Nyoj1971 With My Most Productive PWE

I'd say it's a productive PWE if it finishes off not one, not two, but three different base sets. Not to mention, they are all of the same brand and set, just different years.

Readers on the blog probably know how much I like the Tim Horton sets, and I slow collect them all. Well, here I have the final cards I needed for the 2017-18 set. It may only be 100 cards, but yes, took me about 7 years to finish.

With the lot of cards from Value Village I picked up a while ago, it also left me near completion on the 2019-20 set, with these two cards finishing that set off and...

These are the last I needed for the 2020-21 set as well.

I can't recall a PWE that was able to finish off this many sets for me at one so it was a great trade and nice to put some of these sets to bed, though none of them are ones I have binders for so they get the box treatment - but I love them just the same!

Three Different Things

 A trade to share from TCDB member b14rebel which was just three cards but with very different purpose.

Cora Jade fills the "collect everything wrestling" bucket. I am not a big Panini fan but the Prizm set is starting to wear on me a bit, in a good way.

Fred Lynn was....I think an upgrade for a very rough version I wanted replaced. Nothing special really but now and then I will look to upgrade if a card is really rough.

Cameron is a base card add for a slow set build.

Sometimes, a lot can be done with just a few cards!

As always, appreciate the trade!

Start Of The End

 It is April - one month of the busy crazies left at work for busy season. I've made it through 24 times so far this life...let's make it 25 I guess. Sorry if the chats get shorter here while the month goes, but first of the month and I am no fool - happy to have done this PWE trade with TCDB member Nashino.

The best of this trade is the Nylander cards from 2021-22 Artifacts. I think I still have a blaster or two of this to open, but I am going to try and build this base set, so either way, will need a dupe.

The green foil parallel is nice and at least you can see the difference in the cards.

The Robertson rookie is a great one-off addition too, do t get me wrong, but the Nylander works towards a bigger build. Hopefully I can keep having time for little trades at least this month.

Just One Card

 I don't usually do trades for a single card, but if it's an auto or memorabilia card, I will almost always make an exception. I traded a couple 1972 O Pee Chee base for this auto...

Kevin appeared in 18 games for Toronto in 2021, then spent 2 years in Oakland appearing in about 59 games each season there before going to the Yanks. In about 330 plate appearances, he is batting under .180 - not great.

May be that his biggest accomplishment was being part of the players traded by Oakland to get Matt Chapman from Toronto - for what that is worth.

In Person

 A trade offer came my way from a fellow Canadian but on accepting the offer, I found it was from someone in the same city. TCDB member watbird was kind enough to stop by and make the 10 minute drive to save a stamp and a few days wait for the mail. He had wanted a few A&G baseball cards as he was working on the 2019 set, so I gave him what he was looking for and the other 20 that he needed as well and for my side of the trade, I received...

I really like the Bo Stadium Club insert card, and any Vladdy is a good Vladdy. Had to include some hockey in the trade too...

New to me UD, and the Woll has to be my fave of the bunch.

I like having local trade partners as it's nice to fill needs for someone without the worry of the postage cost - here's to hoping I can do that with watbird.

The Rest Foiled

Well, almost all of the rest of the cards are foil Magic cards, a couple base versions snuck in with the order, but let's take a look.

As can happen over time, some new cards end up being a take off on other cards. For example, Galvanic Juggernaut is very similar to Juggernaut, though a bit more powerful. As for the Cogwork cards, a number have come into the lore of MTG over the years as well.

Sometimes, cards are not so creative - Shard of Glass and Magnifying Glass being prime examples. Cards are fine in ability, just maybe not so fantastic as they could be.

Soul Separator - now there's a more fantastical card that is Magic worthy!

I wasn't a big fan of the vehicles and related mechanics when they came in, but luckily they didn't really last. I get what they were going for, but sometimes more complexity isn't needed.

Though I prefer Bottled Gnomes, Ticking Gnomes aren't too bad an alternative. A solid bunch of additions and at a good price give the sale.

It Still Counts

 Over the holidays - yes, the Christmas holidays, 401games had a sale on foil cards at 15% off, which, coupled with the sales tax holiday in Canada, meant a good deal, so I went a bit overboard on picking up some foil MTG cards. I also happened to get a $5 Paypal voucher, which, given I rarely ever use Paypal, I had to find something to spend it on, so I picked up the first card in this lot for basically nothing.

Sure, it may not be a true Mox, the original of which are all expensive artifacts from the early days, but a nice Jack-in-the-Mox is a fun pick up I've eyed for a while. A rare from the Unglued set, it pokes fun at the original Mox cards and their ability, while bringing in a bit of the D&D type roll for ability flair that came into MTG in some sets, in real force, with the D&D crossover not too long ago.

You may need to take my word for it that these are all foil cards, but they are. I went through my needs from TCDB and matched up for anything under $1, so nothing too expensive as I went for quantity over quality here.

Also yes, there are duplicates in cards as I do collect one from each set, so if it was in 10 sets, I may end up with 10 of them....or more...Meteorite is a good example of a reprinted card I do have a few of.

Pilgrim of the Fires is a solid big guy with good abilities, and though the casting cost is high, for an artifact deck that can spew out mana, that wouldn't be much of an issue.

Regardless of the abilities or down side - I remember back in the early days of Magic, a 10/10 creature would be insane. In my early decks, the Colossus of Sardia was a 9/9 for 9 casting cost and didn't untap unless you paid 9 - and I ran a deck with three of them. They had trample, and were fun to run people over with, but now, a 9/9 seems like standard fair with some of the bigger guys they have come out with.

I guess it is the foiling which makes some of the text look way worse scanned as the cards look perfectly fine in hand. Though - the worn look does do well to feed into the "artifact" aspect of the cards I guess. To think this is only about half the cards I picked up - so more to share tomorrow!