Donations to Something – RECAP
Alright, it’s been a long time. The world of youtube trading swallowed my soul and paraded me around like some sort of spell-slinging puppet. I got Puppeteer Clique’d by the youtube trading community. Don’t worry, it was just until end of turn.
I can’t remember every trade I made. I made a LOT. All I have now is a youtube channel – where you can find every trade I made if you’re so inclined. The binder got really good over the last little while thanks to some ridiculous donations and donation-like trades that some really cool people have hooked me up with.
Here’s my current Donations to Something binder:
Remember, all of this was built from cards that were either donated to me or cards that I traded donated cards for. Impressive, no?
AND IT’S GOTTEN BETTER SINCE THAT VIDEO!
I’ve already traded a bunch of stuff and a Solemn for a foiled Geralf’s Messenger.
I traded a Sheoldred for a Chandra’s Phoenix
And I traded that juicy Sword of Light and Shadow for a Steam Vents. We’re getting there, faithful readers, we’re getting there.
What would you price this binder at? Are we at Timetwister yet? What do you think?
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Trades 22-24
I've been on a roll with the trades lately. There have been plenty of online trades and even a couple in-person trades. I'm getting a lot more comfortable approaching people for trades. I rarely come out ahead by any stretch of the imagination so most of my trading has been speculative in both future pricing as well as looking for cards that are in a higher demand.
The first two trades that I made were done during Tuesday Night Cube Draft at 401 Games. One of the employees there, Miguel, has been following my journey and like to help out by throwing me some value in the trades that we make. He's awesome like that. I also think that he feels sorry for me when he sees my binder, some people might consider what I'm doing to be the Magic equivalent of panhandling.
The first trade I actually made though, was with a group of kids playing Magic without sleeves. I asked if any of them had traders and they all looked at me like I was from a different planet. Some people just don't talk the talk. One guy literally handed me his sideboard and said, "Uhmm, sure, I can trade stuff out of my side-deck if you want." The cards were in BRUTAL condition. I found a Ravnica foiled Mountain that I was interested in...it was in pretty good condition compared to the rest of his cards and he was willing to let it go.
He thumbed through my binder and ended up picking "Innocent Blood" for his "Savra, Queen of the Golgari" deck. I said that I valued the Innocent Blood at a little higher than the Mountain and that's when he said that he had "one other Shiny card"! He busted out a little box from his bag with more cards in terrible condition. His other shiny card was Darksteel Ingot from Darksteel. I was interested.
Trade #22:
My Wirewood Herald (it searches for Savra) and Innocent Blood. ($1.50)
for his:
Foiled Mountain and Beat-up Foiled Darksteel Ingot ($3.00)
Total: +$1.50
The night progressed and eventually Miguel showed up and told me that he was building a pauper cube. He insisted on checking my binder because there was nobody as pauper as me. He found a whole bunch of shit, unfortunately all of the cards he found were common.
He let me trade-up.
Trade #23:
My Foiled Wing Shards (Scourge), Kird Ape, Dauthi Slayer, Dauthi Horror, Arc Lightning, Memory Lapse (Mirage), Icatian Javelineers, Fireslinger, Man-O-War, Bonesplitter, Unearth, Innocent Blood. ($6.80)
for his:
Zendikar Plains and Solemn Simulacrum. ($8.75)
Total = +$1.95
He was nice. He knew he was losing value and letting me trade-up, but he did it anyway. Sometimes the generosity of Magic players will surprise you. :D
The last trade I made was through Youtube. This was a kid that I've traded with before. He put me on his "Magic People I look up to" list on his youtube channel. If that doesn't make you feel good then I don't know what would.
Trade #24:
My Garruk Wildspeaker ($5.00)
for his:
Glacial Fortress, Nephalia Drownyard and Foiled Civilized Scholar. ($6.00)
Total = +$1.00
I figured that by making this trade I'd be getting a free foiled Civilized Scholar. That has to have some value if Necrotic Ooze becomes a thing.
Anyway, I hope to post more trades after the prerelease this weekend. I hope to trade for all the goods, yo!
The first two trades that I made were done during Tuesday Night Cube Draft at 401 Games. One of the employees there, Miguel, has been following my journey and like to help out by throwing me some value in the trades that we make. He's awesome like that. I also think that he feels sorry for me when he sees my binder, some people might consider what I'm doing to be the Magic equivalent of panhandling.
The first trade I actually made though, was with a group of kids playing Magic without sleeves. I asked if any of them had traders and they all looked at me like I was from a different planet. Some people just don't talk the talk. One guy literally handed me his sideboard and said, "Uhmm, sure, I can trade stuff out of my side-deck if you want." The cards were in BRUTAL condition. I found a Ravnica foiled Mountain that I was interested in...it was in pretty good condition compared to the rest of his cards and he was willing to let it go.
He thumbed through my binder and ended up picking "Innocent Blood" for his "Savra, Queen of the Golgari" deck. I said that I valued the Innocent Blood at a little higher than the Mountain and that's when he said that he had "one other Shiny card"! He busted out a little box from his bag with more cards in terrible condition. His other shiny card was Darksteel Ingot from Darksteel. I was interested.
Trade #22:
My Wirewood Herald (it searches for Savra) and Innocent Blood. ($1.50)
for his:
Foiled Mountain and Beat-up Foiled Darksteel Ingot ($3.00)
Total: +$1.50
The night progressed and eventually Miguel showed up and told me that he was building a pauper cube. He insisted on checking my binder because there was nobody as pauper as me. He found a whole bunch of shit, unfortunately all of the cards he found were common.
He let me trade-up.
Trade #23:
My Foiled Wing Shards (Scourge), Kird Ape, Dauthi Slayer, Dauthi Horror, Arc Lightning, Memory Lapse (Mirage), Icatian Javelineers, Fireslinger, Man-O-War, Bonesplitter, Unearth, Innocent Blood. ($6.80)
for his:
Zendikar Plains and Solemn Simulacrum. ($8.75)
Total = +$1.95
He was nice. He knew he was losing value and letting me trade-up, but he did it anyway. Sometimes the generosity of Magic players will surprise you. :D
The last trade I made was through Youtube. This was a kid that I've traded with before. He put me on his "Magic People I look up to" list on his youtube channel. If that doesn't make you feel good then I don't know what would.
Trade #24:
My Garruk Wildspeaker ($5.00)
for his:
Glacial Fortress, Nephalia Drownyard and Foiled Civilized Scholar. ($6.00)
Total = +$1.00
I figured that by making this trade I'd be getting a free foiled Civilized Scholar. That has to have some value if Necrotic Ooze becomes a thing.
Anyway, I hope to post more trades after the prerelease this weekend. I hope to trade for all the goods, yo!
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Trades 18-21
Trade 18:
This was a trade I made with the guy who traded me the two Devil's Play for a Paper Tiger and a Silvergill Adept. I noticed that the Paper Tiger was still in his binder and I pointed out that he still hadn't moved it. He said that he was waiting to get the full set - then he'd show us all.
This time he was interested in the big money.
My Grove of the Burnwillows and 2x Dark Ritual ($14.00)
for his:
Inkmoth Nexus and Blue Sun's Zenith. ($16.50)
Total = +$2.50
I gained a little bit of value here, which is what I needed to do after I fucked myself on a couple trades online...you'll see.
Trade 19:
I made this trade on youtube with a very well-respected trader that goes by the name of MrLuBuFu.
The trade was for my Ethersworn Canonist, Kitchen Finks and GP Fire-Lit Thicket ($13.00)
for his:
2x Day of Judgement, 2x Kessig Wolf-Run, Kargan Dragonlord, Puresteel Paladin, Labratory Maniac ($13.75)
Total = +$0.75
However, when I made the offer through youtube, I fucked up and forgot the 2x in front of BOTH DoJ and Kessig Wolf-Run. So the total I received was ($9.75). As soon as I realized the mistake, I contacted MrLuBuFu and explained the situation. He said he would more than make-up for the mistake I made with the extras he sent.
The extras he sent were: Painful Quandry, Reaper from the Abyss, DCI Mind Control, FNM Spellstutter Sprite and a Razorverge Thicket. Just the Thicket alone is $6.00. He more than made up for my idiotic mistake. Although, the extras I received don't actually help my "Donations to Something" project because I don't use the extras I receive for Donations. I made this rule up once I decided that even if I trade solely from this donations binder on youtube, I'll still include extras from my personal stock. Extra's are the best part of trading online and I don't want to ruin my fun just for the purposes of this project.
That's okay though, life moves on - the cards were all just donations anyway. :D
Trade 20:
This is a completely even trade according to SCG, but they value some promo's at weird prices.
It was my Sygg, River Cut-throat ($1.99)
for his:
Sheoldred, Whispering One NPH Prerelease Promo. ($1.99)
The regular, non-promo of Sheoldred is worth $3.99 - so what the fuck? Why is the foiled promo version HALF that price? I don't give a shit, I'm valuing Sheoldred at $4. Sometimes you just gotta tell Starcity that they can go fuck themselves with their foolish pricing.
Trade 21:
I got greeeeedy again. I need this Kargan Dragonlord for my Cube. The Cube championships are coming up fast and people want to have better red creatures to go all-in on. Kargan Dragonlord definitely fits the bill.
This was the trade I made with myself:
That's it for now, but I should have a fucklot of trades coming in during the next couple weeks. PLUS THERE'S A PRERELEASE THAT I'LL BE ATTENDING. I used to get a lot of trading done at prereleases. Hopefully, this one will be a throw-back to those days.
- Milo
This was a trade I made with the guy who traded me the two Devil's Play for a Paper Tiger and a Silvergill Adept. I noticed that the Paper Tiger was still in his binder and I pointed out that he still hadn't moved it. He said that he was waiting to get the full set - then he'd show us all.
This time he was interested in the big money.
My Grove of the Burnwillows and 2x Dark Ritual ($14.00)
for his:
Inkmoth Nexus and Blue Sun's Zenith. ($16.50)
Total = +$2.50
I gained a little bit of value here, which is what I needed to do after I fucked myself on a couple trades online...you'll see.
Trade 19:
I made this trade on youtube with a very well-respected trader that goes by the name of MrLuBuFu.
The trade was for my Ethersworn Canonist, Kitchen Finks and GP Fire-Lit Thicket ($13.00)
for his:
2x Day of Judgement, 2x Kessig Wolf-Run, Kargan Dragonlord, Puresteel Paladin, Labratory Maniac ($13.75)
Total = +$0.75
However, when I made the offer through youtube, I fucked up and forgot the 2x in front of BOTH DoJ and Kessig Wolf-Run. So the total I received was ($9.75). As soon as I realized the mistake, I contacted MrLuBuFu and explained the situation. He said he would more than make-up for the mistake I made with the extras he sent.
The extras he sent were: Painful Quandry, Reaper from the Abyss, DCI Mind Control, FNM Spellstutter Sprite and a Razorverge Thicket. Just the Thicket alone is $6.00. He more than made up for my idiotic mistake. Although, the extras I received don't actually help my "Donations to Something" project because I don't use the extras I receive for Donations. I made this rule up once I decided that even if I trade solely from this donations binder on youtube, I'll still include extras from my personal stock. Extra's are the best part of trading online and I don't want to ruin my fun just for the purposes of this project.
That's okay though, life moves on - the cards were all just donations anyway. :D
Trade 20:
This is a completely even trade according to SCG, but they value some promo's at weird prices.
It was my Sygg, River Cut-throat ($1.99)
for his:
Sheoldred, Whispering One NPH Prerelease Promo. ($1.99)
The regular, non-promo of Sheoldred is worth $3.99 - so what the fuck? Why is the foiled promo version HALF that price? I don't give a shit, I'm valuing Sheoldred at $4. Sometimes you just gotta tell Starcity that they can go fuck themselves with their foolish pricing.
Trade 21:
I got greeeeedy again. I need this Kargan Dragonlord for my Cube. The Cube championships are coming up fast and people want to have better red creatures to go all-in on. Kargan Dragonlord definitely fits the bill.
This was the trade I made with myself:
That's it for now, but I should have a fucklot of trades coming in during the next couple weeks. PLUS THERE'S A PRERELEASE THAT I'LL BE ATTENDING. I used to get a lot of trading done at prereleases. Hopefully, this one will be a throw-back to those days.
- Milo
Monday, 16 January 2012
Trade 14, 15, 16 and 17
Some of my Youtube trades have been coming in! Pretty exciting, right?!
I get it, you're mad at me for not posting often enough. Well I've been busy, OKAY? I've been working on "Milo: The Gathering" and it has been a lot of work lately. Now get off my back.
Let's return to the trades at hand, shall we?
Trade 14 -
My Inferno Titan ($4.99) it was slightly damaged and was valued at $3.99 when I traded it.
for his:
M11 Prerelease Sun Titan ($4.99) this was also valued at $3.99 when we made the trade.
Total = EVEN STEVEN!
Even if I was behind on this trade, I would be okay with it. I generally feel like the Sun Titan Prerelease card is easier to trade than a normal Sun Titan. Foils draw people in, especially foiled mythics. :D Plus, now that they revealed the new Planeswalker is Sorin and he costs 2WB, I could see Liliana of the Veil seeing play in that deck...and what better way to recur her than with a Sun Titan? All three of those cards are REAL cards, so what's preventing it from being a real deck?
Trade 15 -
My Sol Ring (Commander) and Invigorate ($6.98)
for his:
Sangromancer, Lord of Extinction, Mimic Vat and Etched Champion ($10.96)
Total = +$3.98
This is the most profit that I've made on a trade since the beginning of this entire ordeal (not including the generous donations that I've received, of course). However, Sol Ring is a very tradeable card. Even with "Donations to Something" I would be willing to take a loss when trading for a Sol Ring - it's pretty much a piece of power that got reprinted and is only allowed to be played in casual formats. $5.00 is what SCG has it listed for, but I don't think it's going to stay there forever. I'm absolutely looking for more Sol Ring's in the future.
Trade 16 -
My Champion of the Parish (foreign), Mayor of Avabruk and Portal 3 Kingdoms Plains x2. ($9.96)
for his:
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker from the Duel Decks Ajani vs Nicol Bolas. ($9.99)
Total = +$.03
I believe that this is currently the most expensive card in my binder...and that's including any trades that I have coming in. It's my big poppa rare. I'm not dying to trade him down. I'd really like to run into someone looking for Nicol Bolas and then trade him at the $20.00 price range that the actual Nicol Bolas sits at. Hopefully, the person I'm trading with just won't care. I mean this one is FOILED! Why is it worth less?
If I leverage this in a bigger trade for something really neat like an Onslaught Fetchland - then we're getting somewhere.
Trade 17 -
My Bloodlord of Vasgoth, Ob Nixilis, the Fallen and Magister Sphinx ($4.73)
for his:
Gavony Township x2, Bloodgift Demon ($5.47)
Total = +0.74
This wasn't a big deal either. I gained a very small profit as well as obtaining some more cards to trade to Standard players at the next prerelease.
I just sent three more Donations to Something trades, so my binder is looking a little sparse for the upcoming Pre-Release. Hopefully, I will be able to make some cards move, even if I don't make any huge deals - just being able to rotate-out binder stock would be a great thing. Then, at least I would have something else to show the people on Youtube and then I could generate more trades with them - WHICH MEAN MORE EXTRA'S!!! :D
So that's it for now. I'll update sometime next week with the trades from the Prerelease. Until then, you can watch the brilliance that is "MILO: THE GATHERING"!!! SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON YOUUUUTUBEEEZZZZ
I get it, you're mad at me for not posting often enough. Well I've been busy, OKAY? I've been working on "Milo: The Gathering" and it has been a lot of work lately. Now get off my back.
Let's return to the trades at hand, shall we?
Trade 14 -
My Inferno Titan ($4.99) it was slightly damaged and was valued at $3.99 when I traded it.
for his:
M11 Prerelease Sun Titan ($4.99) this was also valued at $3.99 when we made the trade.
Total = EVEN STEVEN!
Even if I was behind on this trade, I would be okay with it. I generally feel like the Sun Titan Prerelease card is easier to trade than a normal Sun Titan. Foils draw people in, especially foiled mythics. :D Plus, now that they revealed the new Planeswalker is Sorin and he costs 2WB, I could see Liliana of the Veil seeing play in that deck...and what better way to recur her than with a Sun Titan? All three of those cards are REAL cards, so what's preventing it from being a real deck?
Trade 15 -
My Sol Ring (Commander) and Invigorate ($6.98)
for his:
Sangromancer, Lord of Extinction, Mimic Vat and Etched Champion ($10.96)
Total = +$3.98
This is the most profit that I've made on a trade since the beginning of this entire ordeal (not including the generous donations that I've received, of course). However, Sol Ring is a very tradeable card. Even with "Donations to Something" I would be willing to take a loss when trading for a Sol Ring - it's pretty much a piece of power that got reprinted and is only allowed to be played in casual formats. $5.00 is what SCG has it listed for, but I don't think it's going to stay there forever. I'm absolutely looking for more Sol Ring's in the future.
Trade 16 -
My Champion of the Parish (foreign), Mayor of Avabruk and Portal 3 Kingdoms Plains x2. ($9.96)
for his:
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker from the Duel Decks Ajani vs Nicol Bolas. ($9.99)
Total = +$.03
I believe that this is currently the most expensive card in my binder...and that's including any trades that I have coming in. It's my big poppa rare. I'm not dying to trade him down. I'd really like to run into someone looking for Nicol Bolas and then trade him at the $20.00 price range that the actual Nicol Bolas sits at. Hopefully, the person I'm trading with just won't care. I mean this one is FOILED! Why is it worth less?
If I leverage this in a bigger trade for something really neat like an Onslaught Fetchland - then we're getting somewhere.
Trade 17 -
My Bloodlord of Vasgoth, Ob Nixilis, the Fallen and Magister Sphinx ($4.73)
for his:
Gavony Township x2, Bloodgift Demon ($5.47)
Total = +0.74
This wasn't a big deal either. I gained a very small profit as well as obtaining some more cards to trade to Standard players at the next prerelease.
I just sent three more Donations to Something trades, so my binder is looking a little sparse for the upcoming Pre-Release. Hopefully, I will be able to make some cards move, even if I don't make any huge deals - just being able to rotate-out binder stock would be a great thing. Then, at least I would have something else to show the people on Youtube and then I could generate more trades with them - WHICH MEAN MORE EXTRA'S!!! :D
So that's it for now. I'll update sometime next week with the trades from the Prerelease. Until then, you can watch the brilliance that is "MILO: THE GATHERING"!!! SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON YOUUUUTUBEEEZZZZ
Saturday, 7 January 2012
MORE TRADE CONFIRMATION VIDEOS!!!
Some more people from YouTube got the cards that I sent! Including my first Donations to Something trade.
I traded an Inferno Titan that was a little dinged up for a NM Promo Sun Titan, WHICH I ALREADY RECEIVED!!!!
That's right, I received a youtube trade in the mail and the "extra's" were pretty awesome~!
Here are the most recent trade confirmation videos:
I need to post a trade confirmation video for that one package I received. I should record it in my underwear and gingerly dip each card in a jar of honey as I read its name...lol
- Milo
I traded an Inferno Titan that was a little dinged up for a NM Promo Sun Titan, WHICH I ALREADY RECEIVED!!!!
That's right, I received a youtube trade in the mail and the "extra's" were pretty awesome~!
Here are the most recent trade confirmation videos:
I need to post a trade confirmation video for that one package I received. I should record it in my underwear and gingerly dip each card in a jar of honey as I read its name...lol
- Milo
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Trades 12 & 13
I did-up some more trades!
The first trade was with a good friend, who didn't need anything, but gave me a trade that really should be classified as a donation.
It was my Dauthi Horror, Dauthi Slayer, Dauthi Marauder ($.99)
for his:
Swords to Plowshares (Elspeth vs. Tezzeret) ($4.99)
Total = + $4.00
The second trade I made was at 401 Games right before a cube draft. There were some random dudes playing some casual Magic. One guy didn't have any traders and the other guy only had slim pickin's
It felt weird asking if I could take a picture, so you'll just have to take my word on this trade:
My Dark Ritual x2, Devil's Play, Sorin's Vengeance, Khalni Heart Expedition, Doom Blade, Barter in Blood ($5.93)
for his:
Hex Parasite, Slash Panther (foil), Spell Crumple x2, Delver of Secrets x2, Mindshrieker ($5.95)
Total: + $.02 POWER 9, HEEERE WE COME!
That trade was waaaay more even than I thought. I thought Spell Crumple had the potential to be like 2 bucks each AT LEAST! It's a card that's only found in Commander....grrr. When did Khalni Heart Expedition hit .49?!?! Why did it jump from a quarter?
Oh wells, don't sweat the small stuff.
I made this dude's Shout-Out List:
Be Excellent To One Another,
MiloDaGreat1.
The first trade was with a good friend, who didn't need anything, but gave me a trade that really should be classified as a donation.
It was my Dauthi Horror, Dauthi Slayer, Dauthi Marauder ($.99)
for his:
Swords to Plowshares (Elspeth vs. Tezzeret) ($4.99)
Total = + $4.00
The second trade I made was at 401 Games right before a cube draft. There were some random dudes playing some casual Magic. One guy didn't have any traders and the other guy only had slim pickin's
It felt weird asking if I could take a picture, so you'll just have to take my word on this trade:
My Dark Ritual x2, Devil's Play, Sorin's Vengeance, Khalni Heart Expedition, Doom Blade, Barter in Blood ($5.93)
for his:
Hex Parasite, Slash Panther (foil), Spell Crumple x2, Delver of Secrets x2, Mindshrieker ($5.95)
Total: + $.02 POWER 9, HEEERE WE COME!
That trade was waaaay more even than I thought. I thought Spell Crumple had the potential to be like 2 bucks each AT LEAST! It's a card that's only found in Commander....grrr. When did Khalni Heart Expedition hit .49?!?! Why did it jump from a quarter?
Oh wells, don't sweat the small stuff.
I made this dude's Shout-Out List:
Be Excellent To One Another,
MiloDaGreat1.
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Some Trading outside of Donations to Something
I mentioned, a few weeks ago, that I'm going to start trading on youtube. I needed to build a little street cred and make some trades with some of the most reputable youtube traders out there. Since there aren't a lot of people that have Foreign Language Llanowar Elves on their wants lists, I have to trade from my real trade binder for the first few trades.
I posted the first confirmation video about a week ago. These are the next two confirmation videos:
I've actually made 4 trades from the Donations to Something binder since I made these trades. So this plan worked out magically. I'll post those trades as soon as I get the cards in the mail.
Also, I'm kickin' around an idea for a new Magic webshow. I don't know if we're going to actually do it, but its a fun idea and it wouldn't take a lot of work to produce.
Thanks for reading,
Milo
I posted the first confirmation video about a week ago. These are the next two confirmation videos:
I've actually made 4 trades from the Donations to Something binder since I made these trades. So this plan worked out magically. I'll post those trades as soon as I get the cards in the mail.
Also, I'm kickin' around an idea for a new Magic webshow. I don't know if we're going to actually do it, but its a fun idea and it wouldn't take a lot of work to produce.
Thanks for reading,
Milo
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