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Revised Serendib Efreet printed with a green card frame.

A misprint is a mistake in a printed Magic Card resulting from editorial or mechanical failures of some kind.[1][2] The manufactured product was not produced as intended. The vast majority of all extant misprints are of the editorial kind as these generally affect the entire print run of a card. Technical misprints are far more rare (and thus desirable) as they only affect a few individual cards.

Editorial mistakes

Editorial mistakes are made by Wizards of the Coast, generally in the form of erroneous master files making it to the printing facility due to oversights in the quality control processes. They are the most common type of misprints as they will affect entire production runs. Almost all famous misprints are of the editorial kind. See below for a small example of those.

Mistake Example Notes
Misattributed artists Plateau (Revised) Drew Tucker, instead of Cornelius Brudi
Wrong art Fanatical Strength (Murders at Karlov Manor) Use of concept art, instead of the final product
Wrong card type Circular Logic (Secret Lair) Sorcery, instead of Instant
Wrong subtype Saiba Trespassers (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty) Ninja, instead of Rogue
Wrong mana cost Orcish Oriflamme (Alpha) 1 generic manaRed mana, instead of 3 generic manaRed mana
Wrong Power/Toughness Mirri, Cat Warrior (Anthologies) 2/2, instead of 2/3
Copy edit Shay Cormac (Assassin's Creed) (etched foil) "Bounty County", instead of "Bounty Counter"
Wrong card frame Serendib Efreet (Revised) / Hurricane (Summer Magic) Green instead of blue card frame. Also wrong art. / Blue instead of green.
Granulated art All white cards from Torment.[1]

Technical mistakes

Jumpstart misprint (double-printed or "fused").

Technical mistakes are made further downstream by the printing facility. Usually, those are caught by the printers' quality control process and the affected sheets are discarded. However, a small amount of those escape into the wilds now and then. They are far less common than the aforementioned editorial mistakes as they rarely affect more than a handful of individual cards. Consequently, they're far more uncommon than misprints of the editorial kind and, depending on the kind/type of misprint can fetch a significant value on the secondary market.

Mistake Example Notes
Wrong card back A small number of Modern Horizons 3 traditional foil double-faced uncommons were misprinted with incorrectly matched faces.[3] Similarly, in the time that Pokémon cards used to be produced by Wizards of the Coast, some test runs were printed with a Magic card back.[4] Around the same time, some Magic cards were printed with a Wyvern card back.[1]
Double-printed cards Jumpstart fused cards Two different card faces layered over each other.
Splotchy art
Washed out art
Darkened art
Smeared ink
Mis-stamped cards Missing, misaligned or pushed through holofoil stamps.

In the sets

In Secret Lair drops

Drop Card number Card/Token Misprint
More Adventures in Middle-earth 734 Grima Wormtongue Erroneously printed as a 2/4 instead of 1/4.[5]
If Looks Could Kill 1108 Reflector Mage The card erroneously features the legendary card frame crown around the title bar, despite not being a Legendary creature.[6][7]
Artist Series: Alayna Danner 1292 Seraph Sanctuary Accidentally printed with an "in-progress" version of the illustration, not the final version.
Artist Alayna Danner was given several copies with the final art to give away and Wizards of the Coast has promised a version will be the bonus card in a future Secret Lair drop.[8]
Deceptive Divination 1519 Circular Logic Erroneously printed with the card type sorcery, instead of instant.[9]
Tome of the Astral Sorceress 1720 Sphinx of the Second Sun Uses inaccurate "second" main phase terminology introduced in Bloomburrow, likely due to being finalized before it was decided that older cards would retain "post-combat" wording.[10]
Monstrous Magazines 1765 Koma, Cosmos Serpent Misses the comma in its name.
Rules text mistakenly says "your turn" instead of "each turn".[11]
sAnS mERcY 9990 dOOm bLaDE "Target" misspelled as "targeet".

Gallery

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ a b c Nick Wolf (February 11, 2024). "A Brief Tour of Magic's Misprinted Cards". Commander's Hearld.
  2. ↑ Josh Nelson (November 12, 2024). "Misprints and Human Mistakes: A Brief Guide to Factory Errors in Magic: the Gathering". Cardsphere.com.
  3. ↑ Mike Turian, Adam Styborski & Kendall Pepple (May 21, 2024). "Collecting Modern Horizons 3". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. ↑ Joe Parlock (December 10, 2020). "Test Print Pokémon Cards With Magic The Gathering Backs Have Been Certified As Genuine". Forbes.com.
  5. ↑ In case Tales of Middle Earth Secret Lair wasnt dissapointing enough. Reddit (September 2, 2023).
  6. ↑ Jack Hughes (October 11, 2022). "I think it’s a mistake, I sadly don’t have the final card art to confirm.". Twitter.
  7. ↑ The Secret Lair edition of Reflector Mage was printed with the legendary frame. Reddit (December 19, 2022).
  8. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (April 24, 2023). "Secret Lair Artist Series: Alayna Danner Statement". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  9. ↑ Secret Lair Deceptive Divinations Drop Print Error. magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast (February 5, 2024).
  10. ↑ Matt Tabak (July 25, 2024). "Update: There are 11 cards in Oracle (plus three Alchemy-only cards) that will continue to use the term “post-combat main phase” after #MTGBloomburrow". Twitter.
  11. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 27, 2024). "Secret Lair: Camp Totally Safe Superdrop". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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