The BEST way to buy into Old School Magic!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Where has Edwin been?
Get ready for GP Vegas!
The BEST way to buy expensive Old School Magic the Gathering Cards
A GREAT way to flush out your and your friends collections with huge amounts of needed bulk cards for cheap!
Here's the video from before I had the Edwin the Magic Engineer TH-cam channel and I made a huge purchase of signed Beta cards, then resold some to cover costs. Just like I'm describing here.
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=== HOW TO CONTACT EDWIN ===
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I keep telling myself I can't swing $4K on vintage cards but then I think about all of the MTG cards I have bought over these past few years playing standard at local drafts and I could totally take a year or two off of buying into new sets and save the money for the vintage cards. Until that day comes, I will continue to live out my vintage fun through channels like yours.
Hey Donny,
That was LITERALLY the point I was making in one of my first videos about a year ago.
th-cam.com/video/_r7zLsuabZM/w-d-xo.html
Nice video there. I will probably stop buying new set's cards except for pre release events (lots of fun) and maybe save and buy old school, or maybe just save lol
I am glad to see you back, good luck on your move and i hope you enjoy it. The life of an accomplished man!! One day i will get to GP Vegas, its a loooooooong trip from Austrlia. Please get some old school game plays for the channel :)
Hey Shan Judo, I certainly do hope to meet you someday.
I cannot wait to reveal the full plan going on here. It's really really cool. Know that my time has not been spent frivolously.
Do you still make videos?
I've just found your channel and very much enjoy all the content. Big thank you for all the effort!!
Hi Don, I did team up with Open Boosters (and sometimes Rudy from Alpha Investments) to make a lot of videos on other channels. Dan and I made a lot of videos on a channel called Unhinged Magi. We made lots of videos for 2 years and have not made much content for the last 8 months.
I still do videos with Rudy on Alpha Investments now and then. My favorites are the ones we filed like "That 70's show" theme, the series called "Basement Confessions"
Happy to have you back! Not forgotten!
I'll be busy with moving through July, but I will have content coming out as a result of GP Vegas for sure
Nice video. Really enjoyed seeing your signed Beta set, it is definitely a wonderful collection =)
Thanks SkyHigh388 :)
I can’t even find people with collections like this let alone would be willing to sell. 😬
Perhaps I should have added that to the video...
Put the word out on Facebook (especially within FB Magic groups), and in your local game stores, and with your local MTG community that you are buying collections. Just TELL people that and leave contact info.
Also be sure to post on your main Facebook page and tell people to spread the news. You'll find people who played 15 years ago sitting on 10k cards in a closet that are more than willing to sell cheap.
Please don't tell people you want to buy their collection while in your local game store. It's really rude to the store that pays for the space and I'm sure they would like to buy that collection just as much.
Thanks so much Mr. Edwin, congratulations and hope your move goes smooth! Appreciate the topic, yet we don’t have the contacts that Vintage MTG has, players seek you guys out to sell directly. For the rest of us, even if I have the money they save their collections to sell to Rudy.
Note that in the years past when I was doing most of my buying I had never met Rudy, or Daniel, or any of those guys. You don't need massive contacts. Just some local shops, local players, and perhaps join some Facebook groups devoted to MTG. You will for certain come across people willing to sell entire collections if you simply put the word out that "MTG Means Magic is interested in buying entire collections... if anybody has one, please contact him"
You'll be surprised... just try it. There's always people somewhere looking to sell. ESPECIALLY those guys who played 15 years ago, quit, and now they have 15,000 cards sitting in a closet somewhere. Just put the word out! You'll see.
Hello Mr. Edwin, thanks! Yea I think now my comment sounded condescending, I apologize for that. You’re totally right, perseverance and patience is the most important thing. Grateful for the talks again!
No worries bro, I didn't take your comment as insulting. But I really do mean it when I say you don't need big connections etc. Just put the word out there where people can find it!
Hey Edwin, i remember your original video. I seen that before I even knew who you were! Just updating the pc and getting things all organized got dinner in the oven... Great points at buying cards in large lots or collections to get the stuff you want cheaper. I do this just within collections in general theres stuff I'll keep then sale the rest to bring my overall costs down, to in some cases get cards for free in a round about way. When it comes to vintage/old school stuff I think its very rare to find a garage sale/estate sale find but it still happens. I just focus on one card at a time and just try to get the best deal when i cant afford large collections.
Hey Sean,
It's rare to just happen across a sale sure. BUT have you ever tried just putting the word out there that you're buying collections? Make a post on Facebook, word of mouth, note in your video, etc. Just get the word out you are offering cash for big collections and it's amazing what happens.
Cool video. I would argue that sharing cards with friends or focusing on building a single deck is more effective than trying to make money off of old bulk stores have. But again sometimes a ton of commons/uncommons will hold value if they are playable. My personal opinion is that the format is meant to be played with whatever you have lying around and most of the fun is involved in earning the more expensive cards through actual work and budgeting or trading with people. Buying cards all the time becomes dull. Sometimes there is no other way to get rare cards though. Part of the charm of the format in my opinion is the grind from the bottom of the ladder up to a competitve deck you built through blood sweat and tears :)
I don't disagree with the tactic you are describing from a fun perspective.
But those methods I mentioned are meant for a different purpose. The big-collection purchase is a tactic for those trying to save money while buying into a format.
The Blob Method is all about the cheapest way to flesh out THOUSANDS of missing bulk cards for you and a group of friends.
Im looking forward to meeting you and brian weisman in gp vegas!
Me too Eric!
if you have a package available for beta/alpha I am interested. lost my collection to a fire a few years ago and am trying to get some old-school cards to start collection over. love the video!! good luck on the move!
I just bought a partial power 9 set (7 of 9) for $7000 with an additional 5 dual lands and a bunch of other stuff. Parted with a few pieces of power and am now ahead on the collection....collection buying and parting out the things you don’t want/need is a fantastic plan for acquiring vintage cards.
Nice work Philip. Yep, this is for 100% certain the best way to do it. The reason everybody does not do it is MOST people don't have 7k to dump at one moment. It also takes advantage of the fact that many with the cards don't want to spend the time to sell them as singles. Perhaps they also don't have the Ebay account credibility to do so.
that's exactly why the deal worked out with the original owner. He had picked up the cards for next to nothing in the early 2000's, he was already making a bunch off of the collection that he wasn't using. Thankfully, I didn't need any of the power 9, but its allowed me to trade for some of the cards I've been looking for without having to spend serious cash on them. Have fun at GP Vegas, I'm planning on going next year...
Can I buy the Blob these days? Or do you have a blob that you could sell a huge fan for a decent deal. I understand basically all commons and uncommons revised. I need everything basically
Last time I did a "blob" with friends was years ago. But boy did it work well. Its best to collaborate with some friends locally and find a big cheap collection to buy.
Here is a "blob" on Ebay you could probably collaborate with friends on.
Good to see you back again. Cool vid but plz buy a mic for better sound 😉
Totally agreed, I'm trying to decide how high end I want to go. I'm currently just creating these videos on my smartphone. So do I buy a dedicated camera with mic equipment? Or do I just buy a smartphone high end mic? I'll figure that out soon.
buy collections, know the best bulk prices you can get from a store, use other good buylists to help you learn the floor value of the cards you are buying.
use the money to buy sets of old stuff and wait 6 months: www.mtggoldfish.com/index/ARN#paper
That's assuming it will keep going up which is probably right... but does have some risk.
Hey Edwin just curious, when you play old school, do you consider revised dual lands to be legal for old school? I’ve read somewhere that some old school players only allow unlimited versions. Just curious.
mojosodope45 yes EC and CFB rules allow any version with original art and card frame. So Revised, 4th Edition, Chronicles and many others are allowed.
Its just Swedish rules that insist on original prints only. Not many in the USA play Swedish style.
As for me, I'm personally even ok with people using proxies.
Thank you everyone
Edwin the Magic Engineer thats the prizes went that crazy that proxies should be ok. Im wondering how many people will attend the cfb championship at gp Vegas
Wow, you can pay 55-60% of MV for sizeable decent collections like that :p Nice!
Good good GP Vegas vintage magic booth yo vintage deck against my legacy deck
How accurate is this in 2024?
buying big collections and selling off singles you don't need to pay for it is still the best way
Buy chinese proxies, you can get all the restricted cards for 50 dollars.
That's great for a set of proxies. When I get them and they look too close to real... I write "proxy" in black sharpie on the front so nobody will ever be tricked/fooled.
Terrible idea. Don't support IP theft with your money. Just print them out at home if you want to use proxies in casual games.
Hey where can I get all the power, moat, abyss, force field, time vault, chaos orb, all the duals etc that actually look legit?? I'm looking to buy proxies of all the cards I won't own anytime soon that I can have to actually play some with.
>buying power 9 4 times
holey moley!
Yeah, first time was when I first started between 1996-1997 with Unlimited. I paid like $130 average for each Mox and $200 for my Lotus.
Then I sold/traded up to Beta P9 shortly after (and almost all of them were Mint or Near Mint!) and most of the Moxes were bought for $220 and my Lotus was $350 or so.
In 2001 at the end of college I sold my 4x of each copy collection of MTG for $4000. That included ALL the big vintage stuff in playsets. Man I wish I still had that.
In 2004-2006 I re-purchased Vintage/Legacy cards. This time I paid about 400 average each for Unlimited moxes and 750 for a NM Unlimited Lotus.
In 2011 I sold my top 20 cards for around $7000 total.
In 2016 I bought that Beta collection in the video linked, then traded/purchased my way into a full set of P9 again. I bought this signed Unlimited Lotus from Daniel Chang in 2017 for $3000.
That's pretty much the history for me. Each time I sold made money over what I bought for... but each time I had to re-buy I paid a lot more.
I like your shit
Go Edwin! (っ◔◡◔)っ ❤
LOL! I love the text art
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Ok, I'll stop.
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Maybe get a 2nd job.
If that's the case I would instead recommend NOT buying expensive MTG :)