The Magic Librarities

Anyone have a BGS-graded Dwarven Song from Legends? I find myself one card short of my graded legends set... anything 8.5 or better would be great.

I paid somewhere in the $800-$1,000 range a year ago for my BGS 10 Unlimited Scrublands, so that seems in the ballpark for revised. Prices on these seem to just keep heading up!

am pretty sure the account that bid it up the whole way belongs to a certain proprietor of "Vintage Magic LLC" that many on here know well. My memory might not be serving correctly though. Then he got outbid by $100 at the last second by the no feedback account...

a real challenge would be trying to get a gem mint graded set of alt fourth. I do not have the energy or desire to try. but from what I've seen the cards have some centering issues. also, the cards are loose in the deck with no wrapper inside the starter so they bang around in the cardboard. plus ap...

the starters are indeed hard to find. I ended up finding a number of them (not that many though) and opened a few, but then a set came available and I bought that. It was quite a discount to the $4,000 you mentioned. there is a disconnect between sealed product and the set. there really aren't any g...

Fun read, thanks

I don't think you shoud let this worry deter you from collecting Alpha cards over Beta. Buy graded cards and problem solved. I collect every vintage set, but if I only collected one, it would be Alpha. Beta will always have a derivative value to Alpha, and Unlimited to both Beta and Alpha. I think t...

I am getting close to finishing my Beckett-graded Alpha set with the best of what's currently available. Many thanks to the people on this board(particularly Len) who have been tremendously helpful in putting this set together: http://registry.beckett.com/set-details/alphajons-alphas_2294964 My ulti...

Well it's hard from scans too... at least I got one right

I would guess top left is beta and top right is alpha. I can't tell the bottom two from the top two because of my computer screen. But the bottom two look like they're from the same set, maybe both Alpha?

the problem with those two scans is that the Alpha scan is blurry. try these two... notice how the Alpha colors are brighter. Really hard from scans. https://www.abugames.com/images/products/gradedalphacards/22382450.jpg https://www.abugames.com/images/products/gradedbetacards/7904524.jpg The point ...

There are many other differences between Beta and Alpha besides card misprints and corners. If you put Beta cards side by side with Alpha cards, the colors on Beta cards are noticeably darker/deeper than Alpha cards. Also many Alpha cards have centering and print-dot issues that their Beta counterpa...

Now that I have viewed on my ipad in higher res I'd say 7.5-8 overall, with 8.5 if you get lucky

Based on the scan, 8.0 or 8.5 edges, 9 centering, maybe 9 or 9.5 corners but its hard to tell. Surface who knows from the scan. Maybe 8.5 or 9, possibly even 9.5 for surface. Overall grade I would guess 8.0 or 8.5. 9.0 would be best case but I would not count on that. So hard to tell from a scan...

bayard8 welcome to collecting Alphas. I also collect Alphas and basically everything else too. It is a very expensive hobby but the challenge of finding that next card makes it fun and rewarding. I have a lot of extra graded cards from each set. I'm not one for deals though as I have generally paid ...