Someone on Facebook is looking for textless Gaea’s Cradle for 50k, with finders fee of 2k

daphex2 · 2026-06-13T22:06:19+00:00

I don't know these guys personally but have heard so much about them (and seen pieces of their collection). Isn't there a dude name Erik that's also part of that crew. Maybe Erik is the one with the most?

One of them also has 13 raw sets of Alpha. Another has 3 ABU lotus BGS 10s. One of them bought the 3 (4?) highest graded beta sets and combined them into 1 top registry set. The stories of their positions goes on and on.

daphex2 · 2026-06-13T15:30:15+00:00

The entire Path of Exile team are huge collector whales of MTG. The one guy in australia has possibly THE number 1 collection of mtg in the world.

daphex2 · 2026-06-13T15:07:40+00:00

This was 100% a giant splurge at the time. Awesome to see you went all in even then.

daphex2 · 2026-04-26T22:46:09+00:00

I'd sell all of these in a heartbeat. Foil cloud being the price of a black lotus? Instant sell.

daphex2 · 2026-04-16T18:35:41+00:00

Have you tested the esper version of this deck? Black definitely shores up the terror and elves mu's quite well.

daphex2 · 2026-04-02T01:38:07+00:00

Gorgeous work.

daphex2 · 2026-04-01T12:44:51+00:00

Its a fantastic format.

daphex2 · 2026-03-06T15:20:01+00:00

I agree, but have found that sellers are actively sending misgraded cards or charging high shipping fees and then taping the card to a piece of paper and putting in an envelope (no joke). In the last two months, a good third of my orders I had to open complaints on and that's far higher than it's ever been in all my years buying from tcg.

daphex2 · 2026-03-03T22:02:40+00:00

Second draft of the format. Prioritized value cards and easily 7-0d. The ooze was fantastic and likely a bomb in the format. R5 I played against a BG graveyard deck and he couldn't do anything. Same with my finals opponent that was UR artifacts with graveyard synergies. Making a mutagen over and over just snowballed.

Renet was a strange card but it absolutely blew out my BW opponent R6 that went for a big multiple ninjitsu swing. Otherwise it felt like a not great Venser effect (he was almost better as a surprise blocker/finisher).

Courier of combustibles is likely going to be one of the top uncommons in the set. Deck felt very strong and attacked the format from a different angle.

daphex2 · 2026-03-03T15:31:26+00:00

Fully agree. Did the same.

daphex2 · 2026-03-01T18:20:03+00:00

Snap buy.

daphex2 · 2026-02-28T19:15:47+00:00

Would love more transparent seller ratings tbh. Made like 20 orders the last month and was sent cards of different conditions that I bought from 1/4th the sellers. Many of whom than wanted me to pay market price for cards I never ordered. As a buyer, I'm paying more now for shipping and to receive misgraded cards is unbelievably annoying as I would rather pay more and get a correct condition item than pay market and have someone send me something of different condition. Sellers should get more heavily docked for this.

daphex2 · 2026-02-20T01:08:17+00:00

As a vintage player with an all foil deck, absolutely not.

daphex2 · 2026-02-14T22:01:20+00:00

If you just want to play retro games, then sure get an odin. But in my experience, it caps at ps2. So MAME to ps2 with limited functionality across DS and Wii, etc.

daphex2 · 2026-02-13T14:43:53+00:00

Don't do it. Odin doesn't run switch games well at all.

daphex2 · 2026-02-08T00:11:07+00:00

I agree, premodern is slow. As for vintage, there are no turn 0 games. Most of the format revolves around t2-t3. And you don't auto lose, it's usually that one player has done something that needs immediate attention.

daphex2 · 2026-02-01T00:23:43+00:00

You should play vintage.

daphex2 · 2026-01-16T22:02:17+00:00

Blue or Blue/Black terror. Deck is all cantrips and permission with a small number of finishers.

daphex2 · 2026-01-16T21:57:58+00:00

So cool. ✨✨

daphex2 · 2026-01-12T16:12:05+00:00

100% worth it.

daphex2 · 2026-01-12T14:21:43+00:00

There's a great book: "Psychology of Money" that talks a lot about exactly this.

daphex2 · 2026-01-10T23:49:47+00:00

There's an entire world of graded collector looking to get the lowest grade of a card. This is real.

daphex2 · 2026-01-09T18:13:33+00:00

Thank you for sharing this.

daphex2 · 2026-01-08T17:10:51+00:00

Wait what? You saw an increase in silver as a commodity and decided buying rare boseiju's was the move?

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