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by cataclysm80 » Thu May 19, 2016 5:04 am
Regarding the Italian FWB cards.
It may seem simple to identify them by using the lowercase i, or some of the other tips at the beginning of this thread.
However, as shown by the picture of the Channel, there are two versions of at least some of the Italian FWB cards.
Originally, I had thought the differences may be linked to the bolder copyright seen on some Italian FWB cards, but it seems this is not the case.
My current theory is that this only affects green cards, but possibly not all of the green cards.
It seems that in the first release of Italian FWB, the green cards had dark colored text boxes. They also had the slash over the lowercase i like the rest of the cards in Italian FWB.
The artist proofs are this version with the dark colored text box.
Then it seems that at least some of the green cards in Italian FWB (maybe all of them?) were corrected to a lighter colored text box. This correction happened after the font change to round dots over the lowercase i, so at first glance, you may think that these cards are 4th edition cards. They are not. Their rules text remains identical to FWB, not the updated 4th edition text.
You would need to know which text went with which set in order to identify your card.
For the reasons listed above, I suggest that we add all green Italian FWB cards to this list of cards which can be difficult to identify.
As shown above, Channel has two Italian FWB versions.
I've heard that Lure and War Mammoth also have two FWB versions. It would be nice to have pictures.
Maybe we will find more if we start to look.
If it exists, I'm looking for an Italian FWB Scryb Sprite with the light colored text box.
With Scryb Sprites, the rules text is very similar between FWB and 4th, but there is a slight difference if you look closely.
The rules text has 8 lines.
On the 6th line of text, is the word "certa"
The FWB cards have a comma after the word like this "certa,"
The 4th cards have a colon after the word like this "certa:"
I'm looking for the FWB with a light text box, round dots of the i in the card name, and it will have a comma after the word certa, indicating that it is a FWB card and not 4th.
Maybe it doesn't exist?
Tav