For the sake of others and me I stopped at 10th edition and nothing before Revised/FE/HL

SETS VAlue
4th 150.00
5th 125
6th 125
7th 125
8th 120
9th 125
10th 170
Alliances 110
Coldsnap 90.00
Mirage 150
Visions 110
Weatherlight 80.00
Urza's legacy 105
Urza's destiny 100
mercadian 160
Nemesis 50
Prophecy 60
Invasion 110
Planeshift 70
Apocalypse 90
Odyssey 175
Torment 75
Judgment 90
Legions 70.00
Scourge 80
Darksteel 200
Fifty Dawn 125
COK 150
Betrayers 100
Saviors 80
Guildpact 125
Dissension 100
Time Spiral 120
Timeshifted 70
Planar chaos 80
Lorwyn 180
SOA 125
Conflux 100
Alara Reborn 75

Keep in mind that having lots of commons and crap rares wont really help you.They are hard to find and a pesk because people dont list undesirable junk on their have lists.If you have a good shop in your area that sells bulk for cheap then that will probably help.The highly playable money rares really only factor into the price of the set.Say for example darksteel.Acbound ravager,aether vial swords etc are the only real factors in the price set,only set builders value the other cards.Theres alot of junk and filers in sets that I dont see ever seeing play in a deck.When you get older and you want to part with it,Youll be hard pressed to sell the set altogether.Most players just want the chase playables.

Also you have 4th ed at 150.And a lot of your prices I really dont see.4th was the first core set without dual lands.Consider that nowadays cards are a lot more powerful and there is a lot more variety out there to make a deck than in 1996.Serra angel,savanah lions,sengir vampire volcanic dragon righteousness are all uncommon now because theres simply better stuff out there.Shivan dragon used to be awesome now its almost a crap rare.Wrath of god,birds of paradise used to be $10+ and considered some of the best cards out there.Now there under $5.

So if you get enjoyment out of it then I would say yes.It helps to have alot of the set fillers but the last cards that you will always get to when making sets are the money cards.

My two cents

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But then about 4-5 years ago I decided that was to easy and now I'm after a playset of each set.

Is it really worth the time and effort prolly not but its a good challenge and I'm a common and uncommon box junkie so thats how I got started. Plus every once in awhile you find something unusal in a stores bulk box, not too long ago I found a square cut 5th edition shatter I think it was.

But no, half are those are not 'worth it' because they were boring uninteresting sets, and some of them were printed really ugly.

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Originally posted by Solidarity:
Interesting... Alliances is only $110?

Is half of Alliances' value really tied up in FoW?

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There's a couple lands worth a couple bucks, like lake of the dead and kjeldoran outpost but otherwise yes. I'm not a huge seller or anything but when i had a couple complete sets of alliances they never moved or even saw offers around 100. This was when FoW was a solid $40 here.

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Like m10 the cards are more separately then as a set.
It seems to me that 4th is worth more as a set then the individual cards total.

Thats the discussion not do I have the value to high or to low or does one have the time to complete a set, but purely is the set worth more then the sum of its parts then if you tried to sell or buy the singles.

I can't imagine 4th through 9th being worth that much. Those sets are mostly full of junk and what good cards (that are still desirable) are left are ugly because of wb.

You're oddly missing some sets. You don't like Saga, but you like Prophecy (which honestly should be cheaper than Nemesis. Ditto for Onslaught, Mirrodin, Future Sight and so on. Saviours seems high too since that set is worse than Prophecy.

As for if they are worth it, I don't think so. Bu they're FUN!