by oddbod
I bought the NF+ML set and the printing seemed fine. Then I bought Dark Rages and noticed that most (but not all) of the stacks had a weird printing artifact - the cards had a very faint but noticeable residue of ink from the cards on either side of it. So this meant that the front of each card have a faint "NIGHTFALL" on its face, and a faint image of the text box outline on its back.Luckily it came off when wiped with a soft cloth, so it wasn't a huge deal... I just obsessively wiped every card in the set with a dry cloth while watching TV.
Has anyone else seen this? It was really only visible at a certain angle, when the light caught it.
Also, after only two plays with the base NF and ML sets (not having played with DR yet), both times on plastic folding tables, I'm noticing scratching on the cards, especially on the back where it's mostly solid black. These are scratches like you'd see from players fingernails... they don't look indented or anything. They are just faint scratch lines visible when the light hits them at certain angles. but it worries me that after so little use I'm already seeing an effect on the printing. Do I need to go buy a bunch of card sleeves? I hate that.