Video starts a bit rough(4am recording) and i apologize for the length but this is almost all the information we have been able to gather on the print runs for 99-00 so far, all the secrets of the third print base, jungle and fossil as well. We set out down a rabbit hole and it was deep. Had some pretty amazing discoveries and i highly recommend watching the video through if you care about what card prints are in your binder. If anyone has any uncut sheets and would like to help, pm me and we will see if we can further narrow down where some of these print runs originated. Alot of the information is based on pattern recognition and evidence based logic to develop a rough timeline. While things could always change with new found evidence, this is what we have found in nearly 8 months. @OCDCompletist
If there are any questions, feel free to ask.
Weve started a discord based around trying to identify the print runs and discovering any new ones, Based Fossil
This feels a bit self-promotion heavy which is outside the goal of this forum. But I think the information is interesting and good to have here. Maybe this would be better as an article post actually explaining the information you found instead of just links to YouTube and discord?
While i kind of agree, theres alot of information. I moved it to article. I dont feel like i have the resources to turn the information into a well made thread. Figured some images for reference would be nice so included them for context. Did the best i could with what i had.
It doesn’t have to be a perfect or complete article right now. But if your goal is to share the information with this community then it should be in a text-based article meant for this community. If you need assistance with formatting I’m happy to help. The additional benefit is that articles here get indexed on Google and become canonical resources which makes all your effort and the information more accessible.
Just finished the video. Learned some new things, so thanks for sharing. Also interesting that there is a clear difference in the print runs of the thin vs thick stamp Base Set holos regarding the degrees of the dot patterns.
Also makes me curious about the print run(s) of some niche WotC cards, like the Trainer Deck A and B demo decks; or the Demo Starter Pack that contained Shadowless cards and was pre-released in December 1998. Although I assume they were printed simultaneously with some of the other larger print runs and simply released earlier.
And I completely understand it’s a lot of information, so making it into a proper article, or even just putting all the information in bullet points out there, will take some time. I do agree with pfm however that it’s better to try and put things into words. Doesn’t necessary have to be a proper article; me or Scott could help you with that or edit it into one if necessary; but having the information in text form would be very useful. Especially for searching back information later on, and as Scott mentioned, for availability through Google indices.
Now that we have better access to AI, here is a transcription + summary tool to help you perhaps get started on writing the information. Since it’s AI, it’ll defintely contain some errors here and there for you to verify and correct, but it should save you a lot of time writing. You can add the pictures you already have, and perhaps add some more pictures for certain sections, and it would already be a pretty good article imo.
I have always had an interest in 99-00 base set and have a few holos and non holos to check over, i coincidentally ordered a blacklight a few days a go so excited to check them over when it arrives!
Stickers were a requirement of poland, as someone told me, 3 versions of the sticker i think @OCDCompletist has but my belief is they are just UK cards. Would be cool to find some mixed stuff in packs and see how they were mixed.
Although I assume they were printed simultaneously with some of the other larger print runs and simply released earlier.
I did knew there were 1999-2000 Base Set cards released in the US and Australia, so it makes sense those had separated print runs. I’m surprised there are three different USA print runs for the 1999-2000 Base Set cards though, since I always thought the UK print run was the largest for 1999-2000, and the US and Australia rather small in comparison.
