Any legendary lands you see are money. As far as uncommons go someone else could touch on that.Originally Posted by SilentHill
Other than ebay there is magic traders for selling. They can help with individual pricing questions too.
Hill Giant means business.
Ice Age block:
Brainstorm, Baron Sengir, Merchant Scroll, Force of Will
Mirage Block:
Enlightened/Worldly/Mystical Tutor, Elephant Grass
Tempest Block:
Ancient Tomb, Wasteland, Crystalline Sliver, Lotus Petal, Price of Progress
there's more, but I gotta go :p
What I do when I am drafting an old set and just want to keep an eye out for money uncommons/rares that I might not normally think are worth anything is use http://deckbox.org/games/mtg/cards. It's simple but effective; just do an advanced search a few sets at a time and then make them organize by price. The prices listed there are from stores and not quite what you should expect on ebay, but generally a bit lower than the lowest end prices is realistically what you can sell that card for ebay. That will give you a good sense of which cards are worth the time of selling and roughly what you could get for them on ebay.
With ebay too you have to sell as playsets to actually get close to the prices you want, and you still won't get very close to retail on cards worth under $5.
Force of Will, Wasteland, Ancient Tomb, Lotus Petal, Priest of Titania, Mother of Runes, etc are all worth a couple bucks or a lot more than that from those periods. I think Dream Halls was an uncommon too?
Submerges, Brainstorms, Dazes, Diabolic Edicts, etc - these will be a dollar bill here and there also a piece, so good to sell in sets on ebay, but they're also so low end you may just want to throw them in the bulk if you have like 12 of each or more since the ebay fees would eat you alive.
You can try selling on MTG sites but players will want them much cheaper than retail so you'll either get ebay fees without the prices or a bit less depending on the card, and it won't be a fast move at all.
alright cool! thanks a bunch I think I have a good start but if anyone can think of any more it would be awesome:
I found:
17x Brainstorm
11x Priest of Titania
5x daze
1x Goblin Lackey
8x unglued lands
4x mother of runes
4x rancor
4x tinker
7x lotus petal
2x force of will (gold bordered world edition)
plus a ton of misc rares i found were worth something (show and tell, metalworker, grim monolith, dustbowl, tangle wire, Doomsday, 4x signed rishadan port, DCI Promo Gaea's cradle + wasteland + Damnation)
Gold-Bordered is worth a fraction of the regular, though.
Yea they are like $15/ piece on eBay.. I have a set of 4 alliances ones in mint condition but I don;t want to separate my vintage deck. We've been through too much together lol.
Homelands isn't part of the Ice Age block.
About half of that, judging by the last slew of auctions.
If you aren't in any rush to dump the cards, it's worth noting that this shit is not going down in price any time soon. So it never hurts to take your time. If I had had more foresight and patience when I was selling my stuff I would have made an extra $400 easy.
When I was in high school in 1995 a friend of mine acquired a box of Revised. Some years passed and he still had it sealed. I asked him if he wanted to open it or sell it. He said that he was going to save it until he could sell it for $10,000. I laughed my ass off!
He still has it, sealed.
Maybe when we're 80 he'll be getting the last laugh...!
What's hilarious to me about Magic is when people say "if you ever sell, you could get $x back", but they also say that they could never part with the cards. You never make the money if you don't sell!
I have sold, but I doubt I would ever again. I'm in a situation again where I have too many extra cards lying around. It's all getting traded in for any amount of store credit I can get for it. You'd be amazing what kind of satisfaction you can have from having a small, finely organized, collection.
They say what does up must come down. I think it seems that since the reserved list exists, the game really exists for collectors whether I like it or not so it's safe to say that given inflation and increased value in out of print cards, mtg will continue to be kind to your collection... unless you play standard, ;)
Coldsnap is an aberration.
...And Homelands isn't?
Besides, you're still wrong.
Last edited by Dragon_Whelp; 05-13-2011 at 06:22 AM.
It didn't take long guys. English, non-foil Mental Misstep is now $419 on TheManaCrypt. Get them while you still can: http://www.themanacrypt.com/products...mental+misstep
Damn.
My plan for buying up all copies so that no one could ever use it against me might just take slightly longer than I had expected now.
I don't understand how they can expect anyone to actually pay that price. Could it be an input error?
I mean, there's hype and there's hype.
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Pretty sure it's a typo ^^.
Yeah, I assume someone meant to type $4.19 and accidentally $419.
Least the hype is starting to subside. I picked up several cards today at much less than normal online prices since they seemed to be in abundance. Here's some predictions for you people if you like that sort of thing. I'm usually pretty dead on.
Mental Misstep - $3 normal / Foil - $20 (notice it's already falling off and I caught the fact that people have a hell of a time jamming it into established decks) As we said, it's damned good, but not I'm putting this in all decks good as suspected. Spell Snare should have taught people a lesson. It's in that range.
Karn - $20 (incidentally, I got one for that today)
Batterskull - $25 (sadly, it's actually good)
Sword of War/Peace - $30 (damage ratios awesome, but protection is meh)
Phyrexian Obliterator - $15 (It's persecutor, except a tad better)
Foil Dismember - $5 (It does look really hot as a foil)
Everything else is pretty meh and most Legacy players are going to not care a bit anyway as we won't use most of it. There's one more I'm not mentioning since I haven't got my foils of it yet and I hate fueling speculators, but it's going to be a staple.
I wish Gitaxian Probe was going to be worth something have like 15 of them <_<
Also, had a Karn yesterday for all of 15 minutes, ended up getting 2 Urabrask, 1 Praetors grasp, 1 Surgical Extraction, 2 Missteps, 1 Sheoldred, 2 Foil Probes, and a slag fiend for it.
I think I dun good.
Lol. No batterskull though, and I had an obliterator for all of 30 seconds, got two fetches for it.
All in all, I thought it was a good day.
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