Hello all.
I just started playing and I am trying to build a commander deck with Korvold to play at my LGS. I dont know a lot of cards yet and have no experience building a deck. I still dont have a large collection of cards and to be honest, dont want to spend a lot o money at the moment building a deck, since I am still beginning.
Any help is appreciated to improve this current deck. In general, do you guys think this can work to have some casual fun? Thanks a lot.
Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
1 Castle Locthwain
1 Cryptic Caves
1 Dwarven Mine
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Fabled Passage
8 Forest
1 Gingerbread Cabin
1 Guildmages' Forum
1 Jungle Hollow
1 Memorial to Folly
6 Mountain
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Rugged Highlands
7 Swamp
1 Urza's Mine
1 Urza's Power Plant
1 Urza's Tower
1 Witch's Cottage
1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
1 Bake into a Pie
1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
1 Blood for Bones
1 Bloodsoaked Altar
1 Bone Splinters
1 Cauldron Familiar
1 Chandra's Outrage
1 Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
1 Crystal Slipper
1 Deathsprout
1 Destructive Digger
1 Doomed Necromancer
1 Dread Presence
1 Elite Headhunter
1 Emrakul's Evangel
1 Fierce Witchstalker
1 Finale of Eternity
1 Flaxen Intruder // Welcome Home
1 Fling
1 Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
1 Giant Opportunity
1 Giant's Skewer
1 Gift of Paradise
1 Gilded Goose
1 Golden Egg
1 Heraldic Banner
1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
1 Insatiable Appetite
1 Irencrag Feat
1 Leafkin Druid
1 Leyline of Abundance
1 Leyline Prowler
1 Lucky Clover
1 Malevolent Noble
1 Maraleaf Rider
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
1 Natural End
1 Ob Nixilis's Cruelty
1 Once Upon a Time
1 Paradise Druid
1 Piper of the Swarm
1 Rampart Smasher
1 Rhizome Lurcher
1 Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush
1 Savvy Hunter
1 Scalding Cauldron
1 Scorching Dragonfire
1 Scuttlemutt
1 Silent Dart
1 Sorcerer's Broom
1 Spinning Wheel
1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
1 Tempting Witch
1 Trail of Crumbs
1 Undercity Uprising
1 Vial of Dragonfire
1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
1 Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
1 Witch's Oven
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
Hello all, I recently bought 3 cards online on lilianamarket (UK) and I am having trouble figuring out if the cards are real or not. I'll post pictures and also reasons why I think they can be fake. Since they are cards from 1995 and I am not used to handling cards from that period, the differences I found may just be normal for cards that old.
Positive points:
Rosette pattern seems genuine. Text seems to be printed above the rest of the card and I don't see the rosette pattern on the text, only on the rest of the card.
Cards are not valuable. They are easily found between U$ 1,00 and U$ 2,00, so I think that the appeal for fake ones are much less, though not impossible.
Light test seems fine. Although I don't have another copy of this card to compare to, I compared with another modern card that I know for sure is real and the light goes through both cards in exact the same way.
Negative points:
First think that I worried about was the colours. The cards, although in near mint condition, just seem a little washed out and less vivid than modern cards.
This is the thing that is annoying me the most. The edges just seem off. To be honest, one of them just seems like it had been cut by hand and the other just not seem curved, but more like a straight cut. Again, maybe back them it was done differently and that is why they seem weird to me.
The back of the card is a bit darker than the modern cards that I have. Not something you could notice from far or in a picture, but noticeable when side by side.
I just started playing and I am trying to build a commander deck with Korvold to play at my LGS. I dont know a lot of cards yet and have no experience building a deck. I still dont have a large collection of cards and to be honest, dont want to spend a lot o money at the moment building a deck, since I am still beginning.
Any help is appreciated to improve this current deck. In general, do you guys think this can work to have some casual fun? Thanks a lot.
Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
1 Castle Locthwain
1 Cryptic Caves
1 Dwarven Mine
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Fabled Passage
8 Forest
1 Gingerbread Cabin
1 Guildmages' Forum
1 Jungle Hollow
1 Memorial to Folly
6 Mountain
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Rugged Highlands
7 Swamp
1 Urza's Mine
1 Urza's Power Plant
1 Urza's Tower
1 Witch's Cottage
1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
1 Bake into a Pie
1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
1 Blood for Bones
1 Bloodsoaked Altar
1 Bone Splinters
1 Cauldron Familiar
1 Chandra's Outrage
1 Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
1 Crystal Slipper
1 Deathsprout
1 Destructive Digger
1 Doomed Necromancer
1 Dread Presence
1 Elite Headhunter
1 Emrakul's Evangel
1 Fierce Witchstalker
1 Finale of Eternity
1 Flaxen Intruder // Welcome Home
1 Fling
1 Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
1 Giant Opportunity
1 Giant's Skewer
1 Gift of Paradise
1 Gilded Goose
1 Golden Egg
1 Heraldic Banner
1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
1 Insatiable Appetite
1 Irencrag Feat
1 Leafkin Druid
1 Leyline of Abundance
1 Leyline Prowler
1 Lucky Clover
1 Malevolent Noble
1 Maraleaf Rider
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
1 Natural End
1 Ob Nixilis's Cruelty
1 Once Upon a Time
1 Paradise Druid
1 Piper of the Swarm
1 Rampart Smasher
1 Rhizome Lurcher
1 Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush
1 Savvy Hunter
1 Scalding Cauldron
1 Scorching Dragonfire
1 Scuttlemutt
1 Silent Dart
1 Sorcerer's Broom
1 Spinning Wheel
1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
1 Tempting Witch
1 Trail of Crumbs
1 Undercity Uprising
1 Vial of Dragonfire
1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
1 Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
1 Witch's Oven
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
Positive points:
Rosette pattern seems genuine. Text seems to be printed above the rest of the card and I don't see the rosette pattern on the text, only on the rest of the card.
Cards are not valuable. They are easily found between U$ 1,00 and U$ 2,00, so I think that the appeal for fake ones are much less, though not impossible.
Light test seems fine. Although I don't have another copy of this card to compare to, I compared with another modern card that I know for sure is real and the light goes through both cards in exact the same way.
Negative points:
First think that I worried about was the colours. The cards, although in near mint condition, just seem a little washed out and less vivid than modern cards.
This is the thing that is annoying me the most. The edges just seem off. To be honest, one of them just seems like it had been cut by hand and the other just not seem curved, but more like a straight cut. Again, maybe back them it was done differently and that is why they seem weird to me.
The back of the card is a bit darker than the modern cards that I have. Not something you could notice from far or in a picture, but noticeable when side by side.
Here are the pictures:
3 cards side by side: https://ibb.co/4NJvyXn
Right edge: https://ibb.co/y63dPhy
Left edge: https://ibb.co/9HRgDsL
Rosette pattern: https://ibb.co/bvb4x3S
Texte: https://ibb.co/wYtwVFy
Overall, the cards seem to have the same weight, feel and flexibility than other cards I have.
Can anyone please give me a hint if you think these are real?
Thank a lot and also, this is my first post here, so forgive me if I am posting in the wrong place or in a wrong way.
Cheers to all!