HQ PICS DOWNLOADS and Status List (MTG)

[extreme]

visible round corners ? How ? Hqs don't have full borders. I certainly left collectors ed square corners alone.

update: I see what you're seeing. Those are not traces of the cut, those small triangles really are there. All very early sets have an outer second border, unlike all the recent ones, which have only the regular one.

But no backs, sorry.

[A.R.]

Ah... Ok, thanks for the info!

[Nyth]

So I'm going to head out shopping today and see the scanner selection available locally. Dubai seems to pride itself on technology and all sorts of stuff so I do hope I find what I'm looking for.

[woogerboy21]

A swift search of Canon, HP and Epson - which I think are the best scanner brands - reveals an interesting thing: pretty much all canons and epsons nowadays are LED and HP doesn't say anything about the light source. That is worrying. HOwever, there is another thing: some of them (the more expensive ones) have a "white led" lightsouce. I don't know if the LED scanners that give that awful color banding have white leds or an array of RGB ones. White leds might be good. Is there any way to test a little before you buy ?

I was looking at the White LED scanners prior to me just getting a Non-LED model but never managed to get a chance to do a test scan. If someone has had a chance and could post example's I would be interested in the information as well.

[extreme]

they're bad. Ark's is white led - look at the latest promos.

[Ark]

Yeah, but I still think the matte acetate works pretty well to cover up the light scattering the foils cause:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=453&p=45483#p45483
Sure, at first glance, the contrast isn't quite as good under the acetate, but that's because the histogram is stretched to scan the non-acetate part at the same time too.

[extreme]

i wish it would be that simple. Acetate kills sharpness, has its own grain, scratches dust and all other stuff which adds to the existing ones, the central part is much better than the edges, it also adds color shift and histogram stretching means that the available levels are much less - resulting in lost detail in shadows for ex.
Also, the reflections are not eliminated, just attenuated.

[Huggybaby]

Someone buy extreme a beer, he lost one or two of his abnormally gloriously thick and rich hair follicles struggling with these.
I don't know why, they're bigger right? So they should be easier to work on, right?

These have been a long time coming for some reason. Some of them have promo markings. And I left the directories in the sort of strange hybrid MA structure we have going on now, just to give you guys a peek behind the scenes. I'm sure all those folks who repackage these without giving us credit will arrange them to suit their liking.



LINKS:
CCGHQ MTG BTP (Boxtoppers Oversized Promos) 021212BTP.zip (3.38MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?bqpqiju8faq6qnb

CCGHQ MTG BT8 (Boxtoppers Oversized Promos Eighth Edition) 021212.zip (38.41MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?3f21c7jav52bekb

CCGHQ MTG BT9 (Boxtoppers Oversized Promos Ninth Edition) 021212.zip (7.48MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?qxkc96nx221ln09

Thanks to PresetM for the scans and extreme for processing!

[Huggybaby]

PS A heads up to everyone: I've quit uploading to Rapidshare, it was too much of a PIA to use any more. A lot of those files have been lost due to inactivity, so be it.

Regarding MediaFire: I pioneered the use of that service, I've been using it since it was in beta. They initially had no file size restrictions! With the recent trouble MF is looking too good to be true. Do not be surprised, I've warned you more than once.

Total Storage Used
11 GB
From 519 total files

Total Downloads Served
1,870,028
Since January 26, 2007

Est. Bandwidth Served
50.65 TB
From Currently Hosted Files

Almost 2 million downloads!

And that doesn't include all our Rapidshare stuff which was a lot, and the torrent which accounts for easily as much bandwidth as MF.

There are some very popular projects here, but HQ Pics are king. They are the standard.

[extreme]

They are bigger but the sizes are all over the place, they are not square, the backs don't have borders and since all edges are a bit worn I had to paint everything. Had to measure every card as well. Extremely tedious.

[A.R.]

By the way, what about Italian Junior League Oversized Promos (http://www.magiclibrarities.net/252-rar ... index.html)?

On Magic Librarities web-site they have the size of usual cards, that is too small.

[RobbieG]

I have been working on getting the high-res pics for all of the sets for Cockatrice (since it auto-downloads very low-res pics). This post is somewhat of a guide, and also feedback for the OP.

I downloaded everything from "CCGHQ MTG English Pics Fulls" in the OP. It seemed like there were some low-res duplicates in there. I tried to get rid of the low-res dupes, and then merge & overwrite the low-res pics I already had.

I then used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ma ... ering_sets to make a spreadsheet to start organizing things, adding a column for the "MWS set code" and "what sets are in cockatrice currently":
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... EtzWWFidnc

This spreadsheet was also a good way for me to sort the sets by date (and order the sets in cockatrice to show the newest version of the card first).

Going through how Cockatrice is labeling sets, and comparing to "SET NAMES & CODES - BY TYPE OF SET" in the OP, I found these differences:

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New code for Conflux should be CON, not CFX
Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra should be DD2, not JVC
Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic should be DDC, not DVD
From the Vault: Dragons - New code should also be DRB, not FVD
Starter 2000 is ST2K in Cockatrice, not S2K
PLANECHASE is PCH in Cockatrice, not HOP

The following "sets" were not on the wikipedia page, nor in cockatrice, so should not be needed for those just interested in images for the game (sorry, I'm not sure if I had these previously, or if they were in the "CCGHQ MTG English Pics Fulls" post in the OP):

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APL    APL    Asia Pacific Land Program
ARE    ARE    Promo – Arena League
BT8    BT8    Box Toppers 8E
BTP    BTP    Box Toppers Promo
CHA
CST    CST    Coldsnap Theme Decks
DC     SDC    Dreamcast (Sega)
DLM    DLM    DCI Legend Membership
EUL    EUL    European Land Program
FI     FIL    Filler Cards
FNM    FNM    Promo – Friday Night Magic
GTW    GTW    Promo – Gateway
GUR    GUR    Guru Lands
HHL    HHL    Happy Holidays Promos
HPB    HPB    Harper Prism Books Promos
I2P    I2P    Introductory Two Player: Kazz & Zakk
JGC    JGC    Promo – Judge Gift Cards
JSS    JSS    Promo – Junior Super Series, Junior Series, Junior APAC Series, Magic Scholarship Series
LND           (Some lands)
MPR
OV     OV6    Oversized 6x9
PCH
PRE    PRE    Promo – Prerelease
Promos
REL    REL    Promo – Release
REW    REW    Promo – Magic Player Rewards
SUM    SUM    Summer of Magic Promos
THG    THG    Two-Headed Giant
TP     TPR    Test Prints
VGM    VGM    Vanguard (MTGO)
WP     WPM    Misprints-Wrong Pics

Also, the following should be deleted if you have them, since they are mislabeled duplicates of other sets:

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JVC (duplicate of DD2)
GVL (duplicate of DDD)
HOP (duplicate of PCH)
PDS Slivers (duplicate of H09)
R1 (French?)
R3 (German?)

Scars of Mirroden (SOM) was not in the "CCGHQ MTG English Pics Fulls" in the OP and needed to be downloaded from a mirror.

The following are sets still needed to complete the Cockatrice set list:

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None. Current through Dark Ascension (DKA)

The following sets are also missing, but they share all of their cards with other sets, so are not actually needed:

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FVL From the Vault: Legends
V10 From the Vault: Relics
ME2 Masters Edition II
ME3 Masters Edition III
ME4 Masters Edition IV

And in case you want a list of all of the sets ordered by release date (descending):

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DKA
PD3
ISD
DDH
FVL
M12
COM
NPH
DDG
MBS
ME4
PD2
SOM
DDF
V10
M11
AE
DPA
ROE
DDE
WWK
H09
DDD
ZEN
ME3
PCH
FVE
M10
ARB
DDC
CFX
DD2
ALA
ME2
DRB
EVE
SHM
MOR
EVG
LRW
MED
10E
FUT
PLC
TSP
TSB
CS
DIS
GP
RAV
9E
SOK
BOK
UNH
CHK
FD
DS
MR
8E
SC
LE
ON
JU
TO
DM
OD
AP
7E
PS
BD
IN
ST2K
PY
NE
BR
MM
ST
UD
P3
6E
UL
AT
US
UG
EX
P2
SH
TE
WL
PT
AS
5E
VI
MV
MI
AL
HL
CH
IA
4E
FE
DK
LG
R
AQ
AN
U
B
A

Finally, I took the sets in cockatrice, 7-zipped each one, and then uploaded them into this folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jsg5b1c3agu6c

The extra sets that are not in cockatrice I put in this folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nxa3lu5a32juh

I spent a bunch of time going through these things, so thought I'd share the info, and share the errors I found. Please let me know if I did anything stupid.

[Huggybaby]

No, you didn't do anything stupid.

Once in a while someone goes through all our offerings and determines what is needed to get everything updated and correct. The shortcoming has always been the follow through. Nobody has the time to take these findings and put them into action.

[celbii]

Hello,
I am new to MWS and I am trying to gather the complete up to date card pictures. I have downloaded both torrents on the first page on the sticky,
COMPLETE 10E HQ PICS TORRENT
LORWYN UPDATE .


Can anyone link me to what else I need to download to get up to date with the latest release? Also can anyone tell me where to put these files?

Thanks,
David

[Ark]

RobbieG - have you tested to see if viewtopic.php?f=96&t=3371 can download the pictures and name them in a manner that works with Cockatrice? I know I've tested it with MWS, but I don't use Cockatrice.