Cards 103 to 108: Baby Snacks and annoucing The Cube

Last weekend was the time for Porocon and the Finnish Nationals as its main event. I met Juha Ihonen there, who has had the honour of providing the first practically mint card for my project. Juha was in the deck check team for the main event and I was running a modern side tournament on day two of the convention. Thank you for these practically mint treasures, and for your support during the event.

Ihonen's card salvaging cats share his floors with a miniature version of him, the Ihonen jr., who is at the age where your gums tend to itch and paper and cardboard look very tasty to your eyes. This combined with Ihonen sr. storing commons in an open box have led to various accidents, six of which are pictured above.

All of the cards have been chewed and even those that haven't been bitten into pieces have been so thoroughly soaked in drool that they are completely destroyed. This blog so far hasn't featured any cards from my own collection, but my floors are reigned over by a Little Girl who shares Ihonen jr's taste for cardboard, so if you will ever see any cards that have been destroyed in my care, they will probably look like these.

The approved card pool for Wear 'n' Tear is now well past one hundred and the pile of cards that haven't quite made it is almost as large, so now is a good time to begin building The Cube from these. As cards keep coming, I will add and remove them from Wear 'n' Tear, which for now is a Highlander deck and may turn into a Commander deck in the future, and all cards will have a place in a cube that I will hopefully get to use  once we are up to three hundred or so cards in total.

Cards 93 to 102: Legitimate Merchandise

The above cards and a couple of dozen more arrived via mail from kanslerioikein, who we remember from the previous singles bin finds. These cards were also found in his local game store. He took all of the worn cards he could find there and sent them to me, but I photographed only the ten most damaged ones.

The Elves of the Deep shadow has what look like coffee stains on it and the Gorilla War Cry is torn, so they easily make the cut for the deck. Most of the other pictured cards have small bends or severe scratching, but I decided to include them as well. With this, Wear 'n' Tear is now a complete Highlander deck with even some leeway to choose cards for the full hundred. I am still hoping to find a five-colour commander to turn it into an EDH deck though.

Cards 91 and 92: Treasures from the opposite side of the globe

I'm back! I was vacationing in Croatia for a week and then headed to Helsinki for Porocon when I got back to Finland. In the mean while the cards pictured above and one other package had arrived in my mailbox. There is another post coming very soon after this one for the other package, and a third one for my haul from Porocon.

These cards came all the way from New Zealand, from a Vintage-playing gentleman who goes with the nick KIP_NZ on the IRC channel #mtg on EFNet. Many thanks to him! The severely worn Cabal Coffers he traded from one of his friends just for this purpose and the Incinerate has reportedly been on a windowsill basking in the sun for several years. The Incinerate is probably technically still tournament legal, but such thorough bleaching is interesting enough that I will play it nevertheless.