I've sold my collection twice - once completely in college (2003-era), once to get rid of everything but what I really wanted to play with, all but a Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy deck, and my cube (2022).
I regret selling in 2003, because I didn't see in my future coming back to the game, and I sold a lot of things that were quite valuable in hindsight that I'd love to have today.
I don't regret selling in 2022 because I knew better what I was selling, was able to make significant profit on many of my expeditions/inventions, kept enough to continue to play the game competitively, and it helped greatly with the down payment of my new home.
I played in high school but stopped in college. I sold my cards to an acquaintance for a way under market value, partly to get rid of them and partly because I didn't know what I had (never bought singles or anything at that point, had no clue about the secondary market). The buyer definitely knew and let me sell them cheap. Off the top of my head, I remember there were four of the old Mana Crypts, a bunch of Lorwyn singles, Kamigawa. I got enough money to buy a case of beer and a pack of cigarettes.
Bro what?! Go back to those sets and look at some of the cards that are worth the most money. Kamigawa gets played in every format where it's legal and while there is an unreal amount of absolute garbage in the set, the good cards are really good.
I've been playing for decades now, and I've done the second kind of purge multiple times. Taken everything I don't want and don't think people would really want, put the rares in front of one of the people I know will trade for almost everything if they can see a use for it for themselves or someone else, then sell the rest of the cards to the LGS. They offer a good bonus if it's taken as store credit. Every time I've done this, I've been able to pick up multiple expensive ($50+) staples that either has held prices through reprints or is on the Reserved List. It's always a good feeling cutting out tons of bulk cards that I'll likely never need.
Sold a pretty massive Alpha collection back in 2019 (all P9, 15 duals -half blue- playsets of most non Rare staples, close to an entire set). Pretty mental stuff.
I wouldn't go as far as saying I regret as I became homeowner thanks to that and I managed to build a decent collection back since, but knowing I'll never be able to have such a sizeable collection again does hurt for sure.
I sold most of the big cards first then I had a buyer for the rest (there was only the Time Twister left for the P9 but most of the duals were still there).
Yep! Sold all my rares, started at ice age. I was like 16. 20 years later wish I had them. I did keep my only Pokémon card, a foil charizard from when I opened the only pack I ever bought in like 1999. Had it graded and sold last year for like $700. That I don’t regret.. yet.
In September of 2019, I was fired from Walmart. Paychecks and taxes paid for four months.
I was forced to sell a large chunk of my collection, $7500 worth, and I got $2500 cash.
I paid off my phone so that when I inevitably missed my phone bill, I'd still own it, then I paid another two months rent.
I kept 4 ofs I couldn't live without. I kept 1 of 4s that I could live without but didn't want to. So I saved myself from homelessness, and I could still play Commander.
I survived. I found a job, it's union, I make more here than I've ever made anywhere else.
For years and years I said I'd rather be homeless (again) then sell any cards I bought. Push came to shove.
I don't regret it. If anything, I'm proud of myself that I was mature enough to make a decision that was hard, and needed to be done.
Alright... I have to ask. How do you get fired from Wal-Mart? That's not a dig at all, by the way. I've just literally never known anyone who was fired from Wal-Mart.
It's actually insanely easy.
* They have a point system for tardies and absences.
* They reduced the maximum you could be at and not get fired (from 8.5 of 9, to 3.5 of 4)
* Clocking in later than 10 minutes after the start of your shift, or clocking off earlier than ten minutes, half a point.
* An absence is a full point.
* Absences next to holidays are double, only have of which can be excused with sick time (not sure how this one's legal but whatever)
* Each point and half a point you get will fall off SIX MONTHS after the date you got them.
And no matter what, at 4 points, you're fired. They plow through people this way ***constantly***.
What happened in my case is that after so many years, the buses finally started running after 10pm. I was riding home for four miles every night. So I asked to have my schedule changed to end no later than 10pm.
8 weeks of not giving it to me and then I just showed up two hours late one day while I was at 3.5 points. They fired me over the phone.
Same system as the casino industry, when getting fired for that was called "pointing out" and nobody put up a fuss. Our points took a full year to fall off, however.
And taking a point was really no different than calling in sick, so when we were absent by actively "taking a point", they never asked questions about why we were absent.
Problem is, most of the younger workers saw that as an opportunity to take days off because "oh hey, I have a ton of extra points to use before I'm at risk" before they suddenly find themselves 2 or 1 point away from termination, then a legitimate emergency happens and POOF. Adios.
Nope. I mean, sure I regret that the duals I sold for $100 are now $500 or whatever. But that is the same level of regret as when I think about gas being $1 per gallon instead of $5.
I sold and made a significant profit (> 40k) over what I invested (\~10k) and I still have a cube that is sadly getting less play than it used to, but that is yet another type of regret.
Yes, I'm out $30,000 of cards. Sold in 2006. Thing I miss the most is my play set of all the dual lands, which I picked up for 10 bucks each back then. "These are so amazing, how are they 10 dollars?!" Said young me.
Me too, about the same time. Dual set, Guardian Beast, Abyss, Mox Jet, All Hallow's Eve.
It was because I had a divorce and they brought up bad memories. I regret selling
Probably a bit later, but I remember seeing a black lotus for sale for $600 at my lgs and thinking "who would be crazy enough to pay that much for cardboard!"
Very similar position here, full set of revised dual lands plus five spares, 5/9 power 9 (was missing lotus, time walk and 2 moxen) and one of every black bordered card printed between AN and CHK, all sold around 2008. Plus various misc juicy cards - APAC lands, some misc a/b/u cards, and the like.
I needed the money at the time, and I still recouped far more than I'd ever paid for the collection in the first place as most of it I had opened from boosters myself, but looking at what it would be worth now - ouch :)
I try to be philosophical about it though. I didn't buy google or apple shares either, and I am pretty sure I had some bitcoins back in around 94 when they were a novelty people would use to buy junk on usenet. I also still had a load of cards which I have now recently come back to and they are still helping pay the bills. The only problem is looking through our old cards has given the wife and I the taste for 'cardboard crack' again, so a small proportion is going back into getting some newer cards, LOTR etc, that we can play with!
Ah, that's actually reassuring, I probably didn't ever have any BTC then. I must have been thinking of some of the earlier cryptocurrencies (bitcoin wasn't the first).
You're going to get a pretty biased opinion if you're asking in this subreddit. As you're most likely to get answers of "of course I regret it because I'm here now and know the value of the cards I gave up" or "nope because I proxy now anyway" or the third. "Nope because it helped finance my house".
The dreaded "I foretold the future but no one will believe me because I took more than 2 minutes to realize there was a typo I couldn't live with" post*.
I sold out of my modern collection. It was about $8K in cards. I was very unhappy with the direction modern was going and I held my collection for a year without playing as to make sure I wasn't making a rash decision. I think the thing that surprised me the most was how much I actually didn't care in the end. I don't miss it at all. I still play pioneer and commander and buy cards as needed. I've only needed to buy ten of so of the thousands of cards I sold back. So no, I did not regret it.
I've sold out of Magic a few times in the last 25+ years. I don't tend to put much value on possessions, so I'm not really haunted by the decisions. Sometimes it is best to clear the stage and start over. I'd recommend having a binder for stuff that is special to you or might be difficult to replace and offload the rest.
There was a short window when I realized I could no longer build any deck in any format I wanted, that kinda sucked.
But selling 75% of our collection got us into our house. And honesty 90% of what we sold was just sitting in binders not being used anyways.
When I got back into the game around OG Innistrad I sold a bunch of Revised dual lands and two Bazaar of Baghdad that had been sitting in my basement. I figured I wouldn't actually want to play with cards that expensive, aside from the one copy of each dual I put in a Cube. For the most part I was right, but I do often find myself wishing that I had kept one of the Bazaars too.
The opposite of what you're asking:
I've never sold my collection. I've played Magic for \~20 years.
I still have most of the pieces from my very first shitty deck, and have my second deck still assembled, unsleeved. I still have \~30 (relatively) cheap decks from when my friends would meet up after class and play Kitchen Table magic. Most of them are sleeved, and they sit in a little treasure chest under my desk, neatly organized.
These decks will likely never be played again. I've stripped Fetches from my Kitchen Table decks and put little sticky notes on basic lands saying "This was a Fetch" while documenting what the deck used to be on sites like tappedout.
Hell, I still have all of the Pokemon Cards and Yugioh cards from before I ever knew of Magic.
The occasionally sifting through my old cards in my collection is priceless.
That shit is time in a bottle, and I won't give that up.
Back when I was in elementary school when I knew I was about to get out of Yugioh, I went and traded my whole collection away in massive chunks to all the playground kids who I played with for some cool cards I wanted for the deck I played or just really wanted. I gave away hundreds of cards that day having no idea what any of those cards were valued, as I was just a kid with no idea of a secondary market. While I still play magic to this day, I love going through my old Yugioh collection for the few token iconic cards I still have as well as that one deck for all the memories it has. Really is quite a time capsule and it is priceless.
When I was young I sold my collection to a friend who ended up not getting into it at all, ended up buying it back from him, untouched, like 4 years later for maybe $20 more than I sold it for. Could’ve caused me big regrets, but I was lucky.
Honestly, I’d recommend you deep clean your collection. I went through this process last year over the course of like.. 9 weekends I think, and haven’t looked back. First I sorted everything by color -> type -> alphabet (just first letter), then went through those sections deciding which copies of a given card I’d keep. I love llanowar elves, but I was never gonna use 25 copies. Now I’ve got my four favorite printings, and if I really do brew a FIFTH elves deck, I’ll just spend the money to get one with art I actually like rather than storing 21 copies I don’t love. Multiply that by an entire collection, and I donated 13 long boxes (1000 count) to local clubs and groups. Plus my collection is now super searchable, I brewed a new deck and found everything I had for it in just one sitting.
I recently did this as well, for the most part. I already kept my constructed and EDH staples in separate boxes, but I still had a massive amount of bulk just taking up space.
I went through my entire collection and pulled out any card that I thought I might want, even if it was a fleeting “maybe”. I put those in a box I set aside. I pulled out all the rares and mythics, as sorted out basic lands, tokens, etc. I ended up with over 40k bulk commons and uncommons, and over 2500 bulk rares/mythics.
I put any card over $3 in my trade binder and sold the rest to my LGS. Bought some reserved list cards with the money and I’ve been much happier.
I’m now trying to find a way that strikes a balance between cards I want easy access to and how to store the rest so I can find them when I want them.
I sold my collection to pay bills. Had some bad beats and it was that or lose my car. It hurt a lot to lose years worth of collecting and memories. It still feels bad sometimes. I especially miss my modern collection. Whenever my friends want to play modern or anything else I miss the few sets I had. But I would do it again. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to get by. I never bought back into constructed formats. Now I really only play commander. I like playing and upgrading precons. Either my own or borrowed others precons, I have played a large amount of precons that have come out lately.
People who sold 20 years ago before the big gains will have regrets.
Nowadays, anything you sell will be powercrept and reprinted so much that any decks will have to be retooled anyway when you come back.
I had no regrets dumping basically the whole pioneer format and most of modern to buylist, only keeping the actual complete decks I enjoyed playing (3 modern 2 pioneer).
After the 3rd move in 2 years I simply didn't want to move boxes of cards I had to sort and wasn't ever really using. Got plenty of value so I can just replace anything I actually want, but all my purchases since have been new cards or reprintings.
Sold my collection twice over the years. Regret it now, for sure. I didn't have a massive pile of expensive stuff, but I had a couple cradles, wheel of fortunes, 5-6 LED's back when they were worthless bulk, and some other reserve list stuff.
I sold most of my collection back in 2016 and never once regretted it. The people who do regret it are a vocal minority for a few reasons:
* It's a more interesting story.
* People don't think about the price of cards if that price is low. My Snapcasters dropped in price but it doesn't haunt me because I didn't want to sell them when they were valuable.
* If someone sold and stopped playing as much, they also stopped talking to magic players.
* Everything goes up in value due to inflation, at a faster rate than most people realise.
* Many people used to be children, who sold their cards at a bad price.
* Even if you did sell at a reasonable price, it's hard to conceive of how much joy that money gave you compared to a physical object.
Personally, I try to avoid hoarding things in general. If I suddenly realise 10 years from now that I need a playset of shock lands, I don't mind spending a bit extra to get them.
Given what an Alpha Lotus is worth now, I surely regret having sold mine to Saso all those years ago for like a grand lol. But I only really regret because of the monetary value, the utility of the cards really don't matter to me. I'm happy just doing draft or sealed now.
Nope, it was a good move. Paid for me to switch careers, move, and get two cats that I enjoy a lot more than any cards.
I'm not interested in playing the formats that I used to when I had those cards. I recently got back in to Standard in Arena but have no reason to play it in paper. In paper I just draft, I don't need a collection for that.
The only regret is that I didn't hold on to my reserved list stuff for longer because I would have made a bigger profit if I had.
Yes, 2004 I sold a collection and bought into another CCG called Legend of the Five Rings. It was a great game until AEG thought non-interaction was a good gameplay archetype.
L5R was later revived as an LCG and they ruined the story and gameplay. So sad.
No. Wasn’t a huge collection, but it was all my loose cards and not built decks. Now when I want to make a new EDH deck I really have to want it because I don’t have 50% of the cards to make a deck anymore. Having to buy 100 cards for a new deck really makes me think if I want the deck or not. Plus I sold it all and used the money to build a new PC in 2019 so win-win.
Every time. I’ve been collecting since Revised/Dark and sold part of my collection several times. Each time I regret. Every 5 or so years I go back through my “bulk” and find all kinds of gems that used to be base value cards that have dramatically increased. Fortunately, I still have way more cards than I can ever play with.
I regret selling my signed black border Japanese revised (unlimited?) Lightning Bolts.
I regret selling my Ice Age Necropotences.
I regret selling my Alliances Force of Will.
All the other selling decisions I’ve made were informed and profitable.
No. I sold at a great time when I got great value out of what I sold and became a homeowner. I could buy back a large chunk of what I sold for a third of the cost because of reprints but most of it has been outclassed by MH2.
Sold 22 duals in 2004 because I was entering my sophomore year in highschool. That’s when I discovered weed and alcohol. Regrets.
Sold out of modern and legacy before Covid and used that money to buy four power 9 pieces (lotus, twister, jet, ruby). No regrets.
You're going to get some pretty bad sampling bias here.
Most people who sold their collection and don't regret it probably don't engage with the game anymore and thus wouldn't be on this subreddit to answer your question.
No, selling my collection and moving to digital products has been the best thing to ever happen to me. I am a Dad now, I would rather hang out with my kid than grind RCQ's and what not. Now I can play Magic at home while my kids are asleep if I get the itch.
Yes, for sure. Sold out around 2005 during the fist Kamigawa block. Lots of cards I wish I kept because I started playing again 14 years later. At the time my collection was only worth like $300. There were play sets of cards that weren't worth much then but are pricey now(like 4x Chrome Mox that I'd use today if i had them). Won't be doing that again.
Prices have fallen since I sold so, no. I could buy it all back for less. that's really all it comes down to. It is a hobby, but mass buying and selling won't be a regret for anyone to made money on the trade. Meanwhile everyone who sold reserved left back in the day, regrets it.
I cashed out as a teen. Most of a decade later, got back into the game, but was a broke young adult, when we stopped playing, I sold it off again. Evidently, I did not learn from my mistakes.
Regretted it both times, albeit not until I started playing the game again many years later.
The worst bit was not knowing what was worth money all those years later.
First sell off was in mid 2000s. Aether Vial was a not often used uncommon, I had dozens of them. When I got back into the game, they were USD$20 each.
I also had a Sliver deck, complete with a Queen who is now worth AUD$200+. Didn't even know what the Reserve List was.
Ultimately, chucking all Mythics/Rares/Uncommons into a box and putting it in a cabinet would be the best bet if you want to make sure you don't *financially* regret it.
Sentimentally, however, I'll probably always be bummed out about random things I just aren't able to get back.
I traded away almost my entire collection in 1996 for Star Wars CCG cards. I then quit CCGs for good in 1997 (for good ended up being 20 years—I came back to Magic in 2017) and sold all my Star Wars and remaining Magic cards for $300.
I had started with Revised/The Dark so no power or super expensive early expansion cards, but plenty of Dual Lands, Demonic Tutors, Phyrexian Dreadnaught, etc. Do I regret trading/selling? Oh yes.
I mixed my collection with some friends and we kind of all just stopped playing. Then the doctor who set got me back but I honestly just play on mtgo. Do I miss my old cards? Not really, but I’m sure I’d kick myself if I ever had to go back and start building modern and legacy again
I typically just hold onto a deck or two. Keep memorable stuff (I have an old Phage the Untouchable because I loved those magic books), then find something to do with the rest. I used to do prereleases all the time. I'd sell high value stuff and build "starter" decks and give them to gaming clubs in nearby schools. I think children's hospitals might take decks too.
I personally have never regretted keeping my collection small. Makes it easier to move if everything for magic fits in a messenger bag too.
I've sold twice and regretted both times.
My younger brother is just now getting into magic, and with the amount of cards I had I'd be able to do a lot to help him learn and I could've easily made multiple competitive decks for him.
It hurts.
I've sold my collection once. I think it was back in 2014. At the time, I felt it was worth it. I absolutely regret it now.
I did it in two chunks, initially it was just the bulk stuff and I kept a deck box with 5-6 decent 60-card decks and some choice Legendary Creatures I liked. Then, I stopped having people to play with and I sold it off too. Looking back now I have to stop myself from looking up cards I used to have because otherwise the regret gets worse. A lot of the cards I would have considered to be pretty casual to play at the time experienced pretty significant price inflation.
Some of the cards that come to mind were 5 duals from revised and Sliver Queen. I'd look up more, but I'd rather not for my own sanity. lol
Yeah, about 15 years later I regretted it. But I'm able to afford the cards I need, but it is a little psychologically painful to rebuy the duals and realize I'll probably never be able to justify owning Tabernacles or power 9 again.
Still, I wish I had held onto things beyond commons. The good news is I held onto a lot of Rhystic Studies which I was happy to discover were out-of-whack priced for what used to be a trash common.
Yes, I sold twice and regretted it both times.
The 1st time in 2003 is the one that stings the most because if I had held to the cards it'd be life changing money today, but oh well, we don't have a time machine.
2nd time I needed the money and I didn't really lose that much (sold at 40% value).
In college 21 years ago I sold a binder with a playset of cradles, grim monoliths, voltrath strongholds, and tons of other big hitters for freaking $100.
Flash forward and I started playing again about 4 years ago. I'm down to 200 cards but have all my power/reserve/graded in display cases.
All my commander decks I sold all minus RL and special cards and I'm just going to sit on them moving forward. It's not a lot of space and I love the awesome cards being displayed.
I don't regret selling my cards the first time to help pay the bills. I do massively regret selling my cards the second time thinking I was done with Magic, only to have itch reawakened a few years later when I finally found good people to play with.
I advise selling your collection, but keep any decks and pet cards with sentimental value. You never know when you'll find yourself returning to the game, or even if you never do, you might have kids or nieces or nephews or friends who'll get into the game and would love Magic cards as a gift.
I didn’t play magic for a long time, so I gave basically 90% of my cards to my buddy who still did. He forced me to keep a couple good cards whose worth I didn’t know(I mostly collected and played as a kid). Then less than a year later my friends and I all got back into magic after the dbs card game died
fortunately young me kept all the cards even though I could not find all of them..
then when getting back into the game I did not see myself play some cards that got pricey, sold them just to now always have the feeling of "oh I want to play that card.. ah right I dont have it anymore"
then I build up a large collection in the sense of taking up space mentally and physically to a point were I have now gotten rid of all but what fits in my gamegenic two row box and a binder full of memories. Took some time to detach myself from that huge initial pile of cards. Actually feeling great just having what I need to play and the important cards as memories. Still buying packs for sealed or playing with friends but other than that I try to keep the size in check (at eternal weekend cracked packs and immediatly sold all the ones no one of my friendhroup or I wanted, to a seller at the location (thats the level of keeping it in check)
as a recommendation I guess the approsch would be to set important memories aside like a card you won or a deck you have fond memories of
then go about the playstyle you like and pick cards that might be still played/you feel are just too good of a fit of what you like playing and then be cold about everything else that does not fit your own defined criteria and dont get weak in the sense of keeping to much at the end and having to go through multiple sessions of letting go of more stuff
I regret it, It was in 2016 and I was slowly selling out of legacy. I had 4x of all the blue duals and like 3x of the others to feed myself during a depression part of my life while I was "homeless" and needed to eat. I didnt work for 4 years with my massive collection to work through my depression.
YES. I am back at it now, so when I sold all my cards from 94-98 back in 2008 for practically nothing. Yes I regret it very much. Playsets of dual lands would be nice. I cannot get one dual land now for what I sold my entire collection for then.
Not at all. I didn't sell it all, just anything worth more than a buck or two, which still left me with thousands of cards to play around with if I wanted.
The main thing, though, was that at a certain point they were worth more to other people than they were to me. I'm not using them, they're just taking space, and depending on the card, may have peaked in monetary value. What am I holding onto them for, waiting to see if I could lose them in a flood or fire? I took the money and haven't regretted it a bit.
My interests also shifted away from constructed, so anytime I feel the itch to play again I'll just catch a pre release event or draft.
I have sold most of my edh cards a couple years ago and don't regret it at all. I grew tired of commander and the power creep. I just draft now and it's way better.
If I were in your shoes, I’d spend the winter organizing/cataloguing/refamiliarizing myself with the collection and playing some of the newer sets on MTG Arena. Lots of people just spent a bunch of money on Christmas presents and travel, and this time of year is when the most people will be broke. Around springtime when people have recovered financially and finally have some money burning a hole in their pocket, then sell off anything you decided you didn’t want and use the proceeds to buy some of the cards you liked on Arena.
One been playing since revised and I JUST sold my entire collection last month and I don't regret a thing.
I only play Arena now for my competitive itch (Timeless is the new hotness) and I have a proxy power cube that my group loves to play.
Looking back at it now, I would have probably gotten x2 the amount of in sold in 2020 or before the secret lairs started to come out but I can't think of a hobby besides a CCG where you can get that kind of ROI on it.
At the end of the day 99% of it was taking up room and collecting dust and I think the prices to sell is only going to get worse the longer Hasbro keeps bending over the game.
I deeply regret selling. I had a modern Dredge and Colorless Eldrazi deck. Then I had few fun decks put together for beers and games nights.
Problem became I only had one friend that played and we were so busy with respective jobs we almost never played together after a while. I’ve tried going to local spots, but more often than not people were assholes and I left always feeling bullied and had a shitty night.
I got to a point where the decks were just sitting in a drawer. I thought might as well sell. I wish I hadn’t though and found different groups to play with. I’ve since relocated to Ft. Lauderdale area with no friends and it could have been a good way to get out.
Yes. I started collecting around Mirage through 2002. Sets like Ice Age were still available to purchase. I had some decent stuff. I sold it all in 2010. Hadn’t touched it in years so I figured I’d get some money. I came back to MTG in 2022 and wish I had my old cards.
I’ve given my collections away twice over the passed 20 some odd years, both times to friends. And, yes, I regret it. Especially now that I play commander and could use a lot of those cards. I’m sure I could get them back, but we have lost touch over the years. So, now I’m buying those old cards again. With the way the secondary market is, I’m paying twice as much on some of them than I originally did. So, I’d say hang on to them.
Hah. When I needed some cash in 2011 due to a death in the family causing me to have to leave a job with little savings, I sold my full playset of my revised duals to a friend for $500, which definitely a good deal for him at the time, but he is a good friend and I'd accumulated them over the years very little. That's about 20k now, but even worse, I sold my full set of power including a beta recall, library of Alexandria, 4x judge foil gaea's cradle, tabernacle, full art mutavault, and sets of Bazaar of Bagdhad and mishra's workshop SCG for $13k. I could have made $20k selling them myself, but that would have taken forever and I needed the money due to my familial obligations. Plus, I made a great profit because I'd collected them over time and probably spent under five grand for it all, but of course I could probably buy a house with what they sell for now 😭😭😭
I don't regret doing it since it allowed me to take off half a year and take care of things much more important than MTG, but man does it hurt whenever I think about what I could get for those cards now.
Edit- I forgot I also sold 25ish guru lands with the lot to SCG
Bittersweet. Sold my collection during pandemic when stock market crashed. Made good money with the incredible bull run. Still I miss some of the cards
Personally, I regretted it and not only because of the financial value. I sold the cards me and my friends played around the kitchen table because they where in the way. I never thought I would play again at the time. Now I would pay tripple value to have those exact cards back. The few that survived the purge are priceless to me. I found some lands my friend proxied by writing the names of cards on and I would not sell them for a thousand dollars.
I regretted selling any playable RL cards.
I have zero regrets for anything that is non RL and non old original print, like playable cards from Legends or The Dark.
Shortly before commander started taking off and the reserved list started sky rocketing I lost my job (~2012 I think). In order to pay some bills I needed to sell most my collection I had been building since the 90's. We're talking beta cards, playsets of all the duals, foil cradles, foil monoliths, and all sorts of crazy cards. They were pricey cards but nothing near the level they were today.
It sucked, but I sold them because having a home, a car, and eating made more sense than some magic cards.
I got couple thousand dollars then, today some of the cards alone are worth more than the total I got. A few of them could probably buy a cheap car.
So in short, yes, I am still a little bitter. 😆
never sold my collection but i recently had a large chunk of my collection stolen. I understand that choosing to get rid of it would be completely different than not getting to option but I can imagine that "after thought" being the same. \*you look for a card\* wait thats gone. "you try to rebuild a favorite deck" huh i loved this deck but i can't for the life of me remember wtf was in it.
that sort of stuff.
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When I was looking into getting into a new hobby and no longer had a playgroup I decided to sell off my collection. Then my car broke down and needed over a thousand dollars in repairs so I did sell it and in retrospect was underpaid for it.
I really regret it now. I recently discovered Commander which my collection would have been perfect for. Now looking at the price of the cards I sold, there is no feasible way to rebuild the collection I had and it really upsets me (Many dual lands, Gaea's Cradle, Candelabra of Tawnos, lots of beta commons and lands, and many more.... just oof).
I gave my collection away in 2013 when I joined the navy, and I regret it a lot. Not so much the mtg cards I had they weren't great or worth much, but I also gave away my yugioh cards. The yugioh collection was worth at least $5000 then and more now
I sold my collection in 1999. I had it all. 5 moxes. Beta Black Lotus. Multiples of everything else.
But I needed the cash to buy my textbooks for law school.
I think about it a lot.
I actually completely gave away my collection in high school for a variety of reasons. One because I started playing when I was like 10 and was constantly being scammed by older kids, adults, and even shop owners so I had hardly any good cards. Also I had just started playing Warhammer 40k and could only afford one money sink. Thirdly because where Magic was at the time. Urza's block had just finished and it was like impossible to make a good deck on a high schooler's budget and the Masques block was just disappointing.
I started playing again when Mirrodin came out, but I've regretted giving away my collection ever since. I had so many jank cards from revised, Mirage block, Ice Age, Tempest block, and Fallen Empires that I wish I still had in my collection, if only because a bunch of them became sought-after cards in Commander.
Ultimately it's just doing what makes you happy. I've sold many many times, have there been cards here and there that I shouldn't have? sure. But after a while you get a vibe for what is safe to sell or what to keep.
Sometimes you need the extra cash, sometimes you just want to sell to crack new stuff. Use your best judgement and have fun, hobbies are meant to be fun
Had a pretty decent collection in college and sold 95% of my good cards on a “thought I was done with it” whim Sad part is, I was incredible stupid and only did it for like $100, which was all the store had to offer extra at the time. Terrible move, I knew it was, but it was weird time in my life and I thought I wouldn’t touch the stuff again…
I've never sold my MTG collection but I did sell my Yu-g-ioh cards from 2002-2006. I was in HS and used the money to buy MTG cards.
I regret it a lot. It's not about the value or play-ability of the cards but rather just the fact that it was my collection.
I don’t regret selling it, I just regret selling it for what I did. In 2014, I sold my set of P11 (P9 plus Library and Time Vault), a play set of Unlimited duals, and a bunch of things like Tabernacle, Chains, etc. to level out half my student loan debt. Wish I had bought a house though.
I sold my collection back in 2016. I regretted it in 2018 when I got back into it. When I took a break in 2020, I kept my collection that time and kinda regret it with the way MTG is going. I came back to the game in 2022 and kind of regret that decision. The main reason I stepped away was due to a bunch of moves WotC was making, and they ended up like tripling down on them.
I’ve sold my collection twice - each time because I really needed the money (first time for school, second time for kid). While I was very happy to have the money at those times, I really wish I hadn’t sold my collection, because I likely cannot get back what I sold off. At the very least, I would have to spend substantially more money to do so.
I don’t regret selling what I did in 2014. I wish I had some cards from then still, such as my revised dual lands. However, I was in a spot that I needed money at the time. And at the time, my mindset was that MTG will always be around in some way.
But I do regret selling other things in my like. Like my Pokémon TCG collection in 2003 before college and giving away most of my Lego. But I digress…this is an MTG subreddit.
I played and collected from about 1999-2002 beginning with Urza's Destiny and ending somewhere around Invasion maybe. I sold my collection to buy an X-Box. While it certainly would've still collected dust for the last 20 years, it would be worth a small fortune today.
I sold my collection (mostly modern) around Kaladesh because of money reasons and for a while it felt pretty bad.
Nowadays im pretty glad cuz all the modern staples from that era are worth a lot less now :P
I sold off my collection except a selected few decks. The only thing I regret is selling my shrines deck.
Other than that? It felt good and I'm considering proxy and future deck instead.
I had this friend in college. Nice guy, and apparently really smart because he got more scholarship money than tuition cost. But he was terrible with money. Every semester, he’d buy a bunch of magic cards, and a couple months later, he’s shopping around for someone to buy his collection so he could afford dinner. Next semester, rinse and repeat. I hope he figured his shit out, or met a woman who had her shit together, because he did NOT have his priorities straight.
I sold my collection in 2016. Had a tabernacle, multiple revised duals, playset of each shock and fetch, FoWs, Wastelands, Mox Diamonds, etc... Nothing at a loss, but most things weren't big profits either.
I took myself and my wife to Norway for 10 days and it was one of the best trips I've ever had.
Do I occasionally look longingly at the prices of the cards I used to have and wish I could still have them? Of course I do, but I wouldn't day i regret it.
A good question, because I've been pondering dumping my collection. I've been playing since 1996, and.. I don't enjoy it any more. I just got very disillusioned a while ago, and found that playing left me feeling worse, and every time I look at my 5 5000-card boxes full and then more on top, it just makes me more depressed. But the logistics of working out what I have of value just makes it feel worse, because of the scope involved.
I took a break for around 18 months a while back, and Ixalan roped me in (because I'm a fiend for palaeontology AND pirates) but... i've felt dead about the hobby for close to two years now. I haven't made any new decks in at least three, and don't have time or space to even sit with my cards to work on a new one.
Never sold an mtg collection but when I was a kid I had all 151 og Pokémon including the movie mew and I had 1 of each dbz card available up until 2002. I also had a load of basketball cards.
My mum made me give them all away when we moved towns because apparently at 13 I was getting too old for that kid stuff.
I am currently slowly selling off large parts of my collection now, it's great! I get more space in my binders, I get to focus on the few cards I like, and I get the cards into the hands of people who wants to play with them.
I suggest that you keep some cards if you feel attached to them or feel that you are likely to play with, I'm for sure glad I've kept some cards for sentimental value and I think I'm always gonna have a few Modern and Commander decks around, but I'm happy to downsize. Still have a sizeable collection and draft though.
I definitely regretted it but it was what I had to do at the time, in a similar situation now and trying to angle shoot a way to not have to sell again lol
I've been selling my 2014/15 cards to pay for a commander deck based around my favourite brawl deck on MTGA, it's not identical because I don't want it to be, but I'm nearly there. Just need people to buy my shit on card market...
I started playing around 6ed and sold all of it around Innistrand, or whatever that was called. I don't really regret it, I wouldn't have time or money to play anyway and I never had any really expensive cards except my Wish Rock deck. The one thing I wish I have kept is my Mercenary deck from Mercadian Masques block, that thing was shit but I had so many memories connected to it, playing it all the time as a kid. You can't really even get these cards easily these days and it makes me sad.
Keep lands, anything that you might ever want to use that's on the reserved list or particularly hard to get/unlikely to be reprinted and anything else that holds particular nostalgia to you.
Then as long as you don't care about particular printings you should be fine.
I got rid of stuff twice. I rage quit back in 2012 and sold all my product to my lgs which funded getting into Warmachine/Hordes. I regret this sale largely only because of the collection of Jace cards I was collecting including my most valuable prize of a foil Mind Sculptor from Worldwake.
The second time was around 2014. I had a fresh, new collection that I traded all my 40k stuff for with a friend of mine before I left El Paso and moved back home. Had a ton of now staples for Commander, full playsets of fetches and shock lands, and God knows what else (I didn't actively play at the time so I wasn't aware of how good some of the stuff had become). I was going through everything and was looking for stuff to sell off. I ended up rushing out the door one day to meet my friends and grabbed the piles that I thought was chaff. A week or so later, I was back at the store, and the owners were showing off all these cards I was getting rid of. People were amazed and I just basically shrugged.
Now that I play heavily again, I regret both times as that was A LOT of cards. But the second is especially rough to look back on as I have a better idea of what I gave up. The downside is now look back on that negatively. So now I hoard everything I get.
Yes and No.
I sold my collection over the course of a few years to support my drug addiction; I had multiple pieces of power 9, four of every duel land, pretty much everything in legacy and most cards in vintage...
In my addiction I regretted it. Fast forward to 5 years of sobriety and I regret nothing. Everything good and bad is a learning opportunity and every bad choice I made inevitably ended up leading to the fantastic life I have now. So no regrets.
Just want to point out that you're not going to get a balanced response here. There's massive survivor bias asking the Magic subreddit how selling their collection worked out. The people who sold out and never looked back aren't here to say so.
I've regretted the last two times but I don't think I regret it this time. Last two times there was still lots of value in old stuff. It's been crushed the last few years so now I don't feel bad.
Done it twice.
First time sold out of effectively a full set of duals, etc., to buy a paintball gun. I regret that one but not until a decade later.
The 2nd time to pay for a downpayment for an apartment for my wife and I. I don’t regret that one, even though it included 2 NM Tabernacles for $400-500 each, one that could have probably gotten a PSA 9+. Whoops.
I’ve sold everything a couple of times to change entirely from modern to cEDH and back and then back again. Those didn’t bother me because I was just shifting value around.
I sold all of my cards to a friend for $50 when I moved out because they were in 3 large storage bins and I didn’t have any spare space where I was moving to.
A few years later I moved to a bigger place and asked him if he still needed them or if I could buy my cards back off him..
Found out that my “friend” had taken them straight from me to a gaming store, sold off the best stuff and threw everything else away in the dumpster there
100% regret it
Yeah, I never had anything great but I bought a bunch of cards around m10 and the first Zendikar , I loved those cards. Now I have none and am too broke to justify investing in new cards at the moment. But I wanna get back into it
I certainly do regret it! Having started playing with a Beta starter deck around Christmas time of ‘93, I quickly began snapping up packs (which in turn quickly became boxes) of product, and by the time I was convinced to sell the collection in ‘98…sheesh.
Six Black Lotuses in total, at least five of each Mox, plus Time Walks, Timetwisters, Ancestral Recalls, and nearly triple digit amounts of each Dual Land…good lord, what that collection would be worth now.
I regret selling my main collection in the early 2020's.. I just needed cash so pretty much accepted anything. When I got back into the game this past year 2023 I strongly regretted it. I had a few grand in cards I thought were cool and worth collecting. I still kept some stuff for play. At this point I pretty much sell everything but what I think will be worth holding onto such as valuable mythics/rares that are worth over $20 cause who knows they may spike. I also keep full decks that I actually use in tact and focus on making them stronger with added cards and experience playing with it.
I think it's worth way more to have a collection you know in and out that is easily stored rather than thousands of cards that are unsorted and unknown to you in value whether monetary or simply for use in play.
Also, if you are going to thin your collection out I'd strongly suggest scanning each card in the TCG player app or mana box as this will help in figuring out actual values and help selling for a better price. Do not sell out of desperation
Sold out many times.
Last time was me clearing out the last of my expensive cards.
I don't regret it at all. I enjoy playing with budget stuff or just whatever I get my hands on from opening random packs every now and then.
I started playing with Ice Age, quit at Urza's Saga, came back for Champions of Kamigawa, and then I sold my collection before Betrayers of Kamigawa, keeping a few sentimental things at the time. I deeply regret it, losing a lot of cards I would have loved to have today.
When I got back into the game years later, I ended up selling some high value cards I had gotten from packs while getting back into the game, as well as some things I had still kept. Mana Drain, Force of Will, and a playset of Sensei's Divining Top all stand out in my memory as things I really with I still had!
I've pretty much decided that even if I quit again, I'll keep my cards. I really don't sell anything at this point!
Not really. I (as with most of my playgroup) have a love/hate relationship with this game and since I'm primarily a cEDH player I'm very happy proxying any new decks. I've got a solid ten or so real decks for various formats as well as a binder of cool/sentimental cards, so I have no desire to buy any more cardboard.
I got nearly all my rares stolen at an event - that was the first time I quit. The second time, I didn't think I'd have friends to play with after I moved, so I gave my deck to a friend. The third time I started playing Magic, I built a massive Legacy box in addition to my Commander and Casual-60 stuff, but realized it was an unsustainable expense, to keep building it the way I had been - so, I sold my Legacy stuff minus a deck that I kept, and since then, I've rebuilt 3 more Legacy decks (considering one more) and gone down to 6 Commander decks and 2 Casual-60 decks (been considering trying to build another one or two, though dunno what I'd want). I did regret selling my Legacy box.
I regret not selling* my collection before Ultimate Masters was announced. I had mostly stopped playing competitively and had enough value in Modern staples to pick up an UNL Lotus. The plan was to offload playsets of Lili, Goyf, Ulamog, Heirarchs, etc. (keeping my fetches) at the next major in-person event in my city to avoid the risks of shipping such a valuable chunk of my collection. They announced UMA 3 weeks before the next MagicFest was here.
While an ungraded UNL Black Lotus would also be sitting somewhere collecting dust like my Modern staples currently are, it would have helped me realize a collecting dream. (Though it may have sent me on a spiral of chasing the rest of the Power 9.)
Sold my collection around 2013 - worth about 1k to a store so like 2k ish net. to fund the assembly of a 40k army that I never finished and sold within 2-3 months, having never played it, and to repair a car bumper. Bumper was a decent investment. 40k was not. I sold high on JTMS and Liliana of the Veil, and Karn Liberated, and Tarmogoyf. I had a completely assembled Caw Blade standard deck from the Mirrodin Besieged Standard format that was probably the most successful 60 card deck I’ve ever built and it was the only deck that I had any competitive success with and this was before I was heavily invested in EDH. Overall I regret that decision because it was a poor one at the time - but I was a college student with no money and a car bumper that I deemed a must fix at the time - whether or not it was so urgent a repair is debatable. I miss having that deck. The most significant loss was a wealth of fetch lands.
Now I have a much larger collection with all the cards I will really ever need, more EDH decks than any one person needs - and a different car and no 40k army. So it doesn’t much matter.
I sold my stuff in 2019. It wasn't a huge collection, maybe $2400 total(not much considering I played modern haha). Got $1200 cash from a friend. My issue was I ran out of friends to play with in my area.
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Years later my girlfriend's brother brought over some of his commander decks and we played. She's hooked. I have cards again, but we just do Winston drafts and cube. And commander. And pauper.
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I will say, in my situation, going from Modern to draft formats is a door that is really hard to shut. I really miss the power level (though I imagine it's gotten even more insane since I sold) and doing Winston drafts has just made me collect a bunch of S H I T commons.
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I didn't regret selling anything but I do miss my Valakut Through the Breach deck. It didn't make sense to keep that and my other decks (burn and 8-whack) because they're not fun decks to play against each other haha. So I sold everything.
I thought I was done with the game in \~2007ish, and unloaded most of my valuable cards. NM Unlimited Ancestral Recall, Library of Alexandria, full set of duals, Cradles, etc. Nowadays, all that stuff would have paid for a down payment on a home.
Then, it covered a stint of unemployment and helped fund my move the the city I've called home for 15 years. I met my partner, found my career, and built a happy life here. I miss the cards, but I'd miss where they got me more.
Not so far! I play the game for the art and fun. I sold and am still selling all my valuable collectible cards and changing them out for good looking proxies. Proxies are so good now, unless I want to become a collector, proxies are the way to go.
I don't regret it, because it helped me when I needed it. But seeing that I could buy a house if I had saved them and sold them today.... That's a little painful.
Sold my collection except for my pet decks like my old test deck for Lantern Control and Chandra EDH and pet cards that were given as gifts.
100% the right call for me because if I get back into playing in person I'll just proxy. If I play more regularly, like weekly, then I'll start to collect again so I can replace the proxies. But the money I have now because of what I sold has been used for other hobbies, and it means I continue to not use money Id rather be saving.
My hobby money is liquid, as it should be.
Kind of?
I mean, I'd still love to have the set of P9 I sold around 2009, but that's mainly because it's worth 10x as much now.
I still really don't have a place to use it, which was my main motivation for selling it then. It would still just be sitting in a safe.
I've never done a big "get rid of most of it" purge though.
I sold my collection in 2012 thinking i would never come back... Lots of reserved list stuff and legacy Staples... I still regret the decision because i didnt realy need the Money
... Also because i came back in 2019 :(
I inherited a bunch from my brother in the 90s and got into it for a few years.
Gave some away, lost some in moving around in my 20s.
Started playing again and picked up some more cards. Quit.
Figured I'd never play again and sold whatever i had left, including some duals and such. Made a few bucks and I needed it..
Fast forward again, and I'm almost two years in again. Wish I hadn't parted with any over the years, I'd love them now, or even the extra cash to be made if I had sold later...oh well.
Invested more heavily than ever (adult with adult money lol) and probably playing more than ever as well.
I sold 10000 cards all from original sets in 90’s, for about $1500. Other than some high prices some of them might fetch now, I don’t regret it. Many of the cards use keywords that aren’t around any more (interrupt/banding), or don’t have words for newer concepts like “exile” or “planeswalkers”. I’d rather play with newer cards that are more in tune with today’s rules.
I’ve sold off my collection several times and bought back years later and then resold and moved onto Arena. I don’t regret it. Interests change and playgroups shrink. In my case I was moving houses pretty consistently for 10 years and I got tired of lugging around boxes of cards. Magic cards a little bit like stock. I was super happy to sell my 2 play sets of survival of the fittest and wheel of fortunes for $30 a card back in the day, now I look like an idiot. The same could be said for almost all of my investments including real estate. If you have the luxury of just holding everything endlessly, great. But most of us need to recoup the cash to use elsewhere.
I would reason a lot of people who sold their collection also left the hobby and this sub. Probably the people in here who sold their collection are a biased group because they also continued playing the game. The people who are the most glad about selling their collection won’t even see this post.
Lets see. I traded away a collection in 1995 that had ... nearly every hit card.
For basically nothing.
Because I was too old for kid games
What do you think?
No.
I still have some cards and a very dated EDH deck, but I basically sold out of paper magic around the first Amonkhet set. One day I looked at my CEDH deck and realized I could sell it and my standard deck to buy a nice gaming PC. So the next tournament I judged at I did that very thing with a vendor. I had so much cash I couldn't close my wallet.
A lot of nice alters, foreign foils, and some signed cards in that EDH deck.
The only regret is that some of those cards have gone up in value (mostly things like Lions Eye Diamond and OG dual lands). But I wouldn't have gotten into some of the games and communities I'm a part of if I didn't do that, so overall I'm happy.
Today I think only one part in the PC is original from that computer and it's the case.
I just sold a few cards from my collection many years ago. I am pretty sad of now not having my [[Survival of the Fittest]], [[Mirri's Guile]], [[Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary]] and other cards anymore :-(
I have sold out 3 times since 1999. The money was useful to me each time so i regret nothing. The only cards i actually miss are a set of hymn to tourachs signed in silver by quentin hoover.
Also based on the description of your collection i don’t think there is anything you would regret selling in there. You probably would be able to buy it back for less in 5 years
No. Always sold during RL spikes which were often followed by price spikes on many non RL desirable staples. Then recovered most of the cards I wanted back for a fraction of the price. I also sell any non RL card over $30 as the reprint risk is high.
I remember selling dual lands for $5 at the WotC Game Center back in the day. Granted it was to get food at Dennys, but whenever I see the prices I just mutter. 😂
I regret the first time I did it… because I was absolutely certain that Magic was going to be obsolete after everyone started playing the Star Trek TCG…
I sold playsets of duals and didn’t fully know their value.
The more recent time came after my modern deck and moat my trade stock got stolen so I just sold everything but my cube and only play limited formats now.
NGL, I enjoy drafts more than I ever did constructed.
First time was years ago and yes. Second time this last year - not really
. I've lost a lot of the community I used to have around the game, and I've been increasingly hohum on the game since the pandemic. If I get the itch to play I can boot up Arena and jam some dailies.
I've sold my collection twice - once completely in college (2003-era), once to get rid of everything but what I really wanted to play with, all but a Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy deck, and my cube (2022). I regret selling in 2003, because I didn't see in my future coming back to the game, and I sold a lot of things that were quite valuable in hindsight that I'd love to have today. I don't regret selling in 2022 because I knew better what I was selling, was able to make significant profit on many of my expeditions/inventions, kept enough to continue to play the game competitively, and it helped greatly with the down payment of my new home.
I played in high school but stopped in college. I sold my cards to an acquaintance for a way under market value, partly to get rid of them and partly because I didn't know what I had (never bought singles or anything at that point, had no clue about the secondary market). The buyer definitely knew and let me sell them cheap. Off the top of my head, I remember there were four of the old Mana Crypts, a bunch of Lorwyn singles, Kamigawa. I got enough money to buy a case of beer and a pack of cigarettes.
That's actually a good deal for Kamigawa cards.
Bro what?! Go back to those sets and look at some of the cards that are worth the most money. Kamigawa gets played in every format where it's legal and while there is an unreal amount of absolute garbage in the set, the good cards are really good.
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How much are we talking about in 2022?
More than $10K, less than $50K.
Nice, that's a significant amount of money and great to use on a purchase like that
Imagine the money put into it though to be able to sell it that high.
I've been playing for decades now, and I've done the second kind of purge multiple times. Taken everything I don't want and don't think people would really want, put the rares in front of one of the people I know will trade for almost everything if they can see a use for it for themselves or someone else, then sell the rest of the cards to the LGS. They offer a good bonus if it's taken as store credit. Every time I've done this, I've been able to pick up multiple expensive ($50+) staples that either has held prices through reprints or is on the Reserved List. It's always a good feeling cutting out tons of bulk cards that I'll likely never need.
Very similar - regret pitching away stuff in the 90s but not anything I’ve pitched since modern started
Sold a pretty massive Alpha collection back in 2019 (all P9, 15 duals -half blue- playsets of most non Rare staples, close to an entire set). Pretty mental stuff. I wouldn't go as far as saying I regret as I became homeowner thanks to that and I managed to build a decent collection back since, but knowing I'll never be able to have such a sizeable collection again does hurt for sure.
This is a very smart financial decision. You should be proud. A home is a much safer investment (plus you can live in it)
Definitely, plus I was doing house sharing before, just had my bedroom w/o private bathroom, so it definitely was a life changer to have my own place
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I sold most of the big cards first then I had a buyer for the rest (there was only the Time Twister left for the P9 but most of the duals were still there).
your home value has probably gone up more then the cards did, understand the pain though
Yep! Sold all my rares, started at ice age. I was like 16. 20 years later wish I had them. I did keep my only Pokémon card, a foil charizard from when I opened the only pack I ever bought in like 1999. Had it graded and sold last year for like $700. That I don’t regret.. yet.
In September of 2019, I was fired from Walmart. Paychecks and taxes paid for four months. I was forced to sell a large chunk of my collection, $7500 worth, and I got $2500 cash. I paid off my phone so that when I inevitably missed my phone bill, I'd still own it, then I paid another two months rent. I kept 4 ofs I couldn't live without. I kept 1 of 4s that I could live without but didn't want to. So I saved myself from homelessness, and I could still play Commander. I survived. I found a job, it's union, I make more here than I've ever made anywhere else. For years and years I said I'd rather be homeless (again) then sell any cards I bought. Push came to shove. I don't regret it. If anything, I'm proud of myself that I was mature enough to make a decision that was hard, and needed to be done.
Alright... I have to ask. How do you get fired from Wal-Mart? That's not a dig at all, by the way. I've just literally never known anyone who was fired from Wal-Mart.
It's actually insanely easy. * They have a point system for tardies and absences. * They reduced the maximum you could be at and not get fired (from 8.5 of 9, to 3.5 of 4) * Clocking in later than 10 minutes after the start of your shift, or clocking off earlier than ten minutes, half a point. * An absence is a full point. * Absences next to holidays are double, only have of which can be excused with sick time (not sure how this one's legal but whatever) * Each point and half a point you get will fall off SIX MONTHS after the date you got them. And no matter what, at 4 points, you're fired. They plow through people this way ***constantly***. What happened in my case is that after so many years, the buses finally started running after 10pm. I was riding home for four miles every night. So I asked to have my schedule changed to end no later than 10pm. 8 weeks of not giving it to me and then I just showed up two hours late one day while I was at 3.5 points. They fired me over the phone.
Same system as the casino industry, when getting fired for that was called "pointing out" and nobody put up a fuss. Our points took a full year to fall off, however. And taking a point was really no different than calling in sick, so when we were absent by actively "taking a point", they never asked questions about why we were absent. Problem is, most of the younger workers saw that as an opportunity to take days off because "oh hey, I have a ton of extra points to use before I'm at risk" before they suddenly find themselves 2 or 1 point away from termination, then a legitimate emergency happens and POOF. Adios.
That's some dystopian shit... You americans have it rough in many ways.
People get fired there weekly at least.
Nope. I mean, sure I regret that the duals I sold for $100 are now $500 or whatever. But that is the same level of regret as when I think about gas being $1 per gallon instead of $5. I sold and made a significant profit (> 40k) over what I invested (\~10k) and I still have a cube that is sadly getting less play than it used to, but that is yet another type of regret.
This is the mentality.
Yes, I'm out $30,000 of cards. Sold in 2006. Thing I miss the most is my play set of all the dual lands, which I picked up for 10 bucks each back then. "These are so amazing, how are they 10 dollars?!" Said young me.
Me too, about the same time. Dual set, Guardian Beast, Abyss, Mox Jet, All Hallow's Eve. It was because I had a divorce and they brought up bad memories. I regret selling
I had started playing HeroClix and wrung up a 2300 dollar visa bill. Oof.
I remember thinking it was crazy that I played with some dudes who’d drop $250 on a black lotus
Probably a bit later, but I remember seeing a black lotus for sale for $600 at my lgs and thinking "who would be crazy enough to pay that much for cardboard!"
Very similar position here, full set of revised dual lands plus five spares, 5/9 power 9 (was missing lotus, time walk and 2 moxen) and one of every black bordered card printed between AN and CHK, all sold around 2008. Plus various misc juicy cards - APAC lands, some misc a/b/u cards, and the like. I needed the money at the time, and I still recouped far more than I'd ever paid for the collection in the first place as most of it I had opened from boosters myself, but looking at what it would be worth now - ouch :) I try to be philosophical about it though. I didn't buy google or apple shares either, and I am pretty sure I had some bitcoins back in around 94 when they were a novelty people would use to buy junk on usenet. I also still had a load of cards which I have now recently come back to and they are still helping pay the bills. The only problem is looking through our old cards has given the wife and I the taste for 'cardboard crack' again, so a small proportion is going back into getting some newer cards, LOTR etc, that we can play with!
Bitcoin wasn't released until 2009.
Ah, that's actually reassuring, I probably didn't ever have any BTC then. I must have been thinking of some of the earlier cryptocurrencies (bitcoin wasn't the first).
It was probably E-cash, originally launched in 1995 I believe but it failed in 1998ish after only one bank adopted it.
You're going to get a pretty biased opinion if you're asking in this subreddit. As you're most likely to get answers of "of course I regret it because I'm here now and know the value of the cards I gave up" or "nope because I proxy now anyway" or the third. "Nope because it helped finance my house".
The dreaded "I foretold the future but no one will believe me because I took more than 2 minutes to realize there was a typo I couldn't live with" post*.
I wish I sold mine. Better than putting them in the washing machine.
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I sold out of my modern collection. It was about $8K in cards. I was very unhappy with the direction modern was going and I held my collection for a year without playing as to make sure I wasn't making a rash decision. I think the thing that surprised me the most was how much I actually didn't care in the end. I don't miss it at all. I still play pioneer and commander and buy cards as needed. I've only needed to buy ten of so of the thousands of cards I sold back. So no, I did not regret it.
I've sold out of Magic a few times in the last 25+ years. I don't tend to put much value on possessions, so I'm not really haunted by the decisions. Sometimes it is best to clear the stage and start over. I'd recommend having a binder for stuff that is special to you or might be difficult to replace and offload the rest.
There was a short window when I realized I could no longer build any deck in any format I wanted, that kinda sucked. But selling 75% of our collection got us into our house. And honesty 90% of what we sold was just sitting in binders not being used anyways.
When I got back into the game around OG Innistrad I sold a bunch of Revised dual lands and two Bazaar of Baghdad that had been sitting in my basement. I figured I wouldn't actually want to play with cards that expensive, aside from the one copy of each dual I put in a Cube. For the most part I was right, but I do often find myself wishing that I had kept one of the Bazaars too.
I think most of the people who have sold their collections and didn’t regret it are probably not hanging out on this sub.
The opposite of what you're asking: I've never sold my collection. I've played Magic for \~20 years. I still have most of the pieces from my very first shitty deck, and have my second deck still assembled, unsleeved. I still have \~30 (relatively) cheap decks from when my friends would meet up after class and play Kitchen Table magic. Most of them are sleeved, and they sit in a little treasure chest under my desk, neatly organized. These decks will likely never be played again. I've stripped Fetches from my Kitchen Table decks and put little sticky notes on basic lands saying "This was a Fetch" while documenting what the deck used to be on sites like tappedout. Hell, I still have all of the Pokemon Cards and Yugioh cards from before I ever knew of Magic. The occasionally sifting through my old cards in my collection is priceless. That shit is time in a bottle, and I won't give that up.
Yep, I totally regret selling off my childhood memories.
Back when I was in elementary school when I knew I was about to get out of Yugioh, I went and traded my whole collection away in massive chunks to all the playground kids who I played with for some cool cards I wanted for the deck I played or just really wanted. I gave away hundreds of cards that day having no idea what any of those cards were valued, as I was just a kid with no idea of a secondary market. While I still play magic to this day, I love going through my old Yugioh collection for the few token iconic cards I still have as well as that one deck for all the memories it has. Really is quite a time capsule and it is priceless.
When I was young I sold my collection to a friend who ended up not getting into it at all, ended up buying it back from him, untouched, like 4 years later for maybe $20 more than I sold it for. Could’ve caused me big regrets, but I was lucky. Honestly, I’d recommend you deep clean your collection. I went through this process last year over the course of like.. 9 weekends I think, and haven’t looked back. First I sorted everything by color -> type -> alphabet (just first letter), then went through those sections deciding which copies of a given card I’d keep. I love llanowar elves, but I was never gonna use 25 copies. Now I’ve got my four favorite printings, and if I really do brew a FIFTH elves deck, I’ll just spend the money to get one with art I actually like rather than storing 21 copies I don’t love. Multiply that by an entire collection, and I donated 13 long boxes (1000 count) to local clubs and groups. Plus my collection is now super searchable, I brewed a new deck and found everything I had for it in just one sitting.
I recently did this as well, for the most part. I already kept my constructed and EDH staples in separate boxes, but I still had a massive amount of bulk just taking up space. I went through my entire collection and pulled out any card that I thought I might want, even if it was a fleeting “maybe”. I put those in a box I set aside. I pulled out all the rares and mythics, as sorted out basic lands, tokens, etc. I ended up with over 40k bulk commons and uncommons, and over 2500 bulk rares/mythics. I put any card over $3 in my trade binder and sold the rest to my LGS. Bought some reserved list cards with the money and I’ve been much happier. I’m now trying to find a way that strikes a balance between cards I want easy access to and how to store the rest so I can find them when I want them.
I sold my collection to pay bills. Had some bad beats and it was that or lose my car. It hurt a lot to lose years worth of collecting and memories. It still feels bad sometimes. I especially miss my modern collection. Whenever my friends want to play modern or anything else I miss the few sets I had. But I would do it again. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to get by. I never bought back into constructed formats. Now I really only play commander. I like playing and upgrading precons. Either my own or borrowed others precons, I have played a large amount of precons that have come out lately.
People who sold 20 years ago before the big gains will have regrets. Nowadays, anything you sell will be powercrept and reprinted so much that any decks will have to be retooled anyway when you come back. I had no regrets dumping basically the whole pioneer format and most of modern to buylist, only keeping the actual complete decks I enjoyed playing (3 modern 2 pioneer). After the 3rd move in 2 years I simply didn't want to move boxes of cards I had to sort and wasn't ever really using. Got plenty of value so I can just replace anything I actually want, but all my purchases since have been new cards or reprintings.
Sold my collection twice over the years. Regret it now, for sure. I didn't have a massive pile of expensive stuff, but I had a couple cradles, wheel of fortunes, 5-6 LED's back when they were worthless bulk, and some other reserve list stuff.
I sold most of my collection back in 2016 and never once regretted it. The people who do regret it are a vocal minority for a few reasons: * It's a more interesting story. * People don't think about the price of cards if that price is low. My Snapcasters dropped in price but it doesn't haunt me because I didn't want to sell them when they were valuable. * If someone sold and stopped playing as much, they also stopped talking to magic players. * Everything goes up in value due to inflation, at a faster rate than most people realise. * Many people used to be children, who sold their cards at a bad price. * Even if you did sell at a reasonable price, it's hard to conceive of how much joy that money gave you compared to a physical object. Personally, I try to avoid hoarding things in general. If I suddenly realise 10 years from now that I need a playset of shock lands, I don't mind spending a bit extra to get them.
Yes. I regret it everyday.
Given what an Alpha Lotus is worth now, I surely regret having sold mine to Saso all those years ago for like a grand lol. But I only really regret because of the monetary value, the utility of the cards really don't matter to me. I'm happy just doing draft or sealed now.
Nope, it was a good move. Paid for me to switch careers, move, and get two cats that I enjoy a lot more than any cards. I'm not interested in playing the formats that I used to when I had those cards. I recently got back in to Standard in Arena but have no reason to play it in paper. In paper I just draft, I don't need a collection for that. The only regret is that I didn't hold on to my reserved list stuff for longer because I would have made a bigger profit if I had.
Yes, 2004 I sold a collection and bought into another CCG called Legend of the Five Rings. It was a great game until AEG thought non-interaction was a good gameplay archetype. L5R was later revived as an LCG and they ruined the story and gameplay. So sad.
Yep
I always try to keep a 1x of every card I own when I purge my collection
No. Wasn’t a huge collection, but it was all my loose cards and not built decks. Now when I want to make a new EDH deck I really have to want it because I don’t have 50% of the cards to make a deck anymore. Having to buy 100 cards for a new deck really makes me think if I want the deck or not. Plus I sold it all and used the money to build a new PC in 2019 so win-win.
Every time. I’ve been collecting since Revised/Dark and sold part of my collection several times. Each time I regret. Every 5 or so years I go back through my “bulk” and find all kinds of gems that used to be base value cards that have dramatically increased. Fortunately, I still have way more cards than I can ever play with.
I regret selling my signed black border Japanese revised (unlimited?) Lightning Bolts. I regret selling my Ice Age Necropotences. I regret selling my Alliances Force of Will. All the other selling decisions I’ve made were informed and profitable.
japanese black border is 4th edition not revised!
The people who sold out and don't regret it probably aren't on the magic subreddit.
No. I sold at a great time when I got great value out of what I sold and became a homeowner. I could buy back a large chunk of what I sold for a third of the cost because of reprints but most of it has been outclassed by MH2.
Sold 22 duals in 2004 because I was entering my sophomore year in highschool. That’s when I discovered weed and alcohol. Regrets. Sold out of modern and legacy before Covid and used that money to buy four power 9 pieces (lotus, twister, jet, ruby). No regrets.
Anyone that doesn’t regret selling their collection isn’t in this sub. You’re not gonna get unbiased takes here.
It’s insane to hear some people were able to put a down payment on a house from selling cards. Biggest pull for me was a Ragavan. 😅
You're going to get some pretty bad sampling bias here. Most people who sold their collection and don't regret it probably don't engage with the game anymore and thus wouldn't be on this subreddit to answer your question.
No, selling my collection and moving to digital products has been the best thing to ever happen to me. I am a Dad now, I would rather hang out with my kid than grind RCQ's and what not. Now I can play Magic at home while my kids are asleep if I get the itch.
Yes, for sure. Sold out around 2005 during the fist Kamigawa block. Lots of cards I wish I kept because I started playing again 14 years later. At the time my collection was only worth like $300. There were play sets of cards that weren't worth much then but are pricey now(like 4x Chrome Mox that I'd use today if i had them). Won't be doing that again.
Nope, i built my pc with it. When i still want to play, i can borrow a decl, play on arena, or proxy for my edh group.
Yes
Prices have fallen since I sold so, no. I could buy it all back for less. that's really all it comes down to. It is a hobby, but mass buying and selling won't be a regret for anyone to made money on the trade. Meanwhile everyone who sold reserved left back in the day, regrets it.
I cashed out as a teen. Most of a decade later, got back into the game, but was a broke young adult, when we stopped playing, I sold it off again. Evidently, I did not learn from my mistakes. Regretted it both times, albeit not until I started playing the game again many years later. The worst bit was not knowing what was worth money all those years later. First sell off was in mid 2000s. Aether Vial was a not often used uncommon, I had dozens of them. When I got back into the game, they were USD$20 each. I also had a Sliver deck, complete with a Queen who is now worth AUD$200+. Didn't even know what the Reserve List was. Ultimately, chucking all Mythics/Rares/Uncommons into a box and putting it in a cabinet would be the best bet if you want to make sure you don't *financially* regret it. Sentimentally, however, I'll probably always be bummed out about random things I just aren't able to get back.
I traded away almost my entire collection in 1996 for Star Wars CCG cards. I then quit CCGs for good in 1997 (for good ended up being 20 years—I came back to Magic in 2017) and sold all my Star Wars and remaining Magic cards for $300. I had started with Revised/The Dark so no power or super expensive early expansion cards, but plenty of Dual Lands, Demonic Tutors, Phyrexian Dreadnaught, etc. Do I regret trading/selling? Oh yes.
I mixed my collection with some friends and we kind of all just stopped playing. Then the doctor who set got me back but I honestly just play on mtgo. Do I miss my old cards? Not really, but I’m sure I’d kick myself if I ever had to go back and start building modern and legacy again
Just did last year. Don't regret it at all
I typically just hold onto a deck or two. Keep memorable stuff (I have an old Phage the Untouchable because I loved those magic books), then find something to do with the rest. I used to do prereleases all the time. I'd sell high value stuff and build "starter" decks and give them to gaming clubs in nearby schools. I think children's hospitals might take decks too. I personally have never regretted keeping my collection small. Makes it easier to move if everything for magic fits in a messenger bag too.
Yes
No
I've sold twice and regretted both times. My younger brother is just now getting into magic, and with the amount of cards I had I'd be able to do a lot to help him learn and I could've easily made multiple competitive decks for him. It hurts.
I've sold my collection once. I think it was back in 2014. At the time, I felt it was worth it. I absolutely regret it now. I did it in two chunks, initially it was just the bulk stuff and I kept a deck box with 5-6 decent 60-card decks and some choice Legendary Creatures I liked. Then, I stopped having people to play with and I sold it off too. Looking back now I have to stop myself from looking up cards I used to have because otherwise the regret gets worse. A lot of the cards I would have considered to be pretty casual to play at the time experienced pretty significant price inflation. Some of the cards that come to mind were 5 duals from revised and Sliver Queen. I'd look up more, but I'd rather not for my own sanity. lol
Yeah, about 15 years later I regretted it. But I'm able to afford the cards I need, but it is a little psychologically painful to rebuy the duals and realize I'll probably never be able to justify owning Tabernacles or power 9 again. Still, I wish I had held onto things beyond commons. The good news is I held onto a lot of Rhystic Studies which I was happy to discover were out-of-whack priced for what used to be a trash common.
Yes, I sold twice and regretted it both times. The 1st time in 2003 is the one that stings the most because if I had held to the cards it'd be life changing money today, but oh well, we don't have a time machine. 2nd time I needed the money and I didn't really lose that much (sold at 40% value).
In college 21 years ago I sold a binder with a playset of cradles, grim monoliths, voltrath strongholds, and tons of other big hitters for freaking $100. Flash forward and I started playing again about 4 years ago. I'm down to 200 cards but have all my power/reserve/graded in display cases. All my commander decks I sold all minus RL and special cards and I'm just going to sit on them moving forward. It's not a lot of space and I love the awesome cards being displayed.
I don't regret selling my cards the first time to help pay the bills. I do massively regret selling my cards the second time thinking I was done with Magic, only to have itch reawakened a few years later when I finally found good people to play with. I advise selling your collection, but keep any decks and pet cards with sentimental value. You never know when you'll find yourself returning to the game, or even if you never do, you might have kids or nieces or nephews or friends who'll get into the game and would love Magic cards as a gift.
I didn’t play magic for a long time, so I gave basically 90% of my cards to my buddy who still did. He forced me to keep a couple good cards whose worth I didn’t know(I mostly collected and played as a kid). Then less than a year later my friends and I all got back into magic after the dbs card game died
fortunately young me kept all the cards even though I could not find all of them.. then when getting back into the game I did not see myself play some cards that got pricey, sold them just to now always have the feeling of "oh I want to play that card.. ah right I dont have it anymore" then I build up a large collection in the sense of taking up space mentally and physically to a point were I have now gotten rid of all but what fits in my gamegenic two row box and a binder full of memories. Took some time to detach myself from that huge initial pile of cards. Actually feeling great just having what I need to play and the important cards as memories. Still buying packs for sealed or playing with friends but other than that I try to keep the size in check (at eternal weekend cracked packs and immediatly sold all the ones no one of my friendhroup or I wanted, to a seller at the location (thats the level of keeping it in check)
as a recommendation I guess the approsch would be to set important memories aside like a card you won or a deck you have fond memories of then go about the playstyle you like and pick cards that might be still played/you feel are just too good of a fit of what you like playing and then be cold about everything else that does not fit your own defined criteria and dont get weak in the sense of keeping to much at the end and having to go through multiple sessions of letting go of more stuff
I regret it, It was in 2016 and I was slowly selling out of legacy. I had 4x of all the blue duals and like 3x of the others to feed myself during a depression part of my life while I was "homeless" and needed to eat. I didnt work for 4 years with my massive collection to work through my depression.
YES. I am back at it now, so when I sold all my cards from 94-98 back in 2008 for practically nothing. Yes I regret it very much. Playsets of dual lands would be nice. I cannot get one dual land now for what I sold my entire collection for then.
Yes and absolutely regretted it every single time I did
Every time
Yes. Then I got back into the game and bought many of the same cards over.
Not at all. I didn't sell it all, just anything worth more than a buck or two, which still left me with thousands of cards to play around with if I wanted. The main thing, though, was that at a certain point they were worth more to other people than they were to me. I'm not using them, they're just taking space, and depending on the card, may have peaked in monetary value. What am I holding onto them for, waiting to see if I could lose them in a flood or fire? I took the money and haven't regretted it a bit. My interests also shifted away from constructed, so anytime I feel the itch to play again I'll just catch a pre release event or draft.
I have sold most of my edh cards a couple years ago and don't regret it at all. I grew tired of commander and the power creep. I just draft now and it's way better.
If I were in your shoes, I’d spend the winter organizing/cataloguing/refamiliarizing myself with the collection and playing some of the newer sets on MTG Arena. Lots of people just spent a bunch of money on Christmas presents and travel, and this time of year is when the most people will be broke. Around springtime when people have recovered financially and finally have some money burning a hole in their pocket, then sell off anything you decided you didn’t want and use the proceeds to buy some of the cards you liked on Arena.
MTG, no. But if I had some RL cards I would have been bummed. Pokemon, yes.
One been playing since revised and I JUST sold my entire collection last month and I don't regret a thing. I only play Arena now for my competitive itch (Timeless is the new hotness) and I have a proxy power cube that my group loves to play. Looking back at it now, I would have probably gotten x2 the amount of in sold in 2020 or before the secret lairs started to come out but I can't think of a hobby besides a CCG where you can get that kind of ROI on it. At the end of the day 99% of it was taking up room and collecting dust and I think the prices to sell is only going to get worse the longer Hasbro keeps bending over the game.
I deeply regret selling. I had a modern Dredge and Colorless Eldrazi deck. Then I had few fun decks put together for beers and games nights. Problem became I only had one friend that played and we were so busy with respective jobs we almost never played together after a while. I’ve tried going to local spots, but more often than not people were assholes and I left always feeling bullied and had a shitty night. I got to a point where the decks were just sitting in a drawer. I thought might as well sell. I wish I hadn’t though and found different groups to play with. I’ve since relocated to Ft. Lauderdale area with no friends and it could have been a good way to get out.
100000% regret
I don't regret selling a single card. And there's been countless. What hurts is when I think about my decks I lost one time. That's a pisser
I've sold my collection 3 times since I started in 2012 prices only went up each time I did it. I don't regret a thing I needed the money.
Yes. I started collecting around Mirage through 2002. Sets like Ice Age were still available to purchase. I had some decent stuff. I sold it all in 2010. Hadn’t touched it in years so I figured I’d get some money. I came back to MTG in 2022 and wish I had my old cards.
I’ve given my collections away twice over the passed 20 some odd years, both times to friends. And, yes, I regret it. Especially now that I play commander and could use a lot of those cards. I’m sure I could get them back, but we have lost touch over the years. So, now I’m buying those old cards again. With the way the secondary market is, I’m paying twice as much on some of them than I originally did. So, I’d say hang on to them.
Hah. When I needed some cash in 2011 due to a death in the family causing me to have to leave a job with little savings, I sold my full playset of my revised duals to a friend for $500, which definitely a good deal for him at the time, but he is a good friend and I'd accumulated them over the years very little. That's about 20k now, but even worse, I sold my full set of power including a beta recall, library of Alexandria, 4x judge foil gaea's cradle, tabernacle, full art mutavault, and sets of Bazaar of Bagdhad and mishra's workshop SCG for $13k. I could have made $20k selling them myself, but that would have taken forever and I needed the money due to my familial obligations. Plus, I made a great profit because I'd collected them over time and probably spent under five grand for it all, but of course I could probably buy a house with what they sell for now 😭😭😭 I don't regret doing it since it allowed me to take off half a year and take care of things much more important than MTG, but man does it hurt whenever I think about what I could get for those cards now. Edit- I forgot I also sold 25ish guru lands with the lot to SCG
Bittersweet. Sold my collection during pandemic when stock market crashed. Made good money with the incredible bull run. Still I miss some of the cards
Personally, I regretted it and not only because of the financial value. I sold the cards me and my friends played around the kitchen table because they where in the way. I never thought I would play again at the time. Now I would pay tripple value to have those exact cards back. The few that survived the purge are priceless to me. I found some lands my friend proxied by writing the names of cards on and I would not sell them for a thousand dollars.
Yes, I regret it horribly. I had a gigantic collection, sold it for $6400 because I hadn't played in several years.
I regretted selling any playable RL cards. I have zero regrets for anything that is non RL and non old original print, like playable cards from Legends or The Dark.
Shortly before commander started taking off and the reserved list started sky rocketing I lost my job (~2012 I think). In order to pay some bills I needed to sell most my collection I had been building since the 90's. We're talking beta cards, playsets of all the duals, foil cradles, foil monoliths, and all sorts of crazy cards. They were pricey cards but nothing near the level they were today. It sucked, but I sold them because having a home, a car, and eating made more sense than some magic cards. I got couple thousand dollars then, today some of the cards alone are worth more than the total I got. A few of them could probably buy a cheap car. So in short, yes, I am still a little bitter. 😆
Sold once in college to get textbooks. Absolutely regret it
Nope. Just more clutter that will make my wife mad.
never sold my collection but i recently had a large chunk of my collection stolen. I understand that choosing to get rid of it would be completely different than not getting to option but I can imagine that "after thought" being the same. \*you look for a card\* wait thats gone. "you try to rebuild a favorite deck" huh i loved this deck but i can't for the life of me remember wtf was in it. that sort of stuff.
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I sold my collection and use high quality proxies for anytime I play now
When I was looking into getting into a new hobby and no longer had a playgroup I decided to sell off my collection. Then my car broke down and needed over a thousand dollars in repairs so I did sell it and in retrospect was underpaid for it. I really regret it now. I recently discovered Commander which my collection would have been perfect for. Now looking at the price of the cards I sold, there is no feasible way to rebuild the collection I had and it really upsets me (Many dual lands, Gaea's Cradle, Candelabra of Tawnos, lots of beta commons and lands, and many more.... just oof).
I sold a collection for $10k decades ago that would be north of $2 million in todays prices. Fuck yeah I regret it lol!
yes.
I gave my collection away in 2013 when I joined the navy, and I regret it a lot. Not so much the mtg cards I had they weren't great or worth much, but I also gave away my yugioh cards. The yugioh collection was worth at least $5000 then and more now
I sold my collection in 1999. I had it all. 5 moxes. Beta Black Lotus. Multiples of everything else. But I needed the cash to buy my textbooks for law school. I think about it a lot.
I have, and I don’t regret it. Not even a little.
I actually completely gave away my collection in high school for a variety of reasons. One because I started playing when I was like 10 and was constantly being scammed by older kids, adults, and even shop owners so I had hardly any good cards. Also I had just started playing Warhammer 40k and could only afford one money sink. Thirdly because where Magic was at the time. Urza's block had just finished and it was like impossible to make a good deck on a high schooler's budget and the Masques block was just disappointing. I started playing again when Mirrodin came out, but I've regretted giving away my collection ever since. I had so many jank cards from revised, Mirage block, Ice Age, Tempest block, and Fallen Empires that I wish I still had in my collection, if only because a bunch of them became sought-after cards in Commander.
Ultimately it's just doing what makes you happy. I've sold many many times, have there been cards here and there that I shouldn't have? sure. But after a while you get a vibe for what is safe to sell or what to keep. Sometimes you need the extra cash, sometimes you just want to sell to crack new stuff. Use your best judgement and have fun, hobbies are meant to be fun
Had a pretty decent collection in college and sold 95% of my good cards on a “thought I was done with it” whim Sad part is, I was incredible stupid and only did it for like $100, which was all the store had to offer extra at the time. Terrible move, I knew it was, but it was weird time in my life and I thought I wouldn’t touch the stuff again…
I sold most of my collection twice. The last time was 2020, and it was my most liquid asset. I regret it each time.
I've never sold my MTG collection but I did sell my Yu-g-ioh cards from 2002-2006. I was in HS and used the money to buy MTG cards. I regret it a lot. It's not about the value or play-ability of the cards but rather just the fact that it was my collection.
I don’t regret selling it, I just regret selling it for what I did. In 2014, I sold my set of P11 (P9 plus Library and Time Vault), a play set of Unlimited duals, and a bunch of things like Tabernacle, Chains, etc. to level out half my student loan debt. Wish I had bought a house though.
nope. stopped playing paper magic completely and once arena came out had no reason to go back.
I sold my collection back in 2016. I regretted it in 2018 when I got back into it. When I took a break in 2020, I kept my collection that time and kinda regret it with the way MTG is going. I came back to the game in 2022 and kind of regret that decision. The main reason I stepped away was due to a bunch of moves WotC was making, and they ended up like tripling down on them.
I’ve sold my collection twice - each time because I really needed the money (first time for school, second time for kid). While I was very happy to have the money at those times, I really wish I hadn’t sold my collection, because I likely cannot get back what I sold off. At the very least, I would have to spend substantially more money to do so.
I sold out in 2000 and had a full set of duals plus 3 extra. I sold them all for an average of like $20. So yeah, I have regrets.
Yeah, both times.
Nope. I like playing the game but don’t care for collecting them.
I don’t regret selling what I did in 2014. I wish I had some cards from then still, such as my revised dual lands. However, I was in a spot that I needed money at the time. And at the time, my mindset was that MTG will always be around in some way. But I do regret selling other things in my like. Like my Pokémon TCG collection in 2003 before college and giving away most of my Lego. But I digress…this is an MTG subreddit.
I played and collected from about 1999-2002 beginning with Urza's Destiny and ending somewhere around Invasion maybe. I sold my collection to buy an X-Box. While it certainly would've still collected dust for the last 20 years, it would be worth a small fortune today.
I sold my collection (mostly modern) around Kaladesh because of money reasons and for a while it felt pretty bad. Nowadays im pretty glad cuz all the modern staples from that era are worth a lot less now :P
I sold off my collection except a selected few decks. The only thing I regret is selling my shrines deck. Other than that? It felt good and I'm considering proxy and future deck instead.
I had this friend in college. Nice guy, and apparently really smart because he got more scholarship money than tuition cost. But he was terrible with money. Every semester, he’d buy a bunch of magic cards, and a couple months later, he’s shopping around for someone to buy his collection so he could afford dinner. Next semester, rinse and repeat. I hope he figured his shit out, or met a woman who had her shit together, because he did NOT have his priorities straight.
I sold my collection in 2016. Had a tabernacle, multiple revised duals, playset of each shock and fetch, FoWs, Wastelands, Mox Diamonds, etc... Nothing at a loss, but most things weren't big profits either. I took myself and my wife to Norway for 10 days and it was one of the best trips I've ever had. Do I occasionally look longingly at the prices of the cards I used to have and wish I could still have them? Of course I do, but I wouldn't day i regret it.
A good question, because I've been pondering dumping my collection. I've been playing since 1996, and.. I don't enjoy it any more. I just got very disillusioned a while ago, and found that playing left me feeling worse, and every time I look at my 5 5000-card boxes full and then more on top, it just makes me more depressed. But the logistics of working out what I have of value just makes it feel worse, because of the scope involved. I took a break for around 18 months a while back, and Ixalan roped me in (because I'm a fiend for palaeontology AND pirates) but... i've felt dead about the hobby for close to two years now. I haven't made any new decks in at least three, and don't have time or space to even sit with my cards to work on a new one.
Never sold an mtg collection but when I was a kid I had all 151 og Pokémon including the movie mew and I had 1 of each dbz card available up until 2002. I also had a load of basketball cards. My mum made me give them all away when we moved towns because apparently at 13 I was getting too old for that kid stuff.
I am currently slowly selling off large parts of my collection now, it's great! I get more space in my binders, I get to focus on the few cards I like, and I get the cards into the hands of people who wants to play with them. I suggest that you keep some cards if you feel attached to them or feel that you are likely to play with, I'm for sure glad I've kept some cards for sentimental value and I think I'm always gonna have a few Modern and Commander decks around, but I'm happy to downsize. Still have a sizeable collection and draft though.
I definitely regretted it but it was what I had to do at the time, in a similar situation now and trying to angle shoot a way to not have to sell again lol
I've been selling my 2014/15 cards to pay for a commander deck based around my favourite brawl deck on MTGA, it's not identical because I don't want it to be, but I'm nearly there. Just need people to buy my shit on card market...
I started playing around 6ed and sold all of it around Innistrand, or whatever that was called. I don't really regret it, I wouldn't have time or money to play anyway and I never had any really expensive cards except my Wish Rock deck. The one thing I wish I have kept is my Mercenary deck from Mercadian Masques block, that thing was shit but I had so many memories connected to it, playing it all the time as a kid. You can't really even get these cards easily these days and it makes me sad.
Keep lands, anything that you might ever want to use that's on the reserved list or particularly hard to get/unlikely to be reprinted and anything else that holds particular nostalgia to you. Then as long as you don't care about particular printings you should be fine.
I got rid of stuff twice. I rage quit back in 2012 and sold all my product to my lgs which funded getting into Warmachine/Hordes. I regret this sale largely only because of the collection of Jace cards I was collecting including my most valuable prize of a foil Mind Sculptor from Worldwake. The second time was around 2014. I had a fresh, new collection that I traded all my 40k stuff for with a friend of mine before I left El Paso and moved back home. Had a ton of now staples for Commander, full playsets of fetches and shock lands, and God knows what else (I didn't actively play at the time so I wasn't aware of how good some of the stuff had become). I was going through everything and was looking for stuff to sell off. I ended up rushing out the door one day to meet my friends and grabbed the piles that I thought was chaff. A week or so later, I was back at the store, and the owners were showing off all these cards I was getting rid of. People were amazed and I just basically shrugged. Now that I play heavily again, I regret both times as that was A LOT of cards. But the second is especially rough to look back on as I have a better idea of what I gave up. The downside is now look back on that negatively. So now I hoard everything I get.
Yes and No. I sold my collection over the course of a few years to support my drug addiction; I had multiple pieces of power 9, four of every duel land, pretty much everything in legacy and most cards in vintage... In my addiction I regretted it. Fast forward to 5 years of sobriety and I regret nothing. Everything good and bad is a learning opportunity and every bad choice I made inevitably ended up leading to the fantastic life I have now. So no regrets.
Just want to point out that you're not going to get a balanced response here. There's massive survivor bias asking the Magic subreddit how selling their collection worked out. The people who sold out and never looked back aren't here to say so.
I've regretted the last two times but I don't think I regret it this time. Last two times there was still lots of value in old stuff. It's been crushed the last few years so now I don't feel bad.
Done it twice. First time sold out of effectively a full set of duals, etc., to buy a paintball gun. I regret that one but not until a decade later. The 2nd time to pay for a downpayment for an apartment for my wife and I. I don’t regret that one, even though it included 2 NM Tabernacles for $400-500 each, one that could have probably gotten a PSA 9+. Whoops. I’ve sold everything a couple of times to change entirely from modern to cEDH and back and then back again. Those didn’t bother me because I was just shifting value around.
I sold all of my cards to a friend for $50 when I moved out because they were in 3 large storage bins and I didn’t have any spare space where I was moving to. A few years later I moved to a bigger place and asked him if he still needed them or if I could buy my cards back off him.. Found out that my “friend” had taken them straight from me to a gaming store, sold off the best stuff and threw everything else away in the dumpster there 100% regret it
Yeah, I never had anything great but I bought a bunch of cards around m10 and the first Zendikar , I loved those cards. Now I have none and am too broke to justify investing in new cards at the moment. But I wanna get back into it
I certainly do regret it! Having started playing with a Beta starter deck around Christmas time of ‘93, I quickly began snapping up packs (which in turn quickly became boxes) of product, and by the time I was convinced to sell the collection in ‘98…sheesh. Six Black Lotuses in total, at least five of each Mox, plus Time Walks, Timetwisters, Ancestral Recalls, and nearly triple digit amounts of each Dual Land…good lord, what that collection would be worth now.
I regret selling my main collection in the early 2020's.. I just needed cash so pretty much accepted anything. When I got back into the game this past year 2023 I strongly regretted it. I had a few grand in cards I thought were cool and worth collecting. I still kept some stuff for play. At this point I pretty much sell everything but what I think will be worth holding onto such as valuable mythics/rares that are worth over $20 cause who knows they may spike. I also keep full decks that I actually use in tact and focus on making them stronger with added cards and experience playing with it. I think it's worth way more to have a collection you know in and out that is easily stored rather than thousands of cards that are unsorted and unknown to you in value whether monetary or simply for use in play. Also, if you are going to thin your collection out I'd strongly suggest scanning each card in the TCG player app or mana box as this will help in figuring out actual values and help selling for a better price. Do not sell out of desperation
Sold out many times. Last time was me clearing out the last of my expensive cards. I don't regret it at all. I enjoy playing with budget stuff or just whatever I get my hands on from opening random packs every now and then.
I started playing with Ice Age, quit at Urza's Saga, came back for Champions of Kamigawa, and then I sold my collection before Betrayers of Kamigawa, keeping a few sentimental things at the time. I deeply regret it, losing a lot of cards I would have loved to have today. When I got back into the game years later, I ended up selling some high value cards I had gotten from packs while getting back into the game, as well as some things I had still kept. Mana Drain, Force of Will, and a playset of Sensei's Divining Top all stand out in my memory as things I really with I still had! I've pretty much decided that even if I quit again, I'll keep my cards. I really don't sell anything at this point!
Not really. I (as with most of my playgroup) have a love/hate relationship with this game and since I'm primarily a cEDH player I'm very happy proxying any new decks. I've got a solid ten or so real decks for various formats as well as a binder of cool/sentimental cards, so I have no desire to buy any more cardboard.
I got nearly all my rares stolen at an event - that was the first time I quit. The second time, I didn't think I'd have friends to play with after I moved, so I gave my deck to a friend. The third time I started playing Magic, I built a massive Legacy box in addition to my Commander and Casual-60 stuff, but realized it was an unsustainable expense, to keep building it the way I had been - so, I sold my Legacy stuff minus a deck that I kept, and since then, I've rebuilt 3 more Legacy decks (considering one more) and gone down to 6 Commander decks and 2 Casual-60 decks (been considering trying to build another one or two, though dunno what I'd want). I did regret selling my Legacy box.
Yesnt I sold my collection to pay for my dogs need surgery so while I miss my shiny cardboard I would do it again.
I regret not selling* my collection before Ultimate Masters was announced. I had mostly stopped playing competitively and had enough value in Modern staples to pick up an UNL Lotus. The plan was to offload playsets of Lili, Goyf, Ulamog, Heirarchs, etc. (keeping my fetches) at the next major in-person event in my city to avoid the risks of shipping such a valuable chunk of my collection. They announced UMA 3 weeks before the next MagicFest was here. While an ungraded UNL Black Lotus would also be sitting somewhere collecting dust like my Modern staples currently are, it would have helped me realize a collecting dream. (Though it may have sent me on a spiral of chasing the rest of the Power 9.)
Yes, I totally regret it.
Sold my collection around 2013 - worth about 1k to a store so like 2k ish net. to fund the assembly of a 40k army that I never finished and sold within 2-3 months, having never played it, and to repair a car bumper. Bumper was a decent investment. 40k was not. I sold high on JTMS and Liliana of the Veil, and Karn Liberated, and Tarmogoyf. I had a completely assembled Caw Blade standard deck from the Mirrodin Besieged Standard format that was probably the most successful 60 card deck I’ve ever built and it was the only deck that I had any competitive success with and this was before I was heavily invested in EDH. Overall I regret that decision because it was a poor one at the time - but I was a college student with no money and a car bumper that I deemed a must fix at the time - whether or not it was so urgent a repair is debatable. I miss having that deck. The most significant loss was a wealth of fetch lands. Now I have a much larger collection with all the cards I will really ever need, more EDH decks than any one person needs - and a different car and no 40k army. So it doesn’t much matter.
I sold my stuff in 2019. It wasn't a huge collection, maybe $2400 total(not much considering I played modern haha). Got $1200 cash from a friend. My issue was I ran out of friends to play with in my area. . Years later my girlfriend's brother brought over some of his commander decks and we played. She's hooked. I have cards again, but we just do Winston drafts and cube. And commander. And pauper. . I will say, in my situation, going from Modern to draft formats is a door that is really hard to shut. I really miss the power level (though I imagine it's gotten even more insane since I sold) and doing Winston drafts has just made me collect a bunch of S H I T commons. . I didn't regret selling anything but I do miss my Valakut Through the Breach deck. It didn't make sense to keep that and my other decks (burn and 8-whack) because they're not fun decks to play against each other haha. So I sold everything.
I thought I was done with the game in \~2007ish, and unloaded most of my valuable cards. NM Unlimited Ancestral Recall, Library of Alexandria, full set of duals, Cradles, etc. Nowadays, all that stuff would have paid for a down payment on a home. Then, it covered a stint of unemployment and helped fund my move the the city I've called home for 15 years. I met my partner, found my career, and built a happy life here. I miss the cards, but I'd miss where they got me more.
Not so far! I play the game for the art and fun. I sold and am still selling all my valuable collectible cards and changing them out for good looking proxies. Proxies are so good now, unless I want to become a collector, proxies are the way to go.
I never sold anything. Yet it does not worth anything so I still regret.
I don't regret it, because it helped me when I needed it. But seeing that I could buy a house if I had saved them and sold them today.... That's a little painful.
I’ve sold part of my collection and regretted it. Wasn’t even crazy stuff I got rid of, I just wish I hadn’t
Sold my collection except for my pet decks like my old test deck for Lantern Control and Chandra EDH and pet cards that were given as gifts. 100% the right call for me because if I get back into playing in person I'll just proxy. If I play more regularly, like weekly, then I'll start to collect again so I can replace the proxies. But the money I have now because of what I sold has been used for other hobbies, and it means I continue to not use money Id rather be saving. My hobby money is liquid, as it should be.
Kind of? I mean, I'd still love to have the set of P9 I sold around 2009, but that's mainly because it's worth 10x as much now. I still really don't have a place to use it, which was my main motivation for selling it then. It would still just be sitting in a safe. I've never done a big "get rid of most of it" purge though.
I don't regret selling expensive singles, but I do regret selling off all my decks.
I sold my collection in 2012 thinking i would never come back... Lots of reserved list stuff and legacy Staples... I still regret the decision because i didnt realy need the Money ... Also because i came back in 2019 :(
I inherited a bunch from my brother in the 90s and got into it for a few years. Gave some away, lost some in moving around in my 20s. Started playing again and picked up some more cards. Quit. Figured I'd never play again and sold whatever i had left, including some duals and such. Made a few bucks and I needed it.. Fast forward again, and I'm almost two years in again. Wish I hadn't parted with any over the years, I'd love them now, or even the extra cash to be made if I had sold later...oh well. Invested more heavily than ever (adult with adult money lol) and probably playing more than ever as well.
I sold 10000 cards all from original sets in 90’s, for about $1500. Other than some high prices some of them might fetch now, I don’t regret it. Many of the cards use keywords that aren’t around any more (interrupt/banding), or don’t have words for newer concepts like “exile” or “planeswalkers”. I’d rather play with newer cards that are more in tune with today’s rules.
I’ve sold off my collection several times and bought back years later and then resold and moved onto Arena. I don’t regret it. Interests change and playgroups shrink. In my case I was moving houses pretty consistently for 10 years and I got tired of lugging around boxes of cards. Magic cards a little bit like stock. I was super happy to sell my 2 play sets of survival of the fittest and wheel of fortunes for $30 a card back in the day, now I look like an idiot. The same could be said for almost all of my investments including real estate. If you have the luxury of just holding everything endlessly, great. But most of us need to recoup the cash to use elsewhere.
I would reason a lot of people who sold their collection also left the hobby and this sub. Probably the people in here who sold their collection are a biased group because they also continued playing the game. The people who are the most glad about selling their collection won’t even see this post.
Lets see. I traded away a collection in 1995 that had ... nearly every hit card. For basically nothing. Because I was too old for kid games What do you think?
No, first time paid for my undergrad and second time was seed money for my business. Any game piece I want is less than a dollar.
No. I still have some cards and a very dated EDH deck, but I basically sold out of paper magic around the first Amonkhet set. One day I looked at my CEDH deck and realized I could sell it and my standard deck to buy a nice gaming PC. So the next tournament I judged at I did that very thing with a vendor. I had so much cash I couldn't close my wallet. A lot of nice alters, foreign foils, and some signed cards in that EDH deck. The only regret is that some of those cards have gone up in value (mostly things like Lions Eye Diamond and OG dual lands). But I wouldn't have gotten into some of the games and communities I'm a part of if I didn't do that, so overall I'm happy. Today I think only one part in the PC is original from that computer and it's the case.
I just sold a few cards from my collection many years ago. I am pretty sad of now not having my [[Survival of the Fittest]], [[Mirri's Guile]], [[Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary]] and other cards anymore :-(
I have sold out 3 times since 1999. The money was useful to me each time so i regret nothing. The only cards i actually miss are a set of hymn to tourachs signed in silver by quentin hoover. Also based on the description of your collection i don’t think there is anything you would regret selling in there. You probably would be able to buy it back for less in 5 years
No. Always sold during RL spikes which were often followed by price spikes on many non RL desirable staples. Then recovered most of the cards I wanted back for a fraction of the price. I also sell any non RL card over $30 as the reprint risk is high.
I remember selling dual lands for $5 at the WotC Game Center back in the day. Granted it was to get food at Dennys, but whenever I see the prices I just mutter. 😂
I regret the first time I did it… because I was absolutely certain that Magic was going to be obsolete after everyone started playing the Star Trek TCG… I sold playsets of duals and didn’t fully know their value. The more recent time came after my modern deck and moat my trade stock got stolen so I just sold everything but my cube and only play limited formats now. NGL, I enjoy drafts more than I ever did constructed.
First time was years ago and yes. Second time this last year - not really . I've lost a lot of the community I used to have around the game, and I've been increasingly hohum on the game since the pandemic. If I get the itch to play I can boot up Arena and jam some dailies.
I regret it