Test foil fillers?

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Test foil fillers?

Post by berkumps » Wed Dec 11, 2013 3:36 pm

I acquired these from an ebay seller that was functioning as a middle man for a former WotC employee (at least, that was the story, seems to be a common occurrence), and they were described as test foils in the invoice.

Anyone have any information on such things? These seem too weird to be fillers, although I guess anything is possible. Could even be fake, who knows, but they look cool.

LEFT: Thick white nonfoil strip on left, foil cutline at top with foil square top left
RIGHT: All foil with cutline at top
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LEFT: Thin white nonfoil strip on left, foil cutline on bottom with foil square (cut off) below cutline
RIGHT: Thick white nonfoil strip on right, with indented arrowhead in foil middle left
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LEFT: Thin white nonfoil strip on left
RIGHT: Thick white nonfoil strip on right
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Post by l0qii » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:36 pm

what's on the back?

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Post by berkumps » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:39 pm

l0qii wrote:what's on the back?
They all have normal MTG back.

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Post by dragsamou » Wed Dec 11, 2013 5:26 pm

Hi Mark

I was offered those as well before they went on The Bay, there's a lot of different variations for those Test Foil Fillers, others exist....
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Post by gzeiger » Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:45 am

I also got a couple of these ten years ago, in person, from someone I know to have been a Wizards employee. He wasn't able to tell me much if anything of their origin (he wasn't involved with the production side), but he said they were using them as proxies for in-house games, so there must have been a fair number produced at some point. At least they can be authenticated as not acetoned.

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Post by berkumps » Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:38 am

Any thoughts on what the purpose of the foil square would be?

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Post by dragsamou » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:46 am

berkumps wrote:Any thoughts on what the purpose of the foil square would be?
Hi Mark

You have variant with the the foil square at another place, is just testing purpose, there's at least over 200 Test Foil Prints like that with different variations...
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