The $150

I am breaking down the goods from the collection I just bought here as I get a chance:

4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Copperline Gorge
1 Contested War Zone
1 Promo Wurmcoil Engine
2 Moltensteel Dragon
1 Time Reversal
2 Consume the Meek
1 Phyrexian Rebirth
1 Sun Titan
2 Gideon;s Avenger
2 Grand Abolisher
2 Galvanoth
1 White Sun's Zenith
1 Kemba, Kha Regent
1 Victory's Herald
1 FOIL Myr Turbine
3 Ratchet Bomb
1 Knowledge Pool
1 Fresh Meat
2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Manabarbs
2 Cerebral Eruption
1 Sangromancer
1 Argent Sphinx
2 Putrefax
1 Royal Assassin
3 Call to the Grave
1 Lux Cannon
1 Norn's Annex
1 Warstorm Surge
1 Contagion Engine
4 Creeping Corrosion
1 Dungrove Elder
1 Cemetary Reaper
1 Vengeful Pharaoh
1 Druidic Satchel
1 Titan Forge
2 Hellkite Igniter
1 Chanceller of the Dross
2 Dissipation Field
2 Phyrexian Hydra
2 Distant Memories, 1 foil
2 Tower of Calamities
1 Soul Conduit
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Magmatic Mine
1 Foil Mirrorworks
1 Decimator Web
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Shape Anew
1 Shimmer Myr
1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
4 Goblin Chieftain
3 Livewire Lash

84 rares

Good uncommons:

3 Despise
6 Go for the Throat (at roughly $2 a piece, that's a big find)
2 Dismember (I didn't get many in my boxes, other than a foil one, so this is good deck stock)
3 Vampire Nighthawk
3 Promo Full Art Treasure Mage
1 Promo Full Art Priest of Urabrask
3 Swiftfoot Boots

I kinda want to eBay the playset of Inkmoth Nexi.

More to come as I keep opening up stuff.

44 foil commons and uncommons of little value. The best are Oxidda Scrapmelter, some of the equip guys like Auriok Edgewright and Ardent Recruit, Pistus Strike and War Report.

Foils Basics:

1 Island
1 Plains
13 Mountains

More Rares After sorting:

1 Life's Finale
2 Silence
1 Creeping Corrosion
1 Ezuri's Brigade
1 Genesis Wave
3 Cryptoplasm
1 Indomitable Archangel
1 Argent Sphinx
1 FOIL Galvanoth, 1 regular
1 Distant Memories
2 Grindclock
3 Strata Scythe
1 Ancient Hellkite
2 Monomania
1 Doubling Chant
3 Myr Turbine
1 Aegis Angel
1 Reverberate
1 Mesa Enchantress
1 Chimeric Mass
1 Victory's Herald
2 Omen Machine
4 Unwinding Clock
1 Mitotic Manipulation
1 Mind Unbound
1 Worldslayer
1 Asceticism
1 Chancellor of the Dross
1 Druidic Satchel
1 Chancellor of the Annex
1 Chancellor of the Forge
1 Darksteel Plate
2 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
1 Xenograft
1 Darksteel Juggernaut
1 Nim Deathmantle
1 Tower of Calamites
1 Psychic Surgery
1 Hellkite Igniter
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Cerebral Eruption
1 Sphinx of Uthuun
1 Magmatic Mine
2 Engulfing Slagwurm
1 Shimmer Myr
2 Phyrexian Ingester


64 rares

Older Rares:

1 Darigaaz, the Igniter
1 Shivan Wurm
1 Planar Portal
1 Earthquake
1 Distorting Lens
1 Catalyst Stone
1 Amulet of Unmaking
1 Thunderscape Master
1 Isperia the Inscrutable
1 Luminous Angel
1 Mossbridge Troll
1 Tornado Elemental
1 Sabertooth Nishoba
1 Thicket Elemental
1 Hurricane
1 Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
1 Baru, Fist of Krosa
1 Rootwater Thief
1 Mudhole
1 Teferi's Imp
1 Pure Reflection
1 Tsabo's Web
1 Grid Monitor
1 Aerial Caravan
1 Fountain Watch
1 Lithophage
1 Keldon Necropolis
1 Phyrexian Lens
1 Tsabo's Assassin
1 Psychic Battle
1 Tek


31 rares

Total Number of Mythics and rares:

179


I have roughly 1000 uncommons. Let me look through them and find the good ones (like the rares, they are almost exclusively M12, and the most recent block).

Some Uncs of Value:

1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Savage Lands
1 Graypelt Refuge
1 Vithian Renegades
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Shrapnel Blast
2 Fire/Ice
3 Condemn
1 Wirewood Lodge
1 Quest for the Holy Relic
1 Thwart



All of these have a value of $1 or more on SCG:

4 Dispatch
4 Tezzeret's Gambit
11 Signal Pest
1 Arc Trail
2 Myr Galvanizer
4 Everflowing Chalice
6 Goblin Grenade
3 Oblivion Ring
6 Memnite
1 Timely Reinforcements
4 Shrine of Burning Rage
1 Smallpox

If you were to sell these 47 cards for $1 each (which is low for some of them), then you'd make $47.


And I've got tons of great casual cards, like Darksteel Sentinel, Trinket mage, Treasure Mage, Garruk's Packleader, most of the split cards from I Block, Aether Mutation, Acidic Slime, Buried Ruin, Dispense Justice, Phyrexia's Core, Skinrender, Exsanguinate, Hunter's Insight, Customs Depot, Kyren Negotiations, etc.

I believe that this lot was clearly worth the $150 paid for it.

If I sell the Nexi, which I don;t want, for $40 total, then I paid $110 for it. I could easily make my money back and more with sales here and there. There are no home run cards in here. No mythic has a high value, and only the Nexi are worth double digit prices. The next highest is Sun Titan and the Grand Abolishers. However, with 179 rares, 1000 uncommons, and lots of value in those cards, we get our money made easily.

What I need to do is decide what I want, and what I don't want. I can always use another Life's Finale, another Planar Portal, another Sun Titan, another Sphinx of Uthuun, etc.

There's a lot of value in cards worth 1-4 dollars Gideon's Avenger, Go for the Throat, Everflowing Chalice, Copperline Gorge, Swiftfoot Boots, Call to the Graves, and many more cards. Even with reduced prices to move things, the money is here.


My first collection purchase, and my first Craigslist purchase - I popped two cherries this week!

Seems like a very nice snag for $150!

Yeah, and it had 5 d20 spindown dice inc three from the Scars block, and 4 d6 randomly in it too. Plus the Khalni Heart Expedition large play mat

I have my three boxes of rares sorted by color, and now I'll be looking through them to figure out what rares I want to keep

Lands - Keep all but Inkmoth Nexi (K Necropolis, D Summit, Copperline Gorge, etc)


Older Stuff Kept:


Blue (Rootwater Thief, Aeriel Caravan)
Gold (S. Wurm, S. Nishoba, Isperia)


Newer:


Blue:

Xenograft - I wanted more anyway
2 Phyrexian Ingestors
Time Reversal
Sphinx of Uthuun
2 Argent Sphinx
Shape Anew
2 Dissipation Field
FOIL Distant Memories, not the others

Older Arties: D lens, P Portal, Tek, Grid M.



Black:

L Finale, 3 Call to Grave, V Pharaoh, C Reaper, Sangromancer, R Assassin, 2 Consume the Meek


Art:

N D.mantle
Soul Conduit
1 Tower of Calamaties, but not the other two
C. AEngine
3 R. Bomb
D. P.late
D. Web\
Foil mirrorworks
2 m mine
foil M. Turbine and 1x more
2 P Crawler
2 Shimmer myr
Dsteel jnaut
Promo Wcoil Engine
Lux Cannon
Chimeric Mass

Final box:

Older raes:

Green: T Elemntal, Molimio, hurricane, Baru, T Elemental, M Troll

White - F Watch, L Angel

Red - T Master



Red:

2 Mstell Drafgon
C of the Forge
Ancient Hkite
2 G Chieftain
Wstorm Surge
2 Hkite Igniter
Foil Galvanote nad 2 others
Reverberate
Manabarbs



Green:

2E. Slagwurm
2 P Swarmlord
Fresh Meat
G Wave
E's Brigade
Asceticism
2 Melira
1 Dungrove Elder
Doubling chant
2 Putrefax
2 Creeping Corrosion, not the other 3



White:


Norn's Annex
P Rebirth
2 Victory's herald
White Sun's Zenith
Sun Titan
Mesa Etress
2 G Avernger
2 Grand aboklisher
Indomitable Angel
3 Silence
Kemba, Kha Regent
Aegis Angel
Archon of Justice

Just in case you care


4x Inkmoth Nexus x4 NM Mirrodin Besieged | eBay

Damn fine snag. My internal values are way off as I keep thinking of cards in terms of mtgforge prices :D

I;m considering pulling my auction for a few days and seeing if Inkmoth Nexus rises in value after this weekend. Two separate decks in the Top 8 of the Modern PT have a full set of Nexi.


In fact, both made it to the semi-finals.

It looks like Sam Black's Mono-Blue Infect will make the finals. That's a deck that requires four Inkmoth Nexi to build it.

Blazing Shoals have gone up to 10 ish a piece so waiting was probably worth it for a few extra dollars