Magic The Gathering Collectible Cards

Magic The Gathering Collectible Card Sets

2009-06-19T23:36:00.009-04:00

One of the best things about collecting Magic The Gathering Cards is building sets. I love the fact that some of the cards are rare, uncommon, and common. Making it a challenge to collect these cards improves the value ten fold. When I started playing back in the Stronghold days they did not have symbols denoting rarity of the cards and you had to go by best guess. This made collecting the cards harder but at the same time more rewarding when you could trade card for card not worrying about the dollar amount. Magic The Gathering has come a long way over the years. In my pervious posts we talked about foil cards and how much they have changed the game. Not its even harder for a collector like me to get a full set of cards along with its sister set in Foil. Something about those shinny cards keep me coming back for more.

Just think in another five year what in the world could magic do to change the face of the game again? If you’re like me and are a true collector I found some of the best way to get those pesky sets and rare cards is to just bite the bullet and buy them. Magic The Gathering has change the face of what it is to be a collectable card game, and this writer feels it’s for the best.

Sites like this that devote time and energy to bringing you only the best cards at the best prices are a real gem. Don’t stop collecting; keep playing, and most of all support your local gaming shop. But when they fall short remember to turn to the good old internet for the best deals around.

MTG Foils For Sale

2009-01-21T11:04:00.005-05:00

Magic the Gathering has been out for many, many years. And they felt that it was time to change a few things. One of the best changes I felt that have done was adding Foil cards. With the release of Foil Magic the Gathering cards it brought the collectors back into the game with a new way to collect the cards. Foil card are by far the most fun to try and collect and the good rare cards are worth a boat load of money. Nothing is more exciting than opening up a booster back and seeing that rare card a Foil. Magic the Gathering Cards has come a long way from when they first started and these cards are no exception!

Discounted Dual Land Cards

2009-01-19T10:52:00.003-05:00

Magic the Gathering Dual Lands were introduced in Revised the sixth set and third core set. Printing of Revised began in early April 1994 and continued until April 1995, when 4th Edition was announced. It is estimated that about 500 million cards of the set were produced, which fully eliminated the distribution problems of earlier sets. The cards of Revised were still widely available even well into 1996. The cards of Revised all had white borders and...

no expansion symbol. However, the cards were far paler than their Unlimited counterparts, and the three-dimensional beveling of the cards was cropped out. This made the set seem by some to be unprofessional and "washed out". The beveling was returned in 4th Edition, and the colors were much more vibrant in that set. The large print run meant that Revised basic lands were so numerous and common that it was uncommon to find any other lands in decks until several years later.

The collation of the cards made it possible for a basic land card to appear in the common and uncommon slots of a pack. This was intentional; the land cards were printed on the common and uncommon print sheets. Basic lands would get their own full print sheets in 4th Edition, making Revised the last tournament-legal set until 8th Edition in which basic lands could be found in booster packs.

One card-printing error of note appeared on the card Serendib Efreet. This blue creature card was misprinted with a green border and a picture of another card, Ifh-Bíff Efreet. The name, mana cost and rules text were of Serendib Efreet, however. The Revised version is now the most common due to the limited print run of the original, intended versions.

At this stage of development, cards were swapped out to alleviate problems. In later sets, cards were swapped in and out to change the feeling of the game, but the cards removed for the Revised edition were all cut for one of three reasons:

Being too powerful. In particular, the Power Nine were removed, but also such cards as Invisibility, Forcefield, and Berserk.
Mystifiers. Cards that were too confusing by the contemporary ruleset. Mystifiers included Raging River, Word of Command, Camouflage, Blaze of Glory, and Twiddle. Note that the effects of many of these cards were used in later sets, and several of the cards were even reprinted later in their entirety.
Too weak. Some very few cards were dropped for being too weak, in particular Copper Tablet, Ironclaw Orcs, and Dwarven Demolition Team.
Interestingly enough, many of the cards removed from the base set for the Fourth Edition were removed for same reasons as many cards were cut from Unlimited (although some were brought back in later sets). Such cards included Clone, Vesuvan Doppelganger, and Fork, cards which were either overpowered or offered strange rules interactions not suited for a base set.

Power 9 Cards For Sale

2009-01-15T09:30:00.009-05:00

Magic the Gathering’s Power Nine are nine rare cards that were printed in Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited sets. These cards where only printed for a short period of time (late 1993 to early 1994). The Power Nine are a set of cards that are required in all type 1 decks these cards are very rare and very expensive. Funny thing is back in the day these cards where commons and uncommons in the booster packs. The power nine are made up of Black Lotus, Mox Pearl, Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Mox Ruby, Mox Emerald, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, and Timetwister. Richard Garfield the designer of Magic the Gathering...

...is pure geniuses all though I feel that Wizards of the Cost has done a better job keeping the game alive we would not all be playing the game we love with out Garfield. In the early days as Garfield designed and play tested his invention he did not put much thought into balance of the game or how some cards could be “broken” or too powerful. Hence the Power Nine, no other set of nine cards are a requirement in any other type of play than in type one. If you showed up to play in a type one tournament missing the Power Nine you would be laughed at and more than likely loose. Even so each card out of the Power Nine is very expensive they are worth having. Even if you don’t play with them and just save them in a lock box its worth the history that’s behind the cards.

So if you are like me and love everything Magic you are always looking for a good deal on magic the gathering cards. I myself own a few of the power nine but not the full set and are always trying to find deals, deck combos and other fun things to do with magic cards.

Magic The Gathering Collectible Cards

2009-01-14T22:13:00.006-05:00

Hi and welcome to Magic The Gathering Collectible Cards. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Scott and I have been playing Magic the Gathering for about ten years now. I love this collectible card game it has been one of my favorite games from the time I picked up my first Magic card. Playing the game with friends to pass time or going to tournaments to compete for prizes makes Magic the Gathering one of the best collectible card games on the market.

Playing with friends to sharpen skills before going to a tournament is one of my favorite things to do. I can find myself playing Magic for hours and hours without even knowing the day drifted by. Using card combination's and trained skill I have placed in the top ten in a lot of tournaments.

I think posting this blog about Magic the Gathering will bring new deck ideas along with some new good combination's and to meet new people from around the world that like to play Magic the Gathering as much as I do.