Serial numbered card

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Mirrored Viscera Seer #15 of 100

Serial numbered cards, or serialized cards, are Magic: The Gathering chase cards that are serial numbered with a stamp in the art box.

History

Serial numbering

Serial numbering means every individual card is marked, either by a machine or by hand, with a unique number, usually followed by the maximum number in the run. Serial numbering first appeared on non-Magic trading cards in 1990 with Pro Set Football's Vince Lombardi Trophy Hologram card.[1][2][3]

Mirrored cards

"Mirrored cards" or "reversed cards" are serial numbered cards that are printed with their rules text and illustration in reverse. The golden stamp in the lower right corner of the art box is non-reversed. They are numbered #1 of 100 to of #100 of 100.

Viscera Seer

The 100 mirrored Viscera Seers are the first series of serial numbered cards to appear in the context of Magic: The Gathering. The first of these cards was found in November 2021 as a bonus card in a foil Phyrexian Praetors: Compleat Edition packaging.[4] The second card found was #15 and was found in a non-foil version of the same Secret Lair drop.[5]

Retro Frame Artifacts

The Retro Frame Artifacts set associated with The Brothers' War, as released in November 2022, had versions of the "schematic" art that are double-rainbow foiled and numbered up to #500 in the lower left corner of the art box.[6]

Secret Lair 295

Secret Lair 295 is a series of 295 numbered Shivan Dragon cards with art by Martin Ontiveros that were were randomly distributed as free gifts to visitors of MagicCon Philadelphia in February 2023.[7][8]

Multiverse Legends

The Multiverse Legends set associated with March of the Machine will have serialized versions of each card.[9]

The Lord of the Rings

For The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, a serialized Ring card may appear in Collector Boosters.[10] There are 300 Elven Sol Rings, 700 Dwarven Sol Rings, and 900 Human Sol Rings. The serialized version of The One Ring, which is a variant of The One Ring Mythic Rare card from the main set, features a raised gold foil treatment applied to the frame, art, and text written in the Black Speech of Sauron using Tengwar letterforms. The serialization denotes that this card is 001/001 — the only one of its kind available in the world.[11]

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Serial Number. Baseballcardpedia.com.
  2. ↑ DefGav (July 30, 2013). "The Best Serial Numbers!". Baseballcardbreakdown.blogspot.com.
  3. ↑ Trading Cards Explained. Upperdeck.com.
  4. ↑ Ben Bleiweiss (November 11, 2021). "Just opened what appears to be an AMAZINGLY RARE card.". Twitter.
  5. ↑ Andrew Smith, Facebook, #MTGRarities: Major Misprints, Test Prints, Oddities
  6. ↑ Blake Rasmussen (September 29, 2022). "A First Look at the The Brothers' War". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  7. ↑ Mtg Philly randomly dropping serialized secret lair card. Reddit (February 17, 2023).
  8. ↑ SLD Shivan Dragon. Reddit (February 17, 2023).
  9. ↑ First Look at March of the Machine (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (February 19, 2023).
  10. ↑ Riley Hicks (February 21, 2023). "Absurdly Rare MTG 'Ring' Card To Appear in Lord of the Rings Set!". MTGRocks.com.
  11. ↑ WPN (March 14, 2023). "First Look for Retailers – The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™". Wizards Play Network.
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