The Buyers/Traders Remorse Thread

[dontbiteitholmes]

Anyone who uses Ebay has buyers remorse at some point and anyone who plays Magic has those trades they wish they could take back. This is the opposite of the "3x Raise, the Price of Cardboard" thread. Those deals you wish you hadn't made. Yes, we've had similar threads in the past, but here we go again.

I traded an Italian Chains of Mephistophiles for a Morphling about 6 years ago.

Back in 1997-98ish I bought a Vesuvian Doppleganger for $13...

[KevinTrudeau]

I traded a set of Force of Wills for a set of Birds of Paradise back in 2005 (for Regionals, so many months before they got reprinted in Ravnica). Was still a lopsided trade then, but at least Birds were like $15 apiece IIRC, so it was only off $3-5 per card. I was only thirteen, what can I say.

[kicks_422]

Traded away a set of Blinding Angels (when they were at their peak) for 12 foil Mountains.

And, of course, the obligatory "I traded away my Tarmogoyfs when they were still cheap" line. Traded mine for 4 Xantid Swarms.

[Zoomer3989]

I traded away an FTV Sol Ring for an Elpseth Tirel and some stuff, I added in some other FTV stuff for something or other.

[rocketrae21]

First I sold my foil Gushes for a 2 dollar profit each and the next day it was unrestricted jumping the price a lot.

Secondly, as a noob I had 3 Goblin Piledrivers with two of them being foil, and I hated the card. I traded away the 3 Piledrivers for a revised Bad Moon and a Torment Sengir Vampire

[Koby]

I bought Jaces on eBay on June 15th for their peak value. They were shipped June 21st...

/wallet.

[dontbiteitholmes]

I bought Jaces on eBay on June 15th for their peak value. They were shipped June 21st...

/wallet.

Meh, give it 6 months.

[Octopusman]

I sold 40 revised duals to a store for $3 each before 4th edition.

I also sold many other duals for a fraction of what they are now.
I sold an unlimited and alpha time vault before the errata that made it as good as it is now.
Sold a tabernacle for a fraction of what it costs now.
etc.

Hindsight is 20/20 but try not to dwell on the past. I don't like this thread.

[dontbiteitholmes]

I sold 40 revised duals to a store for $3 each before 4th edition.

I also sold many other duals for a fraction of what they are now.
I sold an unlimited and alpha time vault before the errata that made it as good as it is now.
Sold a tabernacle for a fraction of what it costs now.
etc.

Hindsight is 20/20 but try not to dwell on the past. I don't like this thread.

Yeah we all have those but that's not what this thread is about. I mean I sold out my collection in 06-07 and all the feedback is still up on ebay. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. Seems like I only remember the one's I wish I could take back...



4x Savannah ~Revised~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047644321) US $58.33
4x UNDERGROUND SEA ~DUAL LAND~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047198048) US $113.50
4x UNDERGROUND SEA ~DUAL LAND~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047207083) US $104.00
Moat (Italian Legends) +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220085504257) US $32.99
Moat (Italian Legends) +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220085506833) US $25.56
Moat (Italian Legends) +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220085507750) US $32.99
4x Wasteland +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220085510907) US $28.00
4x Vedalken Shackles +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220085523414) US $3.25
4x Sword of Fire and Ice -NM MTG *DBH* (#220099766529) US $26.00


but then I look at some of those auctions and it kind of makes me feel better...


4x Orim's Chant MTG *DBH* (#220099788116) US $73.50
4x Platinum Angel +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220085524414) US $35.60
4x Meddling Mage ~Planeshift~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047210038) US $51.00
4x PITHING NEEDLE ~Betrayers~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047640653) US $71.00
4x Duress ~Urza's Saga~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047631158) US $10.50
4x TEXTLESS MANA LEAK ~PROMO~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047236353) US $40.00
4x Savannah Lions ~Revised/8th~ +FREE BONUS FOIL *DBH* (#220047237134) US $16.50
4x Exalted Angel MTG *DBH* (#220099788572) US $38.00

On a related note I just got 4x Orim's Chant in the mail 2 days ago. Costed me about $34 shipped.

[oldbsturgeon]

Around 2001-2002 I traded an alpha time vault for a revised taiga. At the time the time vault was not nearly worth anything as it is today. This thing was mint though. I had to twist his arm almost to do the deal as he didn't even want the vault. About 2 years ago, we talked about that deal and he didn't even remember it or even having the card.

I also remember trading a playset of birds of paradise for like 1 balduvian hordes when alliances came out :cry:

[Picc]

This could be a long sad list but the most memorable one for me was back in 95 when a 10 year old me got talked into trading a jet and a sapphire for an artifact circle of protection. Man if I came across that guy today Id punch him hard.

Last year (before the high tide change) I traded a candelabra for 500 bulk rares. I dont feel so bad about that one but the guy I traded with was a bit of a pain in that he tried his best to make sure most of the rares were from 4&5th edition then called to tell me how I should have been more careful and specified gold set symbol and not just rare. Needless to say I haven't really traded much with him since.

[(nameless one)]

When Futuresight first came out, I sold the only Goyf I've opened from a pack for $5. I have yet to crack a Goyf from a pack since (it got me all the pieces I need for Dredge though).

[kusumoto]

I recall trading a Grim Tutor for some slivers back in the day. It wasn't legal at the time anyway, so I guess it wasn't a terrible trade then.
Just makes you sad looking back.

This is a sad thread.

[KindGrind]

Traded a playset of foil Ports for a playset of foil Exalted Angels when angel was still T2 legal. A "good" trade then, not so hot these days. :( ... :)

[honestabe]

I sold a jace tms on ebay right when it first came out for $28.

I also sold a few duals right before they really jumped, but it wasn't too bad.

[Kuma]

My Karakas for his two Stoneforge Mystics. This was when Stoneforge Mystics were about $7 each and Karakas was a pre-jump $11. I was really hesitant, since I had a feeling Karakas was about to jump what with Reanimator on the rise and Eldrazi about to be good in Legacy.

I might have felt worse about it if I didn't still have 5 Karakas.

My favorite trade of all time:

My foil Traumatize for his Pernicious Deed, Vindicate, Necropotence, City of Brass, Llanowar Wastes, and Caves of Koilos. There might have been more involved on his end. This was right after Odyssey came out and Traumatize was hyped as shit. He valued a foil one at like $35 and got in a bidding war with someone else for it.

I'll bet he has traders remorse if he still plays.

[Admiral_Arzar]

I sold off a playset of Dark Confidants for $5 apiece when Ravnica rotated. Also sold off Wastelands for like $10 apiece at the time.

[keys]

My playset of RV Taigas for a foil Weatherseed Treefolk.

Luckily I was able to buy the Taigas back not long after for around $15 each.

[GGoober]

Paid $6 for foil Leonin Arbiter thinking he'll be the nuts in Vintage/Legacy. Apparently Survival didn't stick long enough when he was printed to make an impact.

Traded a Jace TMS ($50 at that time) for 2 Elspeth Tiriel ($25 at the time) thinking she has some potential in Legacy (Landstill) and at least hold some value in Standard. Seems like the foil Tezz 2.0's I bought at $60 a piece may become a bad investment as well if Standard isn't going to use him much. Well I'm not really investing, but as an eternal player, you want to feel smart about making non-stupid decisions, that's what I mean by investing :P

Bought a foil Entomb from Slinga for $8. Traded it at $20 value to a friend, next week, Entomb was unbanned in Reanimator. Go figure.

Speaking of which, how much are Korean Wastelands these days? I paid $60, $70 for 2 of them, $90 for the other two (this is when SCG is ramping up Wasteland prices). If they're above $90, I probably won't feel too bad :P

[jamied1981]

Sold 2 fbb underground seas like a year and a half ago for 350 fastest buy it now I ever had gone within 2 minutes. I didn't know they jumped to 250 + each overnight. I bought them for 150 a few months before that. And there were nOne on eBay at that time.

[TheAardvark]

I think there should be a statute of limitations regarding this sort of thing. I mean, yeah, selling Wastelands now for $10 would be awful, but 4-5 years ago? $10 was pretty fair value at the time. I think that a year at most between the transaction and the card's jump or crash is all that can really be considered for this type of thing, but maybe that is just me.

[Malakai]

Actual conversation from 2 years ago:
Friend: "Hey man you should pick up a playset of Force of Will, I just got a set off ebay for $80."
Me: "Eh, I'll wait, I don't think their price is going to rise much."

[clavio]

Set of scrolls for like seventy bucks.

Set of drakes for 140. Unloaded them at 80.

2 abeyance for 15 bucks.

Set of masticore for like 50 bucks.

I bought cruel bargains for some obscene amount.

When I was younger I did alot of stupid trades. I don't really remember specifically what I did.

[dontbiteitholmes]

I didn't trade much when I was little. I knew enough to trade the other kid on the block for his Tropical Island and never to trade my Bayou, but beyond that I was always scared older kids would rip me off.

[soltakar]

Unlimited Time Walk for Unlimited Shivan Dragon shortly before revised was released. I knew some cards weren't going to be reprinted, but not which ones. A "friend" took advantage of him knowing which cards were not being reprinted and told me that shivan wasn't getting reprinted (back then it was a super powerful card) but time walk was being reprinted. I normally would have questioned what the guy said, but another "friend" backed what he said. I actually regretted it the next day and tried to trade back, but he had a buyer lined up and had already sold it by the time I talked to him. I later learned he had lined this sale up a month before and was trying to find a good way to get my time walk the whole time. I still have yet to replace the time walk.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

So I walk into the Lucky Frog. "Dan," I say, "I think I want to buy those Taigas I was looking at last week."

"Oh," He says, "You should have bought them last week. We had to raise the price with this new demand."

"Oh, darn." Says I, "What are they now?"

"$10 each." He says.

Too rich for my blood, decides I.


True story.

[RaNDoMxGeSTuReS]

I traded a Spellskite for a Mental Misstep during the NPH prerelease.

The next day Spellskite became $10.

[Bignasty197]

A guy at my local store traded his set of Revised Underground Seas for a set of Survivals. He played Survival that Saturday and then it got banned a few days later. I feel bad for him still.

[Bardo]

A guy at my local store traded his set of Revised Underground Seas for a set of Survivals. He played Survival that Saturday and then it got banned a few days later. I feel bad for him still.

Yikes. That hurts me and I don't even know the guy.

For every time I traded a beat up Library Alexandria for (his) 4 Volcanic Islands, 2 Taigas, and a Bayou (all RV), or (my) English Mana Drain for 4 Underground Seas and a Pernicious Deed (got lucky there)*, I've traded an Italian Mana Drain for a Morphling.

The Mana Drain -> Morphling trade was definitely my worst, though I've many plenty of other rotten trades. In my defense, I was just getting into the game after an 8 year departure and Morphling seemed awesome circa 2003, at least to me.

* And holy shit: the cost of Underground Seas these days!

[Amon Amarth]

I still beat myself up over all the chances I had a decade ago to pick up stuff like Workshops for 50, UNL Ancestral Recall for 100, Moxen for 100, 15 Italian Drains... ugh.

[Justin]

When Future Sight first came out, I knew that I wanted a set of Tarmogoyf for Legacy. I was able to trade for a couple. Then, I opened up a foil goyf in a pack (which is extremely lucky because I don't buy many packs). I traded it soon after that for two non-foil goyfs so that I could complete my set (and I've never been that interested in foils anyway). It was a fair trade at the time and goyf hadn't really blown up in value yet. I saw that SCG currently has non-foil Goyf at $70 and foil Goyf at $200, so I came out $60 behind in that trade. Now, everytime I see a foil Goyf in someone's tradebinder or in a Legacy deck I have a sick feeling about the one that I let get away. The lesson is that value foils for cards that have long-term potential in Legacy. I should have held onto the card or insisted on a three-for-one deal.

[sporenfrosch1411]

I traded a Savannah for 2 Serra Angels (around 1998)
I traded a Sliver Queen for a Baron Sengir (around 1999)
I traded an Icy Manipulator for 4 Goblin Grenades (way back, about 1997, Icy was good stuff back then...)


Back then, there was no internet .... and our group was the most random noob pile u could imagine ;)
We were like a freebie for all the people, looking for good cards and just ripping us off.

[ramanujan]

A couple foil polluted deltas and and 15-20 duals, mostly blue ones, for a medium sized pile of Mage Knight 1.0 Limited Edition figures. Whoopsie

[Koby]

Oh Mage Knight, the bane of table top games that go the way of Young Jedi cards...

Speaking of which - around 2000 one of the people at my local shop traded away a NM complete Beta set for two cases of Young Jedi CCG. The trade was valued around $3000 back then.

We all died a little bit inside when we heard about that trade.

[(nameless one)]

A guy at my local store traded his set of Revised Underground Seas for a set of Survivals. He played Survival that Saturday and then it got banned a few days later. I feel bad for him still.

A know a similar guy who traded a set of Force of Wills for a set of Survivals a couple of weeks before they got banned.

[dahcmai]

I turned down a few Summer duals in a trade because I didn't like white bordered ones and wanted the black bordered ones instead. Facepalm. The bad part was he was trading them at around Unlimited prices. This was probably around the time of Saga or so and way before the Summer craze took off. I just had no idea why the color was off and didn't care because of that ugly white border.


I stopped bidding on the metal Bird of Paradise on Ebay at $100 so I was the second highest bidder. How could I have known there's only one of the damned things.

I passed up a buy on an Artist's Proof Lotus for $50. That's too much for an artist's proof I said at the time.



The one everyone likes to remind me of is trading Kokoshu's at $5 when they were hot. I didn't see that the card was worth that much when I had a bunch. Luckily, I was trading them for minty revised Sol Rings (worth $5 at the time) so eventually it came back to me.

[militiaman89]

Had a friend quit magic and still had a play set off mint underground seas saw him one night drinking said he would sell them and had them.in his car bought them from him for 100 $ for all four lol then two months later they jumped to 100 or more a piece thankfully he doesn't play anymore our he would be pissed

[jandax]

First Magic cards I ever bought was an UNL starter deck. had a Mox Pearl in it. Sold that next day to my friend who got me playing the game for $50. I paid $30 for the deck. I was in seventh grade.

Probably the technically best trade I ever made.

Probably the most remorse from a trade I've ever had.

[Mr.C]

Not picking up Ravages of War a couple years ago for $25, figuring that was way too high for Armageddons 5-8. Now I'm stuck with two.

[Mr. Froggy]

So I walk into the Lucky Frog. "Dan," I say, "I think I want to buy those Taigas I was looking at last week."

"Oh," He says, "You should have bought them last week. We had to raise the price with this new demand."

"Oh, darn." Says I, "What are they now?"

"$10 each." He says.

Too rich for my blood, decides I.


True story.

This made me laugh out loud.
As for me, I can't remember any real remorse during trades. Might think of something though.

[jamied1981]

I left the game in nemisis, came back for eventide pre release. Only cards I kept were 4 birds of paradise, a black deck with icy's and assassins , and all my unc and commons. They were in my garage for about three years and passed between me and my younger brother for 6 years deciding who will keep the big box. Luck for me it ended up with me, because I forgot I collected fow because I like the picture. I had 40 in my box I sold the playsets for 100. That's how I got back into magic but that's not the remorse. The remorse I had is I was at the pre release for eventide in Syracuse, ny. The Promo was figure of destiny. I really liked it, anyways I had a binder with some new stuff and some old stuff including my birds of Paradise. He seen them and he was excited he took special attention tO my discolored bop I picked up for 5 bucks. I liked it because it was different it had 1994 on the bottOm and different colour. Long story short I traded away 3 revised bop and one mm summer birds of paradise for 4 promo figure of destiny, sorry for long post. Never seen the guy again.

[ivanpei]

My worse trade ever, 4 Force of wills (30 ea at the time) 4 fnm brainstorms (10 each at the time) for 4 Mutavaults and 4 bitterblossoms. Damnit! That's why I will never ever play standard. Fnm brainstorm are like 35 each now. Luckily I only sold my fnms because I upgraded to MM foil (got them @ 25 each) so I don't feel as bad.

[Malchar]

I left the game in nemisis, came back for eventide pre release. Only cards I kept were 4 birds of paradise, a black deck with icy's and assassins , and all my unc and commons. They were in my garage for about three years and passed between me and my younger brother for 6 years deciding who will keep the big box. Luck for me it ended up with me, because I forgot I collected fow because I like the picture. I had 40 in my box I sold the playsets for 100. That's how I got back into magic but that's not the remorse. The remorse I had is I was at the pre release for eventide in Syracuse, ny. The Promo was figure of destiny. I really liked it, anyways I had a binder with some new stuff and some old stuff including my birds of Paradise. He seen them and he was excited he took special attention tO my discolored bop I picked up for 5 bucks. I liked it because it was different it had 1994 on the bottOm and different colour. Long story short I traded away 3 revised bop and one mm summer birds of paradise for 4 promo figure of destiny, sorry for long post. Never seen the guy again.

Wow I just looked up the price on summer birds. I can't blame you though, I never even knew that these cards existed. Apparently ABU Games has a fair number of these cards now.

[MattH]

I failed to ship my SHA foil Elspeth, Knight-Errant when it was the hottest card in standard. Still have it. At least it's pretty.

When M11 was new, I traded a Wooded Foothills+$15 for a Primeval Titan+Fauna Shaman.

Those are my biggest recent regrets, not counting stuff like "didn't buy infinite copies of <card that took off>".

[Impulze9]

This thread makes me think of poker bad beat stories haha.

Anyway, back in the days of Ice Age, I traded 2 dual lands for 1 Jester's Cap. Jester's cap was the bomb back then and was worth about $30. Dual lands averaged $10 - $15. I even bought this hard plastic card case with a screw to keep my Jester's Cap. I still have it to this day.

Oh well.

[Piceli89]

last year, I sold away my playset of Wasteland for 55 euros in need of money. Now they're 140-150 euro. Yeah.

[dernestor86]

back in 1999 when i was a little kid i sold 250 rares/expensive uncommons to a store for 140€

all 10 german fbb duals in mint condition
6 revised duals
1 mirror universe italian
1 moat italian
1 chaos orb
1 bazaar of baghdad
1 mishras workshop
4 mishras factories, all 4 seasons

and the other 225 cards...a lot from german fbb, and many valueable rares back in the days but cant remember what else was in the lot. worst deal ever for me. today they would have brought me at least 2000€

i dont wanna think about it right now, i dont like the thread aswell^^

[swoop]

Bought 4 wastelands for 50c each in 2003. Sold them a year or two later for 25€ and considered myself lucky.

Also, had 2 foil deltas, foil wooded foothils and another foil fetch (think mire or something) and probably traded it away for nothing.

Good trade I got was some shit for 4 ravagers then traded those for 4 force of wills a week later. A month later banhammer rocked affinity. <3

[MGB]

I know, big time Necro, but man, some of these stories really get to me.

I know we all have these kinds of regrets, I think. My big one was back in 2008ish, I had been out of the game for a long time, and had a collection of cards from when I was a kid. Not much valuable, but I took the "big cards" ( 3 NM Force of Will that I cracked from packs, 1 NM Lions Eye Diamond, and some Revised rares like Demonic Tutor and the like) to the local store, and just took their first offer and walked out, not thinking that I'd ever want to play this game ever again. I think he paid me something like $30-40 for all of that.

Now I know the prices weren't as high back then, but the shame of it was that I got *back* into the game only a year or so later, and ever since that time I have regretted just getting rid of my very own cards that I cracked for so little. I could re-buy a playset of Force of Will very easily, but there's just something special about NM ones from your childhood that sat in a binder in your closet since you cracked them from booster packs as a little kid.

[jrsthethird]

Well, since it's been Necro'd, here goes.

Sold out of the game in early 2011, but prior to that I had a full New Horizons deck and some other stuff, and I was working on some German pimp stuff. Made at least $3-4k off of everything when it's said and done, but my collection would be at least $10k now. I was just browsing German stuff on eBay last night and saw this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4x-Foil-German-Thoughtseize-Lorwyn-/161771098950?

I think I got $80 for my single one 4 years ago? The playset's been up for a bit and relisted, but an individual foil German Lorwyn Thoughtseize sold on auction for $311. Almost 4x for one card.

Further back, in 2005/2006, freshman year of college where I didn't have a job, I sold some of my pricier cards (but not everything). The one I remember most clearly was my free DCI foil Wasteland I got from Player Rewards. I think I got $40-50 for it then? I just wish I still had it when I started playing serious Legacy 5 years ago.

[from Cairo]

I traded my then 2nd set of FoWs when Extended rotated (2002) at $10 a piece ish.

I remember selling a playset of Entombs on eBay when they were banned in Legacy at like $10/set; I rebought them at something like $80/set a few years later.

That said I've held 40 duals/fetches, wastes and Fows all of which I got for less than $40/card (most less than $20/card) so I'm definitely still ahead on the cardboard crack game.

[lordofthepit]

I had some credit from SCG last December, and I pretty much had every Legacy staple I could possibly use. phazonmutant suggested I get into Vintage, but the prospect of getting a single piece of Power that I couldn't play with wasn't that enticing. So I decided to build Birthing Pod in Modern instead.

I get to play one tournament with it before the deck gets banned and I buylist my Modern cards. I end up paying out my ass for Vintage cards, which have increased even more in price by the time I decide to buy in. But I guess I'm undefeated in games lifetime with my stupid Pod deck. :rolleyes:

[Davran]

Traded a JtMS for a revised Underground Sea back when Jace was standard legal. The trade was slightly in my favor money wise, but the guy was desperate for the Jace for some big standard tournament, and had offered the Sea when I was reluctant to trade away the Jace. It was my first and only dual at the time. The Sea sat in my binder for a while since you can't really do much with only one dual. Eventually, I came across a guy who had equal value worth of trades I was interested in. I traded the Sea on the spot.

Fast forward to today, and Underground Sea is worth roughly 3x what it was at the time. I still have all of the crap I traded for, which is nowhere even close in terms of "value" due to reprints and the fact that a lot of the "value" in the stuff I wanted was based on standard demand. I didn't even play standard at the time (still don't, but whatever), so I don't know what I was thinking. I'd really kill to have that Sea in my EDH deck, too.

[TooOld4Magic]

Lets see, I played standard and extended from Invasion through Champions of Kamigawa, when I got married, had a kid, and moved to rural Idaho where there was no magic scene... sold all my collection... all the Onslaught fetches, all the mirrodin artifacts and swords, force of wills... but the one that kills me to this day was when I first started and was still buying tournament packs, I ripped a foil polluted delta. I didn't really understand the power of card and my none of my kitchen table buds played fetches. So I traded it to a game store for like some Blistering Firecats.

[iamajellydonut]

In fairness, Blistering Firecat was a fucking champ.

[Ace/Homebrew]

I traded a beat up Tundra for a NM foil Frost Titan at the peak of the titan's value. :frown:

[rancOr_]

I sold a Mint Beta Black Lotus for 2200 euro at GP Amsterdam 2011.

[TooOld4Magic]

In fairness, Blistering Firecat was a fucking champ.

Thanks that made me laugh like you can't believe. luv'd me some Firecat!!!

[raudo]

Dark Blood Moon to Exploration when prices were about equal couple of years ago.
Playset of Show and Tells to some idiotic crap that got reprinted too.
These came to mind first.

And of course all those buys from some new set when you think some card will rise in price. :D
There have been some horror ones. 4x miracle time walk for 60 or something. I dont even remember the name..

[danyul]

I once traded a Misty Rainforest and a Scalding Tarn for a Vraska the Unseen.

[iamajellydonut]

I once traded a Misty Rainforest and a Scalding Tarn for a Vraska the Unseen.

Value train right there.

[Nocley]

My ebay sales history has some dark times from my sellout in 2009. I'm also not the biggest value saver.

Playset of LEDs? $92
Playset of FoW? $70
Playset of Wastes? $55
Picking up a NM Bayou for $10 in 2005, and then trading it for a Bitterblossom right as Faeries was big?
Selling that entire Faeries deck for $200 after giving up on Standard in 2008 for Legacy?

[mishima_kazuya]

Sold a foil Collected Company on eBay for about $10 after fees.

Traded a Scalding Tarn for a Creeping Tar Pit right as Zendikar block was rotating from Standard.

The 2nd trade went from very bad to not THAT bad during some points in the last few years.

[ironclad8690]

Once traded a foil Deathrite Shaman for a temple garden. This was definitely before he saw much legacy play, but it was a terrible feeling nonetheless. Once passed a foil abrupt decay to make my draft deck better. Won the draft, but that foil decay would have been sweet to have. I think as a child I traded a show and tell in a stack of bulk rares for 1 single Masticore.

[jrsthethird]

The Sea sat in my binder for a while since you can't really do much with only one dual.

I'd really kill to have that Sea in my EDH deck, too.

Ah, the irony. Had you realized that sooner you wouldn't be posting here.


but the one that kills me to this day was when I first started and was still buying tournament packs, I ripped a foil polluted delta. I didn't really understand the power of card and my none of my kitchen table buds played fetches.

A related and anecdotal story about ripping a foil Polluted Delta. I was 15(?) and in one of my first FNM drafts. I was old enough and attentive enough to understand that some cards were very valuable, but not wise enough to understand why or how. Anyhow, I remember this guy in another pod got passed a foil Delta in his first pack and he jumped out of his seat screaming. He was so excited about it, but obviously it made the kid who opened it feel bad hard. Everyone stopped drafting for a minute or two just to let what happened settle in.


My ebay sales history has some dark times from my sellout in 2009. I'm also not the biggest value saver.

Playset of LEDs? $92
Playset of FoW? $70
Playset of Wastes? $55
Picking up a NM Bayou for $10 in 2005, and then trading it for a Bitterblossom right as Faeries was big?
Selling that entire Faeries deck for $200 after giving up on Standard in 2008 for Legacy?

Just went to a random page in my eBay feedback. Sold an Aether Vial for 99 cents. Playset of Cliques for $25. I also remember buying several boxes of Unhinged for under $50 on eBay, which was cool because the lands were a dollar or two a piece. I don't remember how much I sold them for but they're around $10 apiece now on eBay, with the couple foils I got in each box being worth around $40. Fuck me.

[MGB]

Dark Blood Moon to Exploration when prices were about equal couple of years ago.
Playset of Show and Tells to some idiotic crap that got reprinted too.
These came to mind first.

And of course all those buys from some new set when you think some card will rise in price. :D
There have been some horror ones. 4x miracle time walk for 60 or something. I dont even remember the name..

Ah yes, Temporal Mastery, the card that fooled many of Legacy's smartest people.

[Madmankevinx]

Sold 2x NM English Chains of Mephistopheles for $80 total exactly one week before that dude played it in his board when TC was hot and they went up to $250 each. I wanted to hurt something.... My Unl Lotus sold for $1010 o. eBay the day before SCG raised their prices that night to $3,999. Again hurting things came to mind. Sold my Foil Emrakul on eBay for $30 a month before it skyrocketed to $150. Ok.....I'm done with this.....there is more but I've lost my taste for telling any more stories...

[keys]

Sold 2x NM English Chains of Mephistopheles for $80 total exactly one week before that dude played it in his board when TC was hot and they went up to $250 each. I wanted to hurt something.... My Unl Lotus sold for $1010 o. eBay the day before SCG raised their prices that night to $3,999. Again hurting things came to mind. Sold my Foil Emrakul on eBay for $30 a month before it skyrocketed to $150. Ok.....I'm done with this.....there is more but I've lost my taste for telling any more stories...

Ouch :cry:

[ESG]

I once traded a Misty Rainforest and a Scalding Tarn for a Vraska the Unseen.

If it's any consolation, I lost to a Vraska a few weeks ago. Still have yet to lose to a Misty Rainforest or a Scalding Tarn.

I regret dipping into my casual Reanimator deck (Hell's Caretaker and Rukh Egg!) and selling my playset of Bazaar of Baghdad when that card was making waves in Type 1.5. I believed that it would be banned, so I had a friend who was going to a PTQ sell them for me. I got $120 for the playset. I was correct that the card was due for banning, but WOTC didn't follow past precedent and restrict the card in Vintage. And then the Dredge mechanic was printed, and people weren't just innocently returning Squee and Krovikan Horror for value anymore.

[barcode]

About 10 or 15 years ago I sold my power (including spare, and beta), all of my dual lands, my FoWs. I kept a shitty parfait deck.

It was the right choice at the time since I needed the money but holy shit was it expensive to get back into Vintage.

[Justin]

I cracked a foil Tarmogoyf when Future Sight first came out. I quickly traded it for two non-foil goyfs because I was in a hurry to get a set of four. At that time, goyf was not worth very much. Judging by SCG prices today, I traded away a $700 card for $400 in cards, coming out $300 behind. That's easily the worst trade I ever did.