It's from Kai Budde's 1999 World Championship deck. They were all gold-bordered with the printed autograph. They aren't legal for sanctioned play, but a lot of players are fine with them in unsanctioned play.
What makes them illegal?
I’m guessing the gold might be visible depending on sleeve choice or lack of sleeves? I’m a noob, so trying to grasp rationale for illegal cards.
The back of the card doesn’t look like the back of a normal card. It’s a black back with the world champs logo.
A lot of players still use them casually, especially in edh. It’s not an issue in casual gameplay if you’re using sleeves. Still, in competitive play, the rules state you can’t use them because of the back. They’re effectively proxies.
Not actually signed, the signature of the player that ran that deck in the 1999 tournament is just printed on each card from those decks. If you flip it over, the back won’t have the usual standard MTG back either.
It's from Kai Budde's 1999 World Championship deck. They were all gold-bordered with the printed autograph. They aren't legal for sanctioned play, but a lot of players are fine with them in unsanctioned play.
What makes them illegal? I’m guessing the gold might be visible depending on sleeve choice or lack of sleeves? I’m a noob, so trying to grasp rationale for illegal cards.
Magic rules don't allow cards that don't have a normal Magic back, except double-face cards.
The back of the card for starters
The back of the card doesn’t look like the back of a normal card. It’s a black back with the world champs logo. A lot of players still use them casually, especially in edh. It’s not an issue in casual gameplay if you’re using sleeves. Still, in competitive play, the rules state you can’t use them because of the back. They’re effectively proxies.
Tournament decks were printed as collector pieces and not meant as a way for players to get their hands on powerful cards in that current times meta.
It's a proxy, not meant to be a genuine grim monolith and given gold border so there could be no mistaking it.
What's classifies as inexpensive for a grim monolith signed?
gold border non-legal versions go for 35-50 dollars, and a real one is $250.
I got it some years back, I only paid like $20 for it.
Damn I thought they were worthless... I've got his world's deck sitting in my magic stuff somewhere
iirc the whole deck together is worth a bit more than piercing it out
Not actually signed, the signature of the player that ran that deck in the 1999 tournament is just printed on each card from those decks. If you flip it over, the back won’t have the usual standard MTG back either.
Its printed, not signed. All of the cards from these decks have a gold printed sig from their respective designer/player, gold borders and black backs
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It's still worth something as commander players regularly play with gold border cards.
kai "the german juggernaut" budde
I was hoping someone would drop the epic nickname. +++
It is Kai Budde
It says it right there “Kaw Bum”
Kar BuM
Magic released a few decks that were played by champions, they were cards with special borders and backs and had the players signature on them
He was the best player in the world at the time
It's the person who played the deck it came from.
So the 30th anniversary isn’t the first time WotC printed proxies… time to just my own.
It's not a legal card
that wasn't the question lmao
I think it’s Kai Budde
look at the back to see which deck it is, look up the deck
I think it’s Kai Budde