Heads Up Player Collectors…Posting A Couple Fractal Matrix Errors

[bamlinden]

Full disclosure….mostly curious about the ability to upload a photo directly now into the post (Noice!!!)

Last year had some weird Linden cards reveal themselves to me. None more than these Fractal Matrix “errors”…..



In a release that should only have the base card, Fractal Matrix, and Fractal Matrix Die-Cut…..I have now secured 5 different copies of this particular card.

Base
Fractal Matrix
Fractal Matrix (with X-Axis Die-Cut wording)*
FM X-Axis Die-Cut
FM X-Axis Die-Cut (without the wording)*

I had no clue the two cards that have asterisks even existed (almost 30 years)…now I’m trying to figure out if all the Linden cards in this subset have the same errors (or any of the cards in the checklist for that matter).

But as a player collector…it’s fun to unearth these discoveries.

Has anyone else noticed this issue with their player?


Posting photos….thank you.

 

[Uhtred the Viking]

Neat, it's always a thrill (for me anyway) to find new versions after all these years. Iggy wasn't in that subset, so I can't offer any additional information. Glad you were able to find the new cards.

 

[creasecollector]

Love finding out information about cards years later. Great find!

 

[gobuffalo2331]

ha what a confusing set this was. The companies really took inserts too far when they started complicating the sets like the fractal matrix, UD3, and others. That's cool thanks for sharing

 

[sdpdesign]

Wow! Definitely interesting. That set is such an odd set. I don’t think that those two errors were supposed to make it into the final product. It happened and this will probably be one of a few pc sets that look like this from that set. A Quincy of sorts.

Thinking about this a little more before hitting submit, a stack of the player’s non-die-cuts probably got mixed with the die-cuts pre-cut and vise versa with the die-cuts. There probably isn’t a known number of cards that were mixed in but the quantity of the shorter is now even less, but the errors are even more rare. Probably not 1/1 rare but rare enough to say that up to 5% of production may have been effected depending on run quantity and how they made the die-cut. This would make the regular die-cut a little more valuable, too. Not significantly, but it is a yin-yang deal. The print runs for X die-cuts were to 400. If I say that 5% were error, that would mean 20 were mixed in. That would mean that the error would be 20 of each. The non-die-cut X FM die-cut and the die-cut FM would equal the same, 20 each. The correct X FM die-cut would be actually to 380 in this instance. This is just me nerding out on this.

Great add to your collection!

 

[Avalanchefan21]

Oh man these were sick back in the day!! I remember opening packs and once in a while getting one of those