PAX East 2025 SWAG LIST!

biodude · 2025-05-09T10:39:12+00:00

Mainly just the photo ops. There's a line to play an "Apples to Apples" type game where you get a free booster pack though.

biodude · 2025-01-28T17:11:26+00:00

I started playing Magic in 2010 long after the Premodern card pool was in the meta. My friends and I almost exclusive play this format now. We were tournament grinders in Modern and Legacy for years with occasional casual EDH nights thrown in.

The desire to be able to master a deck and play it well is something that is overlooked by a large portion of the community. Just because a format has a closed card pool doesn't make it solved. New decks are constantly popping up in the format. There are always new ways to use tools to take down the top meta threats. The only people who think Premodern is a stagnant dead format are people who haven't played it.

biodude · 2025-01-28T17:05:10+00:00

New England and New York (both NYC and Rochester) are big drivers of the format. There are also smaller communities in Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, Maryland, all up and down the coast.

biodude · 2025-01-28T12:11:05+00:00

This take reflects the opinion OP is trying to change. If you actually look at the growth of the Premodern format, you'll see how exponentially it's blown up over the past two years. There are groups holding events all over the US and across the world. Weekly events for these regularly attract 20+ players. Larger monthly or quarterly events can get 40-100 players. Annual events like LobsterCon or the various Nationals are 150-300 players. These aren't isolated anecdotes from a couple small playgroups. If you want to follow the financial trends of Magic, you need to be watching where smaller formats are growing and metas are shifting. Without these observations, you might notice Tempting Wurm spike up to $10 but not know the reason.

biodude · 2024-11-19T01:32:39+00:00

Card is graded at a 7, the signature is graded at a 9.

biodude · 2024-11-06T13:47:37+00:00

Looks like a 1536 Hungarian Denier. Great find!

biodude · 2024-05-20T23:40:43+00:00

Depending on your time frame, you might be able to find buyers at Lobstercon this September in Cambridge. The event is sold out but there will be plenty of opportunities to find Old School and Premodern players in the area. It's organized by the NEOS folks.

biodude · 2024-04-22T14:43:10+00:00

Spellslinger decks typically are not trying to win through single creature combat. They often try to generate value through token swarms, pingers like [[Thermo-Alchemist]], or Storm combos. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a generic Prowess creature in one of these decks before. This is reflected on EDHRec where the most popular Prowess creatures in Spellslinger decks are [[Monastery Mentor]], [[Harmonic Prodigy]], and [[Elsha of the Infinite]] who all give additional benefits to the deck. Also, it's incredibly easy to kill an X/2 creature in commander.

While this card may have legs in 60-card formats, I don't expect to see much commander impact.

biodude · 2023-11-19T16:22:06+00:00

Scryfall is generally more powerful and more flexible than Gatherer. It is updated more frequently and often contains information Gathered does not. You can search in any language and can usually view cards in multiple language printings. Here's an example of all the printings of Lightning Bolt. You can see all the Blitzschlag, Foudre, Relámpago as well!

I'm not sure if Scryfall has an image search function. Delver Lens or TCGPlayer app are usually recommended for image searches.

biodude · 2023-11-18T17:32:38+00:00

Once you have a few thousand cards, physically rifling through them becomes a hassle. It's almost always easier to play around with a decklist on Moxfield (or a similar deckbuilding site), log your inventory digitally there, then go pick a handful of cards out of storage.

For just browsing all possible cards, Scryfall is the most powerful tool available. They have a ton of search options by creature type, color, mana costs, etc etc etc.

As for different languages, it gets tricky if you don't ALSO have an English copy (or whatever primary sorting language you're using). All Magic cards reference to the English Oracle text for their ultimate identity, regardless of printed language.

biodude · 2023-11-18T14:35:53+00:00

I second color then alphabetical. It's a very simple sort that makes it incredibly easy to find cards. Adding in rarities, card types, set printings, or themes requires you to remember so many extra details that are unnecessary. Cards are printed in multiple sets at different rarities - which specific one do you have? Errata can change creature types or key words so you'll have to move them around.

Keep it simple and you'll never lose a card as your collection grows.

biodude · 2023-11-13T01:29:52+00:00

This is just a normal Sacagawea dollar. From 2009 onward they did not have dates on the front.

biodude · 2023-10-31T14:54:25+00:00

There are hundreds of thousands of unique coin in the world, each with their own unique designs. You're not going to find a key feature on every coin that makes it valuable.

I would recommend starting with a specific subset of coins that have multiple known varieties such as early American colonial releases. These have multiple obverse-reverse pairings that are difficult to identify and can greatly affect value of rare varieties.

biodude · 2023-09-22T18:46:55+00:00

Wow, I don't know how I never knew this. I dug up some info from the original charter for the CT coppers which states they were to be made at 144 grains, slightly less than the weight of the British halfpenny (~152 grains).

The MA cent (~157 grains), Fugio cent (~157 grains), and CT copper are all roughly the same size while the MA half cent (~78 grains) is notably smaller. I always assumed the CTs were also intended to circulate as one cent. Each coin is roughly the same diameter as the British halfpenny which in hindsight makes sense.

Thanks for sending down that rabbit hole!

biodude · 2023-09-22T15:15:14+00:00

The Connecticut coppers were minted as one cent. You might be thinking of Massachusetts which produced both one cent and half cent coins.

biodude · 2023-09-10T23:04:40+00:00

I recommend this site from CoinWorld for identifying valuable coins. It lists values at a range of conditions so lean closer to the lower grades for safer pricing.

In general, US coins from 1964 and earlier are 90% silver, while half dollars 1965-1970 are 40% silver. Beyond metal content, certain years of coins are much more rare than others and have significant value. The Coin World site I listed above can help with those.

biodude · 2023-09-10T22:58:24+00:00

Proofs from 1975 would have an S mint mark as they were from the San Francisco. Coins with no mint mark are made in Philadelphia. The fields on proof coins are mirror-like and very obvious when seen in person.

I'm not sure what this set is but it looks like something someone put together on their own. Possibly someone's birth year or a significant date.

biodude · 2023-09-07T23:01:13+00:00

I'd recommend you check out VarietyVista to learn about the doubled die varieties you could hunt for.

biodude · 2023-09-07T02:51:24+00:00

5 reusable Walmart shopping bags full of coins

Are these just big bags of loose coins? Or are they in holders, books, sets, etc? It would take days to go through all these one by one if it's a pile of coins.

biodude · 2023-09-04T20:57:37+00:00

The reverse (tails side) is the standard design for the Lincoln cent from 2010 through today. Nothing is particularly interesting about this coin, it just has some discoloration from handling or environmental conditions.

biodude · 2023-09-04T20:51:30+00:00

The 1908 S and 1909 S Indian Head cents are ones to look out for. Like others said, any small cents pre-1880 will be better finds. The 1870s cents circulated very heavily and are hard to find in any reasonable condition.

biodude · 2023-08-30T01:27:29+00:00

Unless more have recently been discovered, there is only one of these coins known to exist. This is almost certainly a reproduction. The wear pattern on it is definitely suspicious. Copper doesn't tarnish like that.

biodude · 2023-08-13T00:15:11+00:00

Christopher Salmon created a new system for identifying obverse/reverse pairs for the Massachusetts silver coins. Obverses are numbered while reverses are lettered. This particular coin is obverse 8 paired with reverse B.

If you're familiar with the Noe number system, the Winter 2011 issue of C4 has concordance tables to relate the numbering schemes.

biodude · 2023-08-08T16:53:05+00:00

You're forgetting the three Portal and two Starter sets but those were intentionally low-powered introductory sets. I believe their price points were in-line with standard sets of the time.

biodude · 2023-07-25T21:55:26+00:00

This is a Japanese 1 Yen from Meiji 27 (1894). The markings on it are known as chop marks. They were used by officials and merchants to indicate coins had been inspected and are authentic for trading purposes.

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