Card 50: Swidden Plateau

This Plateau is the second card sent to me by redditor Zombiesquisher. I owe him a huge debt of gratitude for this and the Sword of Reddit and Tumbling.

I knew to expect something special when I saw another envelope from Zombiesquisher, but I still shed a single manly tear when I opened it and saw what was inside. I cried both in horror of what I witnessed, and in gratitude for getting something this spectacular for Wear 'n' Tear. This card is the very definition of practically mint.

This Plateau comes from another one of Zombiesquisher's friends who was the unfortunate victim of a house fire. Miraculously his Magic cards survived the blaze, but while helping with clearing out the property and moving to a new house, his mother-in-law threw his Legacy and Commander decks in a trash bag. The trash bag was in turn left in a burn pit, but the fire was extinguished by rain during the night. In another miraculous recovery, most of the cards survived the second assault by fire and being doused by rain, except for his Plateau, Underground Sea and Volcanic Island. Zombiesquisher later got his hands on the Plateau and was kind enough to contribute it to this project.

I don't think I need to describe the damage this time, since the pictures above make it painfully obvious what has happened to this card. You can even see the blue layer that Magic cards have inside them as an anti-counterfeiting method. Only thing the photographs fail to capture is the strong smell of smoke emanating from the Plateau. Fittingly, it just became the thirteenth land in Wear 'n' Tear.

Card 33: Rainstorm Kolaghan

This practically mint Kolaghan was sent by redditor strionic_resonator. Many thanks to him, and everyone else on reddit!

This Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury was destroyed by another storm's fury when strionic resonator was caught in a rainstorm. It was in his backpack along with the rest of the cards of his unsleeved deck from previous night's FNM. I am glad he saved this card so I can give it a new home in Wear 'n' Tear.

The card has very typical water damage with white splotches on the most badly soaked parts of the card and bending and waves all over the card. Unfortunately the disfigurement is poorly visible on a photograph, but when handled, it is obvious that the shape of the card would stand out in a deck like a skinhead in a hippie rally.

Card 14: Sword of Reddit and Tumbling

This absolutely fabulous Sword of Feast and Famine was sent by redditor Zombiesquisher, an obviously awesome person.

This Sword of Feast and Famine has tumbled trough a washing machine after one of Zombiesquisher's friends forgot to empty her pockets before washing her pants. This tragic accident has left the card in a sorry state, but amazingly all of the text is still legible! I am glad to be able to add it to my collection, as this card will both be one of the more powerful plays in Wear 'n' Tear and one of the finest examples of what this project is all about.

In the previous post we concluded that office chairs are a low-end threat to magic cards, but now we can supplement that observation by the fact that washing machines are among the worst threats to cardboard. Dear readers, always check you pockets before doing the laundry!