MTG Salvation

It took awhile for me to realize how awesome this was, but:

I bought a playset of force of will for $2 back when alliances came out.

I want to know how these stores that sell good things in their crap bins stay in business. I've never seen anything like this at any store I've been to. It sucks.

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I want to know how these stores that sell good things in their crap bins stay in business. I've never seen anything like this at any store I've been to. It sucks.

A lot of times someone will sell their collection of commons/uncommons, unsorted, for something like 3-5 dollars per thousand. It costs a store very little to end up with tens of thousands of unsorted commons and uncommons and they aren't actually losing out much when someone pays a quarter for a three dollar card - they paid three cents for it.

A guy at my LGS bought 4 tundra, 4 karakas and a SP moat for 70 bucks a few weeks back. The shop he bought them from has no idea what card values are.

I was walking with a friend and found a plastic bag on the street with a Tundra, Badlands, and Plateau in it. (horrible condition, but who cares?)

I guess the Prismatic Omen in pristine condition in a pack of garbage commons I got for $6 at the record store I used to work at counts?

Over the last year, a large group of us at work have all started playing on our lunch hour--including a really cool database guy in his 50's, who one day casually mentions it would be cool to find all his "old cards from the first time he played".

Last week, his son found them in the attic or some other dusty storage spot.

Mox sapphire, complete Arabian Nights, complete Antiquities, complete collectors edition etc etc, all mint. There were more I don't remember... But it's definitely the first time anyone ever dropped a mox and a Library of Alexandria on my desk just to see my reaction.

The other day i bought a revised Scrubland on ebay for $46. When i opened the package he accidentally sent an unlimited instead. Yay me.

I was playing in my local game store a few years ago and a guy came in with a binder he said everything in it was $3 each. So I found 2x Rishadan Port, 2x Sneak Attack, and a Foil Gilded Lotus. Also in my old box of cards from back in the day i found a lonely Force of Will.

eBay in the last 6 months:

-2 played scrubland, $20 each
-1 played bayou, $32
-6 NM Italian Karakas $140
-3 JTMS for $195, when they were $85-90 each this month
-1 Nm English Karakas $15
-1 ex/Nm English Karakas $30
-1 heavy played Unl volcanic island $30
-1 Nm- underground sea $80
-4 NM Gaea's cradle $180

I'm sure there are others that escape me right now. I love eBay.

I've never had a lucky pull. Lady Luck just doesn't like me I guess. The two times I've come close though I was sadly disappointed. The first time I was at a flea market and bought a box of cards for 20 dollars. I noticed a good amount of the cards on top lacked set symbols, but come to find out I hadn't unlocked a treasure chest of Alpha and Beta duals. I had bought a box of fallen empires and homelands with a bunch of 4th edition basics on top....

The second time I at least got them for free. A kid who rides my bus played when he was in elementary school and he found his old deck in a closet. He gave it to me because he knew I played. I was hoping for Urza block stuff, but the best thing in the whole pile was a foil forest.

Nothing major. Last year at a garage sale I bought a small single row box with mostly junk FE, Alliances and Ice Age cards for $5. I pulled a NM 4th Land Tax, Wrath of God plus a couple Thawing Glaciers.

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eBay in the last 6 months:

-2 played scrubland, $20 each
-1 played bayou, $32
-6 NM Italian Karakas $140
-3 JTMS for $195, when they were $85-90 each this month
-1 Nm English Karakas $15
-1 ex/Nm English Karakas $30
-1 heavy played Unl volcanic island $30
-1 Nm- underground sea $80
-4 NM Gaea's cradle $180

I'm sure there are others that escape me right now. I love eBay.

Nice, I wish I ad the patience to do this.

bought a bunch of 3 kingdom money cards for around 5cent Australian each. But this was around 12 years ago and I've lost them all since then

Hey guys any new stories?

about 14-15ish years ago i was going through my commons box and hit a red deck mixed in with random jank. 4 shivan dragons (very exciting at the time), 4 wheel of fortune, 4 lightning bolt, etc. To this day im not sure where they came from as i am sure they were not mine, but i used to leave tons of cards around the card shop where i worked so who knows

17 Force of Wills in the 10c uncommon bin. Foil Witness's in the foil uncommon bin for 25c each. Best find though was when I went through my old collection after years and found a complete set of revised dual lands in pristine condition. Forgot I had them because I had quit and sold my collection, but they were in a box of basic lands that I had kept in case I ever played again.

Edit: I lied. I forgot the best find. Got married a few years ago. My wife bought me a magic the gathering book as a wedding gift. It came with a promotional Jace. Not only is it the sweetest picture ever, but it's also incredibly valuable.

I bought a guys collection for $500 that included:

6 Underground Seas
4 Tropical Islands
4 Volcanic Islands
2 Tundras
6 Guru Lands
1 Beta Time Walk
And an Ancestral Recall

Seriously, how do people find these deals? I've been searching all over Ebay and Craigslist, and every listing is either too vague for me to risk spending money on junk, or crazy expensive.

My business partner found it, I backed it. Which was fortuitous for me, as he got a 10% finders fee, and I got roughly 55-60% joint collection control based on value alone.

Thanks, SuperNovaScotia.

Nothing super exciting but just got a N/M Unlimited Tropical Island for $100 and a N/M Revised Tropical Island for $86.

Thought it was a pretty good deal.

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Nothing super exciting but just got a N/M Unlimited Tropical Island for $100 and a N/M Revised Tropical Island for $86.

Thought it was a pretty good deal.

not bad at all.

especially love unlimited trops.

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In the end i traded a Din of the Fireherd for a unlimited time walk and a underground sea

I know this post is super old, but that's a totally dick move. That's basically stealing. I really hope this isn't a true story.

Found a FoW in a $5 magic card lot at a local thrift store. It was a happy day

a few unhinged boxes for 79 euros each.still got a closed one