dry cereal wrote:Consider in 12 months when the cuts are distributed. You come across a single miscut. How do you identify if it is organic?
It is sometimes impossible. We all know there are uncut sheets in circulation. Any uncut sheet can be turned into cards. If the owner finds the right company, the cards can be cut perfectly. After all there are printing companies everywhere, and many are quite excellent at what they do.
And this is the problem with the premium prices currently obtained by miscuts. If I cut up a Revised Rare sheet, and do it perfectly, I have real cards that are worth about $600 total. And since the sheet was printed by Carta Mundi, the cards will pass every test for authenticity so long as I can cut the sheet perfectly.
If I can cut the sheet perfectly, but I instead decide to cut the entire sheet so the cards are perfect size but are all off center by 2 inches (5 cm), I now have a one-of-a-kind set of miscut Revised rares that might be worth $10,000, or a multiple of that amount. It doesn't seem to matter if they are off horizontally, vertically, or a combination of both.
WOTC and Carta Mundi have done a good job at limiting production errors. For other types of collectibles, production errors are only worth a premium if the error can be confirmed as having happened during actual production. With Magic cards, it doesn't seem to matter as much.