Promo and Box Set Cards

[A.R.]

Which token has which back?

Thanks!

[extreme]

centaur is niv mizzet, bird is the orange one, the other two have the gorgon.

[woogerboy21]

Does anyone recall if the Champs mutavault image was ever processed? I'm looking for it.

[Ark]

http://ark42.com/mtg/cards/States/Mutavault.full.jpg

[Nyth]

So here's my first unboxing video. You get to all see my horrible unshaven face (not sure why I didn't clean up a bit first) and you get to see these cards out of the box.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/loNlBttxKos[/youtube]
http://youtu.be/loNlBttxKos

Scans have been uploaded to my Dropbox for those of you that have access to process them.

I did try a few more versions of these cards but it turns out that any imperfections on the cards, no matter how small, get amplified because they're black... on black... So processing for these will be hard. What looks like a tiny nick on my Liliana comes out as a big scar on the scan no matter what I tried to do. Hopefully someone can work their Magic on these... Also, if you want me to do a rescan with highlights on full (as shown in the video) I can do that as well.

Tell me what you think about the video and I'll do one for the FTV20 if you're interested.

[extreme]

cool ! These look nice ! I like your unboxing, albeit a bit on the longish side.
I think it might be a good idea to try a bit of highlights as well.

[extreme]

what we also need is a side by side scan of a black card and a normal card - to see if the borders are the same or not.

[skibulk]

Great Idea! I'd like to see an unboxing vid for FTV20 too, and I'll second Extreme in saying that the next one could be a little shorter (given it wouldn't have the scanning portion so time shaved there).

How would you compare the foiling process of the planeswalkers black to normal foil cards? How does the foil compare to the premium deck series? How does it compare to the From the Vault foils?

As far as the inking goes, is the text 100% foil with no inking, the gray "background" has medium inking, then there's the black layer? So the levels of ink step up from 0% to say 40% and lastly 100%?

And I think Garruk has a long beastly claw slash mark behind him (not a trident)?

[extreme]

nope, even the lightest text has a printing raster and is darkish gray. It's all very very dark. I don't think the foil is 100%visible in any part of the card.

[Nyth]

I'm not sure why I couldn't embed the video in my previous post but hey, you're right, I'll definitely do a shorter video in the future. I was trying to capture that first open excitement plus what I knew would be a scanning impossibility.

So what would you have me try next? One of the planeswalkers next to something else for comparison? Should it be a foil and if so, should it be a black foil since that's the closest to dark that we have at the moment. Maybe a timeshifted one from Planar Chaos if I have one?

Send your suggestions my way. I'm sure extreme has tried to work with what I've shared so far. (Oh and did you have a chance to see the other goodies I put in the folder?). Were the scans usable as they were?

I'm moving house this coming week so I doubt I'll be able to do anything after Friday so get back to me before then, otherwise it will have to wait till the unpack.

[extreme]

try it with a black foil and a regular black, all on the same page please. DIdn't get the chance to look at the other stuff, will do.

[woogerboy21]

Did you guys ever get a scan of the Garfield vs finkel box set?

[skibulk]

Yah, it's aliased Deckmasters.

[extreme]

hey Nyth, can you do the black card comparison scan so I can do the 6 cards ?

[Nyth]

Will do once I've finished with this weekend's Theros prerelease events that I'm organising.