Added to Replace Rainsford's laptop sale - beta test sets

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Added to Replace Rainsford's laptop sale - beta test sets

Post by Rainsford » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:57 am

All,

I am adding a few more things to the sale table. If you have never seen a beta test set, they are photocopied prototype cards - sometimes they have altered casting costs, and very often they have a "working name" - one that gets changed before the actual release! I have seen very few of them, but because these would be easy to replicate, I have only purchased ones I felt had a solid history.

The sets I have are:

Beta test set #1: The Dark (minimum bid $125.00)
Beta test set #2: Fallen (with 4 artist sketches on the cards his art was used on for the actual release.) (minimum bid $175.00)
Beta test set #1: The Dark (Richard Garfield's set) (minimum bid $195.00)

Beta test sets:

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Beta test set #1: The Dark
I traded for this set back around when the set after The Dark came out. (I forget which one.) It contains 77 cards in it, such as:

- Fellwar Stone
- The Tower (became Tower of Coireall)
- The Crypt (no clue – the text says “(Tap): Target creature cannot be blocked by walls until end of turn.â€￾)
- Green Thumb (no clue – the text says “You may put one additional land in play per turn, but that land must be a forest. You may sacrifice Green Thumb to add GG to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt..â€￾)
- Ball Lightning
- Forest Goblins (no clue – 2/2 goblins (summoned for GR.)
- The Light (no clue – the text says “All non-white creatures get –1/-1 until the end of turn.â€￾)

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Beta test set #2: Fallen (Empires, but Empires is not actually on the cards)
It contains 35 cards. I bought these from a man who was selling them on Yahoo auctions a number of years ago. I offered to buy them all (rather than bid on each individually). There are a number of things interesting about this set:

1. 15 cards have “NPSâ€￾ marked on them in red or gold ink. Not sure what this means. It doesn’t correspond to the artist’s name (so it isn’t an artist’s signature.)
2. 13 cards have “Baâ€￾ marked on them in silver ink.
3. A large number of these cards do not have the final names of the cards on them. So you will get cards called: Org (with only one “gâ€￾), Javelin Throwers, Big Lobster, Tendervittle Mutant (which became: the Armor Thrull with Menges art), and many, many more.

But the best part of this set is Jeff A. Menges has done sketches on four of the beta test cards reproducing (in b&w sketch) the final art! Here are the sketches he did:

- Tendervittle Mutant: sketch of his Armor Trull art
- Dwarven Lieutenant: sketch of his Dwarven Lieutenant
- Dwarven Catapult: sketch of his Dwarven Catapult
- Merfolk Soldiers: sketch of his, well, frankly, I have no idea. I mean I KNOW the dang picture but I can’t remember which card it belongs to. Ah, well.

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Beta test set #3: Richard Garfield’s own The Dark beta test cards
This set contains 107 cards. It also comes in a small blue-topped, two-piece box. Richard Garfield kept this set in this box (his name is signed on the inside of the box. When I bought this set I received a note about how this traveled from Richard to me. If I can find it then it will also be included. The very short answer is: Richard gave these to a friend. This person sold it to me.

Lots of fun misnamed cards in here as well, such as:

- The Dwellers of the Murk
- Black Heart of the Forest
- The Machine
- The Dark Sphere
- Forest Goblins
- Swamp Goblins
- Forest Bandits
- Forest Hag
- Forest People
- The Green Man
- Blood of the Earth
- Cave In
- Holy Man
- Men at Arms
- The Light

Email me at rainsford@deadcandancelibrary.com with any bids/offers.

Best regards,

Raisnford

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Post by Rainsford » Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:59 pm

Update:

I will attempt to get some scans soon, but I have no computer that can use the scanner I have at home. (My laptop did that ...)

Anyway. look for a scan soon.

Best regards,

Rainsford

PS - and I have updated my email address in the previous post. I wrote it incorrectly. LOL.

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Re: Added to Replace Rainsford's laptop sale - beta test set

Post by jeb » Wed May 03, 2006 6:30 pm

Rainsford wrote:Beta test set #1: The Dark
I traded for this set back around when the set after The Dark came out. (I forget which one.) It contains 77 cards in it, such as:

- Fellwar Stone
- The Tower (became Tower of Coireall)
- The Crypt (no clue – the text says “(Tap): Target creature cannot be blocked by walls until end of turn.â€￾)
- Green Thumb (no clue – the text says “You may put one additional land in play per turn, but that land must be a forest. You may sacrifice Green Thumb to add GG to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt..â€￾)
- Ball Lightning
- Forest Goblins (no clue – 2/2 goblins (summoned for GR.)
- The Light (no clue – the text says “All non-white creatures get –1/-1 until the end of turn.â€￾)
"The Tower"'s art became Tower of Coireall, but it's got the ability of "The Crypt", I'm guessing. Maybe "The Crypt" is Tormod's Crypt?
Green Thumb is Gaea's Touch. Forest Goblins became Scarwood Goblins. The Light became Holy Light.

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Post by Rainsford » Wed May 03, 2006 10:19 pm

Jeb,

Thanks for the information!! It has been so long since I reviewed all the cards in the released version of these sets I just couldn't place the beta cards with the final release cards.

All,

I have gotten a number of emails from interested parties, a number of requests for scans, and all three sets have their minimum bids met.

That said, I will hold of finalizing the auction until I get scans up and allow another 5 days or so to go by after the scans are put up.

I am trying to get to a friend's house tonight to get some scans. So if everything goes well there may be some links to scans up by tomorrow afternoon.

Best regards,

Rainsford

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Post by Grapes17 » Thu May 04, 2006 5:25 am

"The Crypt" actually is not Tormod's Crypt, but rather Tower of Coireall.
Tower of Coireall 2
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Tap: Target creature can’t be blocked by Walls this turn.

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Scans of some of the cards

Post by Rainsford » Thu May 04, 2006 10:38 pm

All,

So, below you will find links to various cards. NOTE: A friend scanned them (in the 9-pocket page) and I emailed the images to myself then cropped them but did no touch-ups. No level corrections, etc. Almost all "gray" or dirty looking area is the 9-pocket sleeve, not the cards themselves.

The cards themselves are on generic copy paper with the printing on them as shown in the images. It is apparent that on each page of paper would be 9 cards and these cards had to be cut out to test with. The Richard Garfield cards are on thicker paper.

post questions here, or email me at: rainsford@deadcandancelibrary.com

Here are some links:

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The Dark beta test cards:

Black Heart of the Forest: http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... Forest.jpg
Cave In:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... ave_In.jpg
Fissure:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... issure.jpg
Forest Goblins:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... oblins.jpg
Goblin Caves:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Caves.jpg
Goblin Digging Team
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... g_Team.jpg
Goblin Hero:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... n_Hero.jpg
Goblin of the Flarg:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Flarg.jpg
Goblin Rock Sled:
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... k_Sled.jpg

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Fallen Empires beat test cards:

Big Lobster: http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... obster.jpg
Compost Heap: http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... t_Heap.jpg
Dwarven Catapult: (with sketch) http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... tapult.jpg
Dwarven Lieutenant: (with sketch)
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... tenant.jpg
Elvish Scout: http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Scout.jpg
Merfolk Soldiers: (with sketch) http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... ldiers.jpg
Tendervittle Mutant: (with sketch) http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... Mutant.jpg
Terror Mutant: http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... Mutant.jpg
Thelon Druid: http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Druid.jpg

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Richard Garfield's The Dark beta test cards:

Carnivorous Plant
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Plant.jpg
Forest Goblins
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... oblins.jpg
Swamp Goblins
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... oblins.jpg
The Dark Sphere
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... Sphere.jpg
The Machine
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... achine.jpg
The Tower
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Tower.jpg
Wand of Ith
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... of_Ith.jpg
War Barge
http://www.deadcandancelibrary.com/imag ... _Barge.jpg

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