▲ 310 ▼ Hasbro is being sued for printing too many Magic: The Gathering cards - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com) submitted 6 months ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child) I've never noticed a print number on my mox or lotus. And I got them in 92 from flow-packs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children) Ah, my mistake. They didn't even do collector numbers until Exodus. God damn, that's crazy in hindsight. Makes counterfeiting almost trivial. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child) We regularly planed the face off cards - like forests - and glued on a colour copy of a pricey card in its place. But since we were good people, and even though the fakes would fool a kid or a noob, and even shuffle and cut the same, we intentionally sprinkled the copier with yellow confetti so each fake would have some obvious yellow dots. And we'd ensure everyone knew: "these 6 cards are proxies for these other 6 cards, and in an ante game you win the real card with the proxy. Fair?" It was usually cool. Our white-hat counterfeiting game was on point. And card sleeves were lame. ;-) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago I mean, I played with people who would just scrawl the name of the card over the top of another card in sharpie. Some of them even had a real copy of a card (bricked up in some two inch thick display case), but others would just be - like - "This is a card I wish I had" and we'd have fun playing because it's fun to be across the table from someone with Power Nine tech. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Last time I was active was 10 years ago just as EDH was taking off. Buying the expensive early cards necessitated quite a lot of knowledge and a decent jewelers loupe. I can just imagine how hard it is today with the counterfeiters getting better. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children) Ah, my mistake. They didn't even do collector numbers until Exodus. God damn, that's crazy in hindsight. Makes counterfeiting almost trivial. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child) We regularly planed the face off cards - like forests - and glued on a colour copy of a pricey card in its place. But since we were good people, and even though the fakes would fool a kid or a noob, and even shuffle and cut the same, we intentionally sprinkled the copier with yellow confetti so each fake would have some obvious yellow dots. And we'd ensure everyone knew: "these 6 cards are proxies for these other 6 cards, and in an ante game you win the real card with the proxy. Fair?" It was usually cool. Our white-hat counterfeiting game was on point. And card sleeves were lame. ;-) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago I mean, I played with people who would just scrawl the name of the card over the top of another card in sharpie. Some of them even had a real copy of a card (bricked up in some two inch thick display case), but others would just be - like - "This is a card I wish I had" and we'd have fun playing because it's fun to be across the table from someone with Power Nine tech. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Last time I was active was 10 years ago just as EDH was taking off. Buying the expensive early cards necessitated quite a lot of knowledge and a decent jewelers loupe. I can just imagine how hard it is today with the counterfeiters getting better. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child) We regularly planed the face off cards - like forests - and glued on a colour copy of a pricey card in its place. But since we were good people, and even though the fakes would fool a kid or a noob, and even shuffle and cut the same, we intentionally sprinkled the copier with yellow confetti so each fake would have some obvious yellow dots. And we'd ensure everyone knew: "these 6 cards are proxies for these other 6 cards, and in an ante game you win the real card with the proxy. Fair?" It was usually cool. Our white-hat counterfeiting game was on point. And card sleeves were lame. ;-) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago I mean, I played with people who would just scrawl the name of the card over the top of another card in sharpie. Some of them even had a real copy of a card (bricked up in some two inch thick display case), but others would just be - like - "This is a card I wish I had" and we'd have fun playing because it's fun to be across the table from someone with Power Nine tech. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago I mean, I played with people who would just scrawl the name of the card over the top of another card in sharpie. Some of them even had a real copy of a card (bricked up in some two inch thick display case), but others would just be - like - "This is a card I wish I had" and we'd have fun playing because it's fun to be across the table from someone with Power Nine tech. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Last time I was active was 10 years ago just as EDH was taking off. Buying the expensive early cards necessitated quite a lot of knowledge and a decent jewelers loupe. I can just imagine how hard it is today with the counterfeiters getting better. permalink fedilink source parent