Need Advice

FusionFire · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 221

I have a small collection that over the past 3 months I have put together. I wanna sell it off but wanna know what you all think. The list of cards (JUST THE RARES AND PLAYABLE UNCOMMONS) are shown below (most popular in bold)

1 Sulfurous Springs
3 Karplusan Forest
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Brushland
4 Gemstone Mine
6 Underground River
1 Shivan Reef
2 Graven Cairns
1 Caves of Koilos
2 Adarkar Wastes
1 Kher Keep
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Nimbus Maze
4 Horizon Canopy
1 River of Tears
5 Yavimaya Coast
1 Detritivore
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
4 Draining Whelk
3 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
3 Bogardan Hellkite
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Body Double
1 FOIL Body Double
1 Magus of the Future
3 Aeon Chronicler
2 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
4 Voidstone Gargoyle
4 Life from the Loam
1 Summoner's Pact
2 Gaea's Anthem
1 Glittering Wish
4 Tormod's Crypt
4 Crucible of Worlds
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Damnation
4 Bridge from Below
1 Foil Bridge From Below
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Mystic Snake
3 Call of the Herd
4 Psionic Blast
2 Wrath of God (1 Unlimited, 1 Revised)

And the rest............

2 Groundbreaker
1 Magus of the Candelabra
1 Heartwood Storyteller
1 Magus of the Library
2 Timbermare
1 Fungal Behemoth
1 Force of Savagery
1 Baru, Fist of Krosa
1 Vinelasher Kudzu
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Scourge of Kher Ridges
2 Volcano Hellion
1 Torchling
1 Goblin Snowman
1 Shah of Naar Isle
1 Shivan Wumpus
1 Tarox Bladewing
1 Hunted Lammasu
2 Zhalfirin Commander
1 Sisters of Stone Death
1 Radha, Heir to Keld
1 Jhoira of the Ghitu
1 Kaervek the Merciless
1 Teneb, the Harvester
1 Chorus of the Conclave
3 Numot, the Devastator
1 Steamflogger Boss
1 Pardic Dragon
2 Vorosh, the Hunter
1 Epochrasite
1 Scion of the Ur-Dragon
2 Magus of the Tabernacle
1 Magus of the Coffers
1 Magus of the Mirror
1 Nihilith
1 Hunted Phantasm
1 Chronozoa
3 Maelstrom Djinn
1 Serendib Sorcerer
1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
1 Seht's Tiger
2 Crovax, Ascendant Hero
2 Benalish Commander
1 Lord of Atlantis
1 Mesa Enchantress
2 Angel of Salvation
2 Mirri the Cursed
2 Roiling Horror
1 Avatar of Woe
1 Plague Sliver
1 Muraganda Petroglyphs
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Wild Pair
1 Rites of Flourishing
1 Life and Limb
1 Thunderblade Charge
1 Blood Moon
1 Molten Disaster
2 Resurrection
1 Enduring Renewal
2 Boom/Bust
2 Pact of the Titan
1 Veilstone Amulet
1 Bottled Cloister
1 Dream Leash
1 Living End
1 Trade Routes
1 Moonlace
2 Take Possession
1 Nix
1 Spellweaver Volute
2 Intervention Pact
1 Heroes Remembered
1 Barren Glory
1 Opal Guardian
1 Porphyry Nodes
1 Imperial Mask
1 Gibbering Descent
2 Temporal Extortion

Now the bold cards ALONE if bought individually would run about $800. So what do you think I couldg et for the whole set. And should I go ebay, the set as a whole or break the set into pieces? suggestions?

niknight · Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 148

I hate to burst your bubble, but the cards aren't worth what you think. If you were selling the bolded stuff to a dealer, you would be lucky to get $250... $400 if you put it on ebay.

Jorbes · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 277 Location: Netherland

I'll give you 30$ for the 4 trols and $40 for the 4 bops and 24$ for the 3 teferi

evilsaint · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 6

Check the basic prices for selling cards on ABUGames.com. Basically, i've found b/w there and eBay, if you don't like the price of a card that you're trying to sell, you won't GET that price anywhere else...

Also, don't make too many separate little auctions on eBay, unless they're for cards worth $20 or more (singles or playsets); most of the time, you'll just get chewed up by the auction fees, even if it is only $1.20 an auction or so.

*edit* ABUGames and sometimes MTGFanatic give *obscene* amounts of cash for crap foil rares/uncommons/commons. Got $3.80 for a foil Teachings the other day that I got for free originally Shocked

Lackeos · Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 236

I was going to say that the bold and non-bold added together would be valued at approximately $512. Although technically, since no one really wants to pay the cost of all of those cards when they can't use a good amount of them, I guess the lot would be valued at more like $475. But if it was strategically broken up, maybe $510, like I said.

Just a semi-close approximation. With that many cards, no two people would arrive at the same estimate.

tron · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

find and sell playsets on ebay, thats your best bet. if you can, trade the one ofs for the fourth 4 of (for cards that are played fourfold in decks. for example, not many people will play 4x teferi in a deck, at least i wouldnt... not even in sb, so a set of 3 of these would be fine.

go look up regionals decks and find the cards in there, find the decks that won, and their numbers. get the playsets and value the cards in incriments of 2.50$ for your best bet.

4x Wrath of God, for example, would go for 35$

individually they are 10/card but since there are four of them, take off half of the cost of ONE card just because you made a big haul with it.

give me some numbers and i might just have 2 buy from you.

especially that foil bridge from below, that looks yummay

^^

-tronstar-

tron · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

find and sell playsets on ebay, thats your best bet. if you can, trade the one ofs for the fourth 4 of (for cards that are played fourfold in decks. for example, not many people will play 4x teferi in a deck, at least i wouldnt... not even in sb, so a set of 3 of these would be fine.

go look up regionals decks and find the cards in there, find the decks that won, and their numbers. get the playsets and value the cards in incriments of 2.50$ for your best bet.

4x Wrath of God, for example, would go for 35$

individually they are 10/card but since there are four of them, take off half of the cost of ONE card just because you made a big haul with it.

give me some numbers and i might just have 2 buy from you.

especially that foil bridge from below, that looks yummay

^^

-tronstar-

Mirage · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 90

That and Tarmogoyf should absolutely be bold. Everyone wants that shit.