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I'd say three Zendikar Fetches is pretty crazy given their prices
Honestly, you aren't wrong. Invest in cards you'll actually play. At the beginning of this year I made my largest investment into a deck ever and got a Gaea's Cradle for my Rhys, the Redeemed EDH deck and I've played it and won games thanks to it so much that I completely considered it worthwhile and a good purchase, despite the outrageous price tag tied to it.
I remember when I cracked one of the Khans fetches and an Ugin's nexus in the same box early on as an MTG player and thought the fetch was garbage and the nexus was amazing.
I sometimes look back thru my collection and don't realize cards are worth more than I'd guessed. I had some Ensnaring bridges and Metalworker just chilling in my extra cards. People are this card worth money, and like oh I got those. I mean I'd looked up the cost before ever trading, but it's stuff that just went up in value over time. I didn't collect it simply make money later. I am sure I'd probably come out ahead if I sold off all my cards but I am have no desire to part with any of it as of right now.
Well for one my Liliana the last hope and my two foil risk factors.
Second, (go on and laugh if you will) my foil Hedrom Crawler and foil Skin Invasion.
My most prized deck is my Tymaret the Murder King EDH.
Some of my other prized cards are 5 of the 6 meld cards (I am missing Gisela, The Broken Blade and it is killing me!)
I got a foil tezzeret with 1 booster pack only in the core set 2019 tool kit, so the odds was slim there but it was fun.
I had an avacyn restored version of cavern of souls also and sold it off before it jumped in price to a card shop like an idiot... i still get razzed about even owning one by my friends in my playgroup lol.
I didnt look andsee if i already shared this earlier. If i did, sorry!
As for my collection, I had a Jhoira deck that would use paradox engine to make an infinite number of wurmcoil engines. Now I don't have anything too nice since my group has kind of agreed to stay at low prices.
Sounds like budget is your pricerange for your playgroup? Mine doesnt claim budget, we just are broke and play what we can get our hands on. Itd be great to play you sometime, weve played @Ranshi922 over video on phone already its pretty fun when Ranshis not stopping my attacks. But it is fun to watch him beat up temurgideons warrior deck lol!
As a sidenote, it's frustrating to pull your crazy awesome mythic rare Gisela and learn you need another mythic to make it work at its full potential.
Also as another sidenote, I did trade away both Lili and Gisela to my friends each for a large pile of rares. They wanted it more than I did, and I knew that would make me happier.
Lord of Scatterskull Pass Spanish Foil Promo
Chinese (I believe) Goblin Game
Scion of Vita-Ghazi Chinese Simplified
Russian Plasm Capture
Timeshifted Lightning Angel in Spanish
Grindclock in Russian
Dragonshift in Spanish
Spanish Blood Tyrant
Italian Leyline of Lifeforce
Russian Nissa's Revelation
Japanese Decimator Web
Korean Sword of the Animist
Chinese Simplified Nantuko Shade
Japanese Redirect
And my two favorites of these are:
French Glorious Anthem from 8th edition (aka white border)
German Promo Foil Maze's End with date stamp
A couple other favorite cards of mine
The first mythic (possibly the first pack I opened) was Shadowborn Demon, which I happily still have.
Treiskaidekaphobia is one of my all-time favorite magic cards, completely sold me on SOI, and I bought a box of it and thankfully opened it. Still don't own thirteen of them though...
What I might own thirteen copies of though is Atarka, World Render. I ended up getting so many of the promo ones because I would get the packs at Walmart that had two booster packs pretty much any time I saw a return to ravnica block pack inside. Still haven't opened a shockland.
I also have a bunch of the red chaos cards (the goblin game I have is very intentional).
I think I also have a Mana Tithe, which I just love because of course.
My paper collection is a lot more extensive and liquid. I have four modern decks (GDS, rakdos burn, mono green devotion, and bogles) and two legacy decks (GB nic fit and the parts for miracles/stoneblade/D&T).
My personal favorite card is Serra Avatar. I own one of each version of it and have three custom alters of it from JB Alterz. Some other things I like to collect are Mana Crypts (I have one of each printing/version) and artist proofs. I own all of the Chandler artist proofs that exist, all signed by Douglas Shuler. One has a sketch by him and one is altered by Joseph Meehan (a more recent Magic artist) to look like his is in the kitchen from Friends. I have an Eldest Reborn artist proof with a sweet commissioned sketch on it as well as a foil Muldrotha proof with a sketch of Multani watering baby Muldrotha on the back of it.
In terms of art pieces, I have all 16 black-on-black SDCC planeswalkers framed. I also have two framed uncut sheets. One is foil SOI commons and the other is the Zedruu commander precon deck signed by 20 different artists.
In terms of other value I have playsets of all of the dual lands NM (all revised white border), all of the fetches, shocks, etc. I have some oddball expensive cards like Living Plane and Raging River.
I have a pet pauper deck (list here) which is currently about $500 in value. All of the cards are foil (except when the don't exist) and their most expensive versions otherwise. Notable cards are 4x alpha Pestilence and 4x masterpiece Diabolic Edict and 3x foil Thorn of the Black Rose along with 1x OG Torment Chainer's Edict foil. The next step for the deck would be getting guru basics but at about $400 per plains and $450 per swamp, it's not an investment I'm making any time soon.
I also just took apart two commander decks to make two (temur clones and Tibor and Lumiya came apart to make UR copy spells and 4c animation). I have... 13, I think, current commander decks that range from $50 mardu fun stuff and $150 Homura suicide aggro to cEDH Meren and Xenagos decks.
Here's a link to pictures of some of the stuff
Technically that card wasn't a prize. Everyone who participated could get one, but preliminary stages were hard, and I'm really proud of the deck I was using(This deck- https://i.imgur.com/Y8ecQB5.png It may seem like a normal WU control, but it's very different from other popular WU control decks back then), so that Ajani means a lot.
I also love this monstrous pile of cards that I made with my friends.
We pick cards randomly from that pile to play cube draft. No one can know what's in the cube, so it's fairer. There are a bunch of cards in it, but we care about the curve/balance of colors, costs, rarities, types, and synergies.
I'll look through my collection later and see what individual cards I have that stand out as well.
December 23, 2018: Leaving the LGS, I bought the last pack of Modern Master 2017, we opened it, Liliana of the Veil.
December 26, 2018: I sell Liliana of the Veil, then bought a loose Dominaria Pre-Release Kit from a random LGS on my way home, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria as foil promo.
From one pack?