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Post by John Galli on Mar 30, 2012 8:44:22 GMT -5
So I was looking over some cards today on magic.tcgplayer.com since they usually have retailers with cheap prices and I noticed they have this awesome optimizer tool on their website. Once you finish compiling your cart to your liking, you can hit the optimizer and it finds the cheapest total price (including shipping costs) and puts them in your cart appropriately. It lets you select by editions, etc, so you can get exactly what you want at the cheapest possible price.
Any of you used this before? If not it's a pretty sweet tool if you're not ebaying your stuff. I was looking up red deck wins stuff for standard and legacy, if I really wanted to shell out at some point I saw I could get pretty much everything for both standard and legacy for around $230 (without fetch lands). Not too bad
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Post by John Galli on Mar 30, 2012 11:25:46 GMT -5
Here's what I'm looking at possibly playing for both (although if I ordered cards I'd be ordering a few alternative choices too and I also still own a decent amount of the standard stuff)- 4/1/2012 Standard2 Spikeshot Elder 4 Stromkirk Noble 3 Grim Lavamancer 4 Stormblood Berserker 4 Chandra’s Phoenix 2 Koth of the Hammer 4 Gutshot 4 Volt Charge 4 Shrine of Burning Rage 3 Arc Trail 2 Faithless Looting 1 Red Sun’s Zenith 2 Kessig Wolf Run 4 Rootbound Crag 17 Mountain Sideboard: 4 Moltensteel Dragon 4 Whipflare 3 Ancient Grudge 1 Red Sun's Zenith 1 Arc Trail 1 Geistflame 1 Koth of the Hammer Legacy4 Goblin Guide 3 Grim Lavamancer 3 Hellspark Elemental 3 Keldon Mauraders 4 Fireblast 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Price of Progress 4 Chain Lightning 4 Flame Rift 4 Lava Spike 4 Rift Bolt 17 Mountain 2 Barbarian Ring Sideboard: 4 Faerie Macabre 4 Pyrostatic Pillar 3 Smash to Smithereens 2 Pyroblast 2 Red Elemental Blast  |
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Mar 30, 2012 13:53:10 GMT -5
Check with me before you go buying all of that stuff (assuming you decide to do it). I should be able to help you out with some of those things. It's not much, but I know I won't ever use them, so you might as well.
EDIT: No, I haven't used the optimizer tool before, but it's definitely a good idea that they came up with. The only concern I would have is whether or not the tool allows you to combine shipping costs from each of these retailers. That would be my only problem with ordering from so many different locations.
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Post by John Galli on Mar 30, 2012 15:11:44 GMT -5
The tool accounts for shipping costs in the combining process. It finds the overall cheapest rate including the cost of shipping. It's really friggin pro.
I priced out what I would want on there, and the prices between the foil versions of 60% of the cards versus the non-foil is extremely minimal so if I do this order over the next few days I'll most likely be going for foiling out almost the entire thing. So unless you have some of these in the foil variety it probably won't be a big difference. Some of the foils are even cheaper than the regular versions and the majority of the fire & lightning series is really cheap.
Here's the list of cards I'm looking at investing in, let me know if there's anything you'd like to part ways with. The prices on all this stuff is already extreme bare-bones except for chain lightning, so not sure what you'll be able to go lower on-
Prices are for individual card
Non-Foils:
x4 Pyroblast; Ice Age ($0.49)
x3 Red Sun's Zenith; Mirrodin Beseiged ($0.79)
x4 Red Elemental Blast; Revised ($0.19)
x4 Pyrostatic Pillar; Scourge ($0.49)
x4 Faerie Macabre; Shadowmoor ($0.07)
x4 Searing Blaze; Worldwake ($0.10)
x3 Stromkirk Noble; Innistrad ($3.95)
x2 Everlasting Torment; Shadowmoor ($1.28)
x4 Smash to Smithereens; Shadowmoor ($0.18)
x4 Lava Spike - Champions of Kamigawa ($2.05)
x4 Whipflare - New Phyrexia ($0.36)
x4 Flame Rift - Nemesis ($0.24)
x2 Sulfuric Vortex; Scourge ($1.50)
x4 Goblin Guide; Zendikar ($4.50)
x2 Hero of Oxid Ridge ($4.12)
Foils:
x2 Barbarian Ring; Fire & Lightning Foil ($0.25)
x4 Fireblast; Fire & Lightning Foil ($1.25)
x4 Grim Lavamancer; Fire & Lightning Foil ($3.95)
x4 Lightning Bolt; Fire & Lightning Foil ($0.59)
x3 Spikeshot Elder; Scars of Mirrodin Foil ($1.95)
x4 Manabarbs; M12 Foil ($0.99)
x4 Stormblood Berserker; M12 Foil ($2.99)
x4 Rootbound Crag; Slivers Foil ($3.99)
x4 Unstable Footing; Zendikar Foil ($0.25)
x4 Chandra's Phoenix; Promo Foil ($5.95)
x2 Devil's Play; Promo Foil ($2.24)
x4 Moltensteel Dragon; New Phyrexia Foil ($0.98)
x3 Hellspark Elemental; Fire & Lightning Foil ($1.18)
x4 Chain Lightning; Fire & Lightning Foil ($11.00)
x4 Price of Progress; Fire & Lightning Foil ($3.08)
x4 Koth of the Hammer; Duel Deck Foil ($7.95)
x4 Rift Bolt; FNM Foil ($2.24)
x3 Keldon Marauders; Fire & Lightning Foil ($0.19)
x3 Figure of Destiny; Promo Foil ($5.25)
Another note, I'd be buying this with my credit card, so the likelyhood of me being able to pay cash for these is not that likely lol. Trade is an option of course
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Post by John Galli on Mar 31, 2012 20:12:51 GMT -5
Crads purchased. Looks like I'll be turning some mountains sideways at the 5k  |
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Post by John Galli on Apr 1, 2012 10:25:31 GMT -5
Other cards I'm looking to trade for -
x3 Phyrexian Metamorph
x3 Ratchet Bomb
x4 Slagstorm
x3 Dismember
x24 zendikar mountains (preferably all the same art)
My Liliana of the veil and birthing pods are up for grabs and I've got a few middle of the road rares available from draft
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Post by Zach on Apr 1, 2012 16:05:56 GMT -5
*wants a liliana
I have a Ratchet Bomb, some Dismembers and a handful of Zendi lands
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Post by John Galli on Apr 2, 2012 9:29:49 GMT -5
I'd also be willing to sell Liliana, I'm looking to get $20-25 for her. I haven't put it up on Ebay yet but I probably will soon unless one of you guys wants to trade / buy her. The biggest things I need are the Metamorphs and the Ratchet Bombs, so I could factor that into the sell price.
Ratchet Bomb is currently going for $6.00 online, Metamorph is going for $6.50. Liliana is sitting at $24.25 (magic.tcgplayer.com)
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