Friday 22 January 2016

Card 30: Black Armageddon and Too Mint Welder

This heavily altered Armageddon was sent by Väinö Hirvelä, an active player from Tampere.
This Goblin Welder was sent by Johanna Virtanen, an L3 Judge and the Regional Coordinator for Northern Europe.
As of this post, Wear 'n' Tear includes a total of 30 cards. We are at the half-way point to a 60-card deck, or roughly at one third of a highlander deck. The thirtieth card added was the Armageddon pictured above.

The Armageddon has been so heavily altered it is barely recognizable as a magic card anymore. Väinö originally had it in one of his Commander decks, but when he was forced to swap it to an unaltered Armageddon even in Commander tournaments, he got so frustrated with swapping it in and out of his deck, he decided to send it to me to get rid of this nuisance. Even though the card is physically fine and the altered artwork is rather amusing, the card has indeed lost all of its value as a Magic card, and is fit for this project.

A day before Väinö's letter, this Goblin Welder arrived in my mailbox. It is badly bent and worn from having been loitering on Johanna's floor and who knows where. Even though the damage is absolutely horrible for such a nice foil card, it is in so much better shape than other cards in Wear 'n' Tear, that after extensive Pondering, some Brainstorming and a little bit of considering the Preordained criteria, I decided to leave it out of the deck.

A big thank you to Vainö, Johanna and everyone else who has helped me get this project this far!

Wear 'n' Tear
CardsWURBG
Nonland2034392
Land1013222
Total30

1 comment:

  1. Funny coincidence: That Armageddon was originally a commission work that I ordered from a friend of mine, Petri Hyvärinen. It was back in the days when altering cards was still new and EDH had just been invented. My interest in that format died soon after, so I sold the cards. ...and funnily enough, now it found it's way back to just a few buildings away from where it's story started.

    Janne Nousiainen

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