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@pokemonrevolution recently presented a new and likely theory for these Grey Thick stamps, which I will quote here: Grey Stamp Theory Grey stamped 1st Edition Base set cards for the most part have commonly been considered to exist because of either A) The ink was low when they were stamped B) The stamp was not pressed down with enough force to create a nice dark color

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Funnily enough, this also picks up -1/-1 counters, finality counters, stun counters, or any other detrimental counters that end up on your creatures

Were actually relying on our opponents having access to creatures to attack our opponents with in the first place, so were relying more on Curse of the Swine and Reins of Power to get the job done

A great example of how broken it can be is to look back at the one time it was included in the MTGO Vintage Cube for a time and was quickly removed due to its dominance