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I have a nice photo printer, and I’d print some particularly interesting pieces and maybe frame them nicely. Though the whole scam tainted a lot of these things so…maybe not. In a vacuum its all rather cool history though.
to answer the question, if it were legal and above board to do so, then I’d love that. I think any sort of stuff from sets older than 10 years old would be cool to see some bts stuff of cards. I’m sure some artists share some of their rough drafts or unfinished images of their art from time to time. I’d find it intereting to see the process. To see what kind of feedback they get to change art on a rough draft before going ahead with the final image. I like the process and it would be cool to know how it goes from start to finish.
But on the other, imagine how nice it’d be to have each and every card open source while collecting them might go to pot if people have half decent printers it’d be amazing to see some cards and compare files, I’d love more information on some “niche” cards ie. If some cards were supposed to be released, the original saturation of cards and printing variance between different print runs of base. Also maybe I’d learn why wizards treated Australia like a test lab
Not only should he release the files, someone should print them and repack them in generational booster packs (Think base set 2, but for every WOTC set) and sell them for $4. Throw a little stamp on the front for differentiation.
With high resolution scans, and some software, you can probably reverse engineer plates very close to the originals. You could do it manually but it would take a long time.
The holo foil, and ink will be very hard to replicate.
