I don\’t know why tokens retain value when so many people print their own and give them away as promos. I think unique tokens have a tendency to retain value, and unique tokens that go with an expensive card like the Wurmcoil tokens are a good bet. Still, as someone whose podcast is always printing new tokens, I am not sure I like them as investments. Still, more surprising things have happened.

I do have a question regarding tokens and that niche sub-market (or lack there of). What is the best way to out those and what types do you think are worth holding? My current thoughts are THS elemental tokens (Master of Waves), BNG cat solider tokens (Brimaz), THS Satyr tokens (Xenagos); pretty much the ones that go with mythics that do/may have eternal playability. Any thoughts?

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I’m not saying there’s no benefit, there is. The basic approach works for us too, it’s just that TT only shows us what we could have gotten in the US. I have tried using TT for identifying which cards should do well at buylists in general, but honestly, what I found on the buyslists I can feasibly use is that they were very different.

For me it makes a lot more sense to just open up one of the few buylists I can use and go from there. Or, in the case of my preferred shop to trade in to, which doesn’t actually have a very usable buylist, I just go by TCGPlayer low, ask that amount in credit or perhaps a little less and more often than not they agree. In the few cases they don’t we can usually come to an agreement that beats top US buy prices anyway.

In general though I am trying to create awareness that articles that make extensive use of TT will have less relevance to a part of the audience. It is somewhat like a writer located somewhere in Europe deciding to describe the ins and outs of MagicCardMarket. The basic principles probably hold, but the specific implimentation would be fairly useless to members located in the US.

I see. I do that from right to left 🙂
I tested this just a few seconds ago and upside down cards from left to right goes way slower, so I’ll keep my current way of doing that.

One advantage for right-handed persons doing it Jason way, is that you’ll get thumb-ache at your left hand. I am getting trouble writing after sorting through thousands of cards, because I’ll have thumb-ache at my right hand 🙂

I know Magiccorporation.com, what is the other one you know ?

I hold the cards in my left hand and transfer them to the right hand. I use my left thumb to shove cards over to the right hand, and the fingers on my right hand to pull cards from underneath. When I try to transfer cards from my right hand to the left right side up, my thumb works fine, but the fingers on my left hand are less adept at pulling cards over and they end up less straight. I feel like I can go much faster going from left hand to right so I hold the cards upside down. I don\’t have to look at the card name or anything- I just recognize the symbol and do what I need to do. It\’s much faster for me, personally.

Maybe you DO want a tutorial on shoe tying

It’s card prices at the top of the page. Or mtg.gg

Main issue is lack of buylist with non joke price. There’s like 2 in France and they update slowly. I wish i cna BL to the US for all those EDH staple that don’t move here becasue of 1vs1 and cash out those pile sof commons at 0.25$ that are bought at 0.05 here.

jk, thanks for plugging trader tools. I need to get rid of about a million cards already.

It’s because you only have to move the cards 0.5-1 cm to see the next card, instead of 3-4 cm. I know it sounds so small it couldn’t possibly matter, but believe me, this type of improvement is what process engineers dream of.

I think that while European readers may not be able to buylist profitably to the sites listed on trader tools, I find it difficult to believe that the market for each individual card is that radically different that the process described by Jason wouldn’t still be beneficial.
A couple years back I wrote about in the forums, my experience at a European GP where I was able to engage in currency exchange rate manipulation to essentially make an extra 10%. Europe also sees an import tax on magic sealed product that translates into inflated standard singles.
Wish our European writers could discuss these things in greater detail.

I usually remember the sets that belong to the names, but, should I ever check for symbols, usually when browsing through a large stack of commons I will do the exact same thing Jason does. I like to move the cards to the right when I have them in my hands and when I do the previous card will cover the expansion symbol. When they are flipped I don’t have that problem. I think you probably browse through them in a different way that has you move the cards towards the left?

Jason, one thing to consider could be that non-US based members may not benefit quite as much from TT. We usually can’t ship the cards quick enough and it gets riskier when shipping internationally, we get hit by currency conversions, can’t really use checks (lots of banking fees to cash them), etc. We don’t benefit as much from articles like this one.

Also Jason, “je zuigt” (adding an international dimension to how much you suck ;).

I am also right-handed and check expansion symbols, rather than card names.

But I don’t hold the cards upside down when I flip through them…

Would you mind sharing pictures/video showing why it’s easier/faster the way you do it (holding them upside down), because I don’t seem to grasp that part 🙂

Thanks!