There are so many places above that between your LGS, card shows, online stores, eBay, Walmart and Amazon you should be able to find what you want. So many places, so many options. Feel free to comment below and let me know where you find the best deals in your area!
Table of Contents. Brian is the founder of Magic Card Investor and has been collecting and playing Magic since Since that Golden Era of Magic, he's accumulated a nice collection from Revised on through today's newest sets and cries nightly about that massive collection including ALL Beta Moxes that he sold back in the late 90's for peanuts! All these tournaments are five rounds each. These are also large scheduled events, so make sure you have lots of time before you join. Buying, Selling, and Trading on Magic Online.
I love trading Magic cards. I love flipping through binders and pulling out obscure foils. I love meeting new people and hearing about their Magic-playing lives. Trading on Magic Online is a little different. The whole process starts back in the collection tab. Luckily, binders are easy to make. The important thing to remember here is that only one binder can be active at a single time.
Make sure that your event tickets are in your active binder! Unfortunately, casual trading is very rare on MTGO. Well, There are two big reasons for this. Take another look at that picture of the MTGO classified ads. See anything odd? How is this possible? As we discussed in our currency section, Event Tickets cannot be split up.
If you buy a card for 2. If you come back tomorrow and want to buy a card that is worth just 0. This incentivizes you for buying cards from a bot over a human, because the bot will be able to set the price at the most competitive margin it can while still making a reasonable profit.
All the bots in a given chain have access to your stored credit, though they might have slightly different contents. One bot in a chain might have high end foil sets, say, while another specializes in Standard rares.
There are four different kinds of bots, and you should know the differences between them:. The prices listed by the sell bots are how much a card will cost you to buy. These are the most common type of bot. The prices listed by the buy bots are how much they will pay you for your copy of the card. These are the second most common type of bot. These bots are fairly rare, but they do exist. If you like building random casual decks, hit these bots up! Open a chase rare and want to sell it?
Most of the dealers are currently paying between 6 and 6. The moral of the story? A little research never hurts. What if you wanted to buy a copy of Ulamog instead? Bots that are busy are currently engaged with another MTGO user. Just wait a few seconds and the bot should open right up. Easy, right? The interface is the same, so I just use the familiar search tool to find a copy of Lumbering Falls and double-click to add it to the trade.
Once I double click the card, the bot automatically calculates the costs of the deal, factor in my saved bot chain credit none, in this case , and offers me a final price for everything. In this case, everything looks good. Selling cards to a bot is a very similar process. Just double-click on a buy bot and it will automatically select all the cards from your active trade binder that it is willing to buy.
If you do want to try to find a human trade partner, your best bet is to make a post on the MTGO classifieds. Be sure to specify that you are human! If you do find someone you want to trade with, you can right-click their username to open a chat or the trading page. When interacting with another human, it is considered proper to open a private chat with them before initiating a trade. Making a trade with a human works just like it does when buying or selling with a bot, only you have to discuss your deal with your trade partner in the chat window and make sure they add the correct cards on their side of the deal.
Always double-check a trade before confirming! Paper copies of Underground Sea are worth almost four hundred dollars each, but you can nab a copy for 22 tix online. What gives? Well, most of these discrepancies exist because set releases happen very differently online. At this point, every significant card in Vintage and Legacy is available on MTGO in some form, though a few older unplayable cards have never been released online.
MTGO prices also differ because of flashback drafts. If you head down to your local shop, your options are probably going to be limited to the current draft format. A few weeks ago, Tops were about 4 tix each. Casual cards are much cheaper online. Bulk rares also behave very differently online. In paper, you can generally get between ten and fifteen cents each for even the worst rares.
Online, bulk rares are worth less than a penny apiece. Because you can only redeem cards as complete sets, bulk mythics tend to be worth more online than in paper. Buyouts can happen quickly in paper Magic, but it still takes a few days or sometimes weeks for prices to adjust and settle. After all, paper cards still have to be mailed around the world.
That takes time, which leads to lags in value that can last for days. On MTGO, cards can be bought and sold worldwide in seconds. If a chase rare falls out of favor in Standard, the online price can go into freefall in a matter of hours. If a bulk card starts making waves in a new Modern deck, it might not even take an hour for the price to spike across every bot chain on the program.
Much like in paper Magic, singles prices tend to be at their highest during prerelease week. Because prerelease events are expensive and card supply is low, I recommend selling chase singles you open at the prerelease as soon as possible.
The exception to this rule? Bulk mythic foils tend to be at their cheapest during prerelease week. As an MTGO newbie, the important thing is not to overreact in either direction. Play constructed. Yes, buying cards costs money, but constructed tournaments almost always offer better bang for your overall buck. You should also check the secondary market price of booster packs before joining a draft. This means that digital boosters are often worth more than their paper counterparts, and their contents are often worth less.
Set Redemption and Selling Your Collection. This is done through a process called set redemption, where you can pay a fee to transmute your Magic Online cards into physical cardboard. First, you can only redeem cards in complete sets. A set of Onslaught?
How long do you have to redeem a set? Well, Magic Online has a guarantee date and a cutoff date for each expansion. The guarantee date was October 31, The cutoff date is November 2, In my experience, sets are often available for a long time after their guarantee date. If you want to redeem a complete set, I recommend doing so before the guarantee date if at all possible. Unfortunately, set redemption costs money. Because of that, I highly recommend redeeming multiple sets at once to keep your shipping costs down.
Is it worth the anxiety of an unknown buyer for a shot at a couple of extra bucks? Dealers are able to use this in order to make sure they can give you the most accurate offer possible. Under Versions , make sure that show versions separately is checked. Call it Collection For Sale or something. Make sure it is your Active Trade Binder. Over on the left side of the screen, click reset all filters.
This adds all your tickets, avatars, etc. Down at the bottom left, right-click the active binder and hit Export. Make sure you save the document as a CSV file!
This is what the big boys are going to want to see. The downsides are very similar to eBay. For older stuff, go back up to booster boxes and packs. Especially the decks that are of great value or just really in demand. The pricing tends to be very close to if not a little better than purchasing it in a store. The other nice thing is that some sellers will even pack the set precons together at a discount. Lightning Greaves Illustration by Rudy Siswanto.
This is a hard category to really give a recommendation for since, by their nature, Secret Lairs are meant to be in limited supply. If you can get them directly from Wizards of the Coast when they come out, do that.
Depending on the Secret Lair in question, this has to be a split recommendation. TCGPlayer is currently your best bet since you can look at a ton of card stores. After that, eBay has the best prices as sellers still try to be around the market rate if they want to actually sell their stuff. From deck boxes to dice , every Magic player has at least a shelf full of cardboard paraphernalia. Wherever you can get cards, you can get stuff to hold and protect them.
Variety is going to be king here. Amazon is a double-edged recommendation. While the variety of items is fantastic, and that really is the main criteria here, there are a couple caveats which keep it from my top slot:. Exquisite Archangel Illustration by Brad Rigney.
MTG Arena is a funny one. So, if your loved one or just yourself plays digitally instead, finding something for that outside the game can be difficult. GVG allows you to buy the packs, decks, cosmetics, etc. This is a great substitute for directly buying cards on MTG Arena.
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