Score!

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Istanbul

Guest
I just thought I'd share.

So I was mailing off some cards at Mailbox Etc., when the guy helping me says, 'Hey, you play Magic?' We get to talking, and it turns out that he stopped playing a long time ago, and wants $75 for his stuff flat-out. So we agree to meet Thursday afternoon.

He only brings about 1/3 of his stuff, so we agree that I'll pay $40 then and $40 for the remainder when he brings it Friday. I look through it...

Good lord.

BETA/ALPHA:
Creature Bond
Crystal Rod
Earthbond
Fear
Twiddle

ARABIAN NIGHTS:
Desert
Flying Men
Naf's Asp
Oubliette
Sandals of Abdallah

ANTIQUITIES:
Artifact Blast
Artifact Possession
Drafna's Restoration
Reconstruction
Transmute Artifact x2 (so Tinkerish!)
Xenic Poltergeist

LEGENDS (biiiiig breath):
Alabaster Potion
Alchor's Tomb (creased :( )
Blazing Effigy
Cat Warriors
Darkness x3 (2 ITLG)
Emerald Dragonfly
Force Spike
Immolation
Kasimir the Lone Wolf
Life Chisel
Lost Soul x2
Mana Matrix
North Star
Osai Vultures
Pit Scorpion x6 (homeboy liked poison!)
Primordial Ooze
Reincarnation
Remove Soul x2
Reset
Righteous Avengers
Ring of Immortals
Storm Seeker
Transmutation x2
Walking Dead
Wall of Shadows
Wall of Vapor
Willow Satyr

THE DARK:
Ashes to Ashes
Banshee
Bog Rats
Dark Sphere
Fire Drake
Ghost Ship
Leviathan
Marsh Goblins
Reflecting Mirror
Skull of Orm
Spitting Slug (heh...I have a Spitting Slug)
The Fallen
Tormod's Crypt
Wand of Ith

And that's just the stuff that's cool because it's old. Other winners include:

WHITE:
BB Breath of Life (Portal)
Enduring Renewal
Northern Paladin
2x BB Starlight (Portal)
2x BB Vengeance (Portal)

GREEN:
AL Camouflage
3x Natural Order (one Portal)
Regrowth

BLUE:
BB Air Elemental (Portal)
4x BB Boomerang (Mirage)
2x Deflection
Forbid
Mahamoti Djinn
Propaganda
Serendib Efreet
3x Suq'ata Firewalker
Vision Charm (little red spade stamp on the bottom left...doesn't this mean something?)
2x BB Wind Drake (Portal)

RED:
2x BB Incinerate (Ice Age)
Price of Progress

BLACK:
2x Black Knight
1x JP BB Blood Pet
Demonic Tutor
4x BB Drain Life (Mirage)
Hypnotic Specter
6x Krovikan Vampire (didn't someone want these?)
2x BB Mind Rot (Portal)
Purraj of Urborg (I know, you don't care, but I collect them)
2x Sorceress Queen (didn't someone want these too?)

ARTIFACT:
2x Black Vise
Feldon's Cane
Jade Statue
4x Juggernaut
Millstone
Nevinyrral's Disk
Sapphire Medallion
The Rack
Zuran Orb

LAND:
Bayou
3x Unglued Land
2x Strip Mine
Mishra's Factory

...and that's just the good stuff. There's a lot more in there I could easily sell and make my money back.

Just wanted to share. :D
 
I

Istanbul

Guest
I almost forgot a metric buttload of uncommons, and some fairly nifty commons.
Hey! I just found a second Bayou! And an Underground River!
And a third Strip Mine, and a Beta Earthbind...
...excuse me, I should go look again. :eek:
 
R

rkoelsch

Guest
Congratulations
Hope you are having fun. It is kinda like a treasure hunt.
 
I

Istanbul

Guest
Well, Score #2 wasn't nearly as lucrative; he didn't bring the rest of his cards, just one box. He managed to talk me into $25 for the lot, but he'd better give me a price break on the third and final lot (due in one week):

Type 2 Basic Set:
Shatterstorm
Zombie Master
Dingus Egg

Type 1 Basic Set:
Hypnotic Specter
Juggernaut x5
Mind Twist x2
Nether Shadow
Nevinyrral's Disk
Sol Ring

Oldness (all BB):
Banshee
Barl's Cage
Dust to Dust
Kei Takahashi
Primal Clay
Scarecrow x2
Shapeshifter (badly wounded)
Strip Mine (JP? CH?)

Icy Block:
Despotic Scepter
Storm Cauldron x2
Vexing Arcanix

Other:
Death Pits of Rath
Noetic Scales

Other Nifty Stoof:
PO Needle Storm x2
PO Blaze
IA Pyroclasm x2
SH Megrim
PO Lava Axe x5
PO Spitting Earth x3
PO Stone Rain
PO Volcanic Hammer
PO Mind Rot x2
PO Raise Dead
PO Ravenous Rats
VI Sisay's Ring

Plus some other nifties. A Lightning Bolt, a few Fireblasts, a Kaervek's Torch, and other strangeness. (Why would someone get four Illicit Auctions, three Mindbender Spores, and three Shauku Endbringers?) I gave him too much for it, but I kept offering $20, and it became pretty obvious that he was planning to walk if I didn't go to $25, so I threw in the extra fiver.
 
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