Any trade stories out there? What is the biggest, weirdest, or most ridiculous trade you have ever made or seen?
Inspiration: While playing at my local store I heard that a kid had traded his Revised Tropical Island for three Ghostblade Eidolon. Ouch.
At PT Austin (back when PTs were still open) I traded 2 Russian ZEN foil blue fetches to a vendor for some random junk to finish my janky block deck
I almost traded my Blue Sun Zenith for a Sword of War and Peace (when it was 50 bucks in standard) I felt bad and told him to find more. Still ended up being like 20 dollars of bulk rares for his sword. Other than that just stupidly trading away all of my Zen fetches when modern first came out just because 20 bucks for blue ones seemed like such high value. Derp.
This might date me, but my most memorable (and painful) trading experience was my Juzam Djinn for his Stone-Throwing Devils.
I thought the Devils were just such a funny concept I couldn't resist. Plus, one damage every upkeep was bad, right?
I'm so sorryOther than that just stupidly trading away all of my Zen fetches when modern first came out just because 20 bucks for blue ones seemed like such high value. Derp.
I use to collect Hymn to Tourach. I ended up trading all 40+ for a Scrubland (In ~2005).
I saw a guy trade a quarter ounce of marijuana for a kitten.
Back during Lorwyn spoiler season, I traded away two Tarmogoyfs for a playset of Lord of Atlantis. My though process was Goyfs were $5 and Lorwyn will print a lot of Merfolk and will be Onslaught 2.0 (remember what Onslaught did to Goblin Lackey's price?).
I don't play Merfolk anymore but I still have those memorable Lord of Atlantises
Also, an LED (to complete my set) for my 2 Misty and 2 Tarns. LEDs were $60 at that time and the fetches were hovering between $10-12.
Definitely a memorable trade. Too many intangibles to know who came out on top of that one, though...
Memorable trades? A while back, I traded my friend a set of Seedtime and a set of Grinning Demon for his set of Orim's Chant. Fwiw, we didn't know what we were doing.
Watched another friend trade an FNM Swords to Plowshares for a Vengevine. On my behalf. Cue guilt trip.
Lastly, a good decade+ ago, I traded three Italian Mana Drains for a kitten at street value.
Once traded my useless mishras workshop for a 15 dollar forve of will, that i needed for my extended sliver deck. The shop 2 was about 70 at the time..
I traded away a Tolarian and a set of Urza's Destiny for a playset of Portal.
You know, the one with both Wrath and Natural Order in.
I traded away two Umezawa's Jittes from the Rat's Nest precon for two Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni about 8~ years ago. Needed a rat lord for the deck!
Traded away a $50 Tarmogoyf for a foil Progenitus, 4 Guul Draz Specters and 3 Nyxathids. This was just before the old extended PTQ season when Goyf first ballooned to $100.
Traded away a Dark Confidant + $5 for a Ghost Council of Orzhova.
I have tons of 3-year old PMs of trading away various blue Zen fetches when their were valued at roughly 10-15.
Most of the poor trades I've done were even at the time; they just don't hold up well however many years in the future.
Sold 40 revised duals and full power 9 1998 for $1700. Always bothers me a little bit.
A friend of mine traded a Tarmogoyf for a cheeseburger when goyfs were drafted and worth $3 =)
Another friend of mine traded a Grizzly Bear for a Jester's Cap (when jesters were $15).
Last year at a SCG open I traded for...
1 Tundra
1 Usea
3 Vendilion Clique
3 Thoughtseize
1 Karakas
1 Marsh Flats
1 Baleful Strix
1 Sorin, lord of innistrad
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Detention sphere
4 Stilfe
4 Nimble mongoose
1 Shrine to Nykthos
1 Cunning Wish
This in fact was the entire list of things I wanted to trade for except for 1 more tundra, so I was actually incredibly impressed I was able to find everything at the tournament. And not only that, I was able to do it in a couple hours. This is the most I have ever traded in a single event too, which is why it was a memorable trade for me.
Also, some guy wanted to sell his cards to a store, but they were unorganized and the store refused to look at them, even though it was a small box. I don't like to take business from the store, but since they refused I said I'd look through it. I picked out a kird ape, gemstone mine, and a SP underground sea. I offered the guy everything in my wallet, which was only $15 and he decided to take it.
3 months ago, Someone once on an trading site sent me a huge list of cards they wanted in my binder (All being Jank cards 2 dollars or less) to trade for his mint-"out of the pack"-liliana of the veil.
2 years ago, Someone once asked me to trade my Sorin, lord of innistrad for some of his cards. I look at his binder seing only a taiga that would interrest me and say "No sorry, there 's no card i would trade for it in your binder", because i'm not an ass and i would not propose to trade a sorin for a bi-land. Then he says "He wait, I've got a taiga!!".
Well, I'm nice, but not so nice. I told him to take some other cards to add to the deal, he selected some jank cards :)
My opinion for trades is as long as someone is happy with the trade, go for it. I would not have openly tried to rip-off the guys (I would not have proposed the deals myself), but as long as they are the ones proposing it, i'm ok :)
At a World Wake prerelease a guy at his first pre-release opened a Foil JTMS. Knowing it was rare/valueable, he announced it very loudly. People swarmed him with trade offers and he immediately traded his jace for a lorwyn block BW "life gain deck", probably worth somewhere in the 20-30$ range.
A while ago trading binders with a casual player I expressed interest in his bob and clique (worth only 10$ each at the time). He said he wanted my Kamal fist of the Krosa and megeta the lion, but could tell that either of those cards were obviously better than clique or bob so he was fine just getting one of them. I happily let him take both :)
The thread doesn't say "memorable trades you got screwed on", just memorable trades.
I remember trading FoW for a Tarmogoyf. I thought "Yes, now I can start building BUG!" only to realize I still needed green duals/fetches... oh yeah, and the rest of the Tarmogoyf playset
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle".
- Albert Einstein
A trade i will never forget:
I was selling my duals when I quit EDH sometime around 2001. A guy comes in and is interested in Bayou. I say 300 crowns, it was quite reasonable price. He says its too much and then nitpicks some minor damage. I say "sry, three hundred, I can't give it any cheaper". He replies with some nonsense and again points at some nonexistant wear and adds some usual MtG jargon. I say him I won't sell the card then. He argues. I say that if he doesn't stop to bother me, I'll increase the price by ten crowns. He bitches. I say "Ok, three hundred ten." He bitches some more. I say "three hundred twenty." Then he leaves. Then he bitches. Minutes later he returns asking for the Bayou. I say "sry, dude, this ain't going nowhere." He bitches again and hears me saying "three hundred thirty."
I think he bought the Bayou for four hundred.
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