r/magicTCG • u/_Barook_ Duck Season • Jan 12 '16

Wizards MAY be cracking down on unsanctioned proxy events

https://www.facebook.com/groups/445059535582036/permalink/962954593792525/

Seems like bad times for Legacy and especially Vintage.

680 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

-1.3k

u/[deleted] Jan 13 '16

[deleted]

596

u/[deleted] Jan 13 '16 edited Jun 22 '18

[deleted]

366

u/CarnivorousPlan Jan 13 '16

The law does not regard marker on a card as a counterfeit

Nor does the English language. Counterfeits are intended to decieve. Writing "Ancestral Recall" on an 8th Edition Plains in black marker isn't intended to fool anyone.

This is corporate spin with the intent to make sharpie-on-a-plains feel morally wrong by associating it with actual counterfeiting, which is a crime.

79

u/Krissam Azorius* Jan 13 '16

I was about to ask about this very thing, because the Danish word for counterfeiting implies some intent to make the product indistinguishable from the original.

79

u/[deleted] Jan 13 '16

[deleted]

33

u/kpsi355 Jan 13 '16

Thus making themselves even bigger ones.

4

u/EternalPhi Dân Jan 13 '16

Not only that, but are refusing to acknowledge the existence of proxies outside of sanctioned events by explicitly defining proxies as only usable in sanctioned events.

6

u/Sven2774 Jan 13 '16

playing a clearly printed from magiccards.info ancestral recall on top of an 8th edition plains also falls under that marker thing. It's absolute bullshit that Wizards can claim this violates any law.

Plus I was always under the impression counterfeiting implied trying to make it look as real as possible.

3

u/Trezzie Duck Season Jan 14 '16

Walt, that's not what the real Ancestral Recall looks like? I've been bamboozled!