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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 9042980" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>I'm already late to the party. But I have some strategies to optimize collecting sets.</p><p></p><p>First, I like to keep the emotion of opening blind product. Just buying up singles breaks into it.</p><p></p><p>Also, I keep things simple. Instead of going after every single rare and mythic, I like to focus on the important characters among the mythics and rares. I then target cycles. After that, I also go on to decide how much I want of the set. For many sets I settle for one set of commons, the cycles, the uncommon legendaries and key characters. For some sets I go beyond that and also target a set of uncommons and all of the rare legends.</p><p></p><p>With clear goals in mind, then I choose what to buy. My original plan was to get one set booster box, one draft box, one bundle, two jumpstart boxes and some of the decks, then trade repeats and high yield cards to complete what I want.</p><p></p><p>But then the OGL thing soured me on the prospect and the early art just didn't fire up the nostalgia in me like I expected. So I escaled back, one set of commons, key rare legends, and all uncommon legends. Also going for uncommon cycles. With this on mind I thought of a bundle, the kit, one or two jumpstart boxes, and maybe one or two decks.</p><p></p><p>But then I found the previews with too gimmicky mechanics, and with busted gamebreaking stuff. I could scale back further, but the Pinkerton thing really took all of the joy out of the set for me. If I get over it, I'll go fetch one or two bulk up boxes* from Card Kingdom in a month or two, maybe get the kit, and one bundle box for storage in the secondary market. Many will open collector boosters for the hope of getting the one ring and the market will be flooded with surpluss cards.</p><p></p><p>* Card kingdom sells aftermarket boxes full of cheap cards from an expansion (collectors call these cards bulk). They call them bulk-up. These are afordable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 9042980, member: 6689464"] I'm already late to the party. But I have some strategies to optimize collecting sets. First, I like to keep the emotion of opening blind product. Just buying up singles breaks into it. Also, I keep things simple. Instead of going after every single rare and mythic, I like to focus on the important characters among the mythics and rares. I then target cycles. After that, I also go on to decide how much I want of the set. For many sets I settle for one set of commons, the cycles, the uncommon legendaries and key characters. For some sets I go beyond that and also target a set of uncommons and all of the rare legends. With clear goals in mind, then I choose what to buy. My original plan was to get one set booster box, one draft box, one bundle, two jumpstart boxes and some of the decks, then trade repeats and high yield cards to complete what I want. But then the OGL thing soured me on the prospect and the early art just didn't fire up the nostalgia in me like I expected. So I escaled back, one set of commons, key rare legends, and all uncommon legends. Also going for uncommon cycles. With this on mind I thought of a bundle, the kit, one or two jumpstart boxes, and maybe one or two decks. But then I found the previews with too gimmicky mechanics, and with busted gamebreaking stuff. I could scale back further, but the Pinkerton thing really took all of the joy out of the set for me. If I get over it, I'll go fetch one or two bulk up boxes* from Card Kingdom in a month or two, maybe get the kit, and one bundle box for storage in the secondary market. Many will open collector boosters for the hope of getting the one ring and the market will be flooded with surpluss cards. * Card kingdom sells aftermarket boxes full of cheap cards from an expansion (collectors call these cards bulk). They call them bulk-up. These are afordable. [/QUOTE]
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