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moxdiamd Member	posted January 25, 2013 05:22 PM I have had a couple good finds at flea markets. I picked up a Nether Void for $5 and a few other good legends really cheap. I also bought 48 out of 50 re-packs off Ebay fo $2/pack. Main card advertised was a Beta Timetwister. Was pretty worried the the "best" cards were going to be in those two packs I didnt get, but I got the Timetwister, a Mana Drain, 2-3 dual lands(no seas), and a bunch of other decent cards.
MTDetermine Member	posted January 25, 2013 05:49 PM My best ever MTG find was in late 1998 when I saw a 10 yr old kid selling cards. A couple of the local "ruffian" traders were hogging his album filled with then hot cards like BOP, Recurring Nightmare and trying to rip him off....It was seriously ugly. I took a look at another album that no one was paying attention to. I did not recognise any of the cards inside (started in late 1998 and my knowledge of old cards then only extend to Revised's Duals). At that time I was trying to form a Blue-White Counterpost deck and I found a "never seen before Wrath of God" white card with the description "Creatures without flying cannot attack". I figured that while it is not as good as Wrath of God it is probably the next best thing to Wrath of God I can find and that I will have "5 Wrath of God" in the deck if I have this card as well. I asked for the price and paid the asking price of $3.50. The next day, I showed the card to my more experienced friends and they told me a Legends Moat is worth $30! When I quitted MTG in 2000, I sold it for $40 =( I also saw another card in that album that was also $3.50 but never bought it because I thought the card was not strong enough as the card requires me to sacrifice a creature every turn. The card's description is "At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of his or her choice. It can't be regenerated."
evilempire22 Member	posted January 25, 2013 07:27 PM Here is my score from back in October 2011: quote: Originally posted by evilempire22: So....my father-in-law in San Diego called me a couple weeks ago from the swap meet and said he was standing in front of a large box of loose Magic cards and sealed packs. He wanted to know if I wanted them, which I said sure, just let me know how much I owe you for the cards and the shipping. Fast forward to today when my wife texts me at work with the picture of everything spread out on my desk. FIL paid $20 for the cards, and $25 shipping for the following (prepare to have your mind blown, I know I did): Sealed Packs: 02 Stronghold 03 Mercadian Masques 04 4th Edition 03 Mirage 04 Urza's Legacy 04 Urza's Saga 03 Urza's Destiny 04 6th Edition 03 Weatherlight 03 Homelands 03 Fallen Empires 03 Visions 02 Starter 02 Alliances 02 Ice Age 04 Portal 01 Exodus 01 Urza's Legacy pre-con 02 Urza's Sage pre-con 01 Prophecy pre-con Loose cards: The following are the noteworthy cards pulled out of first pass through ~4 booster boxes full of cards, 11 starter deck boxes full of cards, and 36 loose booster packs, cards still present: 01 Survival of the Fittest 01 Crystalline Sliver 01 Powder Keg 02 Vampiric Tutor 01 Rain of Daggers 01 Firestorm 01 Gemstone Mine 01 Wall of Blossoms 01 Rishadan Port 02 Grim Monolith 01 Quicksilver Amulet 01 Goblin Lackey 01 Shivan Hellkite 01 Palinchron 04 Tinker 01 Mystical Tutor 01 FOIL Promo Serra Angel (link) 01 Misdirection 01 Time Warp 01 Gilded Drake 01 Yawgmoth's Bargain 01 Grim Tutor 03 Armageddon 01 Enlightened Tutor 01 Radiant, Archangel 01 Karmic Guide 01 FOIL Rancor 01 Deranged Hermit 01 Birds of Paradise 01 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary Like I said, I almost soiled myself when I realized what exactly I was looking at. I haven't done another pass through all the loose stuff, but there are probably some other good stuff I missed in my haste to take it all in. I just talked to my FIL and thanked him many times over. He said he wasn't even going to pick them up if he didn't have my SIL there with her cellphone to give me a call and ask if I wanted them. He even talked the guy down from $25 to $20 for the whole mess of cards, unbelievable! This is one of those great scores that you only dream of. Anyone need any commons from Urza's block? I have a crap load of them. --Evil __________________ I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
dtellis1965 Member	posted January 26, 2013 08:58 AM My daughter and future son in law have made me dig out my magic cards and start playing again. I came across an unopened pack of Onslaught in my stash. When I opened it, it had a Flooded Strand. Thought that was a nice surprise
Jtrade77 Member	posted January 28, 2013 02:32 AM I've had mixed feelings over this 'lucky magic find' -- it really was a find. It happened over 10 years ago, when I started getting into conventions, going to Origins and Gencon each year. I can't even recall which convention now, but they had magic, fantasy seminars, and anime. Following a pre-planned schedule of the events I wanted, I found myself on a fifteen minute break, so I checked out the card games area. Plan was maybe do a quick trade or two. I found a space of big empty tables and noticed random cards on the floor and in a pile. At first I thought it was just a bunch of draft reject lands and commons, but then I noticed on the floor underneath the middle of the table were three sleeved cards, face down. They turned out to be double sleeved!!, and I thought this might help me identify the owner. So I packed up and took the double sleeved cards to the event station. I asked the girl sitting there about magic tournaments, but she didn't have a clue except for offering to sign me up for one if I paid and waited until enough people also signed up. I explained the situation and wanted to turn into lost and found, stressing how valued these cards were. Event girl passed the cards back to me. She said they didn't do lost and found for single cards, they'd end up being kept by a staff member (who she didn't like) or put into the garbage, and I should keep them. I thanked her and held the cards. I checked my event schedule and it turned out a small Type I tournament had finished a half hour previous. I spent the rest of my break looking for the card's real owner myself by asking around, but could not find him or her. I instructed the biggest card dealer there about where I would be and what happened. Finally I went to watch anime as planned (Planetes, I think, some space mecha thing). No one ever came for the cards. Later I would post on the Internet that I found three Type I cards at this convention, and if anyone could tell me how they were sleeved and what editions they were, I would mail them in. No one ever responded to the message I left on the convention's website forum. That's how I got my beta Ancestral Recall. [Edited 1 times, lastly by Jtrade77 on January 28, 2013]
AEther Storm Member	posted January 29, 2013 03:42 AM I got dragged by my brother in law to a Magic convention here in Amsterdam about 4-5 years ago. Didn't really want to go, but still went anyway. By registering your name went into a box from which at 2 poins in the night they would draw 10 names that would win a prize. You could add your names more times in that box by Gunslinging against some pros using Sealed Decks. We got the last Sealed Deck packs. I won 2 out of 3 rounds, so my name went in there 3 times in total. In the end, my name got called once. I won 1 Beta Booster. My brother in law got annoyed as he knew that I didn't really want to come in the first place. Weeks later, after trying to scan the booster and horribly failing, I had my wife open the pack. Mox Sapphire. I remind him every year on his birthday. __________________ /Thunder in the wind/No rain/Peace mourns its passing/ "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
Truman Member	posted January 29, 2013 04:05 PM Last year my friend Shawn calls me up to see if I can take a look at something he got. I go over to his house and he tells me that his father in law found a starter box of 4th edition at a garage sale for $5. He shows it to me and after looking at it for about 3 seconds I know it's not 4th, the color isn't dark enough. Turns out to be a sealed starter box of Revised. For $5. He eBayed it for $950.
jb231 New Member	posted January 29, 2013 09:06 PM Not really my find but I was checking out the gatecrash spoilers at work, new guy at work looks over my shoulder and asks if that's a magic card. Long story short he's got about 3-4 big boxes of mint condition old cards from unlimited/revised and up. Full of dual lands and all sorts of money rares in NM condition, he was pretty excited to find out he was sitting on thousands of dollars of old cards to say the least.
flophaus Member	posted January 29, 2013 09:18 PM I woke up a little early for a graveyard shift one night and my daughter was like... look daddy we found some Magic cards at the Goodwill! 2 or 3 big Ziplock baggies full.... and there were about 100 Alpha/Beta basics in NM condition... about 300 UNL basics, around 200 Ice Age snow lands and like 500 RV lands (not worth much but cool to me)... a lot of random other stuff... some Alpha/Beta/UNL/RV Starter boxes (just boxes) and some Alpha/Beta rulebooks... just weird odd crazy old things like that... I was like WTF! They paid like $5 Pretty cool that a 9 year old daughter can be on the lookout for ya! Also..... there was a guy on here I recall saying he bought like hundreds of packs of Fallen Empires from a dollar store or something like that for .25/pack. I have other stories... but don't we all?.... anyways.. I bought the only pack of Revised I've ever purchased (from a sorta LGS) and spent like $13 on it.... I pulled a beautiful Taiga! I was quite pleased! I actually ended up trading it off right away for 2 Beta Sinkholes. [Edited 1 times, lastly by flophaus on January 29, 2013]
sys41o Member	posted January 29, 2013 10:08 PM Glad to see that this thread hasn't degenerated into a rip off thread or a one-up-man-ship thread. I always like hearing stories like these. I am usually the person that is on the "losing" side of these trades as I usually never took the time to research what I really should be getting in value. I made an acquisition on ebay in about 2000. I got two 3000 count boxes and a couple of small 1 inch binders and a complete set of Revised which was worth about $175 - $200 at the time. I think that I paid about $300 shipped for the lot. I quickly sorted through the lot to pull out what I needed and discovered that there was about 20 duals, a bunch of legends, Antiquities, Arabian Nights, even some Alpha stuff plus a ton of singles. I started selling the stuff that I didn't want. First to go was the Revised set, the Arabian, Antiquities, and a bunch of Unlimited. After about 2 days I had made my money back. Fast forward about two weeks after I had shipped a bunch of stuff and I realized that some of the duals were re-backed fakes. I started going through the collection inspecting every card and found about a dozen of the duals were fakes and some of the other cards were sketchy. I lost some sleep over the next few weeks contacting the people that I had sold to. Not only might I be out $300 but I was looking at potential mail fraud charges and everything else. Fortunately it was only about 6 or 8 people and after I explained the situation they inspected the cards and said that they were content with the authenticity of the cards. So I only had about 20 or so fakes that I could tell so I took the rest of the money cards over to a dealer and we went through them. Another chunk of money later and I was content that I had weeded out all of the fakes. So I was left with having already sold $300 - $400 worth of cards and now I still had a near complete set of Legends, some money Alpha cards, a ton of standard and extended staples, about 10 real duals, etc. Fast forward about 6 months and I had sold another $600 worth of cards. I had begun filling out the Legends set plus I kept some of the other cards. A year later when I finally sold off the rest of the collection I was up about $700 and had a complete set of Legends most of which was either from the original lot or that I had traded for using singles from the lot. In 2005 I sold the NM/Mint Legends set for $1200. Of course this was after Legacy was created and Moat, Mana Drain, Nether Void, The Abyss had all crept up into the $100 range. To this day I still have a twinge of conscience knowing that there is a high probability that the person that I bought the collection from was a ripper. He had more then likely built the collection with re-backed dual lands that he traded as real cards instead of proxies.
Marvin Austria Member	posted January 30, 2013 04:40 AM My best percentage wise found was a foil odysee island which was quite miscuted, which I bought from my local store But actually you could not see another card but it was very close Costed me 0.1€ sold for 13€ 1300%
AGO Member	posted January 30, 2013 06:59 AM I once bought a 100 count box from a garage sale for $3. Pulled a Rishadan Port and like 5 Daze and countless other good commons and uncommons. Another good find was I bought a complete set of Visions, Mirage, Iceage, Fallen Empires, and Homelands for $75. The dude had them forever he said. Everything in them was straight from the pack into the binder. I regret it but I tore them all apart and pieced it out!!!
mm1983 Member	posted February 05, 2013 04:40 AM Some of the stuff I remember for about $30 or $40 each at that time I got on different occasions 10 or 12 years ago were 3 Bazaar of Baghdads, 2 Moat, 2 Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, 3 Candelabra of Tawnos, Beta Berserk. All of these I ended up getting $70-80 each in return per card. This would be like $200 per card today.
hammr7 Member	posted February 05, 2013 05:14 AM Back in 2000, when Ebay was still an Internet garage sale, I came across an auction for a full card box (~800 cards) of cards that looked in nice shape. I was working on older sets, and while the few cards that were actually shown in the auction were nothing special, all of them were Antiquities and Unlimited. I decided to take a chance and ended up bidding $50 to win the box. The seller, from Wichita, was very happy, as he couldn't even get $20 for the box at his yard sale the week earlier. No one even looked at it. The box was all NrMt cards from the earliest sets. Virtually every card in the box filled a hole or upgraded cards in my sets. There were a number of money cards, like Fall and Winter Factories, a Eureka, and an Unlimited Time Vault (at the time a very decent card, though much less expensive). As I worked through the cards I was really pleased with the purchase, simply because of the condition of everything. In the last 100 cards the deal turned into a Lucky Magic Find. There was a gorgeous Mishra's Workshop followed by a handful of Beta cards, including a slightly played Volcanic Island.
Default User Member	posted February 06, 2013 02:02 AM I found an old message board for auctioning magic cards, that used to be a hot thing around -97. It was being slowly phased out from use during early -99, but I happened to just catch and win the sole auction going on. A beta Mox Emerald for slightly under 50 $ mailed. That turned into a almost complete AN set, altough it took me couple of years to finally get the last missing card, the AN Mountain. I also bought about 500 cards of nm alpha bulk and made 4x alpha common sets about 5 years back. I had to buy a few singles (Sinkholes a few Terrors), but I could sell the extras outside playsets and cover most of the expense of the purchases if I wanted. I also bought some older packs for running a draft almost three years back. I couldn't find the last 8 boosters so I just put the 16 I had to storage. Last fall I went over the box of draft sets and found 16 sealed packs of French fwb Revised. I checked the current price and delved into my purchase history to find the price I had paid. I smiled for two days straight.
gregmacknass New Member	posted February 06, 2013 03:13 PM I would have to put my purchase of a heavily played alpha scrubland and a played revised scrubland for $20 total in the list of best deals ever. A guy at the local card shop was trying to sell some cards to get some quick cash. I noticed that they were alpha and beta. Having always been a vintage collector, I waited until he was leaving to talk to him. I asked how much he needed, and what he was willing to give for it, and he offered the alpha and revised scrubland for $20. Needless to say it didn't take me a quarter of a second to put $20 in his hand. At the time (2004-2005) it wasn't a horrible deal (especially because he desperately needed cash), but I am sure he kicks himself to this day for selling those for that price. I ended up selling the alpha a few years later for $200, so it was a great investment. I have to say though that I have been in that place in my life that money was more important that magic cards, and have ended up selling many cards well before their peak prices, but that is the nature of the game. I don't feel bad looking back, because we were both happy with the deal, and that is what really matters in the long run. -Greg
KIP_NZ Member	posted February 06, 2013 09:36 PM I have a "found" story sort of as well. I bought a Time Walk and a Berserk (UL) off a dude on ebay in 2000 and as I was in the forces it managed to go missing in the post. Never fear I'd paid for insurance so the seller made good on it by shipping me a Mox Jet as replacement. Lo and behold when I transferred to another ship like 5-6 months later the original letter got delivered. I was torn, what shall I do? I emailed the seller and he pointed out he was only $12 out of pocket for the deal for paying for the shipping on replacement mox as USPS had paid him for the rest & suggested I ship him $12 on paypal and we would be all square. I figured that was a great deal and did it I no longer have that Jet, I sold all my cards in 2004 & have recently reaquired a set of P9 paying much more than the $110 I think that Time Walk / Jet were.... __________________ Adrian Proudly not Hansolo's Sweetchecks Repeat after me "Han is a fruitcake" Former DCI Level 2 Judge (Retired)
JoshSherman Member	posted February 07, 2013 11:31 AM I helped a guy acquire a Candelabra of Tawnos for a sealed DCI Hypnotic Specter. Then I helped another guy acquire an ITL Taberbacle and Reset for 2 Alpha Psionic Blasts. My understanding at the time of those deals was that they were even. I'm clearly not a speculator, though. __________________ My LJLetter Bombs!FBLogout- MM is a copycat! (So am I)*CKGB
Nyarlathotep333 Member	posted February 07, 2013 12:04 PM Probably my best 'find' is putting together a set of English Portal 3 Kingdoms when the cards still were not tourney legal. The two places that sold them locally were both offering deals to move them from their inventory since no one was buying them. I managed to put together a full set in 'pack fresh' condition and held on to a second Seal and Dragon which I eventually got BGS graded. I wish I'd held on to more of the rares and money uncommons, but I sold most of my extras when they were still fairly low value on eBay. [Edited 1 times, lastly by Nyarlathotep333 on February 07, 2013]
stinkinogre Member	posted February 12, 2013 06:47 AM Cleaned out my car. Found a deck box with my old faeries deck in it. Does that count?
gaeacradle Member	posted February 12, 2013 06:49 AM Mine would be building a Mono-Blue Control deck with 4 Force of Will in it toward the end of the first time I played Magic. Then I quit due to school, and completely forgot about the deck. 7 years later, I just decided to randomly check out what's in my room back at home and found the deck! And 4 Forces!!! YAY!!!
paragondave Member	posted February 12, 2013 08:12 AM I bid on a storage unit...and won it...and when I opened this one box there were all these binders in it... I don't know nothing about these cards but here's some pictures... [Edited 1 times, lastly by paragondave on February 12, 2013]
Demilio Member	posted February 12, 2013 08:20 AM quote: Originally posted by paragondave: I bid on a storage unit...and won it...and when I opened this one box there were all these binders in it... I don't know nothing about these cards but here's some pictures... I'm waiting for the punchline... Did you ever see the Storage Wars where they found some cards and it was jank, but lo and behold there was a black lotus tucked in there? lies....
stinkinogre Member	posted February 12, 2013 10:22 AM Pretty sure thats what dave is poking at.
implode Member	posted February 12, 2013 12:24 PM I did a speech on Magic for a college class. So someone brings me their old collection and just gives it to me. Among the decent cards--a few dual lands, transmute artifact, doppleganger, and demonic horde. Plus some random legends, arabian, and dark cards.

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