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So Iβve never run into printing issues like this before and I was kind of wondering what this was called or how it happened π€ does anyone know more about this kind of thing? Is it fairly common? I might keep it since I think itβs kind of neat. Thanks!
maybe I'm blind, butI don't see the printing error, what is wrong with it?
There's a weird streak or smudge right up the middle. If you look at the regular card, it'll jump out. [[Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield]]
thanks
There's a giant black and white bar in the middle of it.
It looks like the foiling was affected by a booster pack during the packaging process. When booster packs are made, the ends of the packs are heated and then crimped to seal the cards inside. Sometimes, cards get caught or the heat from this causes misprints to occur.
My guess is the ink on the card was affected when a still hot booster was placed across it and it wasn't caught by quality control. Often when stuff like this happens, the card/booster is thrown out, making it actually quite valuable.
It's not going to be worth as much as a crimped or miscut card. But it's still worth more than a regular version because the inking is off. Even better is that it's foil.
Oh wow, neat! Thanks for giving me some insight into how these happen! I actually had another sygg from the same box, but with two lines on it show up too. And thanks for letting me know on the value, but I might just keep them because theyβre cool haha
Yeah definitely worth holding on to.
Back when tournaments didn't allow sleeves, you couldn't use miscut or crimped cards because they were visible. So, a lot of people would throw away their "damaged" Alpha/Beta cards. Very, very few survived to today. That means whenever you encounter a crimped or miscut piece of Power 9, it's either a fake or you're looking at a $20,000+ bill.
theyre called misprints
Yep, we call them error cards here. I'm more interested in the type of misprint, not that it just is one
literally never heard of a misprint being called an error card π€·ββοΈ
Yeah, it's kind of an oddity - I just got used to saying it that way http://www.mtgwiki.com/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89