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SaumZ
Joined: 07 Nov 2004
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 Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: One Basic Forest - Trading Up for a Cure. |
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Hello Everyone,
I am not sure if anyone knows of the story of the one red paperclip. It is a guy that is trading up from one red paperclip to get a house.
Well this has inspired me...
I am going to attempt to trade up from a Magic:The Gathering 4th edition basic forest, up to a Magic:The Gathering Alpha Black Lotus.
Why?
Well, it's not because of money. It'll be fun to see people helping me reach my goal. Once I reach that goal, trading up for a cure. I am going to sell the card on eBay and donate all of the money to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Please visit http://onebasicforest.blogspot.com to see the current trades and the progress towards my goal to help make this happen.
Thank you for your time,
SaumZ |
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NahHolmes
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 591
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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So you got all the way up to Cromat and someone stole it...
1: Who steals a Cromat?
2: Needless to say once you get to 100$ worth of stuff you better keep an eagle eye on it.
3: It's going to be REALLY hard to get up to an ALPHA Black Lotus. Not to mention Beta is cooler. At any rate there are lots of cards worth between 10-50$ but once you get upto 100$ it's really going to get harder and harder to push for better stuff.
4: Since it's going to be rediculously hard to get a Black Lotus out of this will you sell whatever trades you have aquired should you give up? For example a year has passed and you have 2x Abyss or something like that and haven't traded up in months, will you sell them for charity? |
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Kholdstare
Joined: 30 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| go for it man...despite what some people will say i think you can pull this off |
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Spyx
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| quite interesting |
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kebe
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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i found a cromat in the 10 cent bin at my store on friday  D |
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Stryfe-
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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When you get to the $100 range, start trading down.
As in, trade a $100 for 2 $60-$70 cards |
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NahHolmes
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Stryfe- wrote: | When you get to the $100 range, start trading down.
As in, trade a $100 for 2 $60-$70 cards |
Yeah obviously thats what you have to do but when your talking about a BB Black Lotus it's going to get hard after $100 no matter how you slice it. On a related note if you do get a BB Lotus you should talk to WOTC, I bet Richard Garfield and (Insert name of dude how drew Lotus) would sign it for you if it was for charity. I've seen a card they both signed before on Ebay. |
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asdfghjk
Joined: 29 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| NahHolmes wrote: |
Yeah obviously thats what you have to do but when your talking about a BB Black Lotus it's going to get hard after $100 no matter how you slice it. On a related note if you do get a BB Lotus you should talk to WOTC, I bet Richard Garfield and (Insert name of dude how drew Lotus) would sign it for you if it was for charity. I've seen a card they both signed before on Ebay. |
That would be Christopher Rush. |
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Shyft-
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 104
Location: Your Mom
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: Regarding signing |
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| Chris Rush is a really nice guy too, lives in California these days, I'd be very surprised if he wouldn't sign it for a good cause. |
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SaumZ
Joined: 07 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: |
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That would be really cool if I get someone with a name people recognize to help me out. I have gotten a few very nice offers for the forest to start.
I have also gotten a spot on a card shop's website in San Antonio, and he will be passing out flyers as well. |
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redgrail
Joined: 01 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:12 am Post subject: |
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Anyone else catch the fact that the 4th Forest and Lotus are both drawn by Chris Rush?
Good luck to you! |
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ElvishGod
Joined: 12 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:38 am Post subject: |
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# 1 ENTIRE SET of UNHINGED, nonfoil, obviously missing Super Secret Tech since that card's only available as a foil, for the forest.  - pstuko
# I will trade an Overgrown Tomb for the forest. (It'll no longer be basic, but at least it'll still be a forest.) - Ken S.
2 very amazing trades for ur 1st one |
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SaumZ
Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Posts: 13
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| Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| They are indeed 2 amazing offers for the trade. There is 1 day left in the first round of trading. Please feel free on spreading the word of this event, and also post comments in the blog entry helping me decide which trade I would accept for teh second round. |
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Spyx
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
Posts: 877
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| Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| take the tomb |
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