Rags to Riches: Week Fifteen

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Plejades

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  2. Players that advertise such buy offers during prerelease events are very much aware that they are overpaying. They just want the cards NOW and not later and therefore pay a premium.
    Many people paid several tickets for a Wall of Omens when RoE was released and some do the same right now for Memnite.

  3. I have had a good time reading your articles. I have read others, but I enjoy following you on your journey. You inspired me to start speculating to great success so far.

    As SOM came out I bought:

    10x pyromancer ascension @ 1 each == just sold for 36 tix total
    1x memoricide @ 1 == just sold for 5.5 tix
    1x argentum armor @ 1 == just sold for 3.5
    2x ezuri @ 2 each == just sold for 3.75 each
    2x Frost titan @ 8 == just checked the price, can sell for 11.3 to bots (holding onto these)
    4x Foil Archive trap @ 1.4 each == am holding onto these in case I play this deck, but their value is up from 1.4 for sure
    2x Stoneforge Mystic @ 4.5 each == slight profit on these so far, I am holding onto them too

    But as you can see, even if I make no more sales and keep the cards I have left, I am still way over in terms of profit. Honestly, this is just a start of what I have actually sold. So far in the last seven days I have made > 75 tixs.

    I wanted to thank you for inspiring me and I wanted to let people know that if they study trends and trust their instincts; this can really work.

  5. @Sukottosan
    Did you buy all those before or after the paper version was released? Thats alot of tixs in just one week.

    I’ve always heard of people paying premiums for cards but, never had any proof of it my self cause for some weird reason I’m always busy during these release events.

  6. @Anonymous: Yes, that was the truth. I spend nearly all my tix during that last session and will have to sell mostly next time. :-)
    @Neros: I bought them after the paper release.

  7. Hi, I’ve been following this series for a while and I alway wondered how is it that you find good deals on bots. Do you scroll through every bot in mtgo or do you have a list of bots or some organized way to do it? Keep up the good work and gl on reching the FoW.

  8. That was after the paper release; I don’t follow what happens with in the paper world at all, parallels exist, but I find that online and paper trading are really different.

    I bought the pyros after seeing the pyromancer ascension archive trap deck and saw how it functioned against the top decks; vs titans, valaramp, u/w control.

    Even if this deck isn’t necessarily the best, people were always looking to try and make a good pyro deck anyway, this just opened the doors back up.

    I don’t expect to make another 75 tix anytime soon, after release is the optimal time to buy.

    here’s how I see it:
    rares after release of a set go up quickly, buy the ones that seem useful
    for example:
    memoricide works against the biggest issue you have lately (getting rid of emrakul or other eldrazi)
    the elves deck has been hyped lately, ezuri is obviously going to fit in
    mimic vat has been hyped and is awesome in so many ways, they were selling for 1 last weekend, 7 now

    But they will drop soon after due to the fact that they are just rares and drafters will flood the market over the next few weeks. Mythics that are good, should stay up longer, however, high priced mythics tend to drop because they tend to start at an overpriced cost.

    Also, frost titan showed up so consistently in good decks that the price continues to climb.

    Anyway, let me apologize, I have learned much of this from Plejades and other who write market articles, it is good to have a strong background and you can do a lot.