Hate to burst your bubble, but a box "from 10 years ago" would not be Revised.

10 years ago would be like Magic 2010 or Scars of Mirrodin.

Revised would have been more than 25 years ago.

If you are looking to sell, I've found that ABU games will often have the best buy prices.

I recently re-organized my MTG collection.

I found these stack-able white drawer containers that hold a 3200 count box inside them very nicely. I had gotten sick of just having a stack of boxes that I would need to shuffle around when trying to get cards out of a bottom box.

This makes things much easier, and looks a lot nicer too.

This is just my Modern commons and uncommons (the rares and foils are in binders in a cabinet) and the older stuff is in another spot.

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How so? I've sold a bunch of stuff to them over the past few years (usually for store credit rather than cash though). I found that they're willing to buy a lot of stuff that other places don't, and at better prices too.

That's one of the reasons I only buy from well-known sites (or my local game store who I've known for a long time).

ABUGames and StarCityGames are probably the best sites around for both buying and selling "normal" cards. If you are talking about buying/selling power-9 and dual lands, then maybe it is something different. I've never owned any "power", and only have a small number of duals that I have no plan to sell.

Yes, getting any card graded a 10 is quite hard, but I've never owned anything worth getting graded anyway. My most valuable card is probably a foil Jace worth a few hundred.

I will probably buy some Double Masters. Most likely 1 booster box and 1 vip pack.
My LGS is selling them at a very good price, and I'm trying to help them stay in business.

I would actually buy more, but I just committed a huge amount of $ for a bathroom remodel, so the discretionary funds are a bit low right now.

Wow...that's amazing. I never knew that existed - and I should have.

I used to be in the video game industry, and knew several people who worked at Acclaim at that time. It was also the time when I was just getting into Magic.

On the other hand, Acclaim's coin-op business was only around for a little while (and never did very well), so I would not be surprised if very few of these machines were ever made.

Thanks for posting this.

I'm not surprised that only a few of these were made. It has a date of 1997, and Acclaim Coin-Op closed in March of 1998.

I almost accepted a generous job offer from Acclaim in Salt Lake City (then called Sculptured Software) in 1996, but instead went to a different company in Texas. Pretty glad I did that as Sculptured died pretty quickly soon after that.

Yes, they definitely crank out sets too often now, which is one of the main reasons that I don't play Standard anymore - it's just not practical to keep up.

On the other hand, I've had decent luck with the VIP packs...I opened a foil borderless Mana Crypt last week. But I've bought them from my LGS where I can be sure that they have NOT been tampered with.

I'm mostly just fed up with all the variants of each card (different artwork, different foil treatments, different borders, etc.).

I used to like collecting (and playing with) foils, but now every card has so many versions that you can't even keep track of them, much less collect them.

The "best" way depends on what you want. Are you looking for highest dollar return, or easiest way to convert to quick cash?

The easiest way would be to sell to a retail store (i.e. StarCity Games), but they will probably give you the lowest amount.
Selling them yourself would most likely give you the best return, but would involve a lot more work (and would take a while).
There are also consignment services that would probably be somewhere in between.

You say you have "a number" of unopened stuff, do you mean like 3 or like 300?

Hence my post above...

Selling to one place is quick and easy, but less profitable.
Selling card by card is slow and hard, but more profitable.

Which is "best"? That depends on how much you value your time/effort.

Not that any body watches this thread, but I wanted to just announce (as the "proud uncle") that my nephew Jake Beardsley just WON ProTour:Barcelona!

I'm kind of surprised at how Wizards has pushed Arena. I spend lots of time playing Arena now, but spend far less money than I used to.

I used to play Magic Online, buying lots of online cards and also buying lots of physical cards. Now I buy much less physical cards, and spend almost nothing on Arena - even though I am playing more Magic overall.

Seems to me that Arena is a really bad business-plan.

In other news, my nephew will be playing in the Worlds Championship this weekend...wish him luck!