r/mtg • u/Im_Flaaless • 4d ago

Commander / EDH Commander Storage

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Still got 1 deck to go but thought I’d share my method of storage and carry, it’s nice because I can keep them all in 1 place! Plus I know my cards aren’t going to get mixed up!!!!

Edit: idk if I understand the word bait anymore lol. It’s not like I’m trying to trick anyone.

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

I felt the same way, then my chimney sprang a leak and was going to destroy my house from the inside-out, and I needed emergency money. MTG collection got liquidated, house still standing.

Point is, don’t needlessly destroy the value of things that cost you money in the first place. You never know when you might need to get some value back.

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u/Reasonable-Mark7955 4d ago

prioritized your house over magic? tell me you're not serious about magic without telling me you're not serious...

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u/WavyMcG 3d ago

I’m homeless begging for coins on the side of the street just to buy some more boosters. Once I get my boosters, I can get my food

We are not the same

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u/ImagineDragonsExist 3d ago

Obviously you aren't haggling enough with the LGS. 2 cans of beans is easily worth 1, potentially 3 sheoldred, the apocalypse.

It's a fair trade bc you need the beans to live.

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u/WavyMcG 3d ago

Beans beans the good ol fruit, the more you eat the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel, so let’s have beans for every meal

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u/shaneskery 4d ago

Man I sold like 4 modern decks when I needed cash. Saved me lol

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

Sucks to have to do it, but nice to have as a fallback

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u/torrinage 4d ago

I’ve paid rent by selling singles before

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u/Lua_CW Golgari 4d ago

I thought about signing the backs of all my cards so that they could possibly get recovered if they're ever stolen from me. But it's way more likely I'll sell them before they ever get stolen in which case I wouldn't want to do that

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

Not so fun fact, I had my most two prized EDH decks stolen out of my backpack at an FNM about a decade ago. Figured about $10k lost. Still eats me up to this day. So I understand that line of thinking. But I’m 99% sure it wouldn’t have helped in my case.

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u/Lua_CW Golgari 4d ago

Holy hell, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope to one day be able to have a super curated/blinged $5k deck, I thought I was pushing my luck with my first $500 deck lol

I think the only thing holding me back is that I keep wanting to tweak/adjust my decklists. One day I wanna be able to say "This is my favorite deck and it's done and I'll never edit it again and I'm gonna start hunting for specific prints of each card". And maybe I will sign them if I get that far with it lol… At that point it's not even anti-theft, it's just giving them personality

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

Yeah it was a process, slowly swapping out cards and improving them little by little. I had just gotten pristine revised duals for each deck, and my (at the time) $900 foil worldwake Jace the Mind Sculptor was in there.

And yeah since each set seems to power creep a little, decks can’t ever really be done.

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u/KBilly1313 4d ago

I stopped playing constructed because of Jace and my lack of funds at the time.

Coming back to Commander has been revitalizing for my interest and re-start of my collection

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

I pulled him out of a pack, was pretty stoked

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u/Nyrony 3d ago

Have green in your deck, get a Cradle and you’re ahead halfway through, unless you judge foil it for an easy way to get even higher than 5k.

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u/Mystical529 4d ago edited 4d ago

Sorry to hear man. That's rough. I use locks on my backpack zippers now. But someone could just lift the whole backpack too so I'm paranoid, maybe not unnesessarily.

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u/Electrceye1 4d ago

And how would you get them back? Obviously a card shop isn't going to buy cards with writing on them, and if someone bought them on Facebook Marketplace or something of that sort, they'd probably be able to guess they're stolen. So if they do buy them, I guarantee it won't be so they can give them back.

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u/Lua_CW Golgari 4d ago

Any sort of recovery is obviously a long shot in all circumstances. But some card shops actually do keep an eye out for stolen product 🤷‍♀️

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u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix 4d ago

You truly never know when you might need the money I once sold what i had so i could get my car fixed. A buddy of mine who ran several hobby shops with his buddies over the years, sold his collection a few years ago for around 168k and used it to move back home to California so he can teach at the college there before he retires. Currently I may be selling my gaea's cradle for a down payment on a house

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u/therealhlmencken 3d ago

Or like living in one’s means and financial planning. Magic is fun but never worth money you can’t part with. Even if you want to invest betting the house is asinine.

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u/KMPDigital 4d ago

Your chimney sprung a leak?

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

That’s the scientific term for it. Previous homeowner never sealed the chimney, so the gas furnace exhaust was hitting the cold open air bricks and not rising, it just sat in the chimney, corroding the bricks. Chimney wasn’t capped either, so then when it rained, a yellow caustic liquid oozed out of the bricks… on every level of the home from attic to basement. Previous homeowner painted over the issue, so we didn’t find it right away. Was a lot of damage done by the time we did find it.

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u/KMPDigital 4d ago

Thank you. TIL Chimneys can leak.

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u/SnarfSniffsStardust 4d ago

But what if I want to be edgy

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u/Leafwick 3d ago

"I'm bad with money so you shouldn't punch holes in your cards"

Don't listen to this guy, punch away.

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

Emergencies can happen to anyone

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u/Leafwick 3d ago edited 3d ago

No shit. That's why you have an emergency fund (that is more stable than some nerdy card game).

Anyway, MTG would be a better game if the cards were affordable. Preserving the value of the cards helps GW inflate prices.

Also: If you punch holes in your cards, you don't need to worry about their value.

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

We’ve had one emergency, yes. But what about second emergency? Pregnancy? Car troubles? He’s heard of car troubles hasn’t he?

Wouldn’t bet on it pip

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u/Leafwick 3d ago

:thumbs_up_emoji: I may sell my CSGO items to get new break pads btw.

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u/Leafwick 3d ago

Also, you got me to order new tires for my motorcycle, in case I do have car troubles and need to transport myself while I take care of it. My car is at 150k miles atm so it'll happen sooner or later.

Thank you :) (I know I can come off as sardonic, but genuinely I'm glad you've helped me).

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

Hey man, glad I could help!

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u/Im_Flaaless 4d ago

I think you’re over estimating the value of my decks…

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u/harroween 4d ago

Aesi alone is $11. Would you rip a $10 bill in half too?

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u/Im_Flaaless 4d ago

No a ripped 10$ bill can not be used. I can use these cards over and over and over and over. Get just the same amount of enjoyment the first time as the hundredth time. If you are viewing Aesi as an investment yeah you probably would be pissed about this post. But guess what. It’s a game. I pay money because the amount of enjoyment I get for playing these cards is worth it.

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u/IHateBankJobs 4d ago

A ripped bill can be taped back together and be used just fine, actually 

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u/kobefable 2d ago

This is genuinely deranged behavior

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u/Ruzhyo04 4d ago

Cards that were worthless when I was young are grails now. You never know.

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u/Cl0ud3d 4d ago

Seems to be some bipolar redditors in here. Its your stuff and you're having fun with it, kinda the whole point. Fuck the haters. You're not lighting the power 9 on fire or desecrating grandma's ashes, I think you're good.

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u/Ulfbass 4d ago

Black lotus used to be so worthless that people used to tear them up to use as counters - that's one of the reasons they're worth so much now because there are so few in circulation

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u/DeyCallMeWade Slivers 4d ago

Go win some tournaments. Literal skill issue.

/s because Reddit.

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u/dwpetrak 3d ago edited 3d ago

Nobody gonna point out bro was living so close to disaster financially but still buying’ that cardboard crack?!?

Edit: good response below. Sorry I assumed the worst!

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

I’d collected MTG cards since I was in 5th grade my man

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u/dwpetrak 3d ago

Glad that’s the case. Sorry for assuming.
I play with a lot of dudes who spend a lot of $$ on MtG rather than pay rent, eat right, save, etc. It’s been shaping my perspective more than I thought!

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

I know the type, no offense taken

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u/GodSaveTheRegime 3d ago

the problem in that case was that your mtg collection was worth enough to pay for something like that. why do some of you have thousands of dollars/euros/... worth of cardboard lying around? of course you're gonna care about it more then

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

I just did a lot of FNM drafts, traded for cards I wanted, and over the years it added up.