Drafts, trades, and auctions....

Went to the LGS last Friday to take my brain off stuff, wound up doing a random draft of some left over product they had. It was interesting... which is to say, I didn't have a clue what I was doing with the cards. Ha!
I went 1-2, which is fair considering I still don't understand some of the mechanics from the sets used.


The more important part is the LGS is hosting a $25 Iconic Masters draft this Friday, WITH prize support. Super excited. Everyone is hoping to pull the Mana Drain, so we shall see... I am just hoping for a winning record. We shall see.
As LR says- look towards the uncommon gold cards for the themes you should be looking at. So that's what I will review before hand, then go in, and forget it all. Its usually how these things go for me. Who knows, I might draft some sort of sweet R/W agro deck, or even B/R dragons... its all possible.


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Trades, trades, trades

Been a little more active on DeckBox recently. I traded 6 standard lands, and two other things for a signed Emrakul and a Pithing Needle. Sweet.
I also finally found someone interested in my Inkmoth Nexus cards... I was able to trade all 3 at once. Landed an Aether Vial, and 3 Primeval Titans. And yes, I am fully aware the Vial will drop maybe 20% when Iconic Masters rolls out in force. Same with the Titans. Honestly, the Inkmoths were SUPER slow to move. I don't know why they are valued at $17 per after trying to drop them for months.


And now for my EPIC trade that was lost, found, and such.

Back on Oct 17 I drop a package in a USPS mailbox, it had tracking. On Oct 21st, the other person asked where it was. I looked it up, not in the USPS system. Kept waiting... his cards showed up to me. I kept checking the online tracking and nothing. On 26 Oct I called the post office responsible and they said they clean out that box every single day, but they would double check that day to make sure it didn't get trapped or something.
On Oct 29th I mailed his cards back, it as only fair. I had to caulk up the cards to lost. The frustrating part is that I couldn't prove that I had actually mailed it, only that I had created a mailing label from PayPal.
On Halloween, on a whim, I checked the original package... AND THERE IT WAS. TWO WEEKS after I had dropped it off, it magically showed up in Boston with no other tracking information. It was like it dropped through a riff in time and space.
Comical. The LONGEST trade ever for DeckBox. Ugh.


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My auction bug just about died when I saw this auction.

• 2 Sealed boxes of Revised Boosters
• 1 Sealed box of Revised Starters
• 1 Sealed box of Revised gift box (2 starters, which could be errors and be all rares)
• 1 Sealed box of Mirage
• 2 Sealed boxes of Fallen Empires
• 1 Sealed box 4th Edition starters
• 1 Sealed box of Ice Age starters
• 1 Sealed box of Ice Age boosters
• 1 Sealed box of Homelands

When I saw the items, they were at 1700. Seriously, you can't find a sealed Revised booster for that much, never mind that much stuff. Anyone want to split the cost with me?