Buying online

[cltrn81]

I've had good experiences with cardkingdom.com.  I usually make a card list and shop around though.  See which site gives me all the cards I want for the lowest overall price.

Yea I find myself spending hours trying to buy the most amount of cards from the same dealer or just a few.  TCGplayer.com has a cart optimizer that works well but that thing can be tricky to use so you gotta be careful........take a screenshot before you do it do you can compare better.  Bad thing is there is no undo button for the optimizer even if you page back.......once you goto check out it will bring up the optimized version.

[Willthomjr]

Yeah buy a booster box of DKA and get 3 sorins or buy them for 17$ a piece.

Standard is expensive. A card is in standard for a little over a year? 9 months per block?

[BlackJester]

Yeah buy a booster box of DKA and get 3 sorins or buy them for 17$ a piece.

Standard is expensive. A card is in standard for a little over a year? 9 months per block?

If you get an AVR card now, it will be in rotation until the block following Ravnica rotated in.  If you got one from Innistrad, it would be ~2years.

[Willthomjr]

K. I was thinking about 3 months per expansion 9 per block then whenever new magic editions come out

[BlackJester]

K. I was thinking about 3 months per expansion 9 per block then whenever new magic editions come out

Right, but standard includes two blocks.

[Coffee Vampire]

Only place I have purchased cards is ebay. I always get them for average price because I do BIN. I guess I'm too lazy to bid. :p

If you know how to judge a seller, then you can get cards from ebay that are unplayed/nm/packfresh/whatever. I usually look for the word "unplayed" though.

When buying from ebay check: how long the seller has been on ebay, how much negative and positive feedback he or she has, check the discription. All that stuff.