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    I just opened a Blue Eyes White Dragon structure deck and noticed that the cards with foil treatment are visibly chipping away at the edges. If you rub along the sides of the card you can actually pick up pieces of glitter on your thumb. I was disappointed by this.

    That said the cards smelled really good. I wonder if MtG smelled like that at one point bc I know I smelled this somewhere and doubt I would remember it from opening yu-gi-oh product like one time in the 2000s. Maybe it was baseball cards?

    On that note, I just received another order of MtG cards today and all the Thunder Junction cards are sandy. What the feck is going on over there? I kinda don't even feel like collecting MtG anymore.

    The good news is that this proves I was on the right track by trying out other card games and should continue down this road. Even the foil peeling off yu-gi-oh cards is interesting to know bc MtG cards don't do that, it just goes to show how cards from two games can be totally different despite them both being cards. That said, I just hope it isn't simply the result of the fact that MtG and yu-gi-oh use different form factors. If I open other standard/MtG sized card games and find they are exactly like MtG, while yu-gi-oh sized are exactly like yu-gi-oh, i'd be soo sad. But I have a feeling that is not actually the case.
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      Editing … I didn't know you were a card sniffer. I'm not much of a sniffer except for new video game manuals (when they still existed) and industrial foam that for some reason smells really good. I knew children back in the day sniffing permanent markers but I didn't associate with such children. Those were the weird ones. You should stay away from them as well.
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      Editing … I didn't know I was a sniffer either. I mean, ppl used to talk about that "new pack smell". But it apparently just went away at some point. Shit.. wouldn't it be hilarious if they did that on purpose to prevent people from purposefully inhaling it? Kind of like the way Nintendo Switch games are coated in a bittering agent?
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      Editing … Yeah I guess the smell molecules degrade or dissipate over time. I know my game manuals don't smell like they used to either. They should print new manuals for physical games so I can remember the smell.
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      Editing … But new cards no longer have that smell. Which means something was changed about the manufacturing process. Didn't we talk once about cars and we both said we hate new car smell? And when I said my sis got a new car and it doesn't have it? What's happening here is kinda like that, except the change was for the worse.
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      Editing … Weird. Maybe they use cheaper inks.
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