Monday, July 30, 2018

GP Minny 2018!

Total Card Count: 291

This is another large update, but I am kind of liking just putting out one of these each week instead of the multiple smaller updates.  We will see how it goes, but I really just don't have a lot of time to do updates anymore.

So let's start up with some pickups I got from Card Kingdom.






I love these lands because I am a Commander player, so I prefer to playing against multiple people at one time and these lands are perfect for me!  I am trying to pick up more of these that needed, just cause I see these are a dual land reprint.  Yes those ABUR dual lands.  Commander (EDH) is only getting more players, and I see these lands going far in value.  Now, this is not a speculation, but more of a grab to supply my decks.  I do see that I need more than 2 playsets, so I will more than likely stop at 3 playsets in hopes for a reprint at some point, and then I can trade some of my originals out for the reprints.

I also got some sealed product in from CardSphere!  I Love These Trades!!!!


This was a surprise, but a very nice surprise.  This finishes out my Magic 20XX Core sets and now I can mark that down as a small accomplishment and move on to the next step of the Modern Core sets.


This one was a planned pickup!  So now that people know I am looking for sealed products, I have other traders picking up boxes I need, and letting me know that they have them.  This allows me to know that I have something on a balance buildup.  Of course, this makes me want to trade more, so I can build up my balance to get those sealed booster boxes.  It just works so well knowing that I have product like this waiting for me, and all I need to do is sent cards out.

Now for the Grand Prix Minneapolis update!

I was lucky enough to have some family in town this past weekend, and decided to bring my two nephews to the GP so that they could see what it is all about.  I have been playing Magic with them for a while, and have been teaching them since they were 9, so it was a really cool thing to be able to show them the upper tiers of professional gaming.

We did not take part in any of the side games, and it was more just to show them what goes on, and they were pretty impressed.  They did grab a side table to get a couple games in while I did my trading business, and our real playing time was going to be up at my LGS.


So these.  I was planning on pulling my Revised Booster box our of storage to see if I could trade into some sealed booster boxes I needed, but was a bit timid of walking around with a box like that in my backpack.  I also did not see Alter Reality Games as a vendor, so I was not sure there was going to be anyone there that even had sealed product.

So as plan B, I grabbed a couple of my sealed Revised Starter decks in case there was something I could trade for.  I was quite surprised to see that folks were selling these for around $500, and pricing them around $1000 per deck.  I figured if there was something in sealed product I could at least get a sealed box for one of these.

To my disappointment I did not find any sealed product vendors there at all, so I was very happy I did not bring my Revised Booster box, but I was interested to see what I could get for the Starter decks.  I went to each vendor, verified there were some cards that I could pickup, and asked them how much they were willing to give me for trade-in value.

I ended up finding a vendor that was pricing them out at $400 in trade, so I pick them.  Now, the other vendors were all around the $300 - $350 per, so I only made out with $100 more in trade with the final vendor.  Let's take a look at what I was able to pickup:


And this is what I found for my Revised Starter decks an Unlimited Scrubland and Unlimited Savanah.  I was able to take a $7.95 pack of unopened cards and trade them for +$300 cards.  This also finished out my playsets of those Unlimited dual lands I was looking for.  I know they are not the best dual lands, but they are my finished Unlimited playsets and now I can freely trade away the Revised Dual lands that I was holding on to for other decks.  Basically I am trying to hold on to 2 sets of Dual Lands being a mix of Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, and Revised.  Granted I do not play with my Alpha or Beta Duals, but you get it.


I did have a little left over, so I also picked up these packs to round it out.  I am not opening them because I do not want to sort and inventory the cards I would get.  I really do find that now that I am done with collecting all my sets, I just don't want to open any sealed product past my pre-order pickups.

I was also weak and picked up some cards from a vendor.  I normally keep all my cash buys for my LGS when I can, and I like buying standard playable cards from them so they make a little money off of cards and I can help keeping them in business.  But I was weak, and picked up these cards.


This finished out my playset and I have no idea why I needed to pick these up, but it started my drift down the issue of picking up cards I did not need to buy at the time.


Yep, did not need these, but picked them up anyway.  Totally should have grabbed them from Lodestone, but yeah...


Ok!  So this one I needed for my playset, and it is a Modern playable card, but yeah another card I should have grabbed from my LGS...

So really it is not as bad as it could have been, but these cards are the types of cards I would only pickup from my LGS.

Now lets get into the real good stuff I get when at a GP!


RK Post was there!  This is the first time I was able to see this artist, and I was really happy!


More art for the walls!!


I need to buy more frames!

And then, there was Arron Miller!



It was only a couple of playmats, but I really like this work.  I wish he had a new Star Wars playmat, but I am happy with these additions.

So yeah, it was a good week, picking up some sealed booster boxes, along with some Commander lands, and finished it off with a great GP weekend with family.  We did end up going to Lodestone and playing Commander for many hours.  It was a great time, and we played with my higher powered Commander decks.  It was pretty dead in the shop because of the GP, so we were able to grab a table off to the side, and gamed it up.  It really get's me excited for the time when my child is old enough to spend hours upon hours at the LGS playing games all day.

Thursday, July 19, 2018

This is a long one!

Card Count: 414

Well it has been a bit and there were a lot of stuff that has been released.  We recently had the Core 2019 set release.


With this set we got a bunch of reprints, but we also need to try and get a playset.  This set release increased the card count by +197 cards.  If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know I do not like Core set releases because I hate having to collect playsets of reprints.  What I really hate about this set are the Planeswalker desks!


These fucking things.  Not only do they keep making these deck, they decided to make 5 of them instead of just 2, and now I am officially done with them.  What a waste of capital.  I could just pick up another sealed booster box than try and grab these.  I will try and put up a bunch on CardSphere to pick up cheap, but I am not going to try for these anymore.  It is a waste for my budget and if WoTC is just going to put out crap I am not going to buy them anymore.

I will keep track of the cards, but very close to just removing them from the collection all together.


And these stupid things are back...  I am going to stick with just getting the decks and not picking up the deck printed only cards.  So what is happening here, WoTC is putting crappy reprints in these decks, but you can only get the cards from these decks.  So in order to get a playset, I would have to ask my LGS for 4 of these decks so I can have my playset.

These decks are out there for free to get newer players playing MTG, and they are not for sale.  So for me to try and get 4 sets of these cards is just stupid.  I am just going to get 1 set of these and leave it at that.  Taking free cards from newer players is bad enough, trying to get a playset of these stupid things is just greedy.


This is what my collection of Core 2019 looks like after sorting and sleeving.  I just need to make my labels and put them in the Standard shoe box for my Standard decks.

I had done my pre-order for the set, and you are now able to pick up the booster boxes at pre-release instead of 1 week after, so I needed to go up to the LGS and grab my Bundles I have been collecting.


And while I was up there, I might was well grab some Core 2019 cards I need for my playsets!  I know!  I know!  I am supposed to wait until after rotation to get them!  Well this is another reason I am not buying so much sealed to crack, because I always need to buy something from my LGS, so I might as well buy things I need, and not pick up things for the trade binder.


I figured I should grab all the Elder Dragons I need because I can see these going up in price with Commander ideas.


Yes I am one of those guys that picked up some of these at the increased price, but I have always made the mistake in not picking up Liliana right after release and the price just goes up higher, so I just grab these to be done with it.


And yes, I picked up my playset of these because.  There is no deck I needed these for.  I just wanted to be done with these as well.  I know I could have waited for these, but I can see that Core 2019 not being opened a lot, and these creeping up.  Well, that is what I am telling myself with this one.


I also grabbed some of these because I want all of these.  Come on!  Dual lands for multiplayer games?  And they are below $10?!  I am picking up as many of these as I can.


Oh yeah I don't collect promo cards...  Total impulse buy.  I did not need this card, nor did I want this card.  I recently picked up my second playset of the normal printed card, but I for some reason wanted this one too.  I am still not planning on collecting the promo cards, but you never know...


I can't forget about CardSphere!  This sexy thing came in from 1 trader along with another sealed booster box.  But it is the first booster box from the block, and he let me know that he had another one when I had enough balance for the send.  I just love getting booster boxes!


And the first Ravnica block is done!  I have to admit, I am very happy to get this one from CS and not having to buy this box.  To be able to get a $600+ booster box from the site really tells you about the community.  It really has some legs to be able to pickup this.  I am very happy!  Come join me on CS and help me get my referral badges by signing up with this link!

https://www.cardsphere.com/ref/711/e4031f


Last but not least, Art Book for Dominaria!  I know I keep picking up these books, but it really sucks sometimes being a collector.  I really want to crack the book to read, but as a collector I won't allow myself to do it.  I hope to run into someone with these books opened so I can enjoy them.  And no, I am not going to by 2 of them so I can open one and keep one sealed.  But that does sound like a good idea.

So my day job should be a lot less stressful, and we got through the hell weekend that we had been planning for over a year for.  I hope to be able to post a bit more now, and maybe share some more of my collection.

So yeah!  I hope to have some more posts soon.  I am getting in some new stuff in the coming weeks.

Friday, July 6, 2018

Phat Pack!


Just another pickup from CardSphere.  The only issue I have with these pickups, CardSphere does not have all the prices up yet, so I can't get everything I am looking for.  They need to get the MSRP from the sets in order to post the prices, and I am stuck waiting for them to get that data.

Granted these Fat Packs are pretty low on my want list, but it is pretty cool that I am finishing out this part of the collection.  This was a small add from trading, but still a welcome one.


Ok, so yes it is my first case of Dominaria.  And I know I said first case, because I do think I will be buying more.  Like in stocks, always pick up the winners and keep picking up more.  Ok, so in stocks it is not as simple as that, but in some senses it is.

This set is great for drafting, great for sealed, and great for single cards.  They added the Sagas, and I see those cards being worth more after rotation.  Then there is the new Mox, Karn, and Teferi.  All of which I think will be worth more in the future.  Cabal Stronghold is good, and could show more growth later, but yeah all in all I want more of this set. 

I think this will be one of those great sets that people will look back on and want to play more of.  To me, I think back to Urza's Saga when I thought to myself that I should get more of that set, but did not.  Or Innistrad and thought to myself and said I should get more, but I didn't.  So with sets like this, I tend to pick up more then the normal set. 

Kind of like what I did with Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, and Ixalan.  There is something with those sets that I just wanted more for later.  Amonkhet, Hour, Rivals, Oath, BFZ were all sets I did not see anything special with the set, so I did not pick up more, but it was also the time I had a larger buy pool so I have way too much of those products.  And as I have gone over and over, I am now under a new buy rule where I only pick up a small amount on pre-release to keep my bulk down.

Now I also know that this set was just released, and it has a long print run right now.  I want more of this set.  Honestly, I really think that the availability of this set will not be like we have had in recent years.  My feeling is that they will slow down on the release of all their sets instead of having an open fire hose for all Standard sets.  Almost like going back to the Scars of Mirrodin days.  I also think they are not doing this to keep print cycles down, but instead they are ramping up the number of products released into the wild.

There will be so many products out there, the natural purchase cycles these sets did have will go down because there is more to consume out there.  Everyday MTG players will not be able to sustain buying everything at the same amounts they had before, and they will now need to spread their cash around to different products.  But I also think that Commander has taken over the game, and people really have flocked to that format because of the cost.  Players no longer need playsets for their collection.

I also think WoTC is seeing this trend, and are moving forward to releasing more product to meet those needs.  Conspiracy, Battlebond, Spellbook, Global Series, and of course Commander.  These are all new sets that have multi-player cards in them, and are very useful in the Commander Meta.  They are also doing card frame changes to make those legendary cards more special.  Hell, go back to Dominaria and they added the Historic feature.  Wizards see's that the player base wants more Commander like decks, and can see where their customers want to spend their cash.

Come on - Brawl?

Standard is the way of the competitive player, but the Commander style of play is for 90% of the MTG community in some way of form.  Players might not play Standard, but they will play Commander.  The format is just better for the casual player, and lets be serious, 90% of the player base is causal for the majority of their playing time.

And like I have said before, and the reason I am buying so little of the sets when they come out, is because I want to be able to be more selective with what I get to buy, instead of bulking out more than I should.  Don't buy a ton of Hour of Devastation so then I can pick up more Dominaria because it is a better set.  Just crack a small amount so I can pick up singles that will be worth more later.  This way I lower my cost in bulk, keeping my bulk card supply down, and I can be more specific in what I buy along with getting my playset.

I am really just going to be excited for the time when I am done picking up my sealed product for the collection, and then that will open up my cash for all future speculation with new product.

Not much of an add to this blog, but wanted to keep up with what is going on since work is easing up.  Hopefully I will have another add soon with the M19 opening this weekend!

Saturday, June 30, 2018

What to do, what to do...

Total Card Count: 148


Someone from CardSphere asked to see a picture of my sealed collection, so I thought I would post it here too.  Not sure what type of interest there is to seeing my collection, but here we are.  Let me know if more would like to see what my collection looks like.

This is only my sealed collection, and it is missing the Commander decks I have on another shelf.  I also am not sharing my sealed stuff that I use for trading and drafting.


Went up to Lodestone to finally pick up my Global Series deck set.  I did only pick up 1 of these, because I am treating them like Duel Decks and picking up 1 of each.

I also grabbed a bunch of stuff for Dominaria, but I inventoried them before I could take pictures, but you can see that the card count is lower than previously posted.

I did get my second Teferi and Arena Rector for the collection.  In addition, I picked up another playset of Mox Ambers.  Why would I do that?  Because I really like the card.  I think it is a really good Commander card, and I think someone will make a Legacy deck that uses it.  It is one of those cards that I would rather pick up another playset at $11 than $60 later.  I just think it is going to go up in price much further out of rotation.

So yeah, kind of just sitting around waiting for my M19 to get released.  I did pick up another case of Dominaria from Alpha Investments for speculation, and I could grab another one later on in the year.  I really think they are going to trickle the availability of the set and it is not going to have a large print run.  I honestly think we are heading back to Pre-RTR printing levels.  I could be wrong, but I think they are going to sell out of these new sets faster than people think, so I might as well grab them while I can.

I am not sure if I am going to get more of M19 than my pickup for the collection.  I really like the set, but it is a reprint set.  I just do not see the sealed product holding value than expansion sets.  I did grab more Battlebond than normal, but that is cause of the lands.  I also grabbed more Ixalan then I needed, but again because of the land.  M19 is just a cool set and I would rather just invest my cash in the playset and call it a day.

I am still up in the air of the new Ravnica block.  Pretty sure I am just going to get my case and try and get my playset, and do the whole speculation of more sealed product if it plays well.  Dominaria is a no brainer based on home much people love drafting the set.  It is like Innistrad.  People just love that set, so might as well grab some sealed for later on.

So yeah, not a lot of pictures this post.  Off to fix my toilet with my cousin.  Let me know if seeing pictures of my collection is something people want to see.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Where have you been?

Alpha Card Count: 230

So, I have been AFK for a bit.  Multiple reasons, all the same players with work and family, but also it is summer time.  With the new baby, and good weather, comes spending time outside away from my office.  But really, work has been kicking my ass.  There are times when people in my life say the phrase, "This is why you make the big bucks..." it really did hold true within the last 3 weeks.

My company is trying to do work that would take a year to complete, and ram it into 3 months, so everyone at my company is crabby and working long hours.  But the end is at the back end of July, just in time for GP Minneapolis and PT 25 in Minneapolis, so I am not complaining.  I just need to make it though this summer.

I should have a ton of PTO to use up at that time, so I hope to catch up with some more content around then.  So for now, I was able to make it to the Source Comics and Games to browse through their shelves and found this beauty!


That is right!  Alpha common!


I was also able to pick up my pre-order of the new Spellbook product.  I only pre-ordered 2 of the, but the store had a lot more so I asked if I could get 5.  I wanted to have a playset of them along with 1 sealed to keep in the collection.  Luckily they agreed to my wants and I got my 5 packs.

I liked the FTV series a lot more, but considering all the cards they were throwing out there, a refresh of product was a welcome change.  They were just putting out worse and worse products with newer and newer cards.  Not much of a vault feeling.

I have also put in my pre-order for M19 with a case from Lodestone and I will just pick up a couple Bundles when I grab the case.  Again, if I want to get some more sealed to speculate on the set, I will pick them up from Rudy.  But considering these are standard set boxes, I know I can get cases from my LGS for only $10 more, which in the end you all know I do not mind spending money at my LGS to support them.  And considering I give Rudy $20 a month it pretty much evens out with just buying from my LGS.

I still need to pick up my pre-order of the new international series, but I am not in a hurry for that one.  I never liked the Duel Decks either, but just bought them to keep the collection going.

So yeah, lots going on that is not hobby based, but getting a lot done.  I have even slowed way down on my CardSphere trading due to lack of time.  I do hope to pick up on that work once the summer hell is over.  Hope to see more updates in Aug.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

And then there are weekends like these...

Total Card Count: 176

So this was a pretty eventful weekend for me.  Stopped off at the PO Box on Thursday like I normally do and I had 2 packages waiting for me.  One to pickup and one in the locker.  To my surprise the sexy shipment came in!

This is the first Kamigawa block booster box I have got in.  Betrayers is no Champions, but I am enjoying the lovely sealed booster box!

Then I filled out all my Lorwyn / Shadowmoor block sealed booster boxes with this one!  I do have to say that I am very happy to have finished with that block.  Those sets are pretty high on my value list, and to get that all locked in really made me happy.  Now if I can just get the Fat Packs!

And this lovely beast.  This one rounds out my Odyssey block and I can move on with the Mercadian and Invasion blocks.  I still do need Urza's Legacy and Destiny, but with the prices where they are at now, I think that goes into the long term goals pile.

So I have been getting most of my sealed product on CardSphere from 1 single trader, and I can only assume that he is getting these boxes from Facebook group and having them send me the boxes directly.  Just because the names on the return labels are all over the place and they are not from stores.  Not that I care, because as I have posted on here before, if I were to pull my cash out to buy the boxes I would be losing 10% for the withdraw fee CS puts on it's traders. 

Also would like to add that I am not against that fee, it is just nice not having to pay it, and having someone go out and find these boxes for me.  I just hope he is making some money on his end!  Love my CS!

Before we move on to the next topic this week, let's reflect on how much we need still for Sealed Booster boxes.

I need 11 more boxes that are pre-Modern, scary ones are the Urza's Legacy and Destiny.
Then I need 7 boxes from the Modern age, top priced box is the Future Sight one.
Unhinged, Portal, and Starter 1999 are some of the supplementary sets I need.
And then I need 7 Core set boxes.  Good thing is I have Revised, bad thing I need 7th Edition.

So that is a total of 28 more sealed booster boxes that I need, and there is no way I am counting any thing pre-Ice Age, just because of cost.  Although I will be looking to pick up Homelands and The Dark if I can, but still the prices on The Dark is a bit crazy right now. 

ABU or AAL are not even on the want list.  Unless I win the lottery, I am not going to get anything sealed from those sets.

Let's move on to Friday and what we picked up that is new!

P R E T T Y excited about this one.  I know, new Commander Anthology, but come on!  More Commander cards I can build decks with?  Fuck yeah!  Of course I bought 2, one to keep sealed and one to open.

Funny thing, when I opened up one of my sets, I got some extra rares from the Red/White deck.  Fiery Confluence was a big winner!

I also should add that I went up to my favorite LGS Lodestone Coffee & Games to pick up my pre-order for the Battlebond set that came out this weekend.  I am keeping this bad boy sealed.

I then stopped at my PO Box again because I did an order for more Battlebond from Rudy at Alpha Investments.  Why they hell did I buy so much this set?  It is a supplementary set that you can't play in Modern or Standard.  Oh but yes, my wee little friend, you can play these cards in Commander, and that is what I love to play.  More importantly I wanted these:


These are dual lands that come into play untapped if you are playing against more than 1 player.  Perfect for Commander.  I see these lands as having a huge runway, and I will be picking up as many of these as I can.

Since this is a really good set for the type of MTG I like to play, it really is not a speculation, but it is admitting to the fact that I want a lot of this set.  This is another reason we stopped buying so much of the Standard sets, so that we can pick up new releases like this.  So yeah you can call it a speculation, just like how we plan to pick up some more Dominaria, but we had to grab this product now because of the limited print run.


And then there were these.  I know I know!  Why the hell am I paying list prices on these Standard cards?  When my Goal is to pick up Standard cards after rotation, why would I pay the highest prices for cards like this? 

Well first, I did it because I see these cards being good in Modern and Legacy as well as in Standard.  So really, I am just picking these up now knowing that my price point is not the highest price point in the long run.  I just wanted to get these cards.  This is not like spending $20 on a Glorybringer, knowing that it will be sub $2 after rotation.

Second, I wanted to support my favorite LGS.  The way an LGS makes the most of it's money is buying singles off people that are looking to cash in at a discounted price, and then selling the cards back to the players.  They do not make much money on sealed product at all.  This way I can get stuff I want, and support the LGS I want to stay in business.  Granted this might have only been $100 profit for the store, but I knowingly went into this with that in though, so it makes me feel better.

And with these pickups I took down the amount I need to finish up Dominaria by $210.00.  That is a significant reduction.

So yeah, this was a pretty big weekend, and I am going to be busy sleeving, sorting, counting and all the stuffs.  Hopefully I will have another update soon with what I pulled from Battlebond!

Saturday, June 2, 2018

I made it!

Taking a walk this morning with my wife and son, I took a peek on Twitter to see what all the happenings that were going on.  Low and behold I have a couple of notification.  A couple of small little updates on my account.  A little whisper from the Tweet angle saying, "Hey, there is something here you should look at."

Now, I normally do not really care about those notification because they are usually some BOT following me based on some financial tweet I retweeted, or I liked some funny thing, and those notifications are just something I need to clear out because I see that little bubble with the number on it and I can't just leave it there.

Well well well, fuck me in the goat ass...  I see that @realCardSphere account with the Following bubble next to it.  I had to take a second look because I did not believe what I was seeing.  At first I was like, oh look the CardSphere twitter account, that is nice.  Then I asked myself, "Self - what does that even mean, did I send them a message over night?"  And it slowly crept into my twitter brain that CardSphere decided to follow me on Twitter.

Like /u/trodney thought it was important enough to follow me on the tweets.  Like he thinks I am cool enough to keep up with!  Like he thought that DogonSiereht guy is someone of importance that I NEED to follow him.  Ok ok, he most likely just recognized the userID from CS and figured it was me and though "Heh, why not..."

But fuck you Ted!  I love it!  I was so excited that I tweeted about it!


In all honesty, I am really happy about it.  I was so ecstatic I told my wife, "You know that site that I use to send all those pieces of cardboard that you hate so much?  Well those guys just followed me on Twitter!"  She smiled!  No really, she actually smiled!  (She does not really hate MTG, but she will never play...)

I am not much of a tweeter, and I really do not promote my Blog or anything I do on Twitter, and just use it for news and updates from the things I like (Manchester United!), but to see that the site I spend most of my extra time on decided to follow me was just a treat!

If you have not done so, you should get a Twitter account and start following anything you like.  It is a great tool, especially if you are shopping around for MTG deals.  I cannot tell you how many times I see a local store's tweet about some awesome deal or new product, and then I race down to the store to pick up said item.  It is a great tool for updates and news.  A really specific connection tool.

So yeah, it might not be such a big deal, but to me it was an honor, and I am happy that they thought it was something they wanted to get updates on.  I can only assume they will mute me though, unless they want to get all my retweets on investing and finance.

/hugs Ted!

Unlimited Count: 23


I have to admit, I thought it was fake.  I was really scared about this on coming in, just because it was so well kept.  It is a nice addition to the Unlimited set, and now I am sitting at 23 more for the complete set.  There are only 2 cards that are on the Reserved List, but I am hopeful with CardSphere's help.  I really think I am someone that can take advantage of CS and how it works, since I am a collector I can pay TCGPlayer Mid prices, and people will be more than willing to send at those prices.

I do not have to worry about getting cards at a lower price point, even though I do try.  For things I really want, I will up my pricing to make it worth folks to go out and get the cards for me.

I know I keep repeating myself, but I am using everything that is totally extra to me and sending out those cards to get balance.  That balance is what I am using to get the cards I want.  That to me is just amazing because of the amount of extra cards I have laying around.  I might be paying out $100 for a card, but to me that is like spending $90, just because I can avoid pulling out the cash and getting hit with the 10% withdraw fee.

I am also using the power of the pack with CS.  All the folks on CS have the ability to go out and find the cards at their LGS to send to me.  I have found that there are a lot of LGS's around my house that have no online presence but still have a lot of cards for sale.  CS traders might find cards at their local LGS to fulfill my needs at the same time building up their CS Balance.

Or they might have a trade-in balance with an LGS, and they can pick up the cards at discounted prices to gain balance on CS, so they can get what they are looking for.  You can do Buy-Listing with the larger retailers to maintain a balance with them, and then find someone on CS looking for something, then cash out their trade-in balance to send those times within CS and build up that CS Balance.

Really, I have said it before, and I will say it again, CardSphere is just a great trading floor for the MTG community.  When you are dialed into the CS membership, you are able to see all the best % based items people are looking for, and then go out and find them for those traders.  Those items are usually for the people that are willing to pay more than 100% for an item, that means you are more than likely going to be making money on the deal. 

Most of the sealed product is well above the 100% mark that MSRP was posted on.

So yeah, I know I just posted something, and I was going to hold off on the new Unlimited card for next week, but I thought I would just post again because CardSphere decided to follow me on Twitter. 

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Break time

I am going to be taking a break from updating my blog until I start doing more with Magic the Gathering.  I am not going to sell the collect...