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What do you make of foils? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 13 hours ago by Tiuku@sopuli.xyz to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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Opinions on foiled cards

Do you seek them?
Do you avoid them?
Do you tolerate them?
Do they really bend that bad?

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 7 points 13 hours ago

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it used to be that if you had any foils in your deck and took it to a tournament, you had to either foil the entire deck, or replace all foils with non-foils. This became problematic for cards that were only available as foil, like M19 Nexus of Fate (from what I remember).

Personally, I only play casually anymore. Foils don't matter to me at all. If a card is foil, then it's foil. If it isn't, then it isn't. I only care about its playability.

Some foils do bend really badly, but I've been fortunate enough not to run into that problem yet.