Love the old cards. Played Beta to Ice Age. Had a big selloff in 96 to pay for college. Wish I didn't have to sell them (Complete Revised, Arabian, and Antiquities). Watching your channel brings back great memories. I can't afford ABU now so I started collecting Collectors Edition.
It’s a good time to be collecting CE! Sounds like an awesome collection you had… Ice Age remains one of my favorites, purely from a nostalgic point of view. I loved the set’s immersive theme.
There once was a man with a horde, Comprised entirely out of cardboard. Though the market has turns, He shows no concerns, For in the end, their value has soared! 🍀
I recently discovered your channel as I have been shifting to the collecting side of mtg. Love the content and appreciate the sharing of your collection/pickups. I decided to collect vintage magic cards from ABU as well as the sets from Urza's and before. Really loving the research aspect and learning the ins and outs on what to look for. I just made my first big purchase of a Lion's eye diamond that was in great condition at my LGS. Really appreciate your approach and how you advise people to focus on personal finance first before getting into it. Not many hype driven MTG channels mention that. So thank you for reiterating that importance!
A well diversified portfolio is a good portfolio. Smart man… congrats on blowing past 1k you deserve it. Also it’s cool to hear your story and how you got started and how much you worked to get where you are. 👍
I enjoyed this type of format too! Appreciate the forward nature of the approach.Feels like sitting there shooting the shit with a friend. Even 1 complete set of alpha is impressive! Like you’ve said all along, do what you love and there really is no downside or right or wrong. Keep on keeping on man! 🤘
Nice! I still question the strategy of collecting so many commons. But appreciated the talk and sharing. Just seems to me that NM commons or uncommons w misprints and rares are the best investable examples. I appreciate you answering my question about other investment vehicles.
Yes I agree despite my particular hoarding habits. Fewer higher valued cards are much easier to liquidate than piles of lower valued cards IMO. I’m in a strange place between investing and collecting, so I definitely make some suboptimal choices if analyzed purely from an investment standpoint. Thanks as always for watching 👍
Appreciate the honesty! Im an RN and my wife is the self employed tech PhD who is still figuring out how to make a good income. So I’m the main income now and it isn’t a lot, but we live comfortably! I still can’t afford purchasing the alpha that I wish I could, but maybe she will get to that point! I only buy what I can actually afford and am always saving for Real estate, but I need to be able to put down at least %50 of the property to feel comfortable, so I need to save together like 100k and I’m not quite there! Get closer every paycheck though!
That’s a wise approach to realestate. It slows your acquisition rate if you are planning on building a larger portfolio, but it reduce your risk and increases your cash flow, which I’ve personally found to be a better configuration. Keep fighting the good fight and you will get there! Also, mad appreciation for what you do! You didn’t mention your specific RN work, but I know (through my wife) how physically and emotionally demanding that field can be, and I admire those that carry that burden willingly 🤜🤛
Relentless, insatiable deadlines! This manuscript's still full of red lines. First I'll sweat through the edits and check all the credits then chill with my favorite red wine.
The red/orange on that clockwork beast really pops on ABU versions! became somewhat feint from revised onwards... fiery beautiful card! Good to hear that you are basically settled and can buy these pieces of art without much concerns.
Hey man - I know you have that episode on liquidity, but at some point would you mind discussing/speculating how you would liquidate your entire collection IF you wanted to? Would you sell it piece by piece on Ebay, sell as an entire collection to an auction house, etc.? Just curious. I don't ever plan on selling, but at the same time, it would be nice to have a strategy in place.
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 There once was a man with a hoard Not silver or gold, but cardboard He loved all of his cards And they made his heart pump But none more than a common called Jump 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Your playgroup sounds like mine. We've been together (when we can) for almost 25 years. Kitchen table Magic is the most fun I've had playing, with those unspoken rules that keep everything "honorable". (There's no honor with blowing someone out or hating on your friends (COP's)).
Agreed! Yes, it is a kind of honor code. We play to have fun, and some cards/decks, especially if unbalanced compared to your playgroup, just ruins everyone’s evening.
Animate Dead is uncommon, not rare (yes, a list in Shadis in the first days of MtG listed it as rare -- it was wrong). Great to see the cards as always. As to the number of whales and to their size and frequency. They are few and far between, and most are hidden from view, and more have sold out over the years. As to what qualifies as a whale? That's tricky. Need to give that some thought.
Ah did I say rare in the video? 🤦♂️ There’s a couple I endlessly confuse, that’s one as well as Berserk and Hypnotic Specter. Not sure why I can’t sort those out in my head lol. As for whale size, yeah I don’t know either. As you said a lot is private or second hand, possibly double counted, etc.
@@AlphaHoarder You said "Three rares" when you had three cards showing -- the other two are rare and the third card was the Animate Dead. It was a mistake that I had to correct more than a few times back in 1993 due to the semi-accurate Shadis list (they took a stab at figuring it out before WotC published anything, so I give them some slack), so it triggered me. There were a couple of other inaccuracies in that list, but I'd have to hunt it down again (I have the issue it's in -- somewhere) to list them all.
No worries from here 🙂 I came into this eye open to its speculative nature (my 1st or 2nd video was on that, too) so I’m not more exposed than I’m willing to be. Appreciate the concern 👍
He sold me five jewels in box He promised more value than stocks Took the box home in wonder But soon realized my blunder Inside was some cardboard called “Mox”
Love the old cards. Played Beta to Ice Age. Had a big selloff in 96 to pay for college. Wish I didn't have to sell them (Complete Revised, Arabian, and Antiquities). Watching your channel brings back great memories. I can't afford ABU now so I started collecting Collectors Edition.
It’s a good time to be collecting CE! Sounds like an awesome collection you had… Ice Age remains one of my favorites, purely from a nostalgic point of view. I loved the set’s immersive theme.
I love Collector's Edition. It's a great way to get nice old black border cards (but you probably already know this)
As always love the content, thank you for sharing. Congrats on the continued growth!
Thanks for watching 👍
There once was a man with a horde,
Comprised entirely out of cardboard.
Though the market has turns,
He shows no concerns,
For in the end, their value has soared! 🍀
Hahaha amazing!!
Always beautiful cards and in impeccable condition. Raging River is very cool.
I love Raging River, it’s one of my pet cards 😍 Thanks for watching!
Indeed I love Raging River artwork too.
I recently discovered your channel as I have been shifting to the collecting side of mtg. Love the content and appreciate the sharing of your collection/pickups. I decided to collect vintage magic cards from ABU as well as the sets from Urza's and before. Really loving the research aspect and learning the ins and outs on what to look for. I just made my first big purchase of a Lion's eye diamond that was in great condition at my LGS.
Really appreciate your approach and how you advise people to focus on personal finance first before getting into it. Not many hype driven MTG channels mention that. So thank you for reiterating that importance!
Thanks for watching! Glad to hear you’re exploring the collecting side of the hobby!
A well diversified portfolio is a good portfolio. Smart man… congrats on blowing past 1k you deserve it. Also it’s cool to hear your story and how you got started and how much you worked to get where you are. 👍
Thanks, really appreciate it 👍
I enjoyed this type of format too! Appreciate the forward nature of the approach.Feels like sitting there shooting the shit with a friend. Even 1 complete set of alpha is impressive! Like you’ve said all along, do what you love and there really is no downside or right or wrong. Keep on keeping on man! 🤘
Yeah I couldn’t find the right way to express “only 1 set” lol - I’m definitely thrilled and honored to be able to have that 🙂
I like seeing OG cards while rambling truths.
I appreciate you 👍
Nice! I still question the strategy of collecting so many commons. But appreciated the talk and sharing. Just seems to me that NM commons or uncommons w misprints and rares are the best investable examples.
I appreciate you answering my question about other investment vehicles.
Yes I agree despite my particular hoarding habits. Fewer higher valued cards are much easier to liquidate than piles of lower valued cards IMO. I’m in a strange place between investing and collecting, so I definitely make some suboptimal choices if analyzed purely from an investment standpoint. Thanks as always for watching 👍
Appreciate the honesty!
Im an RN and my wife is the self employed tech PhD who is still figuring out how to make a good income.
So I’m the main income now and it isn’t a lot, but we live comfortably!
I still can’t afford purchasing the alpha that I wish I could, but maybe she will get to that point!
I only buy what I can actually afford and am always saving for Real estate, but I need to be able to put down at least %50 of the property to feel comfortable, so I need to save together like 100k and I’m not quite there! Get closer every paycheck though!
That’s a wise approach to realestate. It slows your acquisition rate if you are planning on building a larger portfolio, but it reduce your risk and increases your cash flow, which I’ve personally found to be a better configuration. Keep fighting the good fight and you will get there! Also, mad appreciation for what you do! You didn’t mention your specific RN work, but I know (through my wife) how physically and emotionally demanding that field can be, and I admire those that carry that burden willingly 🤜🤛
Best mtg content creator by a mile.
Best commenter by two miles 🤜🤛
The things you do; the way you invest. Extremely similar to me. So glad the hoard grows. I continue to feed my players Hoard.
Great minds think alike 🤜🤛
I’m not an alpha/beta collector. Just a player with old card acquisition goals!!!
Relentless, insatiable deadlines!
This manuscript's still full of red lines.
First I'll sweat through the edits
and check all the credits
then chill with my favorite red wine.
Brilliant!
The red/orange on that clockwork beast really pops on ABU versions! became somewhat feint from revised onwards... fiery beautiful card! Good to hear that you are basically settled and can buy these pieces of art without much concerns.
Agreed on Clockwork! Appreciate you watching 👍
Had a good week last week. Picked up 4 Alpha Rares I didn’t have yet. Don’t worry they weren’t NM 😛
Sounds like a great week!!
Hey man - I know you have that episode on liquidity, but at some point would you mind discussing/speculating how you would liquidate your entire collection IF you wanted to? Would you sell it piece by piece on Ebay, sell as an entire collection to an auction house, etc.? Just curious. I don't ever plan on selling, but at the same time, it would be nice to have a strategy in place.
Yeah good question, I have some thoughts on that. I’ll put together something at some point!
@@AlphaHoarder Thank you! Hugely appreciated!!
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
There once was a man with a hoard
Not silver or gold, but cardboard
He loved all of his cards
And they made his heart pump
But none more than a common called Jump
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
😂🤣😂 so good!
Is there such thing as too many jump cards? lol. Great video and cards!
Nah, definitely no such thing 🤣😅
Your playgroup sounds like mine. We've been together (when we can) for almost 25 years. Kitchen table Magic is the most fun I've had playing, with those unspoken rules that keep everything "honorable". (There's no honor with blowing someone out or hating on your friends (COP's)).
Agreed! Yes, it is a kind of honor code. We play to have fun, and some cards/decks, especially if unbalanced compared to your playgroup, just ruins everyone’s evening.
Animate Dead is uncommon, not rare (yes, a list in Shadis in the first days of MtG listed it as rare -- it was wrong). Great to see the cards as always.
As to the number of whales and to their size and frequency. They are few and far between, and most are hidden from view, and more have sold out over the years.
As to what qualifies as a whale? That's tricky. Need to give that some thought.
Ah did I say rare in the video? 🤦♂️ There’s a couple I endlessly confuse, that’s one as well as Berserk and Hypnotic Specter. Not sure why I can’t sort those out in my head lol.
As for whale size, yeah I don’t know either. As you said a lot is private or second hand, possibly double counted, etc.
@@AlphaHoarder You said "Three rares" when you had three cards showing -- the other two are rare and the third card was the Animate Dead. It was a mistake that I had to correct more than a few times back in 1993 due to the semi-accurate Shadis list (they took a stab at figuring it out before WotC published anything, so I give them some slack), so it triggered me. There were a couple of other inaccuracies in that list, but I'd have to hunt it down again (I have the issue it's in -- somewhere) to list them all.
I feel really bad for you, im sorry this is happening. Pray u be okey
No worries from here 🙂 I came into this eye open to its speculative nature (my 1st or 2nd video was on that, too) so I’m not more exposed than I’m willing to be. Appreciate the concern 👍
He sold me five jewels in box
He promised more value than stocks
Took the box home in wonder
But soon realized my blunder
Inside was some cardboard called “Mox”
😂 absolute genius!
Feed me Seymour...
🤣
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