

I put them into 2 camps, Magic Dealers & Community. There are lots of different places that you can see the value of a magic card, and they can vary a lot. Now we have identified the most likely cards to be worth money, we have to price them. Almost all cards will have an expansion set symbol on it to help you identify it. To tell if a card is rare or mythic rare we look at the expansion set symbol. Sometimes 1 foil card (the shiney ones), A good chance to be valueable.Īs you can see we can ignore most of the cards & concentrate on the rares, mytic rares & foil cards.1 Rare or Mythic Rare card, This is the most likely to be valueable.3 Uncommon Cards, average 10p value each.10 Common Cards, almost all so common as to be worth nothing.1 Basic Land, these are so common as to be worth nothing.With a few exceptions, these will be randomised 15 card packs that will include: The most common way to buy cards is a "Booster Pack". That is to say, that when printing the cards they make some cards rarer than others to increase their value both in the game and financially. Magic is a collectable card game with artificial rarity placed upon the cards.

I hooked up some simple JavaScript to show card images from the Gatherer.So where to start? First off, I think a short explanation about the cards is needed. I decided to list my favorite decks here so I can always re-assemble them in case I get drunk and decide to take them apart to build new decks. Here are some of my favorite decks! There are a few newer cards in here but 99% of them are before 1998.

But I'm of the mind that old cards are anything from my childhood, the 90s. "Old School" can also refer to the editions that came out in 19 including editions Alpha through The Dark. That includes any edition released before the Exodus edition, which came out in 1998. I think of "Old School" Magic The Gathering as "pre-rarity symbol" cards. My first starter was from the Revised edition and the perfectly mint rare included was was a Nightmare! I remember opening my very first starter deck in 3rd grade and how excited I was to join my friends in some epic wizard spell-casting awesomeness. It didn't have the most powerful cards when it came out (like many editions do), but what it lacks in power it easily makes up for in character and subtlety. I think the artwork in Ice Age is amazing and the whole theme surrounding the edition resonates with my love of snow. Revised was my first starter pack and so it will always have a special place in my heart. My favorite editions are Fallen Empires, Ice Age, and 3rd Edition (Revised).
