Here’s an excellent example:īack when Dragon’s Maze released, I watched a casual player come into the store and buy a single pack of DGM.
This includes trading your cards for boosters, which is a similarly poor choice. I’m not going to get into the math, but the long and short of it is that over time you will lose money if you open boosters. Don’t Open PacksĪ quick rehash of our introduction: don’t open or attempt to acquire packs. If you find this article helpful, you would be wise to take a look at the previous installment as well. You can find my previous article intended for novices on the topic of trading over here. In an effort to provide some of our newer friends with known financial pitfalls, today will be a non-exhaustive list of things you should not be doing when trying to keep your Magic collection’s value intact. Not only is it a bad idea, it’s one which countless new players engage in. Repeat this cycle a few times and it will be as if you ground your dollars into dust and blew them into the wind.
You’ll trade real cards for packs, open the packs, end up with $4 in rares, and be down $10 in value. Trading for packs was, and is, a great way to rapidly disintegrate your collection’s value. Just think what could be in the packs! Why, maybe even fetches! I didn’t need fetches what I needed was more packs. At that prerelease, I also traded the fetch lands I opened for boosters. (In fact, to this day, I hold the same belief.) At one point I asked some players if they thought Cobra was the now the best green two-drop, taking the throne from Tarmogoyf. I was mostly hoping to open Lotus Cobra, because what could be more fun than generating boatloads of mana? Nothing. Back when Zendikar came out, I attended the release as a casual player at his first store event.
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