A near mint card should have basically no wear or scuffing, no bent corners, no whitening on the edges, and very little damage of any kind
And Im really excited about The Red Terror in mono-red decks, in particular my Valduk, Keeper of Flame build
But no matter how good your proxies are, you should not sell them as real cards or mislead anyone about what they are
Sometimes you have to win the fair way with an unfair deck, so draft tools to successfully cast spells that you were hoping to cheat onto the battlefield with unfair cards
Ingenious Smith (Foil) Price today: $2.50 Possible price: $10 Im cheating a little bit with this last one because its actually seeing more play in Hammer Time, one of the most popular archetypes in Modern right now, but the reason it caught my eye was actually from looking at the Thopter Sword combo decks that have been reappearing in the format
While Sephiroth's mythic rare borderless card is getting up to $500, Cloud's is hovering around the $300 mark, largely due to its utility in-game