Best trade yourve done?
Economics forum
Posted on June 11, 2016, 9:55 p.m. by McKz
So the other day a friend of mine said he got this planeswalker and land card, he said he needed just a bulk of commons and uncommons, so i head over to his house with like a thousand or so cards, to find out he wanted them in exchange for a liliana of the veil and a graven cairns. I told him the value of his cards and asked if he was okay with it
Yeah yyou should feel terrible. I dont have a lot of best trades but my favorite has been a scalding tarn exp that i pulled for 3 Rishadan Port
June 11, 2016 10:17 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #5
My: 4x Monastery Mentor, 1x Splinter Twin, 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
His: 2x Verdant Catacombs, Flusterstorm, Blightsteel Colossus, Stoneforge Mystic, 2x Koth of the Hammer, 2x Grafdigger's Cage
So this guy is the filthiest of casuals and before the trade he said that he doesn't trade for value; he trades for usefulness in future projects. Apparently he really really needed a splinter twin because when I told him I had them his face lit up like i've never seen before.
The way that this trade went, I pulled out all of the cards from his binder that I wanted, he then pulled out things to match using the system of 1 mythic = 2 rares = 4 uncommons = ~15 commons. I was waiting for him to keep pulling things when he sticks out his hand, i'm just like "You're done?", he says yeah and looks very serious, then I ask again "Are you absolutely certain that you're happy with this trade? Because I'd be willing to get you more stuff", and he says that he is absolutely content with the trade.
So that was the day that I traded a splinter twin for like half a legacy deck.
But @ the OP, if you're going to be making trades like this, you need to make the other person aware of what they're trading away. This is a super dick move if they aren't at least partially aware that you're taking $100 from them. I mean, people are allowed to make mistakes if they are happy with it at the time, I once traded away 2 Ajani Goldmane and an Elspeth Tirel for 3 Gravetiller Wurm... But if you have any shred of empathy, you need to let the other person know what they did / are going to be doing.
June 11, 2016 10:29 p.m.
Postmortal_Pop says... #6
I once traded some of my time to a neighbor in exchange for a precon deck from kamigawa. This wouldn't seem like a great deal except that it was the orchi deck that came with Sensei's Divining Top in it.
June 11, 2016 11:03 p.m.
bombproofsix says... #7
Not one of my trades but my friend traded a serra avatar for an omniscience. Both parties knew the value of the trade and were happy with it. To date one of the best trades I've seen as far as value goes.
June 12, 2016 midnight
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #8
Kytheon, Hero of Akros Flip for Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Flip. This was back when Jace was 10$ and Kytheon was 15$. I prereleased with Jace, and found out how awesome he was there, and traded away my Kytheon's to someone who was certain that Kytheon would be the next white weenies God.
TL;DR, I was happy when Jace spiked.
June 12, 2016 12:29 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #9
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June 12, 2016 1:26 a.m.
Rabid_Wombat says... #10
My: Erhnam Djinn
His: Mox Emerald
Told some kid he needed stompy creatures to win games back in '94
Still feel bad about it lol
June 12, 2016 5:13 a.m.
My best trade was a Djinn Illuminatus for my friend's foil Gatecrash Breeding Pool.
He traded me the djinn in a bulk trade, realized he wanted it back for his Mizzix deck after a while, and kept asking to trade for it. He asked what I wanted for it, I suggested the Breeding Pool as a joke more than anything, and he accepted. And he knew damn well what he was doing.
One of my friend also traded a bunch of bulk cards for a Demonic Tutor and Chalice of the Void. Lucky bastard. Lol
June 12, 2016 12:47 p.m.
$4 for a Kommand and foil Atarka's command. Not sure if this counts, as it was more of buying them from a guy at my LGS who knew full well their prices, but...
XD
June 12, 2016 8:30 p.m.
Titilanious says... #14
June 17, 2016 12:53 p.m.
The_Redpill says... #15
My foil Karn Liberated and expedition Flooded Grove for his NM beta Underground Sea.
DrFunk27 says... #2
I have so many questions about this, but I will just say, I hope that he knew the value of the cards he traded you. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that, being a friend you told him, and he was just awesome and didn't care. Because if you didn't tell him or mention it, you should feel terrible.
June 11, 2016 10:02 p.m.