Magic cards on eBay...

[fyleow]

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[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: fyleow
Do people really make money off that? Doing the math it seems like a losing business to me.

Approximately $70 for a booster box that contains 36 booster packs. Each pack has 15 cards. So that's 540 cards total.
Now if you subtract all the crappy commons and uncommons you get about 36 rares per box. You would need to get $2 per rare in order to break even and that's really unlikely since some aren't even worth a single buck.

Makes me wonder if some are just tourny players buying mass quantities and just selling cards they don't need.

probably.

i quit when all my cards got outlawed years ago.

not my damn fault the newbies don't have shivan dragons.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fyleow
Do people really make money off that? Doing the math it seems like a losing business to me.

Approximately $70 for a booster box that contains 36 booster packs. Each pack has 15 cards. So that's 540 cards total.
Now if you subtract all the crappy commons and uncommons you get about 36 rares per box. You would need to get $2 per rare in order to break even and that's really unlikely since some aren't even worth a single buck.

Makes me wonder if some are just tourny players buying mass quantities and just selling cards they don't need.

probably.

i quit when all my cards got outlawed years ago.

not my damn fault the newbies don't have shivan dragons.

Shivan Dragons are now banned? WTF?!

 

[fyleow]

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[gentobu]

I stopped playing when they banned mindtwist. Bastards.

 

[FuZoR]

i remember buying a box of 5th edition and tempest... and umm got crappy cards so yeah.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: fyleow
Do people really make money off that? Doing the math it seems like a losing business to me.

Approximately $70 for a booster box that contains 36 booster packs. Each pack has 15 cards. So that's 540 cards total.
Now if you subtract all the crappy commons and uncommons you get about 36 rares per box. You would need to get $2 per rare in order to break even and that's really unlikely since some aren't even worth a single buck.

Makes me wonder if some are just tourny players buying mass quantities and just selling cards they don't need.

when my brother was playing professionally (on the pro tour) he got most of his cards playing in local game shops winning cards as bets in games. certainly didn't buy too much.

 

[EvilYoda]

hehe...I still have my cheap goblin and spell-reversal/djinn decks upstairs. I had a friend whose brother was a lawyer, and would buy him a box of cards every few weeks...he collected every Mox, and all those time vault, time travel cards (I'm a little drunk right now, can't remember)...it was sick. oh yeah, Guardian Beast, that was the name, right?

 

[NewSc2]

It was gay when they banned Serra Angels. It wasn't even a hard to get card, it was one of those coveted Uncommons.

 

[Pepsi90919]

i stopped right before homelands came out.

 

[ElFenix]

maybe it was serra angels... banned fork too i think. maybe they unbanned shivans

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: NewSc2
It was gay when they banned Serra Angels. It wasn't even a hard to get card, it was one of those coveted Uncommons.

They banned serra angels? :Q Why? I had like 5 of them, they wern't all that powerful or anything.

 

[thraashman]

serra angels were banned because they decided that for their casting cost they were too powerful (well they weren't reprinted, which in type 2 tournaments meant they got banned). They banned the sengir vampire for the same reason. I stopped playing after Visions came out. I wish I had stopped way earlier, then I may have actually made some money off of my cards.

 

[EvilYoda]

serra's and sengirs were both way powerful for their casting cost...the serra had the flying advantages (first strike too, right?), and then the sengirs had the vampire abilities which made them kick ass if you had a good strong black deck.

 

[NewSc2]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
serra's and sengirs were both way powerful for their casting cost...the serra had the flying advantages (first strike too, right?), and then the sengirs had the vampire abilities which made them kick ass if you had a good strong black deck.

No, it was a 4/4 flying creature that was like, 3 colorless and 2 white mana, and attacking didn't cause her to tap, so she could attack every round and still defend.

Sengir Vampire was 4/4 but every creature it killed, a +1/+1 counter could be stacked on it.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Originally posted by: thraashman
serra angels were banned because they decided that for their casting cost they were too powerful (well they weren't reprinted, which in type 2 tournaments meant they got banned). They banned the sengir vampire for the same reason. I stopped playing after Visions came out. I wish I had stopped way earlier, then I may have actually made some money off of my cards.

Right. They were never banned, but they were cycled out of Type 2 play. Very few creature cards have been banned. Besides the ante creatures, Ali from Cairo is the only creature card I can think of that was restricted. There are/were too many creature removal cards to warrant a ban.

The only cards that get banned/restricted are the ones that are considered "gamebreakers." A few that come to mind are mindtwist, channel, fork, moxes, black lotus, ancestral recall, time walk, etc.

 

[eviltommy]

speaking of magic cards.. i heard theres a bunch of cards really cheap in the for sale/trade forum

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow

Originally posted by: NewSc2
It was gay when they banned Serra Angels. It wasn't even a hard to get card, it was one of those coveted Uncommons.

They banned serra angels? :Q Why? I had like 5 of them, they wern't all that powerful or anything.

4/4 flying attack without tap is nasty

 

[ElFenix]

fork a scherazade is what my roommate's brother did

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
serra's and sengirs were both way powerful for their casting cost...the serra had the flying advantages (first strike too, right?), and then the sengirs had the vampire abilities which made them kick ass if you had a good strong black deck.

Ahh, I remember my vampire deck. I had 4 singirs and 4 kavorkian (spelling?). I'd put a few +0/+1 counters on them and they'd be pumped up in no time.

I liked using it in conjuction with red because of the instant damage (lightning bolt, incinerate).

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
serra's and sengirs were both way powerful for their casting cost...the serra had the flying advantages (first strike too, right?), and then the sengirs had the vampire abilities which made them kick ass if you had a good strong black deck.

Ahh, I remember my vampire deck. I had 4 singirs and 4 kavorkian (spelling?). I'd put a few +0/+1 counters on them and they'd be pumped up in no time.

I liked using it in conjuction with red because of the instant damage (lightning bolt, incinerate).

 

[FrustratedUser]

So what are you talking about here?

 

[Dedpuhl]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
fork a scherazade is what my roommate's brother did

shahrazad was a silly card. Forking it is just dumb...

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl

Originally posted by: ElFenix fork a scherazade is what my roommate's brother did

shahrazad was a silly card. Forking it is just dumb...

Forking is great with fireballs

 

[Ns1]

i got really gay after ice age