Well, as we saw in the "Investing in BFZ Fat Packs" thread, we can't really make a short-term profit on them even if they are selling for $65. I don't know that I'd have chosen BFZ Fat Packs as a target to sink nearly a grand into, but if you can spare the grand and the shelf space, it should hopefully pay off in three or four years?
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I have a number of random cards sitting around that I've considered getting rid of, but have held onto them for fear that they will shoot up in price. I don't play much Magic anymore, but still trade on Puca often and have been trying to trade up into duals and other valuable old cards. So I'm not really in a hurry to get rid of the cards or replace them with other cards. What should I do with these cards? Trade or hold?
I have a number of random cards sitting around that I've considered getting rid of, but have held onto them for fear that they will shoot up in price. I don't play much Magic anymore, but still trade on Puca often and have been trying to trade up into duals and other valuable old cards. So I'm not really in a hurry to get rid of the cards or replace them with other cards. What should I do with these cards? Trade or hold?
I'd ship them all. It's not that they're bad cards, or that they have no potential to spike, but many of them, especially the uncommons, will crash (can you call it crashing if a $2.50 card drops down to $0.50?) if they get reprinted. I think that your reprint risk is much higher than your spike potential.
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I've got a MM2015 Foil Emrakul - and as an EDH-only player, it completely serves no purpose to me. It's currently residing in my trade binder and I think that's the right place for it - but is there any particularly strategy to holding it for a while ? With a prerelease foil and pack foil printing already, I feel like this foil is situated in a particularly difficult to move zone.
I've got a MM2015 Foil Emrakul - and as an EDH-only player, it completely serves no purpose to me. It's currently residing in my trade binder and I think that's the right place for it - but is there any particularly strategy to holding it for a while ? With a prerelease foil and pack foil printing already, I feel like this foil is situated in a particularly difficult to move zone.
It's a known quantity in a Legacy deck. The problem with the MM foil is that the ROE foil will always be viewed as superior - and any Legacy pimper who's looking for a foil will probably want to go all the way and get the ROE foil.
I'd just keep it in my trade binder and hope you run into that guy who wants it because it looks awesome, or who is putting together a new Sneak and Show/OmniTell and just needs one.
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Well, as we saw in the "Investing in BFZ Fat Packs" thread, we can't really make a short-term profit on them even if they are selling for $65. I don't know that I'd have chosen BFZ Fat Packs as a target to sink nearly a grand into, but if you can spare the grand and the shelf space, it should hopefully pay off in three or four years?
Combo of Target discount and lucky sales prices and I broke even at 15 sold. So I got 5 to stash and see if they rise, I was real worried that I wouldn't be able to move them
Would you buy sealed BFZ prerelease boxes at $30? At $4 MSRP per pack, the promo needs to be at least $6 to break even. Is that worth the gamble? I am looking to buy the box for 2 casual drafts with friends as the next best thing since fat packs aren't available. I'm not cracking it solely for just pulling a promo Gideon.
Would you buy sealed BFZ prerelease boxes at $30? At $4 MSRP per pack, the promo needs to be at least $6 to break even. Is that worth the gamble? I am looking to buy the box for 2 casual drafts with friends as the next best thing since fat packs aren't available. I'm not cracking it solely for just pulling a promo Gideon.
I would not. Like you said, the promo needs to be $6 to break even, and you don't have good odds of that.
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Would you buy sealed BFZ prerelease boxes at $30? At $4 MSRP per pack, the promo needs to be at least $6 to break even. Is that worth the gamble? I am looking to buy the box for 2 casual drafts with friends as the next best thing since fat packs aren't available. I'm not cracking it solely for just pulling a promo Gideon.
I would not. Like you said, the promo needs to be $6 to break even, and you don't have good odds of that.
Thanks for the reply! It's kind of hard to justify it since my friend is selling packs from his box for the draft at $3 a piece.
Would you buy sealed BFZ prerelease boxes at $30? At $4 MSRP per pack, the promo needs to be at least $6 to break even. Is that worth the gamble? I am looking to buy the box for 2 casual drafts with friends as the next best thing since fat packs aren't available. I'm not cracking it solely for just pulling a promo Gideon.
I would not. Like you said, the promo needs to be $6 to break even, and you don't have good odds of that.
Thanks for the reply! It's kind of hard to justify it since my friend is selling packs from his box for the draft at $3 a piece.
That really clinches it. Unless you know that he already pulled a foil rare/mythic/expedition from his box
Now your promo has to be $12 in order to justify the cost.
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Would you buy sealed BFZ prerelease boxes at $30? At $4 MSRP per pack, the promo needs to be at least $6 to break even. Is that worth the gamble? I am looking to buy the box for 2 casual drafts with friends as the next best thing since fat packs aren't available. I'm not cracking it solely for just pulling a promo Gideon.
I would not. Like you said, the promo needs to be $6 to break even, and you don't have good odds of that.
Thanks for the reply! It's kind of hard to justify it since my friend is selling packs from his box for the draft at $3 a piece.
That really clinches it. Unless you know that he already pulled a foil rare/mythic/expedition from his box
Now your promo has to be $12 in order to justify the cost.
Lol no he opened half of it. He only got a Sire and a Path. No Expedition, good foils, lands, or other mythics so I think the rest of the box is a gold mine.
It's the cheapest I've seen this card for awhile but it's kind of a risky purchase with Commander 2015 right around the corner. Is this a candidate for a Commander 2015 reprint? I'm not sure if it will happen. Thoughts?
It's the cheapest I've seen this card for awhile but it's kind of a risky purchase with Commander 2015 right around the corner. Is this a candidate for a Commander 2015 reprint? I'm not sure if it will happen. Thoughts?
It doesn't matter if it's reprinted in C15. The Arsenal Foil will retain its value. I wouldn't buy the 4E printing (and I just traded mine away), but the Arsenal is always a solid pickup.
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It's the cheapest I've seen this card for awhile but it's kind of a risky purchase with Commander 2015 right around the corner. Is this a candidate for a Commander 2015 reprint? I'm not sure if it will happen. Thoughts?
It doesn't matter if it's reprinted in C15. The Arsenal Foil will retain its value. I wouldn't buy the 4E printing (and I just traded mine away), but the Arsenal is always a solid pickup.
Thanks for your thoughts as always. I thought a Sylvan Library reprint would inevitably hurt the Commander's Arsenal version because the Commander's Arsenal version is the only modern frame Sylvan Library available. Still, it's very unlikely to see another Sylvan Library foil so I guess it's a relatively safe buy.
It's the cheapest I've seen this card for awhile but it's kind of a risky purchase with Commander 2015 right around the corner. Is this a candidate for a Commander 2015 reprint? I'm not sure if it will happen. Thoughts?
It doesn't matter if it's reprinted in C15. The Arsenal Foil will retain its value. I wouldn't buy the 4E printing (and I just traded mine away), but the Arsenal is always a solid pickup.
Thanks for your thoughts as always. I thought a Sylvan Library reprint would inevitably hurt the Commander's Arsenal version because the Commander's Arsenal version is the only modern frame Sylvan Library available. Still, it's very unlikely to see another Sylvan Library foil so I guess it's a relatively safe buy.
Absolutely. We're looking at a judge foil, FTV (and we all know how well those fly) or ... some package of cards designed for Commander. An Arsenal of some sort, maybe. Otherwise, there are really no good options to reprint this non-Modern card in foil. I mean, can you see it as the face card of a duel deck?
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Agreed, about the only ways I can see us having foil Sylvan Libraries bottom out is if they're reprinted in a new set (which is probably slightly more likely that Mana Drain!)... even a FtV printing likely won't bottom out the Arsenal foil copies. I'd expect that a new set printing or a FtV printing would be a likely candidate for new art, too, which makes the Arsenal copy even more likely to hold its value.
I'm looking to obtain a set of the 20 good Expeditions (no BFZs), should I keep waiting a bit longer before I take the plunge? I pulled Crypt, Garden, Rainforest, and Heath. Going by TCG low, it would cost me around $1450 to finish the set.
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I'm looking to obtain a set of the 20 good Expeditions (no BFZs), should I keep waiting a bit longer before I take the plunge? I pulled Crypt, Garden, Rainforest, and Heath. Going by TCG low, it would cost me around $1450 to finish the set.
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I thought it would be longer until prices reached the bottom but due to 95% of the set being total jank sales have slowed. I myself have been opening Dragons/Origins packs looking for standard staples rather than playing the expedition lottery and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The blue ones are still a little inflated in my opinion but there seems to be plenty of demand at the asking prices for Tarn, Delta and Strand so I think it's probably fine.
I just cracked a second Nissa, Vastwood Seer. I could easily ship them off on Puca now ($27.16), or I could wait and see if they spike after rotation. Assume I'm not interested in using them.
Well, as we saw in the "Investing in BFZ Fat Packs" thread, we can't really make a short-term profit on them even if they are selling for $65. I don't know that I'd have chosen BFZ Fat Packs as a target to sink nearly a grand into, but if you can spare the grand and the shelf space, it should hopefully pay off in three or four years?
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I'd ship them all. It's not that they're bad cards, or that they have no potential to spike, but many of them, especially the uncommons, will crash (can you call it crashing if a $2.50 card drops down to $0.50?) if they get reprinted. I think that your reprint risk is much higher than your spike potential.
It's a known quantity in a Legacy deck. The problem with the MM foil is that the ROE foil will always be viewed as superior - and any Legacy pimper who's looking for a foil will probably want to go all the way and get the ROE foil.
I'd just keep it in my trade binder and hope you run into that guy who wants it because it looks awesome, or who is putting together a new Sneak and Show/OmniTell and just needs one.
Combo of Target discount and lucky sales prices and I broke even at 15 sold. So I got 5 to stash and see if they rise, I was real worried that I wouldn't be able to move them
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I would not. Like you said, the promo needs to be $6 to break even, and you don't have good odds of that.
Thanks for the reply! It's kind of hard to justify it since my friend is selling packs from his box for the draft at $3 a piece.
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That really clinches it. Unless you know that he already pulled a foil rare/mythic/expedition from his box
Now your promo has to be $12 in order to justify the cost.
Lol no he opened half of it. He only got a Sire and a Path. No Expedition, good foils, lands, or other mythics so I think the rest of the box is a gold mine.
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It's the cheapest I've seen this card for awhile but it's kind of a risky purchase with Commander 2015 right around the corner. Is this a candidate for a Commander 2015 reprint? I'm not sure if it will happen. Thoughts?
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It doesn't matter if it's reprinted in C15. The Arsenal Foil will retain its value. I wouldn't buy the 4E printing (and I just traded mine away), but the Arsenal is always a solid pickup.
Thanks for your thoughts as always. I thought a Sylvan Library reprint would inevitably hurt the Commander's Arsenal version because the Commander's Arsenal version is the only modern frame Sylvan Library available. Still, it's very unlikely to see another Sylvan Library foil so I guess it's a relatively safe buy.
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Absolutely. We're looking at a judge foil, FTV (and we all know how well those fly) or ... some package of cards designed for Commander. An Arsenal of some sort, maybe. Otherwise, there are really no good options to reprint this non-Modern card in foil. I mean, can you see it as the face card of a duel deck?
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I thought it would be longer until prices reached the bottom but due to 95% of the set being total jank sales have slowed. I myself have been opening Dragons/Origins packs looking for standard staples rather than playing the expedition lottery and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The blue ones are still a little inflated in my opinion but there seems to be plenty of demand at the asking prices for Tarn, Delta and Strand so I think it's probably fine.
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