![]() Most cards referencing "silver-bordered" (with the exception of Border Guardian) received errata to include Un-cards that don't have a silver border. With the change to acorn cards, some earlier silver-bordered cards may now be reprinted in black border. On common and uncommons the acorn stamp is printed on the card rather than embossed. This security stamp technology allows R&D to let the two different types of cards commingle in the same set. ![]() If a card has an oval security stamp (or no security stamp at lower rarities), it's legal in eternal formats (which includes Commander, Legacy, and Vintage). All acorn cards, of all rarities, have an acorn holofoil stamp. ![]() These have been dubbed these "acorn" cards. This is a card not meant for tournament play and should only be used in casual formats where all the players agree to its inclusion. Starting with the black-bordered Unfinity set in 2022 an acorn security stamp means exactly what a silver border used to. R&D then looked another way to express "silver border-ness" that didn't require a silver border and turned to holofoil security stamps. Rosewater realized that many cards in the set would be perfectly fine to be played in black border Eternal sets. Over the years, silver border slowly shifted to end up meaning "not for any official format, casual or not," which contradicted what it was originally intended to do. Rosewater later explained that when silver border was originally dubbed "not for tournament play," that meant not for Vintage, Legacy, or Standard, but for every other format, especially the casual ones. It most often didn’t get treated as “this is a different subset of Magic”, but rather as “this isn’t a real Magic card”. Certain promos like the Holiday cards, the 2017 HASCON promos, and Ponies: The Galloping also used a silver border.Īccording to Mark Rosewater, the audience reaction to the silver border was somewhat of a problem for R&D. Silver-bordered cards were introduced in 1998 for Unglued, the first Magic supplemental set and the first "joke set" and became tradition for the following so-called Un-sets.
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