So I worked through all of my Magic card traders and went through the 401 games buylist, looking to get rid of as many cards as I could, many of them being for 7 cents a card trade in value. Well, I was able to cobble together about $300 of trade value - below is what I spent just less than half of the money on. I went for mostly older cards that were more expensive than I would usually buy, but being able to turn about 1,500 cards of "junk" as far as my collecting goes, into cards I care about and collect (and in a lot less space) - a great transaction. Besides, selling those cards as bulk for what they were, I would have been lucky to get even $100 cash.
We start with Draco, which is the last of 5 artifact cards in the Planeshift set. There is an alternate art copy for one, but I treat that as a variation and won't count it for the base set artifacts themselves, so that one is happily complete here. A few years later than the set first came out in 2001, but better late than never!
The land is a one and done for Scourge lands that provide colourless mana, so I figured I should pick it up so it's a simple completed set, and since I have the few artifacts as well, I am done with the Scourge set completely - yay!
Though I didn't get to finish them off, I did pick up a bunch of Time Spiral and "Time Shifted" Time Spiral artifact cards because there are some pretty cool cards, and I was missing a whole bunch.
The other area I picked up some cards from were base sets - 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th edition to be exact. Actually in doing so, one card I needed was the Howling Mine below in 6th edition, but they made a note and sent the 5th edition version because they didn't have 6th edition. Normally not a big deal, and from a value perspective, I end up slightly ahead, but wasn't really what I wanted. I left it, but if it had been any more expensive of a card, and I would have brought it up.
Similarly, this was a heavy played card, and I'd almost say it was more than heavily played...
You can see with the older white border cards, why they moved away to the black border on all sets, the wear on the white borders, and related dirt marks are very heavy and noticeable. With black border, you may get white "chips" or dings on the outer border, but you don't really get to see the dirt or other markings on them.
Again, for my purposes, the card is fine, but I could see it being considered more than heavily played, though that can be a wife range in quality.
We end with the most exciting (to me), part of the pick ups. These four Unglued cards (the ones with the cracked egg symbol), are the last four artifact cards I needed to complete the set. It's getting harder to find, and a bit pricier to pull the trigger, on some of the older sets and missing artifact cards I have, so finishing this one which is from 1998, excites me.
The last two cards from Unhinged, don't quite finish off that set, but are bigger cards in the goal to complete it. Gleemax, as silly as the cost looks, can actually be cast because there are infinite mana loops which can be created, so you could get there. As for Mox Lotus, that is the card in the set which does get you the easy way of using Gleemax - now you really just need 15 mana to cast the Mox Lotus. Any time you can pick up a Lotus in Magic, is a good day....heck, or even a Mox....or in this case, both.
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