Art and Collecting

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  Price of vintage Staples?
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  "UP" they go. #hodl.

  Europeans buy and sell on cardmarket.com. There you can also see what cards were sold for. (And you can see what people ask for their cards in the respective languages and conditions). Don't forget to calculate the conversion from €>$. Another good tool is mtgstocks.com where you can also see the "market" price: what cards actually sell for. Compare the two tools, find a good middle ground. If not selling picemeal, you'll have to give generous discounts if yomeone is buying loads of cards. PM me for further conversation.

  Best, Peterflugzeug.

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  Some original MTG I am considering selling
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  Have just read the PM's from various people, I will get back to you all over the next few days but in the meantime I wanted to share a couple of other pieces with the art lovers out there, these are not for sale I'm afraid.

  First up is an absolutely stunning original of Psi Divisions (Judge Dredd) Judge Anderson:

  Sorry for poor quality pic and backlight. The picture has been framed for its total image rather then what the artist intended, hence the messy edges yoiu would not normally see but I like to see the whole thing. This is a really powerful picture and shows Jocks talent way before he got all famous.

  Next one is by Dom and also from 2000AD depicting Slaine being crucified, again apologies for back lighting/reflectionhope you enjoy them both.

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  Collector's Edition Full Set - Selling
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  Awesome Pics of Awesome Cards
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  I've been working on JPN White Eldrazi over the past year and just got my final 3 Caverns in the mail today, so the deck's done!

  
  
  
  

  On the non-JPN cards:

  Power obviously doesn't come in Japanese Sol Ring, Crypt, and Karakas don't have old-frame JPN printings, and I would play old-frame over new-frame any day of the week
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  Deciding to sell or not...
  • madmanmike25

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  @themonadnomad Not a bad thought. No point in me keeping a slightly used Beta set if I'm not actually playing with it anymore.

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  Should I get my Moxes signed?
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  @brass-man

  Done :)

  http://www.themanadrain.com/topic/1815/awesome-pics-of-awesome-cards

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  "De-Oracle-izing" and "Antiquating" Modern Cards
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  Okay @mourningpalace after a lot of squinting and figuring out where I installed all of my fonts...My one big worry going with text this small is that it starts to look "not like a magic card" lol, but I think it gets the job done...

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  Masticore Article
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  @prospero
  Reading this made me feel warm inside. Gave me goosebumps just looking at the picture of that magnificent masterpiece hanging on your wall. Gave me a bit of hope, knowing maybe, just maybe some day I, too, will acquire the pieces I seek. (Probably not that Morphling, though, lol) Wether it be cardboard or canvas.
  This is the kind of articles i remember reading on TMD, not too long ago. Thank you, Nick.

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  Favorite Basic Lands
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  I have a signed print of this one. cravenone posted the other Avon Onslaught forest which is also excellent.

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  Royal assassin
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  Tom Wanerstrand was keeping all of his art in a storage unit that he refused to go to a while back. I can't immediately recall if I've seen a piece of his art out in the wild, so I guess it's theoretically possible that he still has it. That said, dealing with him is difficult. Reaching out directly to him first seems best.

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  Card Alters
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  Here is my Gen Con picks ups!!

  drooooool.

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  Your Favorite Card Art
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  Perhaps it's nostalgia for a deck I loved but I think Entreat is pretty great. Terminus is good too but it's hard to see all the detail.

  
  

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  Asset Appraisal for Divorce
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  Still going on, pain in the butt that I still can't actually play cards. Both my wife and I obtained different 'experts' for appraisals. Most retailers will offer to do an appraisal but for a large Vintage collection you may want to be sure to have someone truly qualified, not just the local MTG shop. I was sure to pick someone I knew had a great reputation and qualifications but I had no personal history with. It's not a fun process and a bit idiotic to be honest; very easy for one side to devolve into trying to pay $x in legal fees to gain $x/2 from the other.

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  Dodging US-specific Buyouts
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  If you are looking for bling (and not sanctioned playable), I have a couple gold border ones that are available.

  Edit: Plenty on Flebay.

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  Please educate me about fakes
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  @Brass-Man said:

  Admin Hat!

  I deleted a few posts from the thread, specifically talking about where people bought counterfeits and whether particular counterfeits are legal in tournaments. This does not constitute a "warning" and nobody is in any sort of trouble.

  However I don't want Wizards to have any inkling that people might be using TMD to encourage people to play counterfeits in tournaments, or spread information about how to buy counterfeits. One issue is that posting "I know how to get counterfeits" even without publicly posting how, possibly implies conversations happening over PM. I don't want that implication, even if it's unfounded. Beyond that, there's a reasonable argument to be made that knowingly purchasing counterfeits is illegal, so posting that you have is potentially dangerous.

  Yes, this is a legal gray area, and yes, Wizards probably doesn't care about individuals at a small scale. I still don't want TMD (or I would hope, the vintage community) to adopt an antagonistic position with Wizards on this issue

  I think it's awesome to educate players about how to differentiate between real and fake cards. If you bought cards expecting them to be real, and received counterfeits, please continue to post that here or elsewhere, the community needs to know.

  However, if you have purchased counterfeits or are considering purchasing counterfeits or are considering playing counterfeits in an event, sanctioned or otherwise - please do not post about that process here - and feel free to flag posts you see on that subject, so the staff can review them accordingly.

  Im on mobile, so its hard to tell if my post got axed but it might have.

  Passing a deck check is not a big deal, they arent even trying to stop that sort of thing

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  Original Magic Art
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  While I am not currently in the position to buy it, I would like to start trying to hunt down the original art of Grim Monolith. Chippy anything is really hard to find, but Grim seems like it is impossible. It's one of my all-time favorite arts.

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  How to sell high value / small market cards?
  • thecravenone

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  Because some other options have come up, I figured I'd post them for anyone wondering the same thing in the future:

  Trade into cards that have a lower "spread" - the difference between their sell price and buylist price. Usually this means trading bigger pieces into multi-format staples like Duals, Fetches, Tarmogoyfs, etc, which can be buylisted to a store that can move them quickly. Multi-party trades: A lot of people in the market for high dollar cards have other high dollar cards that they'd rather trade than use cash. If you can find someone who wants those cards, you can cash in pretty easily. I'm currently working out a trade where I send cards to party A who sends cards to party B who sends cash to me.
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  Looking for Shriekmaw by Steve Prescott
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  @portland Hey, I'm in a group on Facebook with a lot of people who know about the art and whereabouts of pieces, I tried there the very first.
  And I didn't know that! Very interesting, though I don't really understand how that's a plan B?

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  Let's help each other out finding the art we want!
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  Does anyone knows where the art of Urza's Legacy Palinchron could be?

  Cheers,
  Igoo

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  The Extravagant Collections Thread
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  @Naixin:

  That's a seriously beautiful deck. You've obviously put a ton of care and effort into the whole deck and it shows. Thank you for sharing it with us. The altered Bayou duo is especially cool, too. I like that the art and color palette still fits the overall theme of the original Bayou illustration.

  I'm always curious about other people's stylistic preferences. What made you choose Chinese as the main language? Also, why did you choose an Italian Sylvan Library over a Chinese copy?

  Here's my next addition to the thread:

  It's an Oath of Druids artist proof, hand painted by Daren Bader. For those who don't know, each Magic illustrator gets the courtesy of receiving 50 blank-backed "artist proofs" for each card he or she illustrates.

  Daren Bader had been sold out of this old classic for ages, but I was fortunate enough to find a blank copy on eBay several years back. I sent it off to Mr. Bader and asked him to put his all into the painting on the back. He did my favorite card some serious justice.

  I'm hoping more users will continue to share pictures of their unique collections in this thread.