Total Foil Count: 3,751
Total Need Count: 2,022
Collecting Update
Yup it is real. I have no real interest in picking up any MTG product right now. I am not really sure where this is coming from either. I am bored and my collecting has no priority in my life.
I am grading every single card in my collection to have a more accurate list of cards that I own, but that is more for the sale of the collection. It will more than likely take me a year to get complete, so there is something that I am doing.
I still need to update my collection to account for the new format of Pioneer, and that is just annoying, but I will get more into how I feel about that.
There is just no desire to open any packs what so ever, and the thought of sorting and organizing my collection just makes me bored. I mean, I have been spending more time with my investing hobby, and listening to a lot more on that topic. With that I am always thinking about converting my MTG collection into those assets, but I just have not been able to pull the trigger on that type of transaction.
It is always a question of trying to sell the collection all at once, or to take the slower path of selling over the long term while making more of a return on the collection. I just don't know. And honestly I will not really know until my son is old enough to play with me, and to see if he enjoys the game as much as I did. The last thing I would want to do is sell the collection before he has a chance to enjoy the game. I would never want to have the conversation with him and say, "Well I used to have a bunch of Black Lotus, but I sold them."
So for now I am just chugging along, picking up what I need to in order to keep up with my sealed product needs, and once I figure it out I will start up on my singles collection later.
Pioneer
This piece of shit. Ok to be fair, I am really happy for the format and from a collection stand point it is really great for me. I saw a really large uptick on cards that were worth next to nothing. Some of my Spec's actually look a lot better now, and I really think my buy into Ixalan will pay off in strides because of those flip cards lands. But from a collecting stand point, I need to go through all my Modern cards and re-sort everything into Pioneer playable cards to keep going with my collection.
I just need to rethink on how I am storing everything. I think that as soon as I get through the grading process, I can really dig into what to do next.
In the end, I am really happy that they are coming out with supported formats like this, I am just annoyed that I have to do work.
My Little Pony
Ok... Ok... Ok...
So I bought this thing. I am never going to open this thing or use the cards, but I fucking bought it. I paid MSRP too. I am not against them printing these types of cards. I am not against cards from other properties being Magic cards. I just fucking hate it that there is another thing I need to buy to keep up with my collection.
It is just another thing that makes me want to stop collecting all together, and trim down to a couple of decks.
Vintage
I got this beauty and I only need 12 more cards to finish my Unlimited collection! It was at a good price too! Not the mintiest card, but still playable.
Standard
This pickup was just in time! Prices of this card had been tumbling for a while, and some lucky trader decided to cash out and receive the price I was willing to pay for them ($8.00). Not that long after I got them in Pioneer was announced and the price doubled. Lucky for me!
And this might be a simple brag, and there are plenty of cards that I sent out at $1 to reach the heights of multiple times higher, but this card was a true thorn in my side. It is just one of those standard cards that plays well in Modern, and I was really just hoping to pick it up on the slide down as it gets closer to rotation. Lucky me, I was able to snag them up just in time.
Other Pickups
Yup, I ended up paying X2.5 for those Sun Sentinels, but I am closer to finishing out the last of the Planeswalker deck 1st print cards. Stupid products.
This is a speculation that I think is going to go even further now that Pioneer has been announced. I am still trying to pick up more of these, but that is also because I love Moxen!
Picked up another one of these too. I am not sure what is going on, but grabbing Modern Master cards is just a lot easier and my prices are being met quite fast, as low as I have them set.
And more Modern Horizon cards for the collection. Again, just surprised that I am able to pick these up so quickly now that Pioneer has been announced. I do think there is a correlation, but I am not sure if it is Pioneer or the Next Set Syndrome. What ever it might be, if you can fight off FOMO and just wait, you can always get cards at a lower price once they have been released.
Promo
And this is the second to last Player Promo card that I need from the 5th release and up. I only need one more and I can move on to my next promo set to collect.
End
So this is another example of going to a monthly blog while I try and figure all this out.
WoTC did announce that they were going to release more Commander products in 2020, so it looks like there is going to be more sealed product I will need to buy. But since they are mostly Commander decks, I will just be picking up 2 each. One to open and one to keep. They also announced a draft set being released for Commander, so let's see how that goes.
There is also going to be a new Un-set that is a pre-made 5 deck set which is pretty cool.
I am still not excited about next year at all. Seems like a lot of stupid products I need to pick up in order to keep up with playable cards, and if they keep up with the Collector Boosters, it is just going to get more stupid with elevated prices at release and the cards just ending up at a massive loss.
If WoTC only knew that they could just release less products but raise the price everything would more than likely go smooth. Now that they are raising prices while also sending out more sets, it is no wonder why people are moving toward EDH. All you need is a single card for any of those decks and a $0.50 card could be very valuable in the deck you want to play.
I know, I do not need to buy everything that is released. As a collector I only like to have everything in my collection, but seeing what is going on it is slow and steady at this point. The bubble of excess needs to be avoided.
