TOPIC: Magic Rarity

In another thread we were talking about the most valuable and rarest Magic Cards.  Here is an interesting Q&A from the Wizards website on the rarest cards - the part I found most interesting was that it is "generally accepted" that if Richard Garfield alters a card and signs it you can play the altered card.  I wonder if we can get Jeff to alter a token and sign it if we can play it - I'd like that +12 Longsword  =)<br /><br />On the rare cards, I do have one Magic card with the Wyvern backing I got from Ebay.  And I do have a few Summer Magic cards (commons with a couple of uncommons), I'm not sure how I got them, it must have been in some collection I bought.  It would be neat to get some of the top cards in Summer Magic form.  <br /><br />====================================================================<br /><br />Q: What are some of the most rare cards ever printed? I'm not talking about Moxes or anything like that. I've seen blank cards and blue Hurricanes.<br />–Jack<br /><br />A: From Brian Tinsman, R&D Game Designer:<br /><br />The rarest cards fall into two categories: misprints and specials. The blank cards you've seen are either misprints or R&D playtest cards that were never used. One famous mistake was a run of Fallen Empires that was printed with backs from Wyvern, another TCG being manufactured at the same factory. The rarest misprints, and among the rarest Magic cards in existence, are those blue Hurricanes. They're from a printing nicknamed 'Summer Magic.' In the summer of '94, Wizards realized one printing of Revised had severe mistakes, with the art almost too dark to see on many cards. Wizards recalled the entire print run and had them all destroyed. Well, almost all of them. About four cases (40 display boxes) accidentally made it to the public in the UK and Tennessee. Today a Summer Magic Birds of Paradise is worth well over a thousand dollars.<br /><br />Another misprint was a series of foil Friday Night Magic promotional cards that were added to Japanese Urza's Legacy and Urza's Destiny sheets as test runs to see if the print process was working right. Those cards had no text, just mana costs and art, and were supposed to have been destroyed. Some of them, like Lightning Bolt, accidentally made it into booster packs and are now among the rarest of all cards.<br /><br />Special printings are cards that were produced to commemorate some event and given to the participants only. The rarest is probably the 1996 World Champion card, of which only one is supposed to exist. It was encased in a trophy and awarded to Tom Chanpheng, the winner of that tournament. Wizards never printed any other cards for later World Champions. The next rarest is the card Proposal, which Richard Garfield had printed and slipped into a deck in order to propose to his soon-to-be wife, Lily. About seven of these were given to members of their wedding party. Richard also used Magic cards to announce two more special events, the birth of his two children. Splendid Genesis (about 150 cards) and Fraternal Exaltation (about 250 cards) were given to friends and coworkers.<br /><br />Sought after by some collectors are cards altered by designers to change their functionality. Although not legal for tournament play, it's generally accepted that if you can get Richard Garfield to change the mana cost or abilities on a card and sign it, you can play it as written. It's rumored that there's a 3/3 Llanowar Elves out there somewhere.<br />

<br /> I wonder if we can get Jeff to alter a token and sign it if we can play it - I'd like that +12 Longsword   =)<br />

<br /><br />um - doesn't the +3 Holy Greatsword count Bro?

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<br /> I wonder if we can get Jeff to alter a token and sign it if we can play it - I'd like that +12 Longsword   =)<br />

<br /><br />um - doesn't the +3 Holy Greatsword count Bro?<br />

<br /><br />Sure it does, Bro - I just meant doing what people have done with Richard Garfield, catch Jeff in the hallway, get him to modify the token and initial it, and then slide away!  None of this DoMT nonsense, just give Jeff a pen and a bottle of his favorite orcish mead, and then after the alcohol kicks in get your unique enhanced token  =)

hmmm...I seriously doubt Jeff is as easy a push over as Garfield!

perhaps two bottles will make him easier to push over.  =D

DING DING DING!

LOL!  Actually, it sounds like Garfield isn't that big a pushover either, it sounded like the Garfield-modified cards were pretty rare. 

Not as rare as Jeff signed tokens - OR Jeff modified tokens, I bet!

i have a 50' rope signed by Lee. although, after hearing about the "rope story", i might not want to use it.  =|

It's a bit easier for a TD player to find Jeff than a MTG player to find Richard!<br />

You saying there is more of Jeff to FIND?

No, no, just that he is around more, more available (stop trying to get me in trouble!).