Comments on: How Do You Handle Standard Cards for Casual Play?

By: pi

pi — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:31:25 +0000

I buy 1 boosterbox from a small set and 2 boosterboxes of a large set, other than that I tend to only rarely pick up Standard cards. Sometimes because the person I’m trading with has nothing else, sometimes because I feel they are a good pick up (Temples), sometimes because I want a card for an EDH deck and regularly through trading for bulk where they just happen to be among the cards I get in.

Otherwise I pretty much ignore Standard cards until they rotate. Most of them will drop and I usually identify the few that won’t in time. Also surprisingly many get in as bulk eventually anyway.

By: Chris Tidmore

Chris Tidmore — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:43:24 +0000

As someone new to the finance side I understand your position completely. I actually went through this dilemma last week as I looked at cards I could buylist or sell on TCGPlayer and sent 2x Elspeth and 3x Jace to buylists because I wanted to get the most out of them and didn’t think I would be playing in any standard tournaments for a while so I could trade back into them once prices came down. Well it turns out my weekend opened up and I could play in the gameday. So I rebuilt the deck without either planeswalker and noticed several times where I would have won if I had either. I still think I got the value out of them I wanted but it emphasized to me the importance of having extra copies that I don’t mind trading or selling away so that I can still play with the ones I need.

By: Justin Smith

Justin Smith — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:15:47 +0000

My buddy has a cube and he doesn’t pick up new cards for it until they’ve rotated out of Standard (assuming their prices are tied to seeing play in Standard).