New set in 2012

Pascal wrote:

Colour prints on regular 80gpsm paper are fine.
We'd like to discourage cardboard prints, as it may result in eBay sales ("I sell real quality cards"), which we don't want.

I intend to print any new cards on card stock. Ideally even with printed card backs (although I will still use sleeves).

I don't intend to sell them on eBay, they are for my own use.

Would cards that I print in this way cause me to be disqualified from a tournament?

Since the current instructions are:

- Print it out at kinkos/home on paper
- Slide paper into sleeve with a previously commercially printed VTES card


Then as a Judge, I'd have to say "Yes, you are disqualified".

Would cards that I print in this way cause me to be disqualified from a tournament?

Not on mine.

Then as a Judge, I'd have to say "Yes, you are disqualified".

That is, frankly, retarded.

Izaak wrote:

Then as a Judge, I'd have to say "Yes, you are disqualified".

That is, frankly, retarded.

Aye.

I wouldn't make this more complicated than it is. And frankly it's not really that complicated. As long as it's well printed and you can't tell the card through a sleeve I'm going to let it through in my tournaments.

Trying to gain pool from an edge in your master phase is another thing - this one's something that's supposed to keep people playing, not scare them away with super strict rulings.

With opaque sleeves you can see those that hold 2 cards inside and those that don't.
If you print your cards with the same thickness as a normal card and, by the rules, you also put a regular VtES card inside the sleeve, then yes - it might be considered marked cards.

Why complicate things?
Print in a paper sheet and enjoy the game.

Cheers,
Tiago

Who's complicating things?

I get the new cards on decent card stock, comparable to at least some VtES cards (there is a fair bit of variability in the card stock quality from VtES cards over the years).

I store them with the rest of my collection like normal cards, and put them into sleeves like normal cards. Sounds simpler to me.

And that is what I will do for casual play at least.

If the ruling will be that using anything but printed paper inside a sleeve with a real card will result in a DQ, I agree with those who have said that it's stupid. In that case, for a tournament, I will need to replace my printed card with the "standard" way of paper in a sleeve with a card.

I will point out that (inside a sleeve) my printed cards would be harder to distinguish from a real card, than the "standard" way. And that would be the really stupid part about this potentially leading to a DQ.