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| These three cards were donated by Jaakko Vuorela. |
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| The Aetherling is from Ville-Veikko Vähäaho and the Sunstrikers are from Antti Kosonen. |
The environmentally conscious Magic players in Jyväskylä recycled some more cardboard yesterday, when I was given the above cards during Friday Night Magic. It's a win/win for everyone and everything. Trash gets properly recycled and my deck gets bigger. Thanks to everyone involved in this!
The Shadowmage Infiltrator, Wolf-Skull Shaman and Goblin Replica from Jaakko are otherwise unrelated to each other. The Finkel he got as a throw-in with some trade and the Goblin Replica has suffered the sorry fate of being stuffed in the pocket of young Jaakko's pants way back when. Carrying Magic cards in your pockets really isn't a good idea, but we can forgive little boys that mistake. The Wolf-Skull shaman has had some sticky drink spilled on it and a bunch of other cards. The distinctive damage is from the drink getting it stuck to some other card and the surface layer ripping off when the cards were separated. Jaakko was unfortunately unable to find the other half of this puzzle yet, but we might see a mirror image of this pattern on some other destroyed card in the future.
The Aetherling from Ville has suffered typical water damage, but I am sadly unable to remember the details of how this happened. It lacks the typical white spots, but it is instead so wavy that you can even see the sexy curves in the picture. The Ajani's Sunstriker from Antti actually came with an identical pair. They have both been folded to act as protectors for sleeved cards in an envelope. Since they have been intentionally destroyed, I came to the conclusion I can not use them here, so one of them is fulfilling its original purpose again and is on its way to Sweden bravely protecting some cards I sold via
magiccardmarket. Sorry for mistakenly saying they are OK, Antti!
Wear 'n' Tear
| Cards | W | U | R | B | G |
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| Nonland | 27 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 5 |
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| Land | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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| Total | 37
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Oh man. That used to be my shadowmage infiltrator.
ReplyDeleteI can tell yall a little story of a young boy back in 2007. (i was 8 at the time)
So i was casually hanging around at my friends place in a small town called muurame. Played some magic,ate some food ect. Well then my then best friend told me that he was moving away. Of course i got a little sad. But he told me that he had a surprise for me. And it was a bunch of mtg cards from time spiral. I hugged my friend and thanked him. At this point it was already getting late. I ran back home and opened my gift. (or a sacrifice idk.) There it was. Shadowmage infiltrator. I stored all my new cards in a box and forgot about it. After about 4 years, i was doing some spring cleaning and came across the box i had stored my cards in. They all fell to the floor, making a big mess. There it was. My Shadowmage infiltrator and it was "practically mint". At this time i was back in magic, so i had a binder where i stored it for a while. Then in my local games store i traded it as a "throw-in bulk". I have no idea what has happened to it since, but it still holds a dear place in my memories. Take really good care of it :)
- Leevi Salminen