A still pool of water where ships go lost - the neverending FAQ of doom!

General Buying/Selling/Trading * About the Cards * All About the CCG * Scan Usage Policy * Vital Site Statistics * Disclaimer


General Buying/Selling/Trading

1. So, are you still trading? I saw you have a store now.
Yes, I'm still trading! While there aren't many cards I'm really looking for for Sailor Moon, I am still missing some hard to find cards (though I'm expecting if they ever come up, I'd likely have to purchase them, not trade for them). Just like before, if you're interested in a trade, please
email me and we can work it out.

2. I saw you don't ship internationally in your eCrater store but I would like to buy something. Can you sell to me?
Yes. The only reason I disabled international selling on the store was because I didn't want to have to set postage rates for something I do rarely. Please contact me like it's a trade and I'll see what I can do for you.

3. How does a trade work?
Standard trading operation: If you contacted me first, you send first, and vice versa. If we've traded before, we send about the same time. Obviously, if you're buying, you send payment first regardless of who contacted whom. I also reserve the right to check your feedback/reputation with other traders.

4. Do you have feedback I can check?
Yep. Feel free to check out my feedback as well - I have nothing to hide:
Yahoo (Now defunct, but I had about 50 positives and no negs.)
eBay
Bidville
Epier
MLPTP (have to be a logged in member to see it).

Also, I think most of the people in my link list can remember who I am and give testimonials -- if their sites are still up. ;)

About The Cards

1. Are your cards fakes?
The only things you may call a "fake" are the Hong Kong (marked with an HK) reprints of Graffiti and Carddass cards. These aren't, strictly speaking, fake, but many collectors will be highly upset if you sell them HK cards and not cards marked "Made in Japan" on the backs. Compare the
front and back of Graffiti #259 and the front and back of Carddass #370 for the differences between HK and Japanese releases.
I have a few poster prisms and some real fakes lingering, but on the whole, my stock has been pulled straight from the box and pack by me.

2. How can I tell if my cards are fake?
Fakes are generally a lower print and color quality, with mismatched backs. One of the most common sets I see as fakes is the wedding set. Compare the front of these wedding cards. The fake lacks the die cut corners and pop out hearts of this set, and is a prismatic sticker with some additional text slapped on the front for good measure.
The foils for Japanese cards generally have a small, boxy prism pattern, not swirls or stars or circles or lines (though some of the more recent series have broken this tradition.) When I came into this hobby online, there was much angst over hard versus soft prisms - hard prisms being those foils that are not stickers, and the soft prisms being the stickers. Don't be surprised, then, if you find a legitimate looking Japanese foil to be a sticker - it's authentic.
There are some high quality fakes from Taiwan, the "poster prism" series, which is almost too nice to be lumped with the fakes. There is also a similar set that uses images from the manga. Both are not licensed series, however pretty they are, but they go for a decent price and many people collect them.
There are also a few oddball fakes I've come across over the years. One is plastic and see through, like a peeled Carddass W, but the plastic is textured. The other is glow in the dark (I bought it just because it's the only such card I'd ever seen before.)

Tell Me About the Collectible Card Game

The following information has been salvaged from Archive.org's cached pages of the official Sailor Moon CCG site. I am providing it here as a service to anyone interested in playing the game.

1. Do you have the Rulebook? I want to play, but don't know how.
I rescued the official PDF rulebook from the Premiere Edition. You may view and/or download it here. Note that this does not have information on the function of Location cards, which are only found in the Past and Future expansion.The CCG Workshop had a text version of the P&F rulebook, as transcribed by Tuxedo Rainbow. This site has subsequently died, but fear not, I salvaged THIS too. ;)

2. Who thought up this crazy game?
Dart Flipcards produced the cards. Gameplay was designed by Guardians of Order.

3. What are the starter deck breakdowns?
They really explain it better than I can.

4. I need more help with the gameplay. Help?
These are some general scenarios from the game.

5. I've got a question about a specific card...
Section Four of the CCG FAQ has tricky Monster, Villain, Person, Item, Event, and Scout/Knight card effects explained.

6. I've got a question about how a card combination works...
Section Five of the CCG FAQ goes through some tricky card combo scenarios.

7. How do I set up a tournament?
You crazy person you... Section Six goes through some really bare bones tournament ideas. Basically they want ALL foil cards proxied, minimum deck size is 60, and a max of four each of the non-power cards. I do not know how this applies to the mixed power cards released in the P&F set. Sailor Pluto is officially limited to one per deck, but I am unsure if any other cards were later restricted as well.

If you have any other info on playing the CCG, especially including the P&F expansion, please let me know and I can host it here. Please make sure you give me your source if you want to contribute something, as I am all about "doing things the right way." PS, Guardians of Order/Dart Flipcards: If you have issues with this being hosted here, you can ask me nicely to take it down, but I think it would be a shame for you to do so, seeing as how your site went kablooey.

Scan Usage Policy

Ninety-five percent of these scans are from my own collections. I've credited all those scans that I stole through the years.
If you're interested in using a scan or two for your site, I'd appreciate you giving me a heads up. I know I can't prevent you from taking them, but if you're putting them on your own reference site please include the credits and do not hotlink the pictures. I'm not an idiot...I can tell when you lifted half my scans without asking. *cough*

Vital Site Statistics

Number of Sailor Moon cards owned: 1,811 (Gah!!)
Number of sets completed: 12
Number of binders used: 7
This site officially opened to general traffic Feb. 28, 2001. It was relocated to my domain on Oct. 10, 2005, and the server promptly caught fire about an hour after I finished the last updates. Talk about timing!

Disclaimer

No copyright infringement is intended by this site. Sailor Moon does not belong to me in any way; it belongs to Naoko Takeuchi and a host of corporate entities. This site has been made as a source of information and a means for me to trade my cards with a larger audience. All text, graphics, and html herein have been created by me, and content is © ladyphoenix9, 2005-2011.


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