Category: MTGO

What I Sent on PucaTrade - Sept. 9th 2016

9/9/2016

by Richard Rowell, Gaming Successfully Staff (SamsonQuin on MTGO)

Welcome back to another edition of What I Sent on PucaTrade. I actually sent the cards much earlier in the week, but I still want to go over them and why I decided to let them go.

I’ve been a little slow with my MTGO trading this week, but I did let go 2 of my remaining 3 copies of Ashnod’s Altar from Eternal Masters. I got 48 PucaPoints between the two. I kept my last copy for Commander purposes, and considering I got them for 0.02 tix each originally, I’m quite happy with my absurd profit of 0.62 tix or 62 PucaPoints by selling just 3 out of the 4 copies.

Here’s the paper cards I sent out earlier this week.

Arcane Lighthouse x 2 (Commander 2014) 275 pp each

I picked these up on PucaTrade quite awhile ago. I don’t recall what I paid for them, then, but it was much closer to 100 pp rather than 300 pp. They’ve been sitting around this price for a bit, so I was happy to net 550 pp and make a significant profit.

Crypt Ghast (Gatecrash) 246 pp

These doubled in price awhile back and as I still had one sitting around, I was content to let this copy go. While it may rise in price again in the future, I can use the points now and pass on the card to someone who will use it now.

Urza’s Power Plant (Fifth Edition - MP) 169 pp each

I guess the guy looking for these on PucaTrade is just trying to collect a bunch of Urza lands and isn’t concerned about condition. These I got for free awhile back, so I’m happy to pass them on. Tron is still a big deck, so I’m sure they will be put to use somewhere. Even if not, it’s practically free PucaPoints for me outside of shipping.

From all of the trades lately, I’ve amassed a good chunk of PucaPoints. Unfortunately, I’m not having luck with getting the MTGO event tickets I need due to the fact that I’m not going to give bonuses for them. (I can’t currently anyway only being a Common member.) So I’m trying to decide what to put for wants at the moment. Really, I just need Event Tickets.

You can find me on MTGO at samsonquin. Likewise, you can find me on PucaTrade as SamsonQuin.

What sweet stuff have you been getting on PucaTrade and what have you been happy to let go?

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What I'm Sending Out on PucaTrade - August 31st, 2016

8/31/2016

by Richard Rowell, Gaming Successfully Staff

With the PucaTrade Future Site now live and the Magic Online PucaBots now fully functioning, it makes sense to start discussing my endeavors on PucaTrade. On the paper side of things, I’m trying to unload my completely random binder of nonsense. However, there’s good stuff in there. So let’s see what I sent out today via the US Postal Service.

Stonehewer Giant
(JAPANESE Morningtide) - 549 points

Got this Stonehewer on eBay extremely cheap. While I probably could have held onto it longer, since PucaTrade added foreign language support, I decided to just let it go to the first guy who wanted it. This is big profit for me, so I’m happy to pass it on to someone who actually needs it.

Exquisite Firecraft x 2 (Magic Origins) - 520 points

This 3-mana burn spell is rotating from Standard, and while I realize this is played in Modern and even occasionally Legacy, I think roughly $2.50 in points apiece is worth letting them go.

Propaganda (Commander 2013) 463 points

While I could probably wait for Propaganda to get a bit higher, nearing almost $5, I don’t know that this Enchantment, as good as it is, can get much higher in the near-term. It’s really only played in Commander, as it is. Also, I’m not playing anything that can use it right now, so may as well turn it into stuff I will use.

Soul of New Phyrexia (Magic 2015) SP - 224 points

I got this cheap, too, and being slightly played, I didn’t really want to try to sell it on eBay or to a buylist. Someone probably actually needed this for a Commander deck so I’m happy to part with it and pick up a couple bucks worth of points.

Anger (Judgment) SP - 245 points

I picked this up on PucaTrade, actually, and it wasn’t near-mint, then. I’m literally breaking even on this one, just about. It’s a really good card in Commander, but for almost 250 points, I’m happy just to let it go rather than home it hits $5 someday.

Shadow Rift x 2 & Tortured Existence - 97 points

I usually don’t send out cards unless I’m getting about 200 points out of it. But I was happy to move two random copies of Shadow Rift I had (very good Pauper card) and my one random copy of Tortured Existence (also good in Pauper). 97 points is still worth sending 3 cards, and these are just taking up space in my binder right now.

That’s about $21 worth of stuffs there. It’s nothing I’m really going to miss, either.

On MTGO, things just really got started yesterday with the PucaBots going live again. I only sent out a few little things.

First, the 3 trades that waited for the bots to go live.

Dwynen’s Elite x 4 - 4 points

I was hoping Dwynen’s Elite would catch on in Modern or something and hit a nickel or dime. It never really did, so I’m happy to just break even here.

Fiery Impulse - 3 points

I have a few more copies of this to move before it rotates from Standard. 3 points is fine because I’m pretty sure I spent less on these.

Crackling Doom x 2 - 2 points

For some reason I thought Crackling Doom would do something again after it became a penny. What it did was remain a penny. But there is hope for this card in the future I think. I will probably pick up a set of these again at some point if I see signs that it may actually get some demand.

I got all of these for a penny each on MTGO, so I was happy to just unload them for my first three trades.

Then last night:

Ancient Stirrings x 2 - 24 points

This is obviously pretty good in certain Modern decks, but good in Pauper, too, which drives the MTGO demand. The Ancient Stirrings were nice because I got them for 0.1 tix bot credit and flipped them for a profit. Not bad.

Alchemist’s Refuge - 2 points

The Alchemist’s Refuge I got just to flip it for the 2 points, because I can. I had a few cents of bot credit somewhere and saw someone want this so I figured why not get a couple points out of credit I wouldn’t use otherwise?

What I’m NOT sending out on PucaTrade…

Demonic Pact (Magic Origins)

Demonic Pact is something I was looking to unload, but apparently, a lot of people still want this card even with it rotating from Standard. There could be a good Modern or Legacy deck down the road that uses this, so I’m happy to just hold onto my copy. Everyone that wanted it last night were outside of the US and Canada, and those are the only places I ship to unless we’re talking about $25+ cards that make it worth my time to ship internationally. Am I wrong to hold this? This seems like a good hold to me just because it has done things competitively before and it’s better in Eternal formats where it could be more easily abused.

Decree of Pain (Commander 2013)

This Black sorcery is extremely good in Commander and I was taking notice that it’s slowly trending upwards. I was going to send it out until I double checked the supply on this card. I’m going to hold it for now and hope they don’t reprint it. They probably won’t within the next year so I’m happy to see what it does.

Battlefield Forge, Llanowar Wastes (x2) & Yavimaya Coast (x2) (Magic Origins)

I’ve been watching the other pain lands from other formats and seeing what their prices are doing. All three of the pain lands I do have all buylist fairly well even with rotation approaching. At the very least these are great in Commander. But Battlefield Forge sees play in Modern fairly regularly. Llanowar Wastes and Yavimaya Coast seem like they will be good if we get more “colorless matters” cards in Black, Blue, and Green. I got these very cheap so I’m happy to see what happens. If I’m wrong, then why does everyone ever want these still?

Any cards that you’re having trouble finding on PucaTrade? Any cards you think may be great underpriced targets to pick up or overpriced cards to send out before they drop? Let me know.

You can find me on MTGO as samsonquin.

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5 Best Things About PucaTrade Adding Magic Online (MTGO) Cards to Its Platform

8/30/2016

by ElspethFTW, Gaming Successfully Staff

One of my least favorite things about playing Magic the Gathering Online (MTGO) for me was having to use bots to acquire and sell cards. Now with PucaTrade adding support for trading MTGO cards and tickets, many things are going to change about how people think of trading Magic cards.

This change is not only going to only affect just MTGO users after all. It’s going to affect Magic the Gathering overall. Here are 5 of the best reasons why PucaTrade adding MTGO support is a big deal.

#1 Ease of Trading Paper Cards into Digital MTGO Cards and Tickets

Not only is trading on PucaTrade easier than your traditional trade, but turning paper cards you really don’t need into cards directly on Magic Online is going to be extremely convenient. Since Magic Online cards are usually only worth a fraction of their paper counterparts, it’s very easy to cash out paper cards you don’t need in order to acquire pieces for a competitive deck on Magic Online. Never has it been easier to get your full market value for your paper cards, especially with how much the PucaTrade member base has grown. You can pretty much trade about any paper card in existence now, as long as you’re willing to pay the associated shipping costs.

People trading digital cards into paper is going to happen, too, of course. Not having to cash out event tickets in order to get real cash saves you about 5 to 10 percent in cash value over the long-term if you’re putting the PucaPoints directly from trading off digital cards for paper ones. So it does work both ways. But because digital cards are usually worth far less than paper ones, often by great margins, it’s usually going to be paper into digital.

#2 Turning MTGO Draft Chaff into Winning Cards, Tickets, and Packs

Drafts and sealed deck are two of the most popular formats on Magic Online. After drafts, most players are happy to just dump any cards they don’t want or need to automated bots in order to grind for more event tickets to keep getting packs. This is part of the reason why card prices are so low on Magic Online. There are just so many copies of most cards that supply is almost always many times higher than demand when compared to paper. Of course, it works the opposite way, too. Sometimes cards spike in price on Magic Online long before they do in paper, especially when sets haven’t been available on Magic Online very long.

Now with PucaTrade, there isn’t a need to have to visit a bunch of different bots in order to get the best price for trading in your draft chaff. In fact, with PucaTrade, you can turn PucaPoints directly into Event Tickets and packs. Also, since the PucaPoints reflect the market price of the cards you’re trading, you can get several points for cards that ordinarily you’d be getting fractions of a cent for from bots. For example, most Standard legal rares will usually be bought by bots for about 10 to 20 percent less than the going sell price. But over time, that 10 to 20 percent gained back in trading away the cards on PucaTrade add up.

It’s even better when you consider the cards people draft in paper. Cards that you wouldn’t usually sold on EBay will be traded on PucaTrade. Even when you consider the cost of shipping (usually just a postage stamp, plain white envelope, and toploader), people will be happy to find takers for cards they’ll never use and convert them directly into PucaPoints that they can use for online cards, packs, or event tickets.

#3 Greater Interest in Magic Online as a Platform

Let's face it. Dealing with Magic Online bots can be such a hassle, especially because of the fact that you have to deal with Event Tickets. Because you can only trade in whole Event Tickets, you often end up with "change" that is saved as "bot credit" that can only be used again on that particular bot, or bots related to it. So if those bots disappear from Magic Online forever, you lose that credit. While you're usually only losing a few cents, since many Magic Online cards can be easily acquired for pennies, over time, these lost fractions of Event Tickets add up. With PucaTrade, you never have to worry about that.

The other major advantage of PucaTrade is that you can trade for Event Tickets, and trade them away just as easily. Also, it's very easy to get packs from other PucaTraders, too. This means that you don't have to worry about buying packs from the Magic Online store, which usually saves you quite a bit of money. Since you can turn the points from your pulls directly into PucaPoints, needing to grind out Event Tickets isn't going to be nearly as difficult anymore.

The other great thing about Magic Online is the fact that you can redeem full sets. This means that players are literally looking for every single card in the more recent sets on a regular basis. So you can pretty much be guaranteed at least 1 PucaPoint (roughly 1 penny) for every card you pull. It also means it will be a lot easier to literally trade the paper versions of the cards for digital versions, then complete the set, and after paying the $25 redemption fee, get the same exact cards in paper that you traded away in order to redeem the set on Magic Online.

What this probably means in the long run is that the disparity in value between online cards and paper cards will probably shrink. This is probably a good thing for Wizards of the Coast, as more people will be interested in creating Magic Online accounts, even if it's just in order to redeem sets or build online collections. But in other ways, it will force Wizards to rethink how inefficient MTGO's economy really is.

#4 PucaTrade is an Easy to Use Middleman

Now to trade Magic Online cards, even using PucaTrade, technically you still need to use bots as middlemen. But the PucaBots basically do all the work for you. After you link your PucaTrade account to your MTGO account, all you have to do is drop cards off at a bot, and pick them up. No more worrying about bot credit and not having the right cards for trade, etc. The bots are the most frustrating part of MTGO for me, so having these innovative middlemen bots is pretty awesome.

It’s also really nice that you don’t have to spend forever searching things like MTGO Wiki Price for the bots that want your cards, only to find out they don’t want them anymore. And even though most Standard legal cards tend to sell to bots pretty easily, a lot of other valuable cards don’t. But as long as there’s someone on PucaTrade who needs a card, especially if most bots don’t carry it, you’ll always find a taker for your rarer stuff.

#5 More Fun for Commander & Casual Players to Get Cards They Need for Decks

One of the most popular casual Magic the Gathering formats, Commander, has become pretty expensive to play in paper, due to the skyrocketing costs of some of the older cards that are very strong in the format. This has meant that people that can’t afford the cards in paper turn to Magic Online in order to play. It’s very popular on Magic Online, but a lot of people who have invested a lot in their Paper Magic Commander decks find that they don’t really want to spend more to play online, too. But now that it’s easy to convert unused paper cards into PucaPoints that can go directly into building the same Commander deck online for a fraction of the cost, you’ll probably see a lot more players do so.

The other big thing is that Magic Online is confusing for a lot of casual players, who are a HUGE part of the Magic the Gathering playing base. Acquiring cards from bots can be quite bewildering, and while major MTGO card retailers such as MTGO Traders are great, most casual players are stuck with paper cards that they don’t know how to sell. Yes, places like Cape Fear Games, the paper side of MTGO Traders, do offer MTGO bot credit for paper cards, most casual players can’t be bothered with understanding the ins and outs of card prices. PucaTrade makes it quick and easy for casual players to trade away cards without worrying about being ripped off, since PucaTrade always goes by current market prices. Also, buylist prices for paper cards can be 50 to 75 percent less than the PucaPoint value, so to maximize the value of your cards, PucaTrade is the way to go.

Also, because Magic Online is now more accessible to the many casual players who frequent PucaTrade, you’ll likely see a much larger casual community building on Magic Online. This is good for the game, since players that only get to play in paper on a fairly infrequent basis now can build their online collection far easier than they would have been before.

PucaTrade has done a great service to the Magic the Gathering community by giving a way for digital and paper cards to coexist. In the long run, Magic Online cards will probably always be cheaper, simply due to the incredibly massive supply and need for zero shipping costs. But the good news is that Pucatrade is going to make trading and collecting Magic Online cards, and Magic cards in general, a lot more fun. Bots will never completely go away, I’m sure, but having a strong alternative to trade away the cards you may have been otherwise been stuck with is definitely a great thing.

Thanks, Pucatrade, for giving the MTGO community a huge boost, one that it probably really needed!

PucaTrade is the best way to trade Magic the Gathering and MTGO cards (plus event tickets and packs!) online. Join the fun today!

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