Comments on: Pink Ribbon Scars and Smashing Pumpkins

By: Douglas Linn

Douglas Linn — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:04:15 +0000

You can use Trinket Mage for Memnite to rebuy Vengevines. Just tossin' that one out there!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:39:15 +0000

I want to know what you think of the set in general. Personally I'm really glad to see, what is it like 6 cards? above 20 dollars rather than M11's 3 and RoE's 2 and WWK's 1. Such as do you think the planeswalkers are actually 50 bucks a piece and I understand mox opal really isn't that great but will be very soon since the next two sets are also artifact based.

Do you actually think Kemba will actually do anything, same with the spikeshot elder. Both of which, at least at first, seem to require some good equipment and I haven't seen any true playables. Like i'd love to put something like the +6/+6 armor on the infect dragon and kill someone in one shot. But I really haven't seen anything "real" like behemoth sledge was.

I can see the spikeshot elder doing better than the sparkmage *depending on the situation* for basilisk collar since you can potentially do it more than once.

By: NoahWhinston

NoahWhinston — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:17:11 +0000

In reply to shazam. I'm really not a fan of Metalcraft. Obviously 8/8s for 4 are amazing, but 4/4s for 4 less so

By: NoahWhinston

NoahWhinston — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:16:09 +0000

In reply to shazam. I like to keep my profit margin at around 20% (i.e. would sell a card that i bought for $5 for $6), but of course there are a multitude of other considerations. You have to strike a balance between making a profit and selling your cards at reasonable prices

By: NoahWhinston

NoahWhinston — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:14:35 +0000

In reply to thehordling. As i said above, this is mainly a guide for prerelease weekend. but yes, the cards at Starcity are slightly underpriced for preorder prices

By: shazam

shazam — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:56:28 +0000

I'd like to get your take on Ezuri's brigade. Is metalcraft too conditional? Thanks.

By: shazam

shazam — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:50:10 +0000

Noah, have you ever defined your min. potential margin on cards? I agree with the commenters that your pickup price is high Scrye (lol) but you make valid points for the cards so you obviously think they will go up, maybe give a dump line also?

Paper presale speculating is not easy, and while similar to Penny Stocks, is completely different because you cannot set stops and when getting out, being able to hit the timing and move that much paper at the shop level is difficult.

By: thehordling

thehordling — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:59:04 +0000

sooo, we should basically buy SCG out of all of these cards since they are cheaper than the prices you listed to buy at?

By: stu55

stu55 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:31:06 +0000

I would not be buying trinket mage at all. They were in a common in 5D, and just released in the EvT duel decks and now in Scars. These things are everywhere now and going to drop to maybe a $.25 on the sell

By: NoahWhinston

NoahWhinston — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:15:26 +0000

In reply to RedBluePlayer. These prices I'm referring to are mainly guides for prerelease weekend rather than preordering, but yeah getting them at lower prices at SCg would work too

By: CATS

CATS — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:53:29 +0000

I already cashed in on my MTGO Warren Instigators when they peaked after PT Amsterdam.
I also got rid of my Avengers of Zendikar right before they dropped and since I picked them up before they skyrocketed I got like 10 tix out of each of them.

By: RedBluePlayer

RedBluePlayer — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:22:50 +0000

Most of these cards are preselling cheaper on SCG than the prices you listed.