Star City Games opened what could be a one-of-a-kind misprint from a pack of Innistrad: Double Feature.
Ben Bleiweiss, the General Manager of Sales at SCG, tweeted a video this morning showing off a double-sided foil Discard filler card — something he has never seen before in his 20-plus years working in Magic: the Gathering.
Discard filler cards aren’t unheard of, they are used when printing sheets of cards to fill out the sheet when there aren’t enough cards to fill it. The printers are meant to discard the black cards with the word “discard” on them, but they often slip through and end up opened in the wild. A Magic rarities website has plenty of information of them, including showing different versions of Discard cards. The Discard cards normally have a MTG back and have shown up as nonfoil, foil on the front, double-sided nonfoil, and single and double-sided cards with the holofoil stamp, but this appears to be the first time the filler card has been double-sided and foil on each side.
“Occasionally, the machinery might inadvertently add a discard card into a booster pack, in place of whatever card should have been there,” Bleiweiss said. “In the past, we have heard of Discard cards (both foil and non-foil) that have the Discard front and the Magic back. This is the first time we have heard of or seen a Discard card that has Discard on both sides! Since this is a foil double-sided Discard, it likely came off a sheet that was designed for foil double-faced cards.”
Collectors who specifically seek out Discard cards have started responding to the Tweet and also say they have never seen one like the card shown in the video. While it looks to be the first of its kind, Bleiweiss said it’s possible more could eventually be opened, but it’s tough to even begin to calculate the odds of opening one.
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