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Topic: Why do Beta cards always look funny in scans?
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Biomechanika
Banned
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posted June 22, 2010 03:37 PM
      
I don't own any Beta cards, nor have I seen any in person. However, every time I look at a scan of a Beta card, it looks like someone printed out the cards on paper without borders, and glued it to a blackbordered card. I know they aren't fake (since every scan I've seen has them), but to me, it looks really bad.Here's an example (sorry Ben, I needed a pic): http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t146/gestal/Magic/vaultfront.jpg It's pretty clear to see the white marks on the "corners" of the card, and it looks square. I've seen this on every scan, all across the 'net. Why is this? Is this just how these cards look?
[Edited 3 times, lastly by Biomechanika on June 22, 2010]
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TimeBeing
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 03:57 PM
yes is how they look. Has to do with the black boarder printing process back in the day.
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-PoX-
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 04:49 PM
They sure knew how to make cards look old back then.
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mm1983
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 07:44 PM
 
Do all Beta cards have the white dots near the corners of the cards? People have posted on the boards that a Beta card looks fake because of either being too dark or missing the white dots.
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coolio
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 07:59 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mm1983:
Do all Beta cards have the white dots near the corners of the cards? People have posted on the boards that a Beta card looks fake because of either being too dark or missing the white dots.
there's 7 cards that distinctly show up as dark than their nonexistant alpha counterparts.. and the dots in between the 2 borders are harder to see/non existant © __________________
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beaucoupfish
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 08:40 PM
I've seen some with and some without the white corners and I doubt any of them are fakes...why would you forge a beta swamp? :P
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Ihateworking
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 09:14 PM
I thought the C version of the 5 Basic lands were all dark with no dots in addition to the Volcanic island and Cop Black, these are the 7 cards Coolio mentioned above.Additionally I thought there are a large number of cards that were hard to see/missing dots like REB/BEB/Channel/Icy/Sedge Troll etc
[Edited 4 times, lastly by Ihateworking on June 22, 2010]
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PegBoy
Member
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posted June 22, 2010 11:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Ihateworking:
I thought the C version of the 5 Basic lands were all dark with no dots in addition to the Volcanic island and Cop Black, these are the 7 cards Coolio mentioned above.Additionally I thought there are a large number of cards that were hard to see/missing dots like REB/BEB/Channel/Icy/Sedge Troll etc
The beta icy and channel are definitely missing/hard to see the dots. Do the alpha versions have them?
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