7:37 AM PST, 5/31/2008
To celebrate the release of Bella Sara MAgical Friends, I have placed a great sampling of rares and foils up for auction including 2 new foils from MAgical Friends , NYX and ARA! For those who dont know about Bella Sara, heres a run down courtesy of wikipedia.org:
History
Bella Sara was started in Denmark by Gitte Odder Braendgaard, who intended to create an alternative to other popular trading card games, such as Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering, that would be more suited to girls and lack the element of competition present in the other games. After the game proved successful in Scandinavia, the cards were first released on a trial run to United States consumers in Seattle and San Diego at the end of 2006. Sales during that trial run were high enough to convince retailers to take the cards national in March 2007.[2] Since then the cards have continued to grow in popularity with pre-teen or "tween" girls because of the horse subject matter, the collectibility, and the ability to "own" their own horse online.
Card availability
Cards can be purchased in booster packs, each of which contains a random assortment of cards. Card packs can be purchased online or at a number of retailers world wide.[3] All cards are published for a limited time in "sets". There are five sets of cards with another in the making. They are:
Series 1 - 55 cards + 9 foil cards, silver background
Series 2 - 97 cards + 27 foil cards, gold background
Northern Lights - 55 cards + 17 foil cards & 4 Gen Con 2007 cards, pale blue background
Ancient Lights - 55 cards + 17 foil cards & 5 special cards, pink background
Native Lights - 55 cards + 17 foil cards & 4 special cards, lavender background
Magical Friends - Coming in June 2008[3]
Bella Sara cards are currently available in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Australia and South Africa, with more countries planned for 2008.[3]