Re: HQ PICS DOWNLOADS and Status List (MTG) 2013
Posted: 11 Jan 2018, 16:14Both should be fixed now.
Hey, thanks for the response! Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on it, just been a rather hectic start to the new year. That's why I still haven't swung through to post the completed list like I promised charlequin I would. I'm finally pretty convinced the list is complete and accurate, it's just a god awful mess of an improperly formatted 15 page long Word document still. I should finally get the free time this weekend to clean it up and leave it online for all to see.rotarydials wrote:Looking at the three are varieties, it should be noted that two of the cards bear the same order ID # -> 343/350.
I also took the question to Reddit just after posting here, and had three people there confirm the same results you have. The first two weren't able to confirm they had gotten the deck sealed, nor were there pictures, but just yesterday someone else once again confirmed it and supplied pics, though not in the quality or detail you have, so I really appreciate it.
I think I can help out just a little too, to clear up about the collector's numbers being the same. I had noticed that on other gold bordered cards I found on places like Librarities and ABUGames (I've only personally owned a single gold border, a Replenish I run in an EDH deck), the copyright lines seemed to shift back and forth between centered and left aligned, the years were different on various cards in the same deck releases, and none of the collector numbers made any sense. I didn't look any deeper into it, but my first thought was that no changes were made to the copyright line or any other part of the front of the card, save the border change and the addition of the signature. But now that I look closer at the images you've posted, I can pretty much confirm that's the case. I have the original standard black border release of all three of those mountains, from Masques, Invasion, and Seventh Edition, and indeed, the gold borders bear the same number on all three as the original (343, 343, and 337). It just so happens that the mountain they chose from both Mercadian Masques and Invasion were 343 in their respective sets.
Can't help but feel there's a Halo reference in here too. Mountains, Invasion, Masks, 343? Hmmm... Masques released in 1999, Invasion in 2000, the first Halo game in 2001... *Twilight Zone theme song*
As far as the single art? Well, as you said, that's lost to the sands of time.
Thanks again for taking the time to break out the deck, check it, and even take pics. One more step closer to getting the book built!
