Found this on eBay shortly after the other two S-Chinese cards.  Yay!

12 new eBay feelers sent out tonight to sellers in Italy, Singapore, Portugal, and Switzerland.

Found a contact over on MagicLibrary who says he should be able to supply Japanese 8E, Russian 9E Foil, and French 9E, 9E Foil, and CK Foil.  Obviously that would be GREAT!  Chance to cross 5 stonies off the list!

What a peculiar night I have had. First the good news: I located a seller on eBay who had 2 S-Chinese Stone Rains in hand (9th and Champs of K) and was selling them at resonable prices (fifty cents, and a dollar). Bagged both of those... down to 33 printings needed! ...   more »

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Got my English Champs of Kamigawa foil today! Yay! English is done at this point. Cards in hand...   more »

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what I call an "eBay feeler"...   more »

The 9E English Foil came today.  Also I got in touch with a contact in Brazil and began discussions of getting Portuguese stonies I need.

Heard more responses to my initial feeler emails.  Looks like I may be getting some of the French and Spanis versions I need.

Okay at long last, (guess folks have had time to puzzle this out in my absence), it is confirmed that Portal and Portal 2 were printed in Portuguese only as starter-set gift boxes, and these boxes did not include Stone Rain. Therefore the Portuguese Portal that I was chasing forever, never existed. My thanks to fellow Stone Rain collector Jeb for clearing that up for me.

This knocks the number of printings down to 173, but still keeps Stone Rain at the most reprinted nonland card of all time, and it also means that I only need to acquire 37 printings to finish. The best part? They're ALL NEW. 8E, 9E, and Champions of Kamigawa (CK). Since they are new, I have to believe finding them will be a lot easier than trying to find the older sets was. Here's the skinny on what I need:

I plan on recontacting all my previous donors and sending out a new round of feelers (first ones in 2+ years!) to see if I can scare some of this stuff up. Considering some of the excellent people I've met over the years in far flung places, I think my chances are good. I even made contact with a donor who lives in Moscow, and hopefully he can help me with the Russian 9E printings.

Other interesting news is something I read the other day on the Magic Rarities forums, which I was tipped off to by scanning Eric LeSavre's excellent Unopened Boosters Collection page. Apparently in 2004 it came to light that there was a copycat production of Magic Cards in Australia. These cards were fakes and not made by Wizards of the Coast. One of the sets faked was Eighth Edition, implying that there should be faked 8E and 8EF Stone Rains out there. I've managed to find somebody who has some of the fake product and I am tring to work out a deal with him to see if I can get my hands on a "phoney stoney". Apparently they are visually different so I'd be pretty excited to get one. Hopefully something will come of that.

Apparently, after Mirrodin, Wizards stopped producing cards in Traditional Chinese! So there are no 9E or CK printings of Stone Rain in that language! Has T-Chinese (like Korean) fallen by the wayside?

Wha' happen? Basically, I quit magic altogether for over 2 years as I got into other things, and the Stone Rain Project slept as the number of printings of the card swelled from 141 to 175! Stone Rain was reprinted in 9th Edition, and also in the standalone set Champions of Kamigawa in the meantime.

Some people were very nice and continued to send me stone rains here and there... I acquired perhaps 4 or 5 more after quitting. They've been crudely scanned and added here and I have attempted to attribute the appropriate donors. Thanks folks!

And now I have 40 printings left to go to finish the global Stone Rain set. Can you help!?

These articles began in January of 2002 and ended in August of 2003. I may at some point go back and break them out into individual articles to present a more accurate (and more accessible) picture of the Stone Rain Project's history...   more »

In the Magic: the Gathering discussion forums at Wizards of the Coast's website, a forum was recently added for the esteemed artist Ben Thompson. Mr. Thompson is the artist who created the wonderful art on the Mercadian Masques version of Stone Rain. I couldn't resist asking Mr. Thompson if he would mind answering a few questions about his work on Stone Rain, and he very kindly agreed to do so. Thanks Ben! ...   more »

I recently became aware of Håkan Abrahamsson of Göteborg, Sweden through a friend of his who had seen the Stone Rain Project website. It turns out that Håkan (pronounced haw-kan) is another Stone Rain collector! I've met very few in my cybertravels, and Håkan was very generous to me, essentially donating his only copy of White-bordered Portuguese Fourth Edition Stone Rain for inclusion in the Stone Rain Project! Thanks Håkan...   more »

I bumped into Dan Barnard of Green Bay, Wisconsin on MOTL as I was beginning this project. He has over 10,000 Stone Rain cards! What I have in diversity, he makes up for in sheer quantity...   more »

• 173 printings
• 11 different illustrations
• 10 different artists:

  Daniel Gelon, 1 artwork, 9 English printings: Alpha Beta Unlimited Revised Summer Fourth Edition DCI Promo Foil Collector's Edition International Collector's Edition Tony Roberts, 2 artworks, 1 English printing each: Fifth Edition Mirage John Matson, 1 artwork, 9 English printings: 8th Edition 8th Edition FOIL 9th Edition 9th Edition FOIL Sixth Edition Portal Starter Mark LePine 1999 WC Deck Janosch Kuhn 2000 WC Deck

  Tony Szczudlo, 1 artwork, 2 English printings: 7th Edition 7th Edition FOIL Greg Staples, 1 artwork, 2 English printings: Champions of Kamigawa Champions of Kamigawa FOIL Kaja Foglio, 1 artwork, 1 English printing: Ice Age Christopher Rush, 1 artwork, 1 English printing: Tempest Ben Thompson, 1 artwork, 2 English printings: Mercadian Masques Mercadian Masques FOIL Doug Chaffee, 1 artwork, 1 English printing: Portal Second Age Mitsuaki Sagiri, 1 artwork, 1 English printing: Portal Three Kingdoms

• The first artwork showed stones falling down and to the right. Evidently this started a trend... 6 of the 11 illustrations show stones falling down and to the right. Three of the illustrations show stones falling straight down (Thompson - Masques, Chaffee - Portal Second Age, and Sagiri - Portal Three Kingdoms). Only two illustrations show stones falling down to the left: John Matson's which first appeared in Portal, and Greg Staples's new illustration for Champions of Kamigawa.