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Buying SOI

Long time, as I'm busy and not in the mood to do testing, I am not going to write about new decks. Instead, I am picking the cards to buy in SOI.

From the last set, I picked Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and Sylvan Advocate both which gained some profit(200% to 300%). I missed out Chandra, Flamecaller and Nissa, Voice of Zendikar. Other pieces of GR ramp deck - World Breaker and Kozilek's Return just broke even.

I think in SOI, we must be caution on both card buying choices and timings. It 's the first large set and usually the overall set price of such a set eventually, during a certain period, reach 60 - 70 tix. That means most cards in the set is lower than 1 tix with only 5-10 best cards ranked at the top level. I expect a significant drop will happen before the release of Eldrith Moon.

The two most important cards I want to collect are Westvale Abbey and Archangel Avacyn.
Westvale AbbeyArchangel Avacyn

They are cards that can be in more than one kind of deck. The chance to rise for Abbey may last til the next block, which is artifact based.

Probably, the whole set is full of potential but I don't want to buy the cards at current prices. You should wait with me.


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