Deadlord36 wrote:OK, here's something that hasn't been brought up yet.Quest for the Fazzlewood is considered roughly as rare as Tsojconth, Tamoachan and Inverness. However, I have only seen 2 in my life. I am not counting the 2nd printing, although I've never seen one and I've only heard of the one sold at Gencon last year (the $525 one listed as a 1st print in Rares was a 2nd print according to Gencon). Considering the number of times it becomes available as opposed to the above three, and even ST1, I'm beginning to think it is rarer than all of them. Does anyone else out there besides Stormie (who has my first copy) have one, either 1st or 2nd print?
dathon wrote:Based on personal experience, I find it hard to believe that Fazzlewood is that rare. I bought two very cheaply on frp.marketplace back in the 90's and ended up selling one for a small sum soon afterward (to Matthias, I believe). The text and content is verbatim from O1. They're not numbered, and it would be stupid easy for anyone to photocopy one and then sell it off. That's the problem with Tamoachan, Inverness and especially Tsojcanth (no numeration), there's no way to tell the fakes if provenance cannot be established. Only really bad fakes like the one discovered here a year ago are caught. Even the prepubs of the R series are a bit harder to fake with the envelope and Mentzer autograph. And that's another reason why ST1 goes for such high prices; it's just much harder to make a good fascimile of the folder and color map with today's equipment.