Look, A Misprint.

[Carlos El Salvador]

Now, this almost went completely unnoticed by me... But, ya know, It's been a while since I have been on here. I am mostly playing standard now, however, I have a Misprint I would like to share with you all. I bought a box of 2010 after quitting magic for a year and a half plus, and am mostly getting into standard. I got a foil Mythic rare in the form of Darksteel Colossus, however, there is something interesting about it... In the text box, it has the tree for a foil forest!

I'm going to try and scan it to show you all. If anyone else has anything they want to share, or try and verify that this is a somewhat odd misprint, please, let me know! I'll be adding the Picture shortly.

Edit: Here we go
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs066.snc3/13338_181483497762_504627762_3018324_404554_n.jpg

[freakish777]

Unfortunately it looks like scanning the foil didn't work great, it's just barely noticeable. That is, however, pretty cool.

[Skeggi]

It doesn't show on the scan. Perhaps making a photo would be clearer?

[ParkerLewis]

It doesn't show on the scan. Perhaps making a photo would be clearer?

Check your eyes. It shows on the scan : )

[Nidd]

God, it's awfully hard to see it. I can only see a slight shade of green.

[Kangaxx]

Did you compare it to another foil Colossus from the same set to check to see that this version you have is completely unique?

I sent you a PM about it.

[Skeggi]

Check your eyes. It shows on the scan : )
My eyes are fine, perhaps it's my cheap-ass monitor. Anyway, if it is showing at all, it's pretty hard to see. Photo with flash under the right angle should show it alot better.

[Kangaxx]

Arent they all suppose to have some sort of insginia there for the foils in M10?

[SilverGreen]

MisterC will shit bricks when he sees it.

[Carlos El Salvador]

I haven't found another foil M2010 colossus to compare to unfortunately, no. :( I am going to look for one, But I know not everything has an insignia in the text box. I opened a foil Coat of Arms as well, which has no watermark on it.

[Kangaxx]

Carlos, did you get my PM?

[vigilante]

I haven't found another foil M2010 colossus to compare to unfortunately, no. :( I am going to look for one, But I know not everything has an insignia in the text box. I opened a foil Coat of Arms as well, which has no watermark on it.
I've got one handy:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n1/vigilante_mtg/PB150203.jpg

Nothing unusual in the text box.

[Carlos El Salvador]

Thanks Vigilante, for the picture. I might try and take some photos, if you angle it, generally speaking, teh forest comes out real clear.

[TrialByFire]

Take a different angle cuz I really wanna see this and it barely comes up on my screen

[Mr.C]

MisterC will shit bricks when he sees it.

I prefer the headless colossus. This one is nice, but hard to see. Be the OP can get a pretty penny from misprint collectors, though.

[yawg07]

If you take his picture and reduce the Brightness, then raise the Contrast up you can certainly see the green mana symbol.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l189/yawg07/Colossus.jpg

[Master Shake]

Wow, quite interesting, I'm curious to see what an estimated value would be although i know the answer is just "What someone will pay for it."

Glad to see you're back in the game, I haven't seen you since the Grand Prix.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

If this is real and the only misprint than it will be wroth a looooot!

Its a misprint on a mythic foild Colossus! It couldnt get more pimp!

[Humphrey]

does it tap for :g: now?

[sauce]

does it tap for :g: now?

no it taps for 11

Capitalization and punctuation are required on this site. Use them. -zilla

[Carlos El Salvador]

If you take his picture and reduce the Brightness, then raise the Contrast up you can certainly see the green mana symbol.


Thanks for playing with the contrast. I was blown away by it at first as well.

[Dark_Shakuras]

no it taps for 11

It actually taps for Green, but deals the opponent 11 damage as you do, unless they block, in which case lucky for us it tramples, but sadly you don't get the green mana.

Of course it's un-effected by both Wasteland and Strip Mine. Maybe because it's Basic? (Artifact Forest) but for sure cause it's indestructible. Sadly paying 11 mana for a forest sucks, and makes it unplayable.

[SilverGreen]

It actually taps for Green, but deals the opponent 11 damage as you do, unless they block, in which case lucky for us it tramples, but sadly you don't get the green mana.

Of course it's un-effected by both Wasteland and Strip Mine. Maybe because it's Basic? (Artifact Forest) but for sure cause it's indestructible. Sadly paying 11 mana for a forest sucks, and makes it unplayable.Added to the fact the Forest is affected by summoning sickness.

Holy crap.

[Carlos El Salvador]

Added to the fact the Forest is affected by summoning sickness.

Holy crap.

Well, could get it with a fetchland?

[TOGITwill]

Totally better than Dryad Arbor.

[Phoenix Ignition]

Totally better than Dryad Arbor.

Can't sac it for Progenitus though...

[Carlos El Salvador]

True, adn Progenestis is generally harder to deal with.

[dahcmai]

Too bad it costs 11 to play that stupid land. Nice misprint though, pretty cool.

[MMogg]

Instead of starting a whole new thread, I guess I'll just post here.

Here's a Centaur Glade that opens like a book and on the inside is blue on both sides. It's missing some kind of card stock because it's very flimsy. Has anyone else seen a misprint like this? What are they worth in the misprint realm?

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss48/MMMoggg/CentaurGlade.jpg

Sorry for the blurry/shadowy picture, but you get the general idea.

[Malchar]

I've seen the same exact kind of thing. I think that the blue/white stuff is just what the card looks like on the inside. You might be able to replicate it if you take a sharp knife and cut the card open. It might be valuable if you find a playable card in such a condition, but I never found anyone interested in my unplayable common split.

[Ozymandias]

I got a very similar misprint just now to the foil Colossus one above--also on a foil Mythic with a foiled-in mana symbol. It was a Chandra Nalaar though, and the symbol was a white mana. If only it was a red...

[Pastorofmuppets]

I got a very similar misprint just now to the foil Colossus one above--also on a foil Mythic with a foiled-in mana symbol. It was a Chandra Nalaar though, and the symbol was a white mana. If only it was a red...

Actually, there's a new kind of deck in T2 called R/w Valakut control that runs Chandra. You could probably get somebody who plays that to overtrade.

[LostButSeeking]

Actually, there's a new kind of deck in T2 called R/w Valakut control that runs Chandra. You could probably get somebody who plays that to overtrade.

I think he just means that if the mana symbol had been red, it would have been better. Red symbol to red planeswalker, doncha know.

[Ozymandias]

Sorry about the crappy res

http://img197.imageshack.us/i/chandramisprint.jpg/

Any idea on how much this is worth?

[Phoenix Ignition]

Tiny picture, can't see anything.

[Ozymandias]

Try clicking on the picture.

[SpencerForHire]

I think that misprint would be four times as amazing if the foil was that of a Mountain not a Plains.

[MattH]

Woah cool! I have the same misprint on one of my foil Chandras (but not on the other). It's also a plains symbol. Funky.

[loveisgreen]

A guy at my local shop just opened a foil Colossus with a Plains symbol in the text box. I'll try to get him to let me scan it soon.

[Pastorofmuppets]

Is there an estimated value on this?

[Phoenix Ignition]

Try clicking on the picture.

Obviously did, it only opens it ~20% bigger. Still too small to see.

[Occam]

This is my take on value:

If the card is random jank -- few dollars for a rare, scaled down according to rarity. I would put the floor at a couple dollars at least, though.

Playable but not top tier (cards like DSC and Chandra would fall here) -- 1.5-1.7x normal price.

Very playable and/or collectible -- Birds is the best of both worlds here. I'd put that 2-4x, perhaps slightly higher.

I would double those estimates for matching colour symbols, but only for playable cards at minimum.

[MMogg]

This is my take on value:

If the card is random jank -- few dollars for a rare, scaled down according to rarity. I would put the floor at a couple dollars at least, though.

Playable but not top tier (cards like DSC and Chandra would fall here) -- 1.5-1.7x normal price.

Very playable and/or collectible -- Birds is the best of both worlds here. I'd put that 2-4x, perhaps slightly higher.

I would double those estimates for matching colour symbols, but only for playable cards at minimum.

Is that your take on all misprints or a particular type?

[Occam]

Just the misprints in the OP and throughout the thread, except the half-glued card. Not all the cards fall nicely within those buckets, but it's just my rule of thumb. The same concept but different numbers applies to other misprints too. For example, there is a floor price that is attached to all alpha-cut or square-bordered cards regardless of how crappy the card is due to a premium for the misprint. As the card gets more playable, typically the premium commanded as a figure rises but falls as a percentage ($20 card to $30 card is a 50% premium, lower than that commanded for random cards with the same misprint).

All that goes out of the window at times when cards are very playable or collectible. For instance, I know a dude willing to pay $1500 for a textless Covetous Dragon. That's close to what a textless cradle is worth, despite the latter being the far better card. On the other hand, you can expect a miscut Brainstorm to go for more than a similarly miscut Vesuvan Doppelganger simply due to playability.

[anonymos]

So I opened a box of m10 yesterday. Sadly the best rare in the box was a Jace. Overall very unhappy with the box. I was sorting through the commons to see about random playsets I was missing when I found something interesting.

I have 3 Ponder where almost half of the bottom blue border is pink. All 3 of them nearly match. I did have a regular one that wasn't misprinted. I'd have been ecstatic if there had been a 4th.

Thanks for the help tpnp. I may have to ninja edit this if it didn't work right. The giant growth also has an off color spot in the corner there.

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6541/dsc00477n.th.jpg (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/dsc00477n.jpg/)

[tpnp]

If someone tells me how to get a picture to post here, I'll see about getting scans or something.
You have to have a website that will host your pictures (a place to upload them). Photobucket, Flickr, ImageShack, etc are all places where you can upload a picture/scan. Get the URL of your now-uploaded photo, come back here and paste that URL into a reply (or you could put img tags around the URL to have it embedded into your post).

[sunshine]

So I opened a box of m10 yesterday. Sadly the best rare in the box was a Jace. Overall very unhappy with the box. I was sorting through the commons to see about random playsets I was missing when I found something interesting.

I have 3 Ponder where almost half of the bottom blue border is pink. All 3 of them nearly match. I did have a regular one that wasn't misprinted. I'd have been ecstatic if there had been a 4th.

Thanks for the help tpnp. I may have to ninja edit this if it didn't work right. The giant growth also has an off color spot in the corner there.

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6541/dsc00477n.th.jpg (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/dsc00477n.jpg/)

I have a ponder with that exact misprint if you wanted to complete the playset. Pulled it out of a bulk pile at some store - I wonder how common that printing error is for M10 Ponders.

[anonymos]

Considering that I pulled 3 like it from a box I'm not sure. I guess that means I should look at my other M10 ponders. I have a friend that collects oddities and I'll have him get a hold of you if he wants these and a 4th.

[Aggro_zombies]

I wonder how common those are, because I also happen to have a pink-splotch Ponder.

[Koby]

I don't think these are misprints as much as they are printing errors. I've sopened tons of boosters with the black card name ink smeared slightly. It looks like a rush job honestly, and very tacky. Wasn't M10 supposed to be short printed - how can this set have so many printing errors if it's undersold. bleh.

[wmagzoo7]

Sorry in advance if I'm restating what others have said but the forest in the text box of foil M10 DSC is in all of them. I had one that I got rid of because I realized it was the same as the foil Reflecting Pools. It is pretty cool but not actually a rarity as there are others that are the same.

[Jim Higginbottom]

I have a few ponders with the same misprint.

[dahcmai]

I remember seeing a full Pink Foil Counterspell from Masques once. I passed on it when they wanted $100 for it. I wish I had grabbed it now.

[Occam]

$100 for it was probably okay. As it isn't really a difficult misprint to have, it really shouldn't be worth more in my book. If I recall correctly, pink colourations are down to a lack of green, which gives magenta typically, just that different proportions of the remaining colours gives a lighter hue than what we typically associate magenta with. It could also mean that green is not fully absent. That isn't very far removed from a black foil that becomes essentially grey, just that a blue => pink misprint looks a lot more impressive.


Sorry in advance if I'm restating what others have said but the forest in the text box of foil M10 DSC is in all of them. I had one that I got rid of because I realized it was the same as the foil Reflecting Pools. It is pretty cool but not actually a rarity as there are others that are the same.

Nah, not all of them have the green symbol, although there has been a plethora of such misprints being brought to the surface thanks to this thread and other similar ones, though.