I agree that you should get it graded. Glancing at the pictures, it will at least make an 8.5 rating, and can possibly hit as high as 9.5. That is one very nice Recall.
I believe this is the same person who purchased the card for 20k a few years ago. It was sitting for 49k on eBay about a year ago, and it seems to jump 10k in price every couple months. In other words, it is hardly worth 100k. Even someone with that much money to throw around would have to be insane to pay that much for something that is potentially not even exclusive in the world. I know a BGS10 is hard to achieve, but there are plenty of other BGS10 cards out there.
I immediately fell in love with Magic when my friend opened a Serra Angel when the game was released. He eventually gave me that card because I liked it so much.
thanks everyone for your opinions! It's very much appreciated.
One final question.. my mox ruby has a tiny white circle on the back of it. Is this a printing error, or is it indicative of something more significant (fake card)? Will this make the card NM, even if it's a problem with their printing and not my handling?
I need to check all my UL cards, but off-hand I'm fairly sure they all have that little circle on them as a result of printing (it should be along the left border on the back of the card).
I went 1-3 as Phyrexian. I had the intention of just making a standard BG infect deck with maybe a blue spash. In the end, I had a BW infect deck with a green spash. My card pool was absolutely HORRENDOUS. Out of my SoM packs, the only infect creature I got was an Ichorclaw Myr. My rares were the RG dual land, Darksteel Juggernaut, Etched Champion, Mirrorworks, Distant Memories, and Phyrexian Rebirth. The only card that got played was Phyrexian Rebirth, which won me 2 rounds simply because I outplayed my opponent. The only green infect creature I had was Blightwidow, and I didn't get any Rot Wolf, Viridian Corrupter, Viridian Emissary, etc. I had to play white simply to round out my infect guys with a pair of Tine Shrike and Priest of Norn, and I didn't even have an Untamed Might to sneak a win.
When I opened my pool I swear I died a little inside. I did not expect it to be that bad. The only redeeming quality of it was that I had a pair of Spread the Sicknesses and I managed to open a Flesh-Eating Imp.
So... no money cards, no cards I was hoping to use for constructed, no foils, didn't win anything. All in all a little disappointing, seeings how my friends opened Tezzeret, Thrun, Hero of Bladehold, and a ton of useful cards for standard. Not to mention this was my first prerelease and first tournament since 1995
Edit: In retrospect, I probably would have played blue over white. Oh well...
Our buyer can look at them and tell very easily. I am not able to tell as easily as he is but after he showed me the differences it was obvious but it was also a very good fake. When we first ripped it I was like oh crap it was real. Then we noticed the ink inside was black and not dark blue like a "legit" card. Fun times.
So what were the differences between the two? I'm curious because I tend to purchase a lot of cards off eBay, and I need to round out my duals set.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person that grades cards harshly. I don't grade a card Mint unless its absolutely flawless to the naked eye (i.e. pack fresh), and I would only call a card NM if there's only one minor nick or barely noticeable scratch on the card. Anything more and it drops to EX/SP/etc.
My question is, how do you all grade your cards? I ask because I'm constantly received cards bought online that are listed as Mint, NM/M, or NM without any reference to a grading scale and receiving them in a grade I'd consider MP or VG-. These are the cards I refer to with whitening on the edges, several nicks on the card, quite a bit of scuffing/scratching on the surface (to where its lost its new-card sheen) and a slightly bent corner or two. Some of these cards are noticeably flimsy from riffle shuffling. Am I wrong to consider something like this not NM? Or do people who sell online generally have lower standards for cards than me?
Chinese cards are very hit or miss. For the older sets, T-Chinese > English. For the most part, S-Chinese is about equivalent to English.
As a whole, Asian > German > English = French/Portuguese/Spanish. It can vary from card to card, but this has been my general experience in dealing with foreign cards.
I don't know if this is true or not, but it seems like a lot of the people who don't play without sleeves are the ones that have been playing a long time (i.e. from release to 4th/Ice Age). I fall into this category. I remember when tournaments did not allow sleeves - look at a lot of the older ESPN videos. I don't like using sleeves simply because Magic is as much nostalgia to me as a hobby. I play a card game and hence like to hold the cards; it's not like you would ever play blackjack with sleeved up cards.
On the flipside, the collector side of me babies cards. I hardly play with any cards worth a lot of money, and if I ever did make a return to competitive play, I'm sure I'll be using sleeves simply due to the intrinsic cost of cards these days. Back in the day, a lot of people had to get new cards for decks after tournaments. The difference is decks did not run into the hundreds of dollars back then (or at least, I never played one that expensive even when stuff like Moxen were less than 100 -_-).
This was the last list I messed with for a "Dark Fish" deck. I still wasn't too happy with it, since I felt like it was mediocre to just the default Dark Times decklist.
I need to check all my UL cards, but off-hand I'm fairly sure they all have that little circle on them as a result of printing (it should be along the left border on the back of the card).
I received the following at my prerelease:
Distant Memories
Mirrorworks
Phyrexian Rebirth
Makes me feel bad, considering going one pack in either direction would have given me a much better bomb to play.
When I opened my pool I swear I died a little inside. I did not expect it to be that bad. The only redeeming quality of it was that I had a pair of Spread the Sicknesses and I managed to open a Flesh-Eating Imp.
So... no money cards, no cards I was hoping to use for constructed, no foils, didn't win anything. All in all a little disappointing, seeings how my friends opened Tezzeret, Thrun, Hero of Bladehold, and a ton of useful cards for standard. Not to mention this was my first prerelease and first tournament since 1995
Edit: In retrospect, I probably would have played blue over white. Oh well...
Let the bad puns begin.
So what were the differences between the two? I'm curious because I tend to purchase a lot of cards off eBay, and I need to round out my duals set.
My question is, how do you all grade your cards? I ask because I'm constantly received cards bought online that are listed as Mint, NM/M, or NM without any reference to a grading scale and receiving them in a grade I'd consider MP or VG-. These are the cards I refer to with whitening on the edges, several nicks on the card, quite a bit of scuffing/scratching on the surface (to where its lost its new-card sheen) and a slightly bent corner or two. Some of these cards are noticeably flimsy from riffle shuffling. Am I wrong to consider something like this not NM? Or do people who sell online generally have lower standards for cards than me?
Chinese cards are very hit or miss. For the older sets, T-Chinese > English. For the most part, S-Chinese is about equivalent to English.
As a whole, Asian > German > English = French/Portuguese/Spanish. It can vary from card to card, but this has been my general experience in dealing with foreign cards.
On the flipside, the collector side of me babies cards. I hardly play with any cards worth a lot of money, and if I ever did make a return to competitive play, I'm sure I'll be using sleeves simply due to the intrinsic cost of cards these days. Back in the day, a lot of people had to get new cards for decks after tournaments. The difference is decks did not run into the hundreds of dollars back then (or at least, I never played one that expensive even when stuff like Moxen were less than 100 -_-).
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Mox Diamond
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Vampire Hexmage
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Dark Ritual
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
4 Force of Will
2 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Spell Pierce
4 Lim-Dul's Vault
2 Dark Depths
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Island
1 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland