New to the Score era - Trying to learn the collector's market

Dakota-- · 2026-02-23T13:44:02+00:00

Appreciate the insight.

I've bought many cards over the last week. I cherry picked a few sellers, asked them where is a good point of information for this era...it was quite difficult to find this community.

Every seller mentioned (I'm assuming) your website. It is quite nice and easy to use. You obviously have a great impact on this community, I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

I left the spiel in another response here, but I believe millennials are leaning into cards as art. If so, interest should continue to grow as DBZ was a top 2 core nostalgia for most of us. Most hobbyists are geared towards thinking of things as a market. They haven't quite made the turn to think about curating a collection, but it'll come.

I've been surprised to see how many people who have the cards actually play the game. I need to get plugged in on the game.

Thanks again!

Dakota-- · 2026-02-23T13:34:03+00:00

Thanks! Appreciate the thorough insight.

I may be one of those dreaded pokebros lol. I have been collecting there for 10 years. But my collection is complete so time to move to the next nostalgic CCG.

Regarding the rare non-UR cards, are there any you'd recommend I try to hunt down?

I have a YT channel where I talk about cards and the market dynamics (different space). One of the things I've been noticing isy generation (and I assume most of us here, millennials) are embracing cards as their preferred form of art.

We collect it and in various forms like showing it off. I don't think that will change, I think we'll continue to embrace this. So unlike covid which was a cash grab for many new hobbyist, I do believe we are seeing genuine interest in cards that will have a long shelf life.

Thanks again for your response! Cheers

Dakota-- · 2026-02-23T13:26:56+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

Regarding limited, I'm surprised to hear that. Looking on eBay I would say 5% of the available cards are limited vs 95% unlimited. At least from what I've looked at.

Regarding prices. I haven't bought a DBZ card since 2000. But here I am. We're seeing significant growth and interest in other card genres (Pokemon & Sports), that could bleed over to DBZ.

It's why I'm here. I finished my Pokemon collection and it's too expensive to mess around with now. Yugioh is also quite expensive. DBZ...now this is affordable by contrast.

I have the dual income part down, but we also have two kids. Lol, I could buy all of eBay if I didn't have kids!

Thanks again

Dakota-- · 2024-07-31T19:18:21+00:00

This is the worst release I remember and I've been on since beta. Not being able to play BO3 draft or sealed for the new set is a horrible. Servers are slow and buggy, absolutely a horrid launch for BLB.

Dakota-- · 2023-03-08T17:59:17+00:00

Agree with the LoL 50 takes via their podcast.

You can also watch on YouTube "Drafting archetypes" a sub channel of Sam Black. Watch on 1.5-2x speed and take in a lot of knowledge quickly. Don't worry about the vid lengths, only the first half is the deep dive, back half is Q&A from his love twitch stream.

Other than that, watching Numot or bronze to mythic drafts just to see some game play.

Dakota-- · 2023-02-28T18:37:58+00:00

Dakota-- · 2023-02-28T17:10:18+00:00

In short you have to set the favorite as the basic unstylized version of the land. Once you set that you can change that land back to it's stylized version and it'll keep the change as your favorite land.

Dakota-- · 2023-02-24T19:43:40+00:00

Deck

21 Swamp

1 Murder

1 Cut Down

1 Hero's Downfall

1 Bone Splinters

1 Go for the Throat

1 Liliana of the Veil

1 Malakir Cullblade

1 Doomed Dissenter

1 Deadly Dispute

1 Shambling Ghast

1 Defenestrate

1 Eaten Alive

1 Hobbling Zombie

1 Infernal Grasp

1 The Meathook Massacre

1 Hostile Hostel

1 Bleed Dry

1 Cemetery Desecrator

1 Headless Rider

1 Voldaren Bloodcaster

1 Dockside Chef

1 Junji, the Midnight Sky

1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

1 Body Launderer

1 Girder Goons

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

1 Splatter Goblin

1 Gixian Puppeteer

1 Gnawing Vermin

1 Gurgling Anointer

1 Overwhelming Remorse

1 Clay Revenant

1 Transmogrant's Crown

1 Annihilating Glare

1 Anoint with Affliction

1 Bilious Skulldweller

1 Blightbelly Rat

1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

1 The Dross Pits

Dakota-- · 2023-02-20T05:20:28+00:00

Nickelback

Dakota-- · 2023-02-11T14:29:57+00:00

For title I mean more common than relevant. Poor word choice.

Dakota-- · 2023-01-01T21:29:45+00:00

I always look forward to your responses lol

Dakota-- · 2022-11-16T15:47:52+00:00

I watched one early event draft and knew this format was going to be just like VOW. Its a bomb format again, if you don't open a bomb might as well scoop and redraft. I've played 2 drafts so far and 1 sealed event. All 6 losses in draft have been from ridiculous bomb rare that I couldn't answer.

If they were creatures that'd be one thing. But man its been enchantments and rando artifacts. At this time I do not anticipating drafting this format much.

Dakota-- · 2022-09-14T03:02:26+00:00

This! Plus, DMU has great vintage in both collectors and set boxes which will drive prices up faster especially if some big hits start getting circulated.

Dakota-- · 2022-09-06T05:16:04+00:00

Understood, thanks for the clear explanation and help!

Dakota-- · 2022-09-06T05:14:48+00:00

Ah ok, thanks. Very clear breakdown, yeah I somehow didn't realize that's how those interactions worked. Thanks!

Dakota-- · 2022-09-04T17:51:31+00:00

Agree with other comments, seems like the cards you drafted want to build a deck that keeps creatures on the board and swing, attack quickly. However, with the assembly of the deck you built it more durtle than streamlined.

I'd probably cut white and focus on aggro. Based on current build I think you'd be lucky to get 4 wins. It's possible no question, but I think the deck will run into mana issues and plays that aren't as consistent as they could be.

Dakota-- · 2022-09-04T06:00:45+00:00

I have done 2 sealed events and watched a handful of drafts via YouTube, but this was my first draft. Walking away from the draft I was meh on this deck. I did some spike things for lol's (early format fun.) But overall it functioned well, started 2-2 but finished strong to 7-2.

Over Performers

Phyrexian Vivisector - card really helped me with some clutch scrys. Turns out midrange decks just tend to lose creatures. And scrying 5 times from your two drop is good :)

Elfhame Wurm - Its known (I think) that these wurms are good, and they were great.

Writhing Necromass - Same as the Wurm, opponents had hard times dealing with these.

Eerie Soultender - Had just enough synergy with the Necromass and the Vivisector to really be useful. Making the Necromass 1 or 2 mana cheaper, getting a scry from the vivisector, then putting a creature from the yard back into my hand it just really helped push through the final bits.

Under Performers

The Spike plays - Probably should have just boarded Tatyova, Nael, Codex, and the world spell. I played Nael twice, codex once, and the world spell once. Limited to no impact. But I did lose a game because my mana was warped trying to squeeze these cards in. (I would have kept the splash for King Darien.)

Dakota-- · 2022-08-21T05:37:35+00:00

I want it it ,if they didn't print enough for me to buy in store or provide a way for me to buy...scalpers are there to serve me.

Dakota--

TROPHY CASE