I’m not saying your God book isn’t real. I just don’t think they are scans of real cards. I think they are prints of digital designs.
They had the art assets. No reason to scan when they had the original art and designs.
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You can literally see the page between wartortle and aerodactyl. Someone scanned that. Maybe its a photograph but thats basically the same thing, wasnt a bunch of digital files to build a sheet
The MIC algorithms are very hard to find. I was curious about that after the playtest card issues.
The promo book has the regular cards that were released.
Fossil book only includes a WOTC logo placeholder ( same as photo above ) and no promo cards.
The print date for the promo book is October but the other 3 appear to have been printed back to back.
The 3 mention Nitz, maybe you can ask him? The other is an unnamed Apple computer that matches the timeframe.
I believe they used this Macintosh software to make the cards so it aligns.
They seem authentic to me, but contain unreleased cards. They were included in a lot I purchased which has a bunch of internal documents and media from an ex-WOTC employee.
The 1st ed with shadows GodBooks is very interesting. Someone shared an uncut sheet which is the only other instance I have seen of these cards existing.
One interesting bit is that the position of the 1st ed stamp appears to be the same on these uncut as it is in the book, which is an incorrect positioning from what is normally seen.
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OK, well I hope it turns up someday
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It does seem unusual to construct a God Book out of scanned cards when the digital assets were readily available in higher quality. The only reason that I can think of is to highlight differences in the appearance/texture of foil patterns and stamps.
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If you provide an HD scan of a page I’ll find them for you
Weren’t they using these books for marketing? I feel like they would be trying to showcase what the binders look like and how kids collect
They are pretty difficult to capture. This was the best that I could do with a black light and some post-processing. The dipper-like shape seems to repeat but it’s pretty difficult to square a block of codes.
it would be really cool to decode and see what it says. I have very high confidence these are 100% legitimate.
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