To keep a long story short, I currently don't have any sort of a trade binder after a tight financial situation required me having to buylist most of my collection that wasn't in my Mardu Pyromancer deck. I'm now in a position to go about rebuilding my trade binder with about $50/week dedicated to growing my collection again. The problem is... I'm not sure of the best way to go about rebuilding a good binder.
Back when I initially built my trade binder I was mostly an EDH player and often took apart decks when I lost interest in them. Thus, my binder was mostly EDH cards that I acquired through building and deconstructing decks, and I wasn't specifically seeking to build a binder. Now, however, I'm not actively looking to build any decks and I no longer play EDH. Should I just save up a sizable chunk of money and then make a post on one of the B/S/T Facebook pages looking to buy Modern/Legacy staples at a discount? Should I just randomly pick up staples as I come across them? The whole finance side of MTG is pretty foreign to me, but I'm mostly just looking to get myself back into a position where I have a decent trade binder, preferably with trades that are more aligned with the Modern/Legacy crowd.
Cards in a trade-binder are cards you dont need yourself and so you trade them away to get stuff you want.
So simply put, just buy what you need if you have no trade cards.
You will naturally accumulate cards if you draft regularly or open prize packs (which you also might just draft with some friends).
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Buying into cards just to trade them seems to be counter productive.
If you can buy a bunch of cards for cheap if someone in your area stops playing or needs money, thats reasonable to do if you have the cash available and the cards are somewhat guaranteed to keep value.
Yeah dude binders make sense if you're switching between a bunch of EDH decks and storing parts/trading what you don't need, but if you've only got a few modern decks you want then just buy cards when you need them.
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Back when I initially built my trade binder I was mostly an EDH player and often took apart decks when I lost interest in them. Thus, my binder was mostly EDH cards that I acquired through building and deconstructing decks, and I wasn't specifically seeking to build a binder. Now, however, I'm not actively looking to build any decks and I no longer play EDH. Should I just save up a sizable chunk of money and then make a post on one of the B/S/T Facebook pages looking to buy Modern/Legacy staples at a discount? Should I just randomly pick up staples as I come across them? The whole finance side of MTG is pretty foreign to me, but I'm mostly just looking to get myself back into a position where I have a decent trade binder, preferably with trades that are more aligned with the Modern/Legacy crowd.
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Cards in a trade-binder are cards you dont need yourself and so you trade them away to get stuff you want.
So simply put, just buy what you need if you have no trade cards.
You will naturally accumulate cards if you draft regularly or open prize packs (which you also might just draft with some friends).
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Buying into cards just to trade them seems to be counter productive.
If you can buy a bunch of cards for cheap if someone in your area stops playing or needs money, thats reasonable to do if you have the cash available and the cards are somewhat guaranteed to keep value.
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