25,398 Up but added M15

Magic 2015 is on Pre-order so I needed to add all those cards to the list, so the card count has gone up, but as an awesome addition I did a trade with ABU Games and got a lot of good stuff added to the collection.

I had a couple of Unglued Sealed Booster boxes sitting around that were extra, and decided to see what I could get in trade for them.

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These guys gave me a pretty good price and 25% more in store credit, and considering the price I bought these boxes for when they were released, I think the trade was even up.  This is what I was able to get:

Duel Deck: Elves vs Goblins
Planechase: 2009 4 deck set
Premium Deck Series: Graveborn and Slivers
Deckmasters: Garfield

Now I know that with this trade for these sets I pretty much got the backend of a good kick, but I consider that I bought the Unglued boxes for around $60 each, and if you consider that I think I made out pretty even trading for a $250 Deckmasters: Garfield set when it sold for $25.95 list.

I was also able to complete these sets:
Revised
Legends
The Dark
Conspiracy
Timeshifted

I was also able to get all the basic lands for Mercadian Masques that I needed, and an Ihsan's Shade that I was missing for an Anthologies set that I had.  Most importantly, I think the only things now that I need for small expansions are Battle Royal, Beatdown, and Duels of the Planeswalkers.

I should be putting together the M15 card separators this week and opening packs this weekend.  Lets see if I can get all the cards that I am looking for.

As a side note, I just setup my own Minecraft server, and have been spending a lot of time with that.  Since I don't have a good play group with Magic, I might just move down to collecting one of every card rather than the playset, but that just might be a fad, and I am just bored with Magic again.  Still muddling around with the idea of getting 6 sealed booster boxes each set for the commons and uncommons, and then just buying the rest of the rares and mythic rares I need to fill out the sets.  That way I could also save up for older booster boxes I don't have and not spend most of my money on the new sets that come out.