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!

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

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

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.

Trade 9 - Trading with Iby

Iby was one of the first people to donate to the cause, so when he told me he really needed the Koth, I knew it was going to him.

I really wanted to get some Standard stuff for Koth so I could chain it off into a bunch of cards that were easier to move. Unfortunately, Iby doesn't really buy a lot of Magic cards anymore so his stuff is pretty ancient.

However, he was determined to ensure I gained value out of this trade:

My:

Koth of the Hammer ($15.99)

for his:

Minamo, School at Water's Edge, Masako, the Humorless (foil), Sunforger (foil) and Grove of the Burnwillows ($21.96)

Total: +$5.97


Now I gotta find some people who are interested in getting rid of their Standard overstock for some of these hard-to-find foils and modern playables.


I started trading over youtube to build some web-cred. I couldn't get any bites on my donations-to-something trade binder video so I started trading with popular youtube traders in hopes that their subscribers would trickle down and start visiting my youtube channel.

This is the first trade confirmation video that I've received:

Trade 8 - BIGGEST TRADE YET

I went to 401 after work on Thursday because I know there's a Standard tournament and a lot of people bring traders to those things. Unfortunately, most of those people are really only looking for cards to play in Standard. There was this one guy though...who, like me, was just there to trade.

He kinda took me to school, he was a better trader than I am. That's okay though - I got to trade up:

My: Kitsune Mystic (foil), Kuro, Pitlord (damaged/foiled), Undead Warchief (Foil), Skycloud Expanse (foil), Goblin Token (Player Reward's) and a Slagstorm = $20.94

The Goblin token isn't on SCG so we just kinda guessed - He valued the pitlord at a buck less because it was damaged.

I received: Hinterland Harbor, Magister Sphinx, Koth of the Hammer = $20.73

Total = -$0.21

...I didn't get owned as badly as I thought! :D

It was definitely nice to move the Undead Warchief at full value. I really needed to get rid of my EDH/Maginally collectible cards and gain some relevant expensive cards.

Koth's price will fluctuate based on the popularity of Mono-Red in Standard...I'm okay with that. Planeswalkers are nice to have in a binder full of unpopular cards.