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How much would Japanese MTG cards be worth I wonder....
halkun
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Waaay back in 1995, I decided to make an investment in Magic cards. At the time I was living in Japan, and thought a real creative investment would be to buy "the whole set" in Japanese.
Every weekend I went to Yokohama and bought a whole box of Japanese cards. (I think it was about $100 per box). I then went home and very carefully put them into order of color and then Japanese alphabetical order. I did this about 6 times. (I remember my final cost was ~$600 when I got the last card I needed.)
So now it's 2008 and I wonder how my investment is doing, but I'm having problems finding out how much something like this would be worth. Here's some stats I could come up with.
1) The set is 4th edition, but this was the first set that was ever printed in Japanese.
2) The cards have never been used. I don't know how to play MTG and never took them out of my binder after I organized them,
3) To keep things neat in my binder, I use a bunch of cards "front to front" to create a "blank" so that the different colors line up on proper pages. Because I don't play the game, and don't know what is rare and what isn't, I may have "hidden rares" in my binder.
4) I have all the cards, plus two boxes of extras. the boxes have been sitting upright for the last decade or so, so the cards are not warped and are perfectly stacked.
Does anyone know of a price guide I can look up?
Every weekend I went to Yokohama and bought a whole box of Japanese cards. (I think it was about $100 per box). I then went home and very carefully put them into order of color and then Japanese alphabetical order. I did this about 6 times. (I remember my final cost was ~$600 when I got the last card I needed.)
So now it's 2008 and I wonder how my investment is doing, but I'm having problems finding out how much something like this would be worth. Here's some stats I could come up with.
1) The set is 4th edition, but this was the first set that was ever printed in Japanese.
2) The cards have never been used. I don't know how to play MTG and never took them out of my binder after I organized them,
3) To keep things neat in my binder, I use a bunch of cards "front to front" to create a "blank" so that the different colors line up on proper pages. Because I don't play the game, and don't know what is rare and what isn't, I may have "hidden rares" in my binder.
4) I have all the cards, plus two boxes of extras. the boxes have been sitting upright for the last decade or so, so the cards are not warped and are perfectly stacked.
Does anyone know of a price guide I can look up?
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everything hinges on this
when you say ''the whole set''
what the fuck does that mean
school yourself on the lingo
Edit: Found a link to their website. here.
You might want to hang onto those for a couple of decades, when the rarity really drives up the value.
who the fuck cares
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wait, shit.
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serious business
ok, i'm done here.
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Bad boyz for life
i had a rancor that i would use in a deck that was all crazy symbols everywhere
I don't know much about Japanese cards, but US 4th ed. cards are worth next to nothing (I know, because I have suitcases full of them) unless they are the "rares" and even then only maybe a couple of bucks per card.
Maybe you could sell the whole thing as a "set" and it's worth more to some collector that way, I dunno.
The only real MTG cards worth big bucks (and we're talking $300 maybe more) are the original, first-run, black-border ones, printed by some Swiss printer or something on much better paper etc etc.. Especially the "power 5" or 6 or whatever that were later banned for tourney play (ie Black Lotus, Mox, etc).
i used to do lawn work for him
i envied him
Only way you're going to see a return on your investment is if you a) actually play or b) you wait 300 years and have the only complete set of Japanese MTG cards on the entire planet.
a friend of mine's got two Black Lotuses.
His pride and joy is a foil Bird of Paradise
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
but they are in a better place now
(trent's grubby hands)
He was kind of a dick to play with, because his decks were fucking ridiculous and he always thought he should win.
He was like the NY Yankees of Magic.
motherfucker hit me with infinite damage
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Heroin.
So the cards go obsolete? That's odd. As for learning to play the game, I'll pass. It's a two player game anyway. It's kind of worthless if I don't have anyone to play with.
I mean what was it, Ice Age or something, where they printed the same old cards, only with new artwork.. the fuck is THAT? Yeah, sorry, no.
And then if you play "type 2" is it? You can only use cards from the last 2 sets or something. Yeah THAT'S not setup to make your cards intentionally obsolete... And the bitch of it is, if you don't play Type 2 you're playing Type 1 against aformentioned Assholes with Every Fucking Card Ever.
anyways warhammer is for real men. men with an understanding of war and violence
spent like $300 on it to get the few cards i needed
80% of the time i won by turn 3-4
20% of the time i killed myself by turn 3-4
gonna go dig through some boxes for them real quick.......
pretty much, otherwise shit is just ridiculous
It's a catch 22. See they make Type 2 so that people who started playing in the last year or so can compete with people who've been playing forever. Type 2 rules say you can only play cards from the most current "basic" set and the last 2 "expansion" sets.
It's good in theory, but when a new "basic" set comes out and you realize they just took out all of your favorite cards and now all your decks are fucking useless piles of wood pulp and nobody will play with you... it uh.. sucks.
you are such a girl