How Do You Grade Magic The Gathering Cards?
Magic the Gathering is a collectible card game that has been around since the early 1990’s getting its starts around 1993-1994. The card game combines strategy and roleplaying in order to create a fun experience. The cards are very collectible but telling the difference between cards as well as being able to grade them responsibly can be a difficult process. This article will show you how to identify and grade Magic the Gathering Cards. Determine the set that the cards come from. The majority of Magic cards come with symbols on the front of the card which make them easy to identify. Older cards like Alpha, Beta, 4th, 5th, Unlimited and Revised do not have symbols. Determine if the card is Alpha or Beta by first looking at the corners. Alpha cards have hard rounded edges while Beta cards are more rounded. Alpha cards represent the first printing of the cards for mass release and came with many misprints and errors that were corrected in the Beta version. There are 295 cards in the Alpha
