Hi, I sent a file to you for this. I do have a mod installed, but I was having this problem long before the mod was installed.
Okay, let me add a strange twist to this. I have very carefully played a no mods/no cheats game. I will fully use every feature of the game, but I do everything within the game as designed except I do not even use the cheats built into the game. Not even to gain a few simoleons. But recently, I accidentally cheated. I downloaded a cool library into Glimmerbrook from the Gallery. There in the library was this really cool thing called a crystal zoomer. I recognized it from the outline in the collections screen. I wanted it! So I used Burgliate to steal it. I had never won any of the alternate stuff no mater how many duels I won. Within about a dozen duels, I had completed the collection of brooms. Every single one. So, I went back to the library (although I was feeling really guilty about it) and Burgiated a wand I had never seen before. In several dozen more duels, I have won three more wands. Still seven to go. When I began using the "Wand of the Forgotten" in duels, I never won a wand at all. So I switched to a bone wand, and promptly won two wands (not good ones). So it seems you have to have one of the items in order to be able to win them. I have NEVER seen a "fancy" item in the shop, not matter how many times I have been in. I am convinced you can't buy them. The question is, how do you get that first one WITHOUT CHEATING?
I won most of my Crystal Zoomers from Dueling for Magical Artifacts at the Dueling Grounds with the Sage of Mischief Magic. Although I think I did buy one once from the shop - very rare - after I won my first one this way. Notice that the Sage of Mischief's "domain" in the Realm of Magic is the crystal cave belowground. This gave me high hopes for what else I might be able to win from each of the other two Sages but so far nothing but regular Wands of the Forgotten from them.
That being said, I have been unable to find any of the colour variants of the wands and would also like to see this bug looked into. Have never used mods, CC or cheats. Have been doing exactly as everyone else here has - prowling the shop daily and dueling for artifacts with everyone I come across including the sages, both on and off the dueling grounds. From experience it seems the dueling grounds give better rewards, but yet none of these are even "common" variants of common wands!
Edit: I have now noticed that sometimes townie spellcasters will use wands while in the Realm of Magic and that sometimes they are using re-colours - or so I assume because without ever having seen a recolour myself, they are the same wands but sometimes in different shades to the ones I have been able to win/purchase. I have specifically targeted these townies to Duels for Artifacts in the hope that this is the way to win these variants, but still nothing.
I also got myself a pet as a Familiar because I learned you can send them to bring back magical gifts, but so far they're bringing back ingredients, not wands.
I have also started buying every wand that shows up in the magic shop in case the thumbnail is somehow glitched and not displaying the fact that the wand available to buy is a recolour, because sometimes the different coloured brooms were hard to spot, but still nothing. I have a perfectly complete collection of all the brooms but only one of each type of wand with many still greyed out in the collection.
save file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11PE-Cr7d2d2UFETxVUNZ9FUA_shS8gm8/view?usp=share_link
