Crimped cards

[mystical_tutor]

WoW! That is awesome! Just what I wanted this catagory for on the board. Wish everyone would put their pride and joy up here.

I knew you collected cremps but had NO idea how extensive and interesting your collection is.

Great job.

Gary

[Tha_Gunslinga]

So, here's some background. A few months ago, my friend Soly suggested I play an all-misprint deck. I have an all-misprinted EDH, and I thought that I should build a Legacy deck for the upcoming SCG Madison. I have a LOT of misprints, since I've been collecting them for at least 8-10 years, and I have a lot of playable ones, especially blue ones, so I went with a blue-white control deck. Sdematt helped me design the deck, and I think he did a pretty good job. Remember, this had to be a 75-misprint deck, so that's why I went with Jace Beleren instead of Jace the Mindsculptor and that sort of thing. I went 5-3 with it, beating a lot of top decks. I had a TON of fun and I will definitely be playing a lot more Legacy in the future. Here's what I played:












If you can't see the card's misprinting, it's probably crimped. My misprinted EDH has no crimps in it because I thought that would be too easy, as I have over 6000 crimped cards, but I played some crimps in my Legacy deck because otherwise it would be impossible to field a playable deck.


The decklist:
UW Control

4 Force of Will--Miscut
4 Counterspell--Miscut Ice Age, Spanish Mercadian Masques, Miscut Tempest, blurry Mercadian Masques
4 Brainstorm--two differently shifted-text foil Mercadian Masques, miscut Ice Age, back-printed Mercadian Masques
1 Cryptic Command--full-art promo crimped AND miscut

4 Jace Beleren--miscut LO, miscut M11, miscut JvC, LO with two huge white bars
3 Elspeth, Knight Errant--miscut EvT

4 Swords to Plowshares--miscut 4th, miscut IA, miscut RV, blue-bordered Ice Age
3 Wrath of God--crimped Beta, miscut Revised, smeared 10th
2 Engineered Explosives--crimped foil Fifth Dawn
2 Crucible of Worlds--blotched 10th, blackened Fifth Dawn
1 Decree of Justice--crimped Scourge

2 Snapcaster Mage--one miscut, one ink-blotched
1 Vendilion Clique--twisted foil Morningtide

2 Flooded Strand--crimped Onslaught
3 Polluted Delta--miscut Chinese ON, miscut Portuguese, ON, miscut foil ON
1 Misty Rainforest--miscut
5 island--miscut French 4th, miscut Unhinged foil, miscut Portal 2, miscut 8th (matches the Plains), and blackened Alpha
2 Plains--miscut 8th (matches the Island) and miscut Unhinged foil
1 Karakas--miscut LG
4 Tundra--2 miscut RV, crimped Beta, crimped signed Beta
3 Wasteland--crimped Player Rewards, miscut Player rewards, crimped TP
3 Mishra's Factory--miscut AQ, crimped AQ, miscut 4th
1 Academy Ruins--miscut TS

--SIDEBOARD--

2 Circle of Protection: Red--miscut IA and crimped Beta
1 Pithing Needle--10th with massive line through it
1 Oblivion Ring--blackened LO
3 Tormod's Crypt--2 miscut Japanese CH, 1 miscut CH
1 Humility--crimped
2 Disenchant--miscut MM and Alpha-cut Revised
1 Spell Pierce--blurry foil
1 Arcane Laboratory--crimped US
1 Flusterstorm--miscut Commander
1 Moat--crimped
1 Trinisphere--crimped foil DS


Sorry about the blurry pics, I will try to get better ones tomorrow.

[pp]

Wow insane project, absolutly great

Question: StP, blueish border? I have a lot of ice age, homelands, fallen empires cards becoming more an more like this :-/
It has smth to do with ageing!? My cards are always in a binder, a dark place.

[markers]

very, very impressive Ben! Thanks for sharing

[pickle.69]

ah thats some nice stuff!

[Tha_Gunslinga]

Question: StP, blueish border? I have a lot of ice age, homelands, fallen empires cards becoming more an more like this :-/
It has smth to do with ageing!? My cards are always in a binder, a dark place.

I don't think so. The cards I have owned have never changed color over the years, and the Swords is very light-printed in general, not just the border. The text is a lot lighter than on a normal one.

[Blood]

Hey Ben. I have a foil rare from a much newer set that has Identical corner shape and the same offcenterness as your clique. Any idea how 2 cards from different sets could be identically cut wrong?-

[Tha_Gunslinga]

I've seen other cards like that from various sets. If they can miscut it in one set, they can do it in others. What card do you have?

[Blood]

I've seen other cards like that from various sets. If they can miscut it in one set, they can do it in others. What card do you have?

Blade Splicer. I just am wondering how the miscuts can be so bizarre, yet nearly identical. Jason

http://www.magiclibrarities.net/forum/v ... de+splicer

[Tha_Gunslinga]

Well, presumably the same thing that happened in Morningtide happened in New Phyrexia as well. I don't know what it was, but if it happened once, it can happen again.

[pp]

Question: StP, blueish border? I have a lot of ice age, homelands, fallen empires cards becoming more an more like this :-/
It has smth to do with ageing!? My cards are always in a binder, a dark place.

I don't think so. The cards I have owned have never changed color over the years, and the Swords is very light-printed in general, not just the border. The text is a lot lighter than on a normal one.

I'll try to dig some out, I'm pretty shure that it happend over time. Especially Fallen Empires is affected.

[Tha_Gunslinga]

Question: StP, blueish border? I have a lot of ice age, homelands, fallen empires cards becoming more an more like this :-/
It has smth to do with ageing!? My cards are always in a binder, a dark place.

I don't think so. The cards I have owned have never changed color over the years, and the Swords is very light-printed in general, not just the border. The text is a lot lighter than on a normal one.

I'll try to dig some out, I'm pretty shure that it happend over time. Especially Fallen Empires is affected.

Well, it's nothing that's ever happened to my cards.

[mystical_tutor]

Sorry for the poor photo quality. This is one crimped card from each Magic set ever printed, excluding Championship decks and such things for obvious reasons. I have been collecting crimped cards for around 10 years now and have slightly over 6000, including about a hundred non-Magic crimps. I'm always looking for more, especially Beta crimps, since I have 55% of the Beta set completed.

Absolutely Awesome!!!!

Thanks a big much for posting this. It is a pain to photograph cards (or scan them) and post them. This is a real addition to this board and this section.

Thanks for sharing.

Gary

[mystical_tutor]

Say, I just pulled a crimped card I'll bet you don't have. May not even want one but I though I'd let you know.

Korean Innistrad 7/12 Zombie token. Just barley crimped clear across the top. If you want it I'll bet we can work a deal.... LOL.

Gary

[fancyman]

Hi Tha_Gunslinga,
I'm not sure what crimps you need for your set, but this is what I have kicking around.

http://imgur.com/a/W2wnM#0
http://imgur.com/a/Gckye#2

I also have a walk but I'm not ready to part with it yet (it's in rough shape anyways): http://imgur.com/a/0foDZ#0