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I have a friend who was a hardcore wheeler and dealer of Magic cards back in highschool. He would travel around North America, buying and selling cards. He had
by Magi604 12y ago
I have a friend who was a hardcore wheeler and dealer of Magic cards back in highschool. He would travel around North America, buying and selling cards.
He had all the old cards: Alpha, Beta, Arabian Nights, etc. He would also cycle through lots of copies of the "Power 9" (the moxes, lotus, Library of Alexandria, Ancestral recall, Timetwister, Timewalk).
We played in type 1 tournaments (it's a format that lets you use all the cards ever printed, with a few banned cards that involved things like coin flips) and he would lend me all these power cards for my decks. It was always a treat to play a mox or lotus on the first turn and watch my opponent's eyes go wide just from seeing an actual card like that in play.
When we went to college, he ended up "cashing out" and selling something like $30,000 worth of cards to fund his first apartment. He still had tens of thousands worth of cards, and over the years he was slowly selling them off to fund various things.
That was years ago. Prices for the old cards today have massively jumped in price in just a few years. I think if he had held on to those old cards instead of selling them to buy an apartment, he would have made more money just from them going up in value vs. renting out his apartment to pay off its mortgage.
- devindotcom 12y agoDear me. I have binders full of old Revised, Dark, Legends, Ice Age, etc. Maybe I should take them in and get them valued. On the other hand, I'm trying to get my friends to play casually with me using the rather more basic old sets.
- zachjbart 12y agoPost up some pictures! It's always great to check out old binders, the feeling of finding a random old card that's worth a bunch now is awesome.
- kelukelugames 12y agoYou can search by set and sort by price to see what your cards are worth. I'm fairly sure the only big money comes from Revised dual lands and Force of Will in Alliance. http://sales.starcitygames.com/buylist/ http://sales.starcitygames.com/buylist/
- cssmoo 12y agoThanks for posting this. I have about 500 very old MTG cards (pre'95). Had no idea they were worth anything. Going to sort them now :) Probably all shit ones though.
- kelukelugames 12y agoLet me know if you hit a jackpot! People will pay for crappy commons if they are from Beta/Alpha. :)
- cssmoo 12y agoI got to $95 in (about 200 cards which was cool) and got bored. Resuming at the weekend as I've made a big spreadsheet of it all.
- ufo 12y agoYou might find this site useful to cut down on the sorting: http://mtg.dawnglare.com http://mtg.dawnglare.com
- cssmoo 12y agoThanks - that's really helpful and a lot easier to navigate through. Also prices are a little higher by the looks which is more fun :)
- tempestn 12y agoYes, thanks. Was fun digging out my old MtG cards. I had to do a bit of Googling to even remember some of the basics of how to play. From a quick skim it looks like I've got a bunch of $5ish cards, but nothing too fancy.
- zantana 12y agoI don't know the as much as things like cards and other collectibles are worth, sometimes the high end ones are hard to get anywhere near the "full" value for. I tried to get rid of my copy of X-men #94 a while back and there weren't many options that come close to its theoretical value.
- JoshTriplett 12y ago> with a few banned cards that involved things like coin flips Type 1 actually allows all the coin-flip cards; the banned cards are those that involve ante (because ante turns a MtG game into real-world gambling for objects of value) and one card that causes you to play a sub-game of magic (because it takes too much time, especially if repeated).