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mandatory lesbian posted:i like the old artifact frame but its a worthy death to not have the other frames around Artifacts not being brown still throws me off, as I get back into magic. I do like how the colored artifacts have their colors tinging the border though. All the multicolored cards look great. The original Blue borders are the best though. That was pure 90s goodness.
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I love all the old frames, especially the red and blue ones.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:19
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Old frames best frames, especially the gold ones. Fight me
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Sep 25, 2019 01:24
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Wafflecopper posted:Old frames best frames, especially the gold ones. Fight me Lady of the Mountain is still such a gorgeous piece.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:28
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8th edition was great because the way they inked the artifact cards made it impossible at a glance to tell if the card was white or an artifact without looking at CC or type line
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Sep 25, 2019 01:30
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I really like the old frames on artifacts and all black cards.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:40
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:8th edition was great because the way they inked the artifact cards made it impossible at a glance to tell if the card was white or an artifact without looking at CC or type line If I remember that continued into Mirrodin, which made it a fun block to try and look through a bunch of cards from at a glance. Might have been cleaned up for Fifth Dawn?
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Sep 25, 2019 01:52
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Sickening posted:I really like the old frames on artifacts and all black cards. All cards, really. The foils look gorgeous, I'd love to see that combined with the way they also treat the art with foiling now.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:52
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At this point I don’t understand why anybody wants new foils. They are all terrible. Every time I open one I immediately sell it. They all end up like pringles.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:54
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Sickening posted:At this point I don’t understand why anybody wants new foils. They are all terrible. Every time I open one I immediately sell it. Yeah but that sound the money makes when they put it in your hand
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Sep 25, 2019 02:35
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Fixing foils is the best change to the physical card they could possibly make
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Sep 25, 2019 03:14
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Eliminating foils counts as fixing foils.
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Sep 25, 2019 03:16
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All foils are trash. I have multiple player collections of left over foils from pre-modern era and they're all one giant C now. And they look like poo poo, and always looked like poo poo, and hearing people pine for lovely first gen foils is loving surreal. I should throw them away but part of me wonders if they're like those Transformers made in the 90s where they disintegrate while in a sealed container.
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Sep 25, 2019 03:22
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Spiderdrake posted:All foils are trash. Dude you're doing some weird poo poo of old border foils are curling anywhere close to a pack fresh current set foil does after a single day out. I live in a fuckin' swamp and my old foils that I opened are fine but if I get a new foil that somehow isn't bent out of the pack and don't immediately sleeve it and put it in a zip up binder stuffed with silica packets the thing is curled. then again all foils should be illegal in tournaments so it doesn't really matter
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Sep 25, 2019 03:27
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Magic should be illegal and anyone caught playing it should be executed.
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Sep 25, 2019 04:02
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Nah, old foils are just as bad as new ones with regard to curling.
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Sep 25, 2019 04:24
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Spiderdrake posted:All foils are trash. Hard loving agree. The old foils look like loving trash
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Sep 25, 2019 04:49
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Old foils are the only way to get 7th edition art, old frame, black border, which is a uniquely good combination for some cards.
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Sep 25, 2019 05:08
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As someone getting back into magic after 10-15 years, the very first thing I noticed was how much the cards have gone up in quality. For example, my Sanitarium Skeleton foil is cool, he's got a single shiny foil eye peering out of his skull. In contrast, my oldest foils just have a shiny border and a shiny star at the bottom, but the art itself isn't even shiny? I feel like the oldest foils were never very exciting, even back when they were new. It helps that the general art quality sure has gone up over the years. The newer cards even feel better to touch, though perhaps that is just because they are new. Having spell names in bold font is probably one of the best changes they made. I like the border changes, for the most part. The old multicolor borders were kinda ugly. I miss the brown artifact borders though. Artifacts with brown borders were a bit more distinctive than they are now.
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Sep 25, 2019 05:22
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Jabor posted:Old foils are the only way to get 7th edition art, old frame, black border, which is a uniquely good combination for some cards. Legit question, what's the card where the 7E art is the best version
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Sep 25, 2019 05:25
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JerryLee posted:Legit question, what's the card where the 7E art is the best version Birds of Paradise.
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Sep 25, 2019 05:37
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JerryLee posted:Legit question, what's the card where the 7E art is the best version I was going to say Howling Mine but it wasn't the art I was thinking of
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Sep 25, 2019 05:37
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Jabor posted:Birds of Paradise. Fair. I'm fond of the Alpha art but I won't say that preferring the 7E art is a Bad Opinion (and of course getting the ABU art with black borders is probably not cheap).
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Sep 25, 2019 05:39
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Speaking of BoP, has anyone else ever wondered if it was supposed to get reprinted in Amonkhet block, only to be repurposed into a different creature after the artwork was commissioned? River Hoopoe just looks like it should've been Birds of Paradise. 
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Sep 25, 2019 05:47
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Jabor posted:Birds of Paradise. Goblin Matron of course
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Sep 25, 2019 05:50
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Birds is the only one I personally went out of my way to get (alas non-foil copies, because 7e foil birds is literally legacy-dual-land price), but skimming the list there's also Boomerang, City of Brass, Engineered Plague, and Rampant Growth as reasonably playable cards where the 7e art is arguably the best.
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Sep 25, 2019 05:51
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Spiderdrake posted:All foils are trash. I would be happy to take a lot of these off your hands if you don't want them, I think the old border foils are vastly superior to the new ones.
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Sep 25, 2019 05:54
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Silhouette posted:Speaking of BoP, has anyone else ever wondered if it was supposed to get reprinted in Amonkhet block, only to be repurposed into a different creature after the artwork was commissioned? That seems unlikely, because the hoopoe is an actual bird, and that's very clearly a hoopoe:  A bird-of-paradise, for comparison: 
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Sep 25, 2019 06:02
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Also printing Birds of Paradise in Hour of Devastation, when the peaceful oasis of Amonkhet has been revealed to be (even more of) a dystopian nightmare, would be a rather silly turn of events. More to the point, they were almost certainly planning on bringing Llanowar Elves back on Dominaria for quite a while, and prior to that they were focused on making more interesting 2-cost mana dorks, like Channeler Initiate.
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Sep 25, 2019 06:07
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Dryad Arbor, but with a Plains as the illustration. C'mon Wizards, go deep on some promos.
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ItBreathes posted:Dryad Arbor, but with a Plains as the illustration. C'mon Wizards, go deep on some promos. We'll call it Wald.
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Sep 25, 2019 06:27
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GoutPatrol posted:Goblin Matron of course Preferring 7E Goblin Matron, on the other hand, is a Bad Opinion. Not because the art is inherently bad, mind you, but rather because it's a card for which DiTerlizzi art exists.
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Sep 25, 2019 06:32
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ungulateman posted:Also printing Birds of Paradise in Hour of Devastation, when the peaceful oasis of Amonkhet has been revealed to be (even more of) a dystopian nightmare, would be a rather silly turn of events. excuse me, you got a problem with nicol bolas?
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JerryLee posted:Preferring 7E Goblin Matron, on the other hand, is a Bad Opinion. Yes, unlike my Dryad Arbor opinon, that was a joke. 7th edition Matron is clown trash. I'm trying to get my 4th copy of cool DiTerlizzi Matron for my Goblins deck. And as a person with a foil cube, I've never had any problem taking care of foils in a Florida-like climate. I use only a couple old border foils (because some of those are expensive as gently caress) but the only ones that look worse are the Zendikar masterpieces (besides the Amonkhet disasters.) I would really like some of the art on those without foiling. They did masterpieces 3 times and 2 of those times they look like poo poo.
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Balon posted:So that recent survey asked an interesting question: if you could get any 5 (non RL) cards reprinted what would you choose? gently caress Rhystic Study. It's bad. Objectively correct answers: Scroll Rack Carpet of Flowers Imperial Seal Food Chain Stasis
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Sep 25, 2019 07:53
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GoutPatrol posted:They did masterpieces 3 times and 2 of those times they look like poo poo. The Kaladesh Inventions are masterpieces. The Zendikar Expeditions were so blindingly obviously awesome if the loving textbox was transparent with white text so you could see the art and they hosed it up, and it makes no sense because in sets before and after BFZ they had game day promos with transparent text boxes that look great, so who knows how they hosed it up that badly. The Amonkhet Invocations were intentionally designed to be horrible to give an excuse to kill masterpieces.
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ItBreathes posted:Dryad Arbor, but with a Plains as the illustration. C'mon Wizards, go deep on some promos. Reprint Drudge Skeleton Swamps.
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Sep 25, 2019 12:24
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I cant wait for them to update the creatures to the new types
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Sep 25, 2019 12:56
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The non changeling mistform ultimus creature with the most types is seton's scout with four types
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JerryLee posted:Legit question, what's the card where the 7E art is the best version Wrath of God.
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