I opened a pack of Prophecy I found lying around and all the commons were out of focus.
Is there any value in blurry misprints? I would take a picture, but autofocus actually makes the cards look pretty normal :frown:
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I opened a pack of Prophecy I found lying around and all the commons were out of focus.
Is there any value in blurry misprints? I would take a picture, but autofocus actually makes the cards look pretty normal :frown:
@sdematt: Sick duals, but I expected nothing less from you. ;)
Nice Choke too, Petal Collector. ...I'm in the middle of foiling out GWb Maverick, and just found an NM 8th foil Choke for 50 cents. It was most triumphant.
Ancestral Recall alteration is done. As with all my previously posted alterations, the base card is a fair/poor condition Unlimited card. I intentionally went for the worst condition cards I could find that still had a semi-clean front and were structurally stable enough to be played.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98...lrecpinkie.jpg
I'll post scans of the remaining cards (Black Lotus, Mox Ruby, Time Vault, 2x Unlimited Underground Seas, 2x Unlimited Volcanic Islands, and 2x Unlimited Tropical Islands) as my artist finishes them and sends them to me.
http://images3.hiboox.com/images/011...15632f146f.jpg
look russian foil and summer
sweet summer duals
On a classy bed of FBB Underground Seas.Quote:
Originally Posted by sauce
OMFG.. nice summer duals and LOTS of FBB Seas.. I just need 2 U. Sea Fbb to finish my pimp TES but those are pretty hard to find in Brazil.
Did I count 40 Seas there?
-Matt
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98...oxrubytrix.jpg
Just came in my e-mail a few minutes ago. 8 of the 9 are officially done now.
And I count 39 FBB Underground Seas, at least 3 of which are signed.
Looking good, Solaran!
-Matt
<-- Regrets selling off his FBB duals. Those look so purty.
Jesus H Christ! That's a shittonfuck of money/pimp duals.
My wallet just cried tears of blood.
if you have 2 NM-M French seas we need to talk if you want some cash. :D
Unless you have Jap Foils, Summer, or Gradable Alpha, you can kiss those duals goodbye. Philip very rarely deals in cash :frown:
-Matt
@morphilou: Those are beautiful summer duals. Excellent work.
@everybody: How much do summer duals go for? I don't even know where to look.
Please please please oh please stop ruining Vintage cards with Poneys...
There is such a limited number of these out, using played P9 to do this crap is NOT an excuse. It only makes most of us want to scream. Or cry. :cry:
But the rest of us enjoy his unique expression of something he enjoys with cards that he will likely never trade anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea R Hill
Its no different then the guy who had Disney Characters done on his beat Beta power.
Mint cards sure I can see an argument being made to preserve them but as far as played stuff goes do what makes you happy and don't venerate cardboard to much. I still remember cracking and playing these cards unsleeved on the playground blacktop. As much as they are part of our collective history as gamers their just card.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6...a1209325_b.jpg
I just realized I never actually posted this to this thread. This is one of the cards that despite their value, will always have a way higher personal value to me. A good Russian friend of mine, Sergey from Moscow, gave it to me as a present at GP Amsterdam. We had met previously at GP Madrid 2010 where he (despite not knowing me) lent me a Moat for my deck.
Sergey says it's a Russian custom to give altered cards to friends. Definitely one of my best (maybe the very best) memory not only associated with Magic :-)
You've clearly never been to a GP, where you see stacks of power in most of the dealer's cases. Unlimited power isn't as rare as you think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea R Hill
And even if it was super rare as you seem to think it is, he has the right to do whatever he likes with his property. Hell, I don't like ponies as all, but I still give mad props to him for putting the time and money into making his beat up unlimited power truely HIS.
I don't consider $600 played UNL Mox Jet to be a real price. Them dealers are whack!
I don't think the dealers actually expect to get that for the card. You have to haggle. I think they set the high price to scare off people who aren't serious about buying Power.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koby
On the flip side, I also see dealers who don't price their Power and expect the buyer to negotiate. This works similar to overpricing the Power - if someone isn't serious about buying the Power, they probably won't even talk about it to find out where the starting point is for negotiations.
That's absurd. I picked up a beta jet for a hundred less. It's a little beat but seriously WTF.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koby
That price is a bit closer to a NM Beta Jet :P
-Matt
I got a pearl, emerald, jet and a library for $1100. So I'm not sure what the shakedown was. I still need a ruby, sapphire and lotus before gencon. If I can't find a really beat lotus I may just get a beat to hades UL and get it altered.Quote:
Originally Posted by sdematt
... not with ponies though ...
Hmmm, something's not quite right here.
I think that if he spent the money on the power, he has the right to do whatever he wants with it. I just recently completed my set of power, and while I have no desire to have it altered, if I did, I would want to i think that I should be able to do what I want with it.
Here is a pretty sweet video I found :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7eEc1nQKQ
That first link has the most poorly made fakes I've ever seen. As for the second set, I can't even tell which set of "P9" he is selling.Quote:
Originally Posted by whienot
Beta power huh? you need to tell me where you buyed all those cards for that!
Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
The eBay link shows a Fraternal Exaltation, which is a much bigger deal than mere Power 9.
It also shows a Splendid Genesis next to it. Another thing I noticed is that the altered Trop pictured on that page looks just like this one that is also on eBay. A lot of the cards don't look quite right.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefringthing
So...who wants to report the listing to eBay as fraud?
I feel bad now...I didn't even notice the two Garfield cards or the altered Tropical (which is, ironically, the same fashion my Unlimited duals are being altered into).
You can even see a test-print Counterspell standing in front of his mouse. Zoom in enough and you can see where he's practiced Mark Poole's signature... Classy.
Already reported.
Did anyone else notice how warped that "PSA 9 Unlimited Black Lotus" case is?
That stack of what looks like graded cards looks like they are just printouts; the cases don't seem to have enough depth to be 3D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solaran_X
To make this post on-topic:
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...811_121516.jpg
I actually had a 4th Tundra and a complete set of Seas, but unfortunately I sold/traded them. Never had Volcanics, so I usually just play some sort of Bant deck.
He's selling a badly chopped pile of collectors edition. I imagine he intends on this being the last eBay auction of his life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solaran_X
Only after the Swedish and Italian guys who bought out my 40 A/B duals on eBay 6 years ago let me refund their money; and give me back my lands :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Olesch
some heavy ass duals have been posted on this and the previous page ;-)
love it!
Got my Beta Tundra #3 today. Thopters: complete. Achievement unlocked?
-Matt
One of the auctions has been pulled. First one up, with just the UN "Power" pictured, is still up however.
I lied. He reposted the auction eBay pulled down.
Yeah, that's is a friend of mine, Jesse, funniest part is, that Lotus wasn't his, :eek: :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheElvishPiper