The worst trades ever

[keys]

Figured this would be amusing.

Back during Urza block I was playing Stompy with Gaea's Cradle in Standard. When Legacy came out, no one really knew how much foils were worth. I valued a foil Weatherseed Treefolk somewhere around $80 and traded a playset of revised Taigas for it. It's still prominently displayed in my trade binder in all its foily treefolk goodness next to my foil Rancors.

Who can top me? Moxes for Shivans? Lets hear it.

[Atwa]

A foil Polluted Delta and a Wooded Foothills against a Voice of the Woods, Elvish Champion and some other bin rare.

Why the hell would I pay life to fetch out land when I have playsets of mirage land which do the same thing? And even at rare? Magic cards are really getting worse lately (me when cracking 2 Onslaught boosters).

Ohh well, at least my casual Elves deck kicked ass.

[Clanker]

I cannot top you, but I have a story, too.

When I was a beginner (nearly 10 years ago), I have traded a Meddling Mage for a Plated Wurm. Why? Because the Wurm was 4/5 :wink:

[Atwa]

I cannot top you, but I have a story, too.

When I was a beginner (nearly 10 years ago), I have traded a Meddling Mage for a Plated Wurm. Why? Because the Wurm was 4/5 :wink:

This reminds me of another story, my first big trade.

I traded away some 60 cards (over 20 rares, cards like masticore, morphling, this was during urza's block) for a Craw Giant. Me and my friends were actually bidding up to eacht other, since that card was the most badassed creature we had ever seen. I mean, it's a Craw Wurm that even get's bigger when you block it :)

We were all such noobs beck then. I even remember selling a Reality Twist back to the guy I got the Craw Giant from for over €30. He really wanted to have it...

[Pulp_Fiction]

I think we all did some DUMB ASS trades when we first started out. When I first started playing I traded a Mox Diamond for: 1x Avenging Angel, 1x Exalted Dragon, and 1x Ephemeron. All flying fatties and I was obsessed with Avenging Angel since it NEVER DIED! I still remember this one, and after looking through the guy's binder he said "is that all you want" and I replied "yep, thats all I wanted". He gave me a weird look and asked if I wanted to trade the Mox Diamond for those and I enthusiastically accepted. I just kept thinking to myself "what kind of idiot wants a stupid artifact that adds mana, I have big flying creatures and one of them never dies".

Those were the days. Good times.

[RogueMTG]

During Lowryn Standard I picked up 2x Thoughtsieze, a Bitterblossom, and a Mutavault for a Decree of Silence, a white border Counterspell and a Last Word.

It was his suggestion... I explained in detail how much everything was actually worth and that he would be losing out immensely (I try to not be a douche) ...but he didn't care... meh.

[Nessaja]

@ Weatherseed Treefolk I don't think your trade was all that bad though. I was playing magic casual for about 2 years when Urza's came out and I remember paying around 5 dollars for a non-foil one. Also, IIRC Taiga wasn't nearly as hot back then as it is right now. Like don't get me wrong, it wasn't a good trade by all means, but not as bad as it seems right now.

It's like trading foil cryptic commands as a T2 players when faeries were hot for legacy/vintage stuff.

[dahcmai]

The worst trade I ever did had to be trading a set of Kokushu's for a Revised Sol Ring. Kokusho was the hot ticket in standard at the time. I had quit standard and had no clue they were worth a thing. I played Vintage at the time so I knew what a nice condition Sol Ring was worth. So I basically screwed myself for 60 bucks or so. Oops.

[sligh16]

Oh man, those days, I remember trading an Absorb for a fourth edition shivan dragon, when Absorb was the shit in Invasion Block.

[sunshine]

Maze of Ith and Plateau for a Shimian Night Stalker (Legends). Yeah, I was a young noob.

[SlopeeJ]

Not really a bad trade, but probably worse...... I use to play back in middle/high school when revised was around and gambled away my collecting with a friend shooting craps and playing poker hahaha. Not once but 2x, the first time he gave it back saying I don't want you to stop playing and we gambled some more.

Don't remember exactly what I had, but I know I had at least 5 of each dual. They were only llike 5 dollar cards back then

[Broham]

I started way back in the beginning, in seventh grade.

Everybody that saved enough allowance to get packs did so rather infrequently. Collecting playsets of any card was not on anybody's mind, except maybe wanting as many Lightning Bolts as possible (my group was not aware of the 4 card limit). I feel like I must have seen a new awesome card every other day.

That being said, everybody's card pool was small and very special to him or her.

I traded away my duals for stacks of basic lands. Made total sense at the time; some had better pictures than others, old basic lands get worn out (nobody had sleeves back then), and more basics made it simpler to build multiple decks.

[kicks_422]

Traded away 4 Tarmogoyf for 4 Xantid Swarm. Still haunts me to this day.

[Meekrab]

Can't remember the last time I traded Magical cards, but as for in-game trades... I had some horrendous W/G control deck back in Tempest/Urza Standard that 'utilized' Pursuit of Knowledge to lose 3 draws before getting it Disenchanted and had Argothian Wurm to cast 4 mana Stone Rains every turn. >_>

[Bardo]

Don't remember how/why this happened, but I somehow traded an Italian Mana Drain for a Morphling. No foil, no pimp, just a regular old Morphling.

I was a nouveau noob and had been out of the game for ~6-7 years (Mirage -> Mirrodin) and it seemed fair at the time.

As for my English Mana Drain, I traded it for 4x Underground Sea + a Pernicious Deed on MOTL, so I think it somehow balances out. Both of those trades were circa 2003-04.

Other trades I've bean beat on: a freak ton of cards for a Divine Intervention. Not sure what I was thinking there.

[Mostly_Harmless]

Oh man, my first trade was awful. I had some random 4th/5th edition and Ice Age cards and I traded my Balance for a Crash of Rhinos. I mean come on, the thing was even bigger than Scaled Wurm! I also thought my Meteor Shower was the best card in the world.

[Aleksandr]

I sold Explorations for 1 USD per piece.
They were nowhere near to nowadays price, but I still lost some 4 USD on each... and today they are... IDK, 25 USD/card?

[dschalter]

Traded a Morphling (which incidentally isn't worth anything now) for a FBB BoP in maybe 2001-2 because I thought I was getting a Beta BoP. On the other side, the best I've done is trading for four entombs (when they had hit 40), and giving a Japanese Verdant Catacombs and a Japanese Jace Beleren in return.

[(nameless one)]

A foil Polluted Delta and a Wooded Foothills against a Voice of the Woods, Elvish Champion and some other bin rare.

Why the hell would I pay life to fetch out land when I have playsets of mirage land which do the same thing? And even at rare? Magic cards are really getting worse lately (me when cracking 2 Onslaught boosters).

Ohh well, at least my casual Elves deck kicked ass.

I essentially pulled of a similar trade.

My Polluted Delta for a Voice of the Woods and Ambush Commander. I still play competitive elves to this day but those two cards are still sitting in my trade binder (yes, its been 7 years since the trade and theyre still there)

My recent one was when Futuresight came out and Lorwyn is getting all this tribal hype. I traded my Tarmogoyf for a Rootwater Thief. I seriously thought I got the better half of the deal (Goyfs were $5 at that time and I was looking forward for the upcoming merfolk tribal about to see print).

I think, ever since then, I had the Goyf curse. I have opened enough Futuresight packs to have a playset of each cards needed for Ichorid and I still yet to crack open a second Goyf.

[PaRa]

traded a german limited Tropical Island away for a foil Sarkhan Vol instead of taking a japanese foil Elspeth...( the prize was still very high at that time for the Sarkhan)....epic fail........

[luckme10]

Taiga and scrublands for fallen empire merfolk, personal incarnation... I was 8... did every trade by the Scribe book and figured magic cards were more or less like stocks, ie completely interchangeable.

[SilverGreen]

The trade that made my transition from The Kitchen Table step to Get A Real Deck And A DCI Number phase: my booster-fresh Living Death for the guy's EX+ CoP: Artifacts. Damn it. Never played against that guy with Rods of Ruin and Phyrexian War Beasts again...

[ryO!]

I pulled off tropical island from a french FBB starter (the one and only starter i ve ever bought till now) when i started back in 94 and traded it to my "friend" that introduced me to MTG for some 6/4 wurm and a first strike wolf and i guess that ugly 3/3 blue flying something from 3rd french limited.
oh well ...

[Humphrey]

Savannah revised for Oath of Lim-Dul. I liked the picture..
I was 14 ^^

[MMogg]

Traded a Wasteland for a Splinter about 11 years ago (UD was new). :frown: I've made many bad trades, but that one I am grateful for because it wasn't so bad and made me think clearly pretty quickly thereafter.

[allek]

I've done a few deals that seemed awesome at the time. I bought 4x Tarmogoyfs for around $7-8 and was really pleased when selling them for around $15 a month later. Yet another month later they were like $50 each.

I have also, like some of you in this thread, almost emptied my binder for Crash of Rhinos, Scaled Wurm and Endless Wurm. Fatties FTW!

[tomjulioo]

back in 1995, traded a white border taiga for a chronicles keeper of the faith.
i had never seen the keeper so i thought it was very rare!

[ramanujan]

A few years back, I traded away about 15 duals and 4 foil fetchlands, three of which were deltas, for a whole bunch of Mage Knight LE figures.

Not the worst story though. In early 1995, I had a set of moxen stolen, including an alpha sapphire with a vertical white line printing error across the top part of the black border of the card. At 31, I can still remember that day vividly. I hope to see the sapphire again. I know that it has probably exchanged hands half a dozen times but man, that was a cool card.

[practical joke]

When invasion just came out I traded away my absorbs and undermines for well a crypt angel and some other cards that looked fancy.


oh when I remember the age I had back then....I feel stupid

[TheAardvark]

Other trades I've bean beat on: a freak ton of cards for a Divine Intervention. Not sure what I was thinking there.

You were clearly thinking that Divine Intervention is completely awesome.

I know I had some from when I first started playing, but I don't remember anything specifically. I was enamored of R/G and traded away the good cards of the other colors that I'd acquire for the most random R/G shit imaginable. This was around Ice Age, so it's not like the R/G cards were all that good. I even made a R/G Millstone deck.

Ah, innocence.

[Pastorofmuppets]

I've never been ripped off in an actual trade. I mean, there was Knight of the Reliquary and Day of Judgment for nothing (supposedly 2 Mutavaults from Canada), but I have made bad calls with trades (Elspeth for Cryptic Command in July 2009)

[sourcefire]

Taiga for Animate Wall.

I was in 5th grade and had just started playing...kid at school told me how awesome walls were..except that they can't attack...

[Aleksandr]

I even made a R/G Millstone deck.



Where are you from?

[Nelis]

Mox Pearl (unlimited) and 2 revised Birds of Paradise vs a bunch of commons.

[Atwa]

Mox Pearl (revised or unlimited, I cant remember) and 2 revised Birds of Paradise vs a bunch of commons.

Wins the thread!

BTW, there is no revised power...

[Nelis]

Wins the thread!

BTW, there is no revised power...

Yah I was confused but changed it in my original post. But unfortunately for me its a true story.




I got screwed on that one. I knew a bit about rarity but not much back in the day. None of my cousins wanted to have it so I went to a local games store to ask if anyone was interested. So when somebody offered me 50 guilders I wanted to sell it immediately. But luckily some guy told me it was worth more and he didn't mind trading it with me. Guess what? I should have gone for the 50 guilders. I got a shitload of commons and a loss of fate in the human race. To make matters worse that bastard also got my 2 Birds of Paradise, took me 10 years before I was able to get new ones.

[johanessen]

Island and Swamp for an Underground Sea. Was white bordered.

[ScatmanX]

I opened 2 Tarmogoyfs in the 2 Booster pack I bought in a hole year, when Future Sight was legal.
I lost them both.

[phonics]

not nearly as bad as some others but
my foil grim monolith for 3 nether spirits+other random stuff

i didnt even want to do the trade but one day i got the cards from the guy in the mail and my naive ~10 year old self was guilted into doing the trade anyway

i never ended up using the spirits at all.

also did 2 wastelands for 3 wildfires, i mean there were dinosaurs and erupting volcanoes in the picture, what more could you want?

[nestle_19]

back when I was in 5th grade I traded my rookie cards of kobe bryant,grant hill, allen iverson for a starter box of ice age. Well, no worries though because that made me play mAGIC

[Eddy Wally]

I've never been screwed over in trades to the point I ended up kicking my own ass. The opposite happened once though. Some slimy kid who was annoying as hell and had super rich parents bought four boxes of Urza's Destiny in the shop with mom's master card, and boasted to the rest of us how he'd whoop all our asses with all his new cards. Next day he arrives with a loaded trade binder. He asks me to trade because he knew I had a normal, non-foil, non- prerelease Lightning Dragon which he really wanted. Turned out he wanted it so bad, and had so little clue about the value of cards, that he walked out of the story very happy with his Lightning Dragon. I was even happier with my new foil Masticore.

[EssKay]

I just traded 200+ cards for 2 Jittes and a playset of Cabal Therapies. Found a local store that buys any rare for at least $0.20, so goodbye Marton Stromgald and friends, you will be missed!

[thulnanth]

Hey All,

Fun thread - thanks for sharing!!!

The problem with some "bad trades" is that they weren't so bad at the time. I vividly remember trading my extra Unlimited Mox Jet for a Shivan Dragon, Nether Shadow, and BoP back in '94. I was so happy to snag 3 solid cards...

OTOH, I also got my 1st Black Lotus in '94 too - guy traded it to me straight up for an Old Man of the Sea :cool:

Take it easy,
Jared

[dahcmai]

I traded a stack of Mahamotti Djinns and Serra Angels for a Beta Lotus. Now the question is, was it worth the trade today as those Serras and Mahamottis were beta also?

[Eddy Wally]

I traded a stack of Mahamotti Djinns and Serra Angels for a Beta Lotus. Now the question is, was it worth the trade today as those Serras and Mahamottis were beta also?

How big was that stack?

[Pastorofmuppets]

I traded a stack of Mahamotti Djinns and Serra Angels for a Beta Lotus. Now the question is, was it worth the trade today as those Serras and Mahamottis were beta also?

SCG values the Djinns at $40 and the Angels at $40.
Beta Lotus is $2500.
So, did you get about 60 or so of them?

[thickasabrick]

Back as a small child, when I first started (Unlimited), I traded a Tundra that I got in my first Starter deck for an Uthden Troll. An older player that found out about it confronted the first dude and demanded he trade back with me. He ended up giving me an Underground Sea because he had traded the Tundra.

So in a roundabout way I traded an unlimited Tundra for an unlimited Underground Sea. I still have it.

[Eddy Wally]

Back as a small child, when I first started (Unlimited), I traded a Tundra that I got in my first Starter deck for an Uthden Troll. An older player that found out about it confronted the first dude and demanded he trade back with me. He ended up giving me an Underground Sea because he had traded the Tundra.

So in a roundabout way I traded an unlimited Tundra for an unlimited Underground Sea. I still have it.

That's about even in play value, and slightly in your favour in monetary value. Good thing the older guy was around. You'd have kicked yourself over this otherwise a few years later.

[dahcmai]

How big was that stack?


Huge stack of them. It was probably taller than a can and a half of pop. It was a vendor who wanted them.

[TheMightyQuinn]

This wasn't bad for me, but its my only interesting trade story, so I'll post it here.

My friend and I got dropped off at a card shop in a neighboring town one afternoon. It was the first time we ever played Magic with anyone outside of our little local group. Our first game was both of us on a team vs. a dude playing Palinchron High Tide. Neither of us had any idea what was going on when he trounced us, but we were both thoroughly impressed.

After a few more games, I decided to buy a booster pack of Weatherlight for some reason. A bunch of kids in the store gathered around as I opened it. One of my commons was a Vitalize. A kid near me immediately chimed, "I need that for my deck. I'll give you a City of Traitors for it." I had no idea what City of Traitors did, but blindly accepted anyway (probably because I was nervous being around so many new people.)

Still have that City of Traitors. :)

[Bardo]

You were clearly thinking that Divine Intervention is completely awesome.

I made a deck around the card and it was the most anti-climatic thing ever. You take the last counter off and are like "Yeah ... so ... that's, that..."

Awkward moments.

Other miserable trades I've: 4x Savannah (mine) for 4x Meddling Mage (his). ~2004. In my defense, MMage is the coolest creature ever. Savannah, for some fucked up reason taps, for white or green. What a pointless card. Seemed like a no-brainer at the time.

[dahcmai]

lol, that's awesome Bardo. Divine Intervention ftw.

[Picc]

Back in 94 or 95 when I was about 13 or 14 and just starting in the game I was hanging out at a local shop waiting for my parents to come pick me up and some 30something guy came in and asked to see my trade binder. Long story short I got talked into trading my mox Jet and Saphire for an artifact circle of protection since antiquities was the new set, and limited edition, and you can always get another mox its in the core set and will be reprinted forever.

I still kick myself for that one to this day. Even back then the guy took me for a ride, ah the joys of being a stupid kid.

[Purgatory]

There is this Swedish Magic community website that I've made many good and bad deals on over the years. Unless you manually delete a closed deal, it will stay visible to you on your profile, and here are some of the awesome things I've done:

Bought 4 Wastelands for €6 a piece, along with 4 Windswept Heaths for €5 each.

Bought a LED for €4.

Bought a Tundra and 4 Meddling Mages for a total of €39, in May of -05.

This is all fine and well, and either I still have and play with all of the above, or I've sold it off at more than twice of what I paid. But then again, I sealed this awesome deal back in July of -05:

Taiga (mine) for 4 Sakura-Tribe Elder, 4 Oxidize and 4 Echoing Truth. I was 19 then, should've known better. I hope it was an emergency deal right before a tournament or something...

[TheAardvark]

Where are you from?

Illinois. That deck was around summer/fall 1996, around the time I first started playing in tournaments. I remember one of my "win conditions" was Night Soil, because "who doesn't have 20+ creatures in their deck?". Ah, youth.

[Killing Joke]

Huge stack of them. It was probably taller than a can and a half of pop. It was a vendor who wanted them.

So like approximately 325 Djinns/Angels, give or take. So roughly like $13,000 in $40 cards for a single $2500 card by todays standards. Not Bad.

[Sims]

So like approximately 325 Djinns/Angels, give or take. So roughly like $13,000 in $40 cards for a single $2500 card by todays standards. Not Bad.

Considering on the other hand that it's Djinn and Angel, of which no one plays outside of nostalgia reasons and will only ever be worth anything to collectors... vs. a 2500 card that can be played if he choose to play vintage and has the awe of being black fucking lotus?

Good trade to me.

[Killing Joke]

Considering on the other hand that it's Djinn and Angel, of which no one plays outside of nostalgia reasons and will only ever be worth anything to collectors... vs. a 2500 card that can be played if he choose to play vintage and has the awe of being black fucking lotus?

Good trade to me.

Yeah, I mean totally. If I had 150+ beta Djinns and 150+ beta Angels, you know, just laying about. I would much rather trade $13k in useless cards to a dealer for a $2500 card. Psssh, let them have the $10k profit from reselling them, reselling things is hassle. Like who needs a new car or anything when you can have an awe striking card right there on the spot.

Good trade to me.

[pw709]

So like approximately 325 Djinns/Angels, give or take. So roughly like $13,000 in $40 cards for a single $2500 card by todays standards. Not Bad.

Which, according to Crystal Keep, would be approximately 5% of all the Beta Djinns/Angels ever printed.

[Sims]

Yeah, I mean totally. If I had 150+ beta Djinns and 150+ beta Angels, you know, just laying about. I would much rather trade $13k in useless cards to a dealer for a $2500 card. Psssh, let them have the $10k profit from reselling them, reselling things is hassle. Like who needs a new car or anything when you can have an awe striking card right there on the spot.

Good trade to me.

Well, Duh. I'd rather have the $2500 dollar Lotus than $13,000 of uncomfortable toilet paper.

[Pastorofmuppets]

Wanna send me a Beta Angel? I want to use it as a thowing star.

[jamied1981]

I remember back in 98 my favourite card was ali from cairo, and I had to have it. I was like 16 and only been playing for a year anyways, I remember trading a beta birds of paradise, beta savannah lions, 2 fbb plateaus 2 fbb bayous for it. At the time it wasn't terrible in my trade I knew I was getting a little ripped but now to look at the price difference is nuts. A few months later i realised the card wasn't very good I traded it for 4 cursed scrolls and 4 tradewinds, and at that time I got a great return. I left Magic in Nemesis, and returned for the eventide premiere. I had sold all my rares back in 99, and kept all my uncommons. I had kept tradewind geddon and suicide black deck. At the pre release I traded away a revised birds of paradise that looked a little different. The guy gave me 4 prerelease figure of destiny for it I thought I was getting a wicked deal. The guy packed up quickly and left. Well I didn't know it but it was a summer edition BoP and I have gone back to tournements there after never to see this guy. Been away from the game for so long never knew about Summer edition. I remember buying it for 5 dollars from a guy way back when and a fbb underground sea for 10. Well thats my trade story, only good thing is when I got back in i realised in the cards I still had I had 40 Force of wills because back then I liked the picture.

[kiblast]

I remember back in 98 my favourite card was ali from cairo, and I had to have it. I was like 16 and only been playing for a year anyways, I remember trading a beta birds of paradise, beta savannah lions, 2 fbb plateaus 2 fbb bayous for it. At the time it wasn't terrible in my trade I knew I was getting a little ripped but now to look at the price difference is nuts. A few months later i realised the card wasn't very good I traded it for 4 cursed scrolls and 4 tradewinds, and at that time I got a great return. I left Magic in Nemesis, and returned for the eventide premiere. I had sold all my rares back in 99, and kept all my uncommons. I had kept tradewind geddon and suicide black deck. At the pre release I traded away a revised birds of paradise that looked a little different. The guy gave me 4 prerelease figure of destiny for it I thought I was getting a wicked deal. The guy packed up quickly and left. Well I didn't know it but it was a summer edition BoP and I have gone back to tournements there after never to see this guy. Been away from the game for so long never knew about Summer edition. I remember buying it for 5 dollars from a guy way back when and a fbb underground sea for 10. Well thats my trade story, only good thing is when I got back in i realised in the cards I still had I had 40 Force of wills because back then I liked the picture.

MtG: History of a man.

[Amon Amarth]

Yeah, I mean totally. If I had 150+ beta Djinns and 150+ beta Angels, you know, just laying about. I would much rather trade $13k in useless cards to a dealer for a $2500 card. Psssh, let them have the $10k profit from reselling them, reselling things is hassle. Like who needs a new car or anything when you can have an awe striking card right there on the spot.

Good trade to me.

I couldn't even imagine trying to move that much shit. If someone really wanted one they would get one of the million white bordered versions instead of one thats much more expensive. It really isn't practical.

[Killing Joke]

I couldn't even imagine trying to move that much shit. If someone really wanted one they would get one of the million white bordered versions instead of one thats much more expensive. It really isn't practical.

I can imagine moving iit easier than I can imagine getting it all in the first place.

[dahcmai]

Somehow I doubt there was actually that many in that stack, but I really didn't count them either. I had bought tons of packs and that was what the guy wanted so I pulled out as many as I could. The lotus was worth about 60 bucks at the time. It was pretty straight up for then. Kind of funny now. He told me he could sell Serras and Mahamottis a lot faster since the Lotus took someone willing to spend that kind of cash on it. This should probably be the pimp thread, but this is that same exact Lotus. It's never been used or touched since the day it got packed. I think I ended up with the better end of the deal really, but I cringe to think of how much it actually adds up to.

http://a.imageshack.us/img713/399/betalotus.jpg

[dontbiteitholmes]

Worst trade I ever made was a fbb Chains of Mephistopheles for a Morphling. That Morphling still sits in my trade binder and noone even asks about him. Best trade was one for one foil lands for like 8 Stifles and a couple Dreadnaughts and an Intuition. Worst is the cards I didn't buy. Passed up a Lotus at 150 one time and regretted it ever since. My dad was at the card store with me and I thought he'd get mad if I spent 150 on one card. Passed up a stack of LED's at $1 a piece and instead got foil Frantic Searches. Passed up plenty of Bazaars and Workshops for $20 a piece. Big wins for me in the buys were 2 Italian Chains of Meph for $2 and 4x Italian Moat for $75. That was in about 2002 as well so they were even big wins at the time.

[kiblast]

i didnt really have a ''worst'' trade,or at least nothing i still have memory...maybe when i was younger i traded some fetches for some crappy rares for my monoG stompy :D

Worst trade i remember was a friend of mine wich pulled a foil Chrome mox out of a pack right back when mirrodin rleased. He gave it away to our local store for 3x mirrodin boosters. Brainless.

On the other side, yesterday i had a great transaction at a local cardshop: 1x italian Exc Karakas, 2x recurring nightmares, 1x volrath's stronghold, 4x back to basics for 25 €. ( It's a numismatic shop so he the owner really doesnt mind about magic prices since selling one single coin or stamp could be 1000 €+ profit. ^^)

[Mr.C]

My Isola Tropicale for his Martyrs of Korlis + Foil Yavimaya Hollow, circa 2002.

Ouch.

[Malloot]

when i was a complete noob in magic i bought a pack of the then new stronghold set. I opened my first pack of it and got a Mox diamond out of it, the guy in the store wasn't very noob friendly and offered me a hatred for it. Witch he knew i played in my shadow black weenie deck, ofcourse i traded it...
By now the mox is worth 10x as much as the hatred :S

My only relief now is that a week later bought a few packs and cracked another Mox diamond, by then i had looked up the prices in inquest and knew mox was worth more so i kept it and played it in my sliver deck.
Me and my friends didn't know the rules that well and thought that a card saying Add one mana of any color made 5 mana 1 of each color (English isn't my first language so at 14years young we misread that) so my sliver deck was very good often going first turn Mox diamond, Sliver queen. Needless to say i traded many of my big beaters (craw giant and worse) at school to get more Mox diamonds. I still have that playset :D

[Eddy Wally]

when i was a complete noob in magic i bought a pack of the then new stronghold set. I opened my first pack of it and got a Mox diamond out of it, the guy in the store wasn't very noob friendly and offered me a hatred for it. Witch he knew i played in my shadow black weenie deck, ofcourse i traded it...
By now the mox is worth 10x as much as the hatred :S

My only relief now is that a week later bought a few packs and cracked another Mox diamond, by then i had looked up the prices in inquest and knew mox was worth more so i kept it and played it in my sliver deck.
Me and my friends didn't know the rules that well and thought that a card saying Add one mana of any color made 5 mana 1 of each color (English isn't my first language so at 14years young we misread that) so my sliver deck was very good often going first turn Mox diamond, Sliver queen. Needless to say i traded many of my big beaters (craw giant and worse) at school to get more Mox diamonds. I still have that playset :D

Nowadays that trade sounds atrocious, but back in those days the deal wasn't THAT bad for you. Back then Hatred was a moneycard as well. You can't judge 1998 trades with the 2010 prices in mind.

[JimmyC27]

I got 4x Tarmogoyfs at $1.45 a piece ($5.80 total) right when the set released, which is a 3,350% return on investment if I were to sell them right now. This was straight from a retail shop too. :)

[keys]

Nowadays that trade sounds atrocious, but back in those days the deal wasn't THAT bad for you. Back then Hatred was a moneycard as well. You can't judge 1998 trades with the 2010 prices in mind.

The worst trades are always the worst only in hindsight!

[jamied1981]

back then hatred was about the same maybe a lil less when stronghold first came out because sui black was a deck to beat