{"id":311,"date":"2026-05-22T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phelddagrif.quest\/?p=311"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:28:38","slug":"compet-agrif-1-the-waters-of-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phelddagrif.quest\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Compet-agrif 1: The Waters of the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the oddities of my collection is this Questing Phelddagrif:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keen-eyed readers may notice a purple star stamped in the text box that isn’t normally found on cards. Back in History Times, when there would be large limited tournaments for GPs, SCG Invitationals, and other bygone tournaments each card in the limited pool would be stamped. This was to prevent cheating by sliding in outside cards from personal collections or nearby vendors into their limited pool (a well-known example of this was Mark Justice\u2019s Muscle Sliver cheat<\/a>). While a star stamp seems easy to copy here, players wouldn’t know what shape the stamp would be, or even the color of the ink, that they should bring if they wanted to cheat. Maybe they bring a star stamp and green ink but the event is using a red balloon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I saw this a couple years ago on eBay, I snatched it up as a neat curio to my expanding Phelddagrif collection. The stamp was a sign that this card was present during sanctioned play at a high-ish level event. That’s neat, but just because a card was stamped doesn’t mean that it saw play. All cards opened were stamped, it was up to the players to decide what to play and what goes in what deck. With 45 cards drafted across three packs, there\u2019s bound to be some last pick duds that you\u2019ve got to schlep in your deckbox between rounds. I assumed that this Questing Phelddagrif was opened at some limited event sometime between 2000 and 2002, stamped, and left in a player’s sideboard throughout the event, left in the sideboard between a couple Sea Snids<\/a>. I\u2019m not Marshall Sutcliffe, but Questing Phelddagrif doesn\u2019t seem like a very good card. It’s a four mana in three different colors for a 4\/4 with no keywords, three different abilities that all give an advantage to your opponent. No thanks, I\u2019ll play Goblin Game<\/a> as the 23rd card in my deck instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reader, who believes in me more than they should, I was pleasantly surprised, exuberant really, when I heard otherwise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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