https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/05/more-bang-for-your-buck-by-richard-hagon/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 26 May 2009 09:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/05/more-bang-for-your-buck-by-richard-hagon/#comment-916 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:21:14 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/05/more-bang-for-your-buck-by-richard-hagon/#comment-916 I've been doing the following for new sets:a) Get a playset of uncommons/commons for about $30 shipped off eBay. Besides not ever needing to chase down that one common/uncommon I'm missing, there's also the HUGE benefit of not having nearly as many cards lying around this way versus buying packs/boxes.b) Buying playsets or trading for sets of the obvious chase rares, where obvious is defined as the cards that are actually seeing wide play.c) Waiting a month or two and picking up the marginal cards that are either for a) speculation and/or b) casual fun because I've never met a goofy combo deck I didn't like.Has worked well so far. Another note-keep your land bases stocked as much as possible. Good lands are basically always liquid assets in the trade binder-a lot of people go from deck to deck and like to trade lands a lot.

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