Actually this type of thing would get them banned from hosting sanctioned events. Having someone not allowed in the store is one thing, having someone not allowed in the store because they are "too good" is another thing entirely. Basically the store could manipulate player ratings, and cause all sorts of problems for the DCI if they allowed such practices to continue.
I store in my area was banning all good players other than the "store team" in order to garuantee they never had to pay out any prize support, and to pump up their own ratings to autoqualify for pt spots. Using this type of technique to manipulate tourney results is obviously something they can be banned for. The store in my area was eventually banned for exactly that reason, and went under less than 3 months later as a result.
Banning someone from the premises for a valid reason is fine, banning someone from the premises for the explicit reason of them "winning too much" is not.
Actually someone pretending to be wizards of the coast is killing every auction on ebay for altered art cards by abusing the VeRO program... so at the moment selling any alters on ebay is nondoable until this individual coughbeardcough...is sued out of existence.
I finally got ahold of a wizards rep over the phone... they said they had no idea what I was referring to and that as far as they knew no complaint had been made to ebay about any altered art cards from them. They are going to investigate further and get back with me tomorrow, but from the sound of it this complaint was coming from an imposter, and not wotc.
Everyone here should be contacting wizards with their grievance...the more angry people they have contact them the less likely it will be that we need to take them to court, and the greater chance that we can confirm whether or not wizards is actually behind this. I will try to find a better means of making such contact as the email we have for Marcella is either fake or inactive.
Ebay will eventually reply with an answer, but your right the first few responses they give are always automated ******** that you have to wade through.
Lemt--I didn't have any mentioning of me doing the authorship in any of my auctions so I seriously doubt that that has any bearing.... this seems to be arbitrary targeting.
Galspanic--yes it is the same email contact. Nintendo actually has given me "prizes" in the past for various fan art things, so yeah they are way cool with that sort of thing.
Still waiting on contact from wizards while my lawyer friends draw up the paperwork to sue.
Oh btw, if anyone else would like to convey your opinion concerning the matter by all means try contacting this fellow...
Yup, my auctions were hit to, same as CK. Pretty sure all of the altered art auctions will be down over the next couple of days from the looks of it. Still not sure if wizards is the one behind the take downs, since it cliams them as a Vero, but it easily could be someone pretending to be them as they provided incorrect contact information to the wizards offices. If it turns out to be an imposter someone is getting sooo sued...
As far as getting a perfect color around card text, simply use appropriately colored sharpy markers, the black of the card text will show up through the ink as if there is nothing there, and you can almost always get the color to match rather well so long as you have a wide sharpy variety. Far less time consuming than attempting to paint around them with acrylics.
mtg proofs-- Your book example is actually quite incorrect, since the situation you are referring to would be 100% legal. You can tear up a book chapter by chapter and still sell it in its damaged state. Similarly you can sell this damaged book in conjugation with other text and its still 100% legal. The thing that makes it legal is that you are using the original pages of a legally purchased book, meaning that the copyright holder has already profited from the items sale. In order for it to be illegal you would need to make copies of your new combined book for resale, simply reselling the original pages, whether it is combined with other text or not is 100% legal in every way.
LOL yeah that does sound like the same guy.... who else would be angry about someone reselling a card he himself signed.... Was he just expecting you to keep it forever? ROFL....
"I should be getting a percentage of every sale of that card I doodled on every time its sold" ROFL.... Yeah this guys a freakin joke....
draco--they are not THAT bad....lol from normal playing distance its not as crazy, definitely wouldn't call it disruptive...although they are pretty mind bending when you look at em a little closer up
I perhaps should make a set with bigger textures that fit together as you play more lands to make it really nutty.
I am also currently working on another project to make some really really crazy stuff, but I need to find the proper math formulas or technique in order to make them the way I want.... its gonna be abit tricky but will likely be awesome
Four--this isn't printed and pasted onto a card, its stamped onto a card via a very special process requiring some very special, and rather expensive equipment
Also if you take a look in the digital alters thread you would see that a physical card is not something typically displayed there. Once a piece of art exists physically it is no longer a digital piece.
Either way it doesn't matter much, if you don't like looking at it you don't have to.... its not like I'm spamming the thread with hundred of these things, just thought some people might find it to be abit neat
Draco--thats the idea Imagine a whole deck filled with lands like that
I store in my area was banning all good players other than the "store team" in order to garuantee they never had to pay out any prize support, and to pump up their own ratings to autoqualify for pt spots. Using this type of technique to manipulate tourney results is obviously something they can be banned for. The store in my area was eventually banned for exactly that reason, and went under less than 3 months later as a result.
Banning someone from the premises for a valid reason is fine, banning someone from the premises for the explicit reason of them "winning too much" is not.
But yeah his account being left alone to remain active shows a clear bias in this case.
Ebay will eventually reply with an answer, but your right the first few responses they give are always automated ******** that you have to wade through.
Still waiting on contact from wizards while my lawyer friends draw up the paperwork to sue.
Oh btw, if anyone else would like to convey your opinion concerning the matter by all means try contacting this fellow...
marcella.allen@wizards.com
As far as getting a perfect color around card text, simply use appropriately colored sharpy markers, the black of the card text will show up through the ink as if there is nothing there, and you can almost always get the color to match rather well so long as you have a wide sharpy variety. Far less time consuming than attempting to paint around them with acrylics.
"I should be getting a percentage of every sale of that card I doodled on every time its sold" ROFL.... Yeah this guys a freakin joke....
I perhaps should make a set with bigger textures that fit together as you play more lands to make it really nutty.
I am also currently working on another project to make some really really crazy stuff, but I need to find the proper math formulas or technique in order to make them the way I want.... its gonna be abit tricky but will likely be awesome
Also if you take a look in the digital alters thread you would see that a physical card is not something typically displayed there. Once a piece of art exists physically it is no longer a digital piece.
Either way it doesn't matter much, if you don't like looking at it you don't have to.... its not like I'm spamming the thread with hundred of these things, just thought some people might find it to be abit neat
Draco--thats the idea