Wallycaine wrote: ↑2 years ago
I'm purely going off public statements from Mark Rosewater. He's explained repeatedly that having more than one type of border on a sheet is logistically impossible. I believe it does have to do with the process of cutting, and that borderless cards have special requirements for that that make that whole sheet significantly more expensive to produce, which is why there's never more than one sheet worth of borderless promos, and they occur at a rate of one per pack or less. I would speculate that making an entire set use that process would be far too expensive for them to sell for less than collector booster prices. Which would be a very very different product, and likely one getting even more complaints than the current implementation.
Is any of this actually confirmed or are you guessing?
If that does happen to be true, though, just change the border slightly so there's a ring of black around the outside edge, but still mostly silver. They already changed the border once to add more black with unstable, at least it's a consistent concept. Think about how stupid this has gotten.
"How can I tell if a card is legal?"
"Oh, it's very simple. If it doesn't have a black border, it's not legal."
"So white border isn't legal?"
"No, white border is legal, sorry. If it's silver, it's not legal."
"Gold border?"
"Oops, sorry again, no that's also illegal. Black and white are good, gold and silver aren't."
"But that's everything?"
"Oh, right, it also has to have an oval foil stamp. It's that tiny little thing at the bottom that nobody gave a crap about until just now."
"But don't all commons/uncommons not have that stamp?"
"Right, I mean if it DOES have an acorn stamp, then it's illegal."
"And what about this triangle stamp?"
"That one is legal. See, it's very simple. First you check the border. If it's silver or gold, then it's not legal. If it's white or black, then it's legal. If it's black border and has either no foil stamp, an oval foil stamp, or a triangle foil stamp, then it's definitely legal, but if it has an acorn foil stamp, then it's not legal. Simple!"
"So this Pikachu card I found..."
"I'm going to %$#% kill you."
It might also be worth considering that even if Un-sets aren't for you, there are people who find them fun and would prefer a fun limited environment (which Unstable did have, imo).
Oh yeah, nothing says "fun" like being locked out of your turn by
Clocknapper, or locked out of playing the rest of the game by
X. Those were definitely fun cards that received very thorough playtesting, I'm sure. Not to mention all the "fun" of having good cards which require you to physically hurt yourself to play them. Fun!