Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9175625" data-attributes="member: 23751">That's a well known issue, though. What I don't get is why they'd even make the whole card foil like that when humidity is a common thing. I live in California and we aren't exactly known as a humid state, being mostly desert and all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp; Even with that my foil MTG cards almost universally end up curved.What they could have, and I think should have done would be one of the following. 1) Give us cards with fantastic artwork and nice gloss.2) Give us cards that have portions that are embossed.&nbsp; Imagine a card with a dragon on it where you could feel the individual scales.3) Go the pokemon route and just foil a smaller portion of the card to highlight the picture in some neat way, that way the foil isn't covering enough of the card to cause the curve.On the size thing, this guy works in a print shop and seems to know his stuff, including how foils cause issues when cutting the sheets. If I take him at his word, then it seems like this is more than just foils causing size issues by warping later on.Edit: I meant to add that the perforated things almost looks like they intended it to represent, well, a card box.&nbsp; I think we've all opened boxes where we pull of a perforated portion and fold back the top of the card deck to reveal the cards. It might not have been the best choice for them to make on such an expensive product, but it seems like that could be why.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9175625, member: 23751"] That's a well known issue, though. What I don't get is why they'd even make the whole card foil like that when humidity is a common thing. I live in California and we aren't exactly known as a humid state, being mostly desert and all. :p Even with that my foil MTG cards almost universally end up curved. What they could have, and I think should have done would be one of the following. 1) Give us cards with fantastic artwork and nice gloss. 2) Give us cards that have portions that are embossed. Imagine a card with a dragon on it where you could feel the individual scales. 3) Go the pokemon route and just foil a smaller portion of the card to highlight the picture in some neat way, that way the foil isn't covering enough of the card to cause the curve. On the size thing, this guy works in a print shop and seems to know his stuff, including how foils cause issues when cutting the sheets. If I take him at his word, then it seems like this is more than just foils causing size issues by warping later on. Edit: I meant to add that the perforated things almost looks like they intended it to represent, well, a card box. I think we've all opened boxes where we pull of a perforated portion and fold back the top of the card deck to reveal the cards. It might not have been the best choice for them to make on such an expensive product, but it seems like that could be why. [/QUOTE]

Verification