TRADING FAITH

          Trading is a topic I have talked about before, but this one is different. Since the EXTRA!.....EXTRA! Blog has been posted I’ve been trading with other players, through pucatrade.com and the wonderful people at the Magic the gathering community board on Google +.

          Normally I don’t trade with other players other than my brother in law, just because I fear I might get ripped off, but I gave it a try. It’s mostly form the website and the community right now, still hasn’t done it at my LGS.  The players at my LGS seem friendly enough but looks are deceiving. 

          I’ve gotten a Planeswalker and some sliver cards so far, and few more still coming in the mail. The sliver cards I got from the person who sent it to me had put some extra sliver cards in the envelope  with the one I was asking for (in protective hard card sleeve of course). Found out from someone else about that it is pretty much normal for someone to do that, which I think is a really cool thing to do.

          This tells me that the magic communities are full of great people. It really opened me up some more to the idea of trading with other players in person. Thanks MTG Google+ community and pucatrade.com for opening me up some more to start getting rid of the extras or card I have no use for to other people who needs the cards more than me.

          How often do you trade? Do you trade by the need of the card or the value of the card?

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If you are interested in my trade and want list I will post a link for it.

Card trade list ß----link

SNOW DAY WITH MAGIC

AS I sit here on this snowy day of having about 8 inches worth of snow on the ground and still counting. I kind of had gotten bored with just sitting around and watch the snow storm news coverage where it talks about the same thing for hours on end. So I decided to get out my magic cards and see what I can do with them.

Needless to say I never realized how many cards I actually have (other than from putting together a trade list). Many are the same name or I forgot I had that certain card in my collection. With me finding those extra cards I would add them to the trade list or maybe try to put a deck together with some of them.

For example I noticed how many cards I have that have the battalion trigger ability on them so I made a red and white battalion deck, still need a few more of some of the creatures in the deck but it would make do for now. Then I remembered I was getting Xenagos, the reveler Planeswalker card in the mail soon. So I went ahead and picked out a bunch of cards to build a deck around the Planeswalker. Granted I picked out about 90 or so cards I thought would be helpful but I’m definitely going to cut it down to 60 cards and maybe have a sideboard with some of the cards I’m cutting out.

Then for the final part of the magic the gathering deck building is sleeving the cards in their nice white leather card sleeves. It’s a tedious job, but something’s got to protect my cards from those other players shuffling my cards. Plus it makes them look all shiny and nice looking and not mess up the card in any way shape or form.

What do or would you do for your boredom from staying in the house?

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Pre-release or release?

          I’ve come to notice that there’s a mix between people’s feelings about the pre-release weekend, as well as the release weekend. Some like doing the pre-release better and some like doing the release better. There even people that don’t like to go to either releases at all, they rather just get to booster box or whichever and just use it for Friday night magic or an event involving magic.

          I myself only been to 2 pre-releases and they weren’t all that bad. Even if you don’t win at what tournaments they have set up, you’re still leaving with a bunch of the new cards before it’s even out to the general public, to me that screams bragging rights. Sure in most cases you don’t get that absolute best card they have for the set, but still you can get some pretty decent cards out of it, maybe even a Planeswalker or a god card could be pulled.

          It don’t really matter which release I go to, I’m still walking away with a bunch of cards. I don’t know about everyone else’s LGS, but the one I go to do the same stuff in the release as they did in the pre-release. It’s still fun to go to and hang out with other players. Maybe even show a new player how to play, which is a lot of fun to do. In other words my preference is either one of the releases, which is if I can afford to go to one of them.

          Born of the gods the second set of the theros block pre-release is February  1-2, 2014. The official release weekend is February 7-9 (technically the 8^th considering it’s a midnight release on the 7^th) and game day is March 1-2, 2014. Hope everyone will enjoy the new set.

          What’s your preference? Pre-release or release? Please leave a comment of your thoughts.

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EXTRA!.....EXTRA!

There comes a time in a magic player’s life where they will have tons of extra cards of the same name. What would you do with the extras? Where would you put them? Probably by this point you would have multiple decks with those same name cards in it, what more can you do with it from there? Sideboard? Nah, they are full. Leave them in the deck box? Nah it’s taking up too much space. What to do? What to do?

One of the first things a player would do is either try to sell them their LGS or trade them with other players for one of their cards. Trading cards is a fun thing to do without spending any type of money. Saving money is better than spending it all, especially if you are broke, and unemployed. A lot of players go by value rather than what they really need for their decks. There are also players who trade just to get the cards they need for their decks. The trade is only good if both players walk away happy with their cards, unless one had second thoughts and would want the card back. Most cases once the player makes a trade, they won’t trade back.

Buying from other players is probably not a good idea. It’s always better to buy from your local game, at least then you be buying them for what they are worth, not the attachment value the player has with the cards. Buying from the local game shop is a better way to go because it helps the economy and gets more players to come to the shop because of a particular card some of the players sold to them.

Selling to your local game shop is also a good way to go, only because they will pay you as close to the price worth for the cards as they can. You can either get cash for them or store credit for them. Either way is good because most likely you know he shop well and the shop knows you, you’d go there often enough to use the store credits or anything in the store.

What do you do with your extra cards?

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VOICES…

December 19th 2013 I turned a very young age of 33 and for my birthday gift from my dad is a booster box of the dragons maze set. Looking through the 500 something cards I have opened up from the booster box I came across some pretty cool rare and mythic rare in the set. One in particular stood out.

Granted there are some really cool cards in the booster set I got but the one really stood out to me is the voice of resurgence card. Out of the 36 booster packs in the booster box I got voice of resurgence as an only card. Go figure that would happen right?

When you have voice of resurgence out, chances are the other player is not going to want to cast a spell that ends up killing voice just because of the token it would bring out. If you already have a whole bunch of tokens out along with creatures chances are the new token will have some crazy power and toughness.

I’m always for powerful creatures but I like to get done quickly. I like the card and it’s a great card too but I don’t have much interest in doing token decks, I feel they are too slow for me. I do have a token deck but I only use it a very few times. I might just keep it for the art work. Who knows, maybe someone really wants to the card and give me a good amount of money for it or trade for a couple of god cards or something.

What’s your favorite card in magic?

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