Finally Alpha

In trying to pare down my trading/selling cards, and as Magic cards don't trade well on TCDB, I finally went through and pulled ALL the cards 401games would individually by from me. As it turned out, this was about 400-450 cards and thr value was about $95 in trade.

 I figure this is more that what I will get on Kijiji trying to bulk sell a bunch, so great, and I can get a few more expensive single cards I wouldn't normally just buy.

So I finally did two things. First, the Crystal Rod is my fiest original Magic card set (Alpha) in my collection. What this means is that this card, which is in many later sets and in those goes for a quarter at times, sells for about $60 in this first set printing. It isn't a great card in play purposes, but fantastic for collection purposes. Would never have spent the money to outright but it, but in trade value - yay!

As for the top row of cards, these were each about $10 and were the last three cards I needed to complete my artifact set from The Dark, which was one of the earlier expansions. Where Alpha was out in August 1993, The Dark came out about a year later.

Of the three, Fellwar Stone and Tormod's Crypt saw a number of reprints, but nit so much for Stone Calendar. Either way, really happy to get to smaller but exciting (to me) goals accomplished on this trade in - well, also the goal of reducing the number of cards for trade.