Pack 13:
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A couple keepers in the base set and a new insert...
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Matt here was in the midst of his time in Baltimore before heading of to Washington then St. Louis. A decent enough job with the head on pose given there are no glaring eyes because of the shades (thankfully).
Dupes...
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Okay, I can at least understand the Father & Son traditions sticker - but does that get a bit of a "that\s sexist" response now? I know it's only been about 6 years since this set, but shouldn't we celebrate fathers and daughters - or moms, don't forget the moms. Not saying I overly agree with it, but it does seem to be the sensitivity of the world we are in these days.
Pack 14:
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BAM! 5 for 5 in the base department, doesn't get any better than that. Manny looks very perplexed though in this caricature while Jeter doesn't look too Jeter-y in my opinion.
The dupes here are also the inserts...
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Really don't like that the Traditions sticker is a dupe within this same box as that starts to make me wonder if the whole "complete the base set" thing won't happen and that I will instead just get dupes and more dupes of the same 70 cards....oh the horrors as I would then be left having to trade for some of these monstrosities.
14 Packs, 99 Cards, 256 Points.
Let's also take a look at the last bunch of Magic cards I have aside from December...wait, check that....got to the end of this, and came across another December bunch...will save those for later...
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These are the oldest in the bunch, going all the way back to Legends which was within the first year r so of Magic existing. The early sets also didn't use the symbols to show rarity, which was done later as you can see on the bottom two cards which use a golden colouring to signify rare cards (one per booster pack for rares).
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I mentioned the other day that Mirrodin had over 100 artifacts - well, here are a bunch more I picked up to bring my set total to about 77. Probably because there are so many, many are fairly cheap. The timing of the set, I wasn't collecting any more by then, so I am filling in the holes in the collection now.
Some good cards here anyway as I am partial to the Gnoes and Clockwork groups of cards, and the Bonesplitter is a well named and pictured card as well. Not to mention the Galvanic Key is a poor mans Voltaic Key (which has similar ability, but much cheaper all around.
LOL, No worries , i got you taken care of on the Triple Play front
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Ummm...yay? Lol.
DeleteI'd love to see the reaction on Machado's face when he's shown that TP card. Lol.
ReplyDeleteProbably very similar to the TP card....
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