MTG Salvation

CoolStuffInc has one day sales and today's include
8 D&D Ravnica miniatures for $64.99 - https://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/262277
Azorius prerelease pack for $16.99 - https://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/270266

Already feeling FOMO, ready to buy one if WOTC has more around MSRP

I open enough packs anyway that I rarely need to buy common and uncommon singles, let alone sets, but by the time I have a couple dozen rares I reach the point of diminishing returns

I'm a complete set collector as well. Since I want every card and not just singles, I have more reason to crack packs. It is more fun to open them as part of Limited events, and my LGS has good prices and prize support for those, so it's easy to play a lot. They also have a good deal on boxes prerelease weekend, which gets me the buy a box promo. With that, a bundle and the planeswalker decks, I don't need to buy and more packs.

Since I have a lot of duplicates and am interested in a lot of stuff, I do well trading. I'd also buy singles to fill a few gaps. If I don't have much from a set I might choose that for prize packs or pick-your-own-packs Limited events. For each method I sometimes look back a few sets.

Checklists help keep track when buying or trading for missing cards. I have some printouts in a small binder to go with my trade binder.
I maintain an extensive collection of checklist files: https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/other-magic-products/third-party-products/805324-checklists-for-everything-from-alpha-to-ravnica

I compile checklists for every Magic release. I aim to be extremely thorough, including variant printings and promos.

You could type in the documents to keep track of your collection digitally, but these are optimized to print out nicely, to have information handy when near cards but not your computer. I aimed for nice formatting, and making efficient use of paper.

They should be particularly useful for organizing cards into 9 pocket pages, especially with incomplete sets from before collector numbers and/or with multiple versions.

I have both Word 2007 (.DOCX) and Excel versions.

I didn't want to mess with file format since precise formatting is key to these.
Older versions of Word can understand this format with a plugin. OpenOffice had problems with these .DOCX's last I checked a few years ago. However, if I have MS Word save as .DOC, and send that to OO, there aren't as many problems. I can do that if there's interest. Also, OO Calc didsn't seem to have a problem reading the Excel versions.

-PDF versions of some (if you want a PDF of another list, let me know)-
Folder - http://www.mediafire.com/folder/1pb3t6abtpbta/PDF_Versions

Ravnica Allegiance: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bbo19o9tjhapzjk/Ravnica_Allegiance_Checklist.pdf/file
Dominaria: http://www.mediafire.com/file/w39r237fbqg9u75/
Born of the Gods: http://www.mediafire.com/file/9f4gomd39h37de9/Born_of_the_Gods_Checklist.pdf/file
Ice Age Block: http://www.mediafire.com/file/zy4luxocy6kbzz9/

The Dark: https://www.mediafire.com/file/v3nf0i29knm0kcd/The_Dark_Checklist.pdf/file
All early non-block expansions: http://www.mediafire.com/file/kxe7b2pqinrnwrr/

From The Vault series: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rnth8b26zb6qm12/From The Vault checklist.pdf
Chronicles: http://www.mediafire.com/view/2j6ku4ac9xa31lf/

(If somebody wants PDF versions of something else, let me know)

Not every checklist looks the same (especially since I assembled them over a large period of time, and tweaked the format for the circumstances of each set). However, the examples above provide a pretty good approximation. These are non-editable PDFs.

-One set to a Word document-
List of Core Sets: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/36gh6ngl1cip9/Core_Sets
List of Expansions: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/mpxmd1gpfisg1/Expansions
List of Promo Categories: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/mx839udnb64ja/Promos
List of Special Sets: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/lnbjnzm7mhqdj/Special_Sets

All core sets ZIP: https://www.mediafire.com/file/splj7yp838qpwlz/Core_Sets_Alpha_to_M19.zip/file
All expansions ZIP: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ckjk2do9zo0uao8/Expansions_AN_to_RNA.zip/file
All promos ZIP: https://www.mediafire.com/file/s57iwg7ul5nd5lk/Promos_[as_of_RNA].zip/file
Special Sets ZIP: https://www.mediafire.com/file/62uodrl5p6alq65/Special_Sets_through_partial_RNA_Guild_Kits.zip/file

-Combined Checklist Word-
For blocks and other groups of related sets, I made one Word document that had the checklists for all the sets in the group.
List - https://www.mediafire.com/folder/wy841ejlszaea/Combined_Checklist
All files - https://www.mediafire.com/file/7rfifg99rnknn3t/Combined_Checklist_-_Word_[v4].zip/file

Sets with alternate versions (Alliances, Antiquities, Arabian Nights, Champions of Kamigawa, Chronicles, Fallen Empires, Homelands, Shadows over Innistrad, Unstable - http://www.mediafire.com/file/bja2ooyk6e668da/Sets With Alternate Versions.zip
All Sliver, Changeling, Ally - http://www.mediafire.com/file/dbo570ihcx4bogd

-Combined Checklist Word by plane-
http://www.mediafire.com/?s4tylc2wd6zzy
Both Innistrad blocks in the same file, same for Mirrodin, Ravnica, and Zendikar

-Combined Checklist Excel-
List - http://www.mediafire.com/folder/l5n4vkmcmnwtd/Excel
All files - https://www.mediafire.com/file/ui6uei6wwep5pqq/Combined_Checklist_-_Excel_[v4].zip/file

may seem cliche, but Power 9
No luck at a Legacy tournament where an Unlimited Mox was one of the top prizes.
No luck with Zendikar Priceless Treasures (but I did get a Revised Bayou, one of the original duals I was missing)

In my experience, Troll and Toad has pretty good prices and I've been happy with their service when I have used them. Yet StarCityGames seems way high so I haven't ordered from them. I've done well with CardKingdom's buylist but haven't bought from them.

The listing is ended at 2015 sold
didn't order, still not sure how to feel about that. Yet even if I had, I would've only gotten 1.

I usually use TCGPlayer for relatively expensive singles, as the shopping time and shipping cost is proportionally more useful at that point. Also it's easy to find non-mint cards; I often want a cheap playable copy.
CoolStuffInc is my favorite otherwise - the prices are comparable especially with customer rewards discount, shipping is free on $100+ orders
I get my fill of boosters at the LGS (box for buy-a-box promo, Limited events and/or prizes), and I often get other sealed product like Planeswalker decks there. If not I'd compare prices at the above.

Still available with 1282 sold. That plus 9339 is 10621. So if 15000 is accurate and they're all listed that's 4379 left. Maybe the first wave was 10K and the second is 5K.

I like the idea as the MSRP is about the same as 3 packs with as many foils as you'd usually get in 9 packs. I like foils as much as I dislike chaff nonfoils.
Yet being available only at big box stores means they won't be on sale like regular packs are

I've been making one but haven't gotten it to work. Sorry.

Either MWS crashes when I add the set or if I add it successfully, MWS crashes when I save the new masterbase and reopen MWS.

I put cards in MSE and exporting in MWS format, that's worked fine before.
I avoid flavortext as I have before and usually that works, but no this time.
I've tried adding only parts of the set and can't figure out what cards are the problem if that's even the issue at all.

Tempted to get one these as a completist collector. At least eBay knows how to run a heavy duty e-commerce platform. Even not being as great as the GRN one, would it drop below MSRP or stay above and still lead to FOMO?

This has the splits as totally separate cards and I'm not sure how to fix that.

Discovered a couple typos - Glaive of the Guildpact without the 'the', Collar the Cultprit. Fixed those.
Forest had been left out. Added that and did find/replace to change the card numbers from /273 to /274.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3t6xo2pwrvap9pg/GRN.txt/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kg77abei6qm38o3/Master_[through_GRN].mwBase/file