How To: Gaming
THE HOW TO CO. — EDITION 10
How To: Gaming
THE HOW TO CO. — EDITION 10
a different picture.
The cards people chase carry artwork that appears nowhere else in the set, printed borderless so it runs to the edge. Which sets deliver them, and what they actually cost.
A set is worth opening when the cards you would play are spread through it, not concentrated in the two rarest slots. If everything you want is Enchanted, buy the singles — the box is a lottery ticket with a worse rate.
An Enchanted is a different illustration, not an upgrade — it plays identically. Price the card, not the thrill. Work out what a box costs, how many you would open to see one, and compare that to the single. The honest number is almost always the single, and knowing it makes opening a box a choice rather than a hope.
A borderless foil shows every handling mark, because there is no frame to hide an edge. Sleeve it the day it arrives, keep it upright and out of daylight, and it stays the card you paid for.
An Enchanted plays as the card you already own, but it is not the same picture. It carries its own commissioned artwork, printed borderless in inkwash foil so it runs edge to edge, and it is numbered past the end of the set — 205 of 204 — which is why a complete set does not include one.
“A borderless card has nowhere to hide an edge. Handle one for a week without sleeving it and you have not got a chase card any more — you have got a nice picture.”READ: HOW TO KNOW WHAT YOUR BINDER IS ACTUALLY WORTH →
