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It's spelled "loupe," and no, you don't. Most competent dealers can pick stuff out easily, and anyone who's put any serious effort into it sure can.

They took them down so they wouldn't get cleaned out the second it was unbanned? It's smart business. I mean, honestly, the card seems unlikely to be any good anyway, so who cares?

LED has been inching up over the last year or two. It went from 30 to 32 to 35 and is now $40 or so.

Pretty sure it was this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Lotus-Mtg-Magic-Alpha-X1-LP-/250921850052?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6c1b94c4

I told him it was fake, and we had an extended series of conversations which culminated in him sending it in to BGS to determine whether it was rebacked. They sent it back ungraded, he talked to...

The gentleman with the Darksteel Lotus is now fairly convinced that it is fake, and he has talked with ABU, who still claim it is real, and he is sending it to BGS for them to determine whether or...

Wow. I ebay messaged him, telling him to try to return it to ABU.

[edit]: He claims it is real. I told him it was fake and he needed to return it.

Depressingly enough, my guess is that people are buying them up because they think it works with Snapcaster Mage.

Generally they do. There are misprints where the front and back do not line up, but on a piece of Beta power, slightly misaligned horizontally on the front, I would assume rebacking, given that much...

Real Alpha Trops have Mark Poole as the artist, so that is either fake in some way or trimmed Beta.

Interesting how much more wear there is on the back, and how much less on the front. Interesting how the front is misaligned and the back is not. Almost as if the front and the back were from two...

That one is probably rebacked too.

An awful lot of CE/IE P9 are miscut slightly, and if you look at a CE Lotus, typically it will be miscut like that. Most real Beta Lotuses are centered properly. CE/IE is slightly shinier than real...

That one's fake. It was a reback. You can tell by how shiny/bright it is and how it is miscut slightly. Disappointing to see a major retailer selling something like that.

0 fb seller, stock photo? Stay far away.

Grove of the Burnwillows at $20 maybe? Maelstrom Pulse is a Legacy staple now?

Can you please stop bragging? It gets really old.

They're still ebaying for $28-30, which is flat from the last few weeks. Some playsets have been hitting 140/set, but I'm not seeing 40 as the set price.

Right, and if Wizards reprints Force of Will and Wasteland in M13, those will tank too.

There are Alphas, but no Betas that I have seen. Beta BACK miscuts, yes, but not front ones that I know of.

I did for a while when Iona Oath was good, but right now I'm playing BUG Fish.

edit: There we go:

http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy73/Slinga/P7020004.jpg

That's Soly. I'm Ben. Soly has Japanese everything.

The worst part is that I'm not bidding because I have a much better one that I BIN'd like 6 years ago for $39.99.

Seriously? If you're doing it right, you can sell stuff to stores at much higher-than-ebay prices and make a killing.

Reliquary Tower is due to EDH. Shocklands is EDH and Modern.