As for recent pick ups - I happily picked up some new Artifact cards for the Magic card collection.
I recently did a survey, reward for which was a $20 gift card. Since I spent my half hour doing the survey, I thought why not spend it on cards, since it was basically free money anyway. So, I went to 401games after placing an order online and picked the cards up. I debated more cards or less but higher value, and ended up going for more middling priced and got about 40 cards for $20. I also aimed for a few sets that I don't have many cards from to fill things out a bit.
The Dark:
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These cards are out of 1994 and generally not cards that have a place in my Artifact deck then (or now), but a couple fun cards nonetheless.
Coal Golem just is classic, awesome, artwork from early Magic cards - that alone made it worth picking up.
Wand of Ith could be fun in forcing choices on opponents to help them lose their own life.
7th Edition
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Beast of Burden could be a pretty interesting card if you swarm a lot of little creatures.
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These are cards I have in different sets, but 7th had a ton of different artwork, so I wanted to pick these up.
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I am a sucker for massive creatures like the Hulk here, but the flavour text makes it that much better. Some of the flavour text is so much better than the card themselves.
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This Wall of Spears artwork is much better than the original and is clearly a wall made up of spears.
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9th Edition
Like 7th edition, 9th was not a set I was around playing at the time, to collect. 7th was the cusp of my leaving the game for the decade or so that I did while 9th was a few years into the time off.
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I picked up a couple foil parallels. Interesting having the black borders on the parallels when the base set is otherwise in white borders.
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Aladdin's Ring was always a nice use of extra mana and an ability to do a quick 4 damage.
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Howling Mine was the most expensive of the cards I picked up being $4. It was great for getting more cards as my artifact decks always seemed plentiful for mana, and no cards to use them on. I still prefer the older picture, but this one is decent too.
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Rise of the Eldrazi
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Just the one card from the set as I needed to round out the price on the purchase.
A great lot of cards to add to the collection, and I like the old white borders. The black does look sleeker, but I remember playing without sleeves, the white borders getting a bit dirty, and sitting there with soft erasers cleaning them up without damaging the cards.
A different time, a different games in many ways too.
I've ordered from First Row a few times.. Great guy to deal with..
ReplyDeleteI've also done trades with him.
Excellent - I'm sure it'll be good.
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