THIS design was so nice they used it two years in a row?

 I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but no, they really used the same basic design two years in a row. 

The 2006-07 and 2007-08 MVP sets are so very close to each other in design that I thought they were the same set, until I looked closer. 

Sure, there are some minor variations- the name bar is pointed on the second year, and the team color border part is larger. The team name bar under the MVP logo is also striped in the second year as well. 

The backs are also super similar. The stripe concept continues on the back in 07-08 also. 

I'm not particularly fond of the font used on the back of the cards, but I do like that they have pronunciation guides, something that has been dropped from modern MVP sets. 

The sad thing is that I likely wouldn't have noticed had I not had both sets in hand on the same day this past week. With so many set designs I don't always remember the details of all of them, especially when I have very few cards from the sets and don't know them all that well.