plus rare and token notes.
- Added Unglued Uncommon notes.
- Added Unstable Common runs, Common and Uncommon contraption runs, plus Uncommon and token notes.
- Some rearranging and typo fixing.
Unstable discussion:
I have finished many of the print runs for unstable, and they are mostly 50 cards long. Those that aren't are shorter presumably with fillers (in cases where the math didn't work out). I didn't observe a lot of swaps, but swaps in the common A run were possibly consistent with a width-10 sheet. Common A and B are printed at the same rate, so they could be on a single 100 card sheet, and common C1 and C2 could similarly be on the same sheet. This could mean 10 by 10 sheets.
Lands go evenly into 50 as well, but that doesn't account for Steamflogger Boss. The two separate token sequences each have length 10, so they could go into 50 (or 100).
In Drive to Work #492 "Printing" (Mark Rosewater's podcast), Mark mentions that Unstable uses a technique he calls "gutter cutting" where a little bit of space is left between cards on the sheet to be discarded. This allows art that extends all the way to the edge of the card. The technique would have to be used for normal cards because Augments have art the extends all the way to the right edge plus lands and contraptions which have full art. If the sheet has the same measurements as the normal 11 by 11 sheet, then perhaps it can fit only 10 by 10 cards with space for the gutters.
mmgun wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:18 pm
Just to have the information all together. The 3 Rares, which have 6 variations, are printed with the mythics on the same sheet. The following cards were opened from the same box together with 2 more mythics miscut the same way.
I haven't looked at the rares yet (it requires a lot more boxes), but this makes a lot of sense. The other cards with variations are on sheets that are printed at low rates to allow for more granularity in the rarity of particular variations. Printing normal cards on these sheets is sort of wasteful because they have to be repeated a large number of times, so it would make sense to put mythics on this rare sheet because mythics also have a lower rate (though still not as low as variations). It may not be purely mythics or it may not be all mythics depending on how the math works out, though.