I’ve lost count of the prototypes

Although I love Sample/prototype cards in general, since they’re so unique and give an insight in the history of the TCG or certain sets and were in almost all cases supposed to be destroyed, the pump and dump aspect of the current market leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It’s fairly similar as with the Protostoise article a few years back… Travis King (MTG expert) made a video series; I created an Efour article about that, since as I mentioned, I love Sample cards and their history; then that same week CGC released an article as well. CGC mostly did because they were auctioning two of them soon after, and I also remember the guy here on Efour who kept talking about money and -although very slightly- barely cared about the history of the card itself. Although tbf, I can’t blame him too much for that, considering the cards ended up being sold for 200-300k USD or so (I can’t remember the exact amount and am too lazy to look it up rn).

The big difference between those and these new 1995 prototype cards, is that for the Protostoise they actually did their best to compile as much information as possible to authenticate it. Whereas with these 1995 cards, it’s basically all boils down to: ‘These came directly from Takumi Akabane, former R&D director of Creatures Inc., so these must be real.’, which is kinda lame tbch. I have no doubt in my mind that banet_1965 is Takumi Akabane’s IG EDIT: banet1965 was Takumi Akabane’s IG, which he deleted (probably due to privacy or harassment reasons); banet_1965 is a fake copy-cat), but a bit more info about the cards themselves and their manufacturing, purpose, timeframe, etc. would have been nice, to say the least… :unamused:

Greetz,
Quuador

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