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Corbin Hosler, ProTrader

PROTRADER: Sorting the Massive Collection

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I’m opening this half-written article as I sit in the airport on Thursday, annoyed that I wasn’t able to publish this today as originally scheduled. The reasons were beyond my control, but that doesn’t make missing deadline feel any better.

On the plus side, at least I have some real-world finance advice to offer as a result, thought it can be boiled down pretty simply: don’t get robbed on vacation.

I took this last week to go on a short vacation with friends to watch the Saints-Panthers football game in New Orleans (game was great). Unfortunately, on one of the first nights of the trip, I was accosted in the street by what I assumed was an intoxicated woman, who I pushed past as politely as I could. Unfortunately, things became more clear about 60 seconds later when I reached for my wallet and found it gone.

Getting robbed sucks, but I bear some responsibility. I didn’t move my wallet to my front pocket, I didn’t assume I was always at risk, even from what seemed like an innocent (if drunk) Bourbon Street-goer. I didn’t leave my extra cards behind at the room. All in all, the mistake cost me a few hundred dollars, and the time I spent dealing with the fallout (and getting my passport overnighted to Louisiana) cost me the time allotted to write this article.

Learn from my mistake, and the next time you’re on vacation, be a little smarter than I was.

Back to the Collection

So with that out of the way: Hey everyone, welcome to the second part of this series! I was happy to see how well the first article was received, and I’m excited to follow up on that this week.

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ProTrader: Magic doesn’t have to be expensive.

City of Traders, ProTrader

PROTRADER: At Least Jitte is Still Banned

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By: Travis Allen

Do you remember Caw-Blade? If you played during the original Zendikar block, you surely do. It was a tremendously skill-testing deck, with the better pilot always able to edge out advantages over worse players.

Pros loved it because it gave them a tool to beat all comers, and the better player basically always won. Non-pros hated it, because half the room was playing the same deck and they didn’t enjoy feeling like they had no chance whatsoever to beat a more talented opponent. Directly resulting from Caw-Blade’s dominance was the banning of Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic (except in the Event Deck, an extremely odd corner case to this day). History remembers Caw-Blade as one of, if not the, best Standard decks ever to find the inside of 75 sleeves.

Twin Blade was better.

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ProTrader: Magic doesn’t have to be expensive.

Accumulated Knowledge, ProTrader

PROTRADER: Opportunity (Not the Urza’s Legacy One)

Today is going to be a no-nonsense look at what is very potentially the softest sub-market in Magic for the present and immediate future. The cards that we are going to discuss today are not the only ones worth discussing; this is rather a “teach a person how to fish”approach, where you are able to take the parameters (as well as apply your own!) in order to make informed decisions for yourself. There will be a complementary thread in the forums for you to share your own thoughts and targets, so as to be a more long-lasting (and more secure!) discussion than the comment section (which is typically reserved for you people to tell me how great I am).

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ProTrader: Magic doesn’t have to be expensive.