From Bulk to BLING! How I Built My New EDH Decks | Magic: the Gathering
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- CardSphere is changing the game on trading! Check it out here: www.cardsphere.com/
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I've been using Cardsphere for half a decade. Love it. I don't spend much money on magic. I just trade for cards I want
Solid. I’m pretty on and off for shipping cards there, definitely enjoy it.
Whenever I hear about sites like this I always wonder: is international shipping just better out there? I've lost my share of packages over the years, or appeared late enough to have damaged trusts. Upgrading to tracked shipping cost a lot, and when packages come at all, they are subjects to multiple fees at the customs (even if marked as a gift). It pretty much kills my appetite to trading, while the local market isn't very active. I've got cards languishing that would fetch some pretty penny outside but aren't worth peanuts around here.
This is the way.
I was so happy that Space Cow saved Cardsphere. I've been using it for years. Surprise mail days are the best. I'm glad you're spreading the word!
I love CS, I'm so glad EDHRec saved them from going under!
This looks like exactly what I've been looking for ever since I started hardcore collecting. Thanks for the video, Joey!
Nice man! I've been trading cards online now for somewhere over 10 years and it never fails to feel like Christmas when you get a trade package of new deck upgrades or presents for friends in! 🍻
Great video, I've been using the site for about 5 years now, and have blinged out several EDH decks using the site exactly as you have. I've also acquired a lot of great reserved list cards like Dual Lands for great prices too!
It's quickly become my favorite site to get upgrades for commander.
Brilliant! I will be going to this site to list and grab some cards ASAP.
Thanks for this very helpful video.
Pretty surprised I've never heard of this dang
First time iv fully watched an ad and it was for something iv wanted forever now! :p great video by the way!!
i really like cardsphere am so glad they got purchased so didn't shut down
Yay Cardsphere! Love Cardsphere!
Dear lord, this video makes me want to lose sleep tonight and try this out. I miss trading sooo much!
We have that in EU as well, as the CardMarket - you can do all this base things you mentioned, but its based on funds you gathered selling or adding via card / paypal, and then for the buy part, every seller has a list of what they have and you can just get things from there
Just in time for my lunch break. Lets goo
Sounds much like cardmarket over here in europe, except for the percentage offerings and trading system (which i think is a cool gimmick tbh)
Never heard of this before, but excited to take a look personally. I've missed trading mostly because I know I don't have enough valuable cards I'm willing to part with. But I'm also looking mostly for budget stuff too. So I'm looking forward to trying to trade some bulk type stuff
This feels a lot like what pucatrade was back in the day. I worry about how this site may fall to the same fate, but I did use Pucatrade to build Legacy D&T so it's definitely a great concept
The difference is that Cardsphere uses real money, so inflation is impossible. It's really a great site.
There are no "puca point" like currencies used in CardSphere, everything is directly attached to US Dollars so there is no way to add inflation into the system. Space Cow Media keeps all funds on the platform backed up with USD. If you ever want to cash out you take a 10% fee for doing so, which in combination with the 3% trading fee is on par with the fees for selling on other platforms like eBay and TCGplayer.
It won't fall into the same fate. Pucatrade had an internal currency and the admins of that site hyperinflated the internal currency away.
All trades on Cardsphere are done in USD. So your value only inflates away as much as the federal reserve and US monetary policy inflates away your dollars... Which is the least worst as far as global currencies go.
CS was actually developed by former users of Pucatrade who liked the asymmetrical concept but hated the mismanagement of the economy. All money in CS is real USD put into the system by users and can be withdrawn from the escrow account, which means that the economy is as stable as the real economy.
Thank you Joey I am so using this it seems so much easier to trade since I’m trying to save up for a my own house but the cardboard addiction is still so strong
I use moxfield for my collection, I am painstakingly adding each common card too because I only make my decks with what I have, that's my limitation.
This is an incredibly cool idea! Idk have feasible this would be, but I would love to see a video on the best ways to package singles safely. I've never shipped individual cards before and I want to make sure I'm doing so properly!
not a video, but if you join the CS discord, there are plenty of people happy to tell you the best way to do this!
This sounds great. The only trading I've done in ages (since I first played many years ago) has been at the LGS where I play. We get a couple of boosters for our buy-in. Open a pack, see what you don't want, pass it around the table.
Love Cardsphere, been using it for years. Let's go!
I've been using the site since it started and love it, traded hundreds of cards. Ive even cashed out. If you're skeptical, start smaller.
One of my biggest qualms with these online trading resources is dealing with people without being face to face. That said, I would love if we could filter by location too.
you actually can! in settings you can filter what countries can send to you, and on the sends page you can filter what countries you want to see offers from!
I'm very excited about this because I have a lot of cards that are not being used and would like to trade with. My LGS doesn't carry a lot of what I'm looking for so trading to them is very difficult. Thank you guys!
I’ve expressly been bringing my trade binder and passing it around at events to try and encourage trades. And I end up giving a lot of cards away or at a loss of 25% or more. It gives me so much joy to get weird stuff I haven’t seen in ages and will fit into a deck and to see the joy in others’ faces when they get a piece they’ve been looking for :)
My biggest pet peeve is someone trying to get trade values into the exact value. Is it within a buck or two? Let’s trade!
If I’m low by a bit, throw in something I saw them eye. If they’re low, “close enough.”
That said, this is an incredible idea for simplifying the trade market. I’ve been browsing it since the beginning of this video.
Sounds like we need to all do our part to bring trades and be better at trading at lgs so trading doesnt die. Something i myself will need to be more mindful of doing.
I remember trading when I first got into MTG and every experience I had was terrible. Most people were not willing to trade if they couldn't find something else to make up for change in difference, even when it came down to big trades. I remember trading every chance I got when I played Yu-Gi-Oh and just rounding up or down if some trades didn't completely match up.
i mean can you blame someone for not wanting to trade down? if someone wanted my 30 dollar card i would want at least around a 25dollar trade. the point in trading is to get closer to its value then say trading it to the lgs you are at. There are people that will trade just to trade but mostly those are to friends or to someone making a bigger or better video.@@Blacklodge_Willy
Can Joey do a guide to graveyards sometime? I’m newer to Mtg and just built my first graveyard deck so I’m sure I could learn a lot. Maybe just an overview of some of his favorite strategies or plays using graveyards?
Ive been waiting for this plug since Space Cow acquired it :3
Never heard of it, instantly bookmarked it on my computer
Curiously enough, here in Brazil I very often see people dealing in person rather than buying online due to delivery fees. But it's probably a very specific scenario due to the minimum wage in the country and the price of the MTG products.
I'm trying out Mortuary in a bunch of decks like Baba Lysaga and Henzie.
I admit I don't know if it works the way I want it to.
Thanks have to look into it, have to many cards which i dont play 🙂
My only gripe is that I feel like I’ll have to build reputation again before people there will take my offers seriously.
Wish a little bit I had considered this one last week when I opened a sick card at a prerelease and immediately traded it in with the store.
I whole heartedly support a trading card platform. I think it’s awesome that another market exists but I prefer to go to a known vendor and have near immediate shipping. My younger self wish this existed 20 years ago!
ive had card sphere for a few weeks. but man you have some different stuff on yours, i cant find that "my offers" part where you can manually set percentage. I even looked at the Wants tutorial from card sphere and it wasnt on theirs either.
I haved a foil swan song coming from cardsphere right now but it wasn't from you!
Is this site useful if you don’t have expensive cards? I’m talking most the cards I wanna get rid of are in the $5-$8 range.
100%. That's actually the range most of my sends have been in.
I wish my collection was actually big enough to have fun trades, but i do have a ton of magic decks, maybe ill take them apart on here
I only have about 50 cards listed at any given time since I don't have the time or attention available to do more. It's pretty easy to keep your own limits in place regardless of size
Cool resource! I think I prefer simply selling the cards I don't need and buying the ones I want (it just feels more convenient to me) so I don't see myself using this site, but I know some people who'd probably dig this.
I was so bummed when pucatrade changed their UI, resulting in site utilization to drop significantly. RIP Pucatrade
But is Cardsphere for someone who more budget and needs to buy and sell cards that are usually 25cents to a dollar?
No need to pay for shipping makes buying 25 cent cards much more affordable. Getting cheap cards sent your way is easy. Sending them out is easy too, but make sure you can create a large enough package to make shipping worth it.
I actually think that’s ideal use of cardsphere. Since the sender handles the shipping costs, it’s not uncommon to get multiple .10 cards for their actual price rather than their actual price + $1.10 shipping.
Is Cardsphere USA Only, I can't find info if International ??
it is available in any country that can send and receive mail. I have sent packages to and received from countries the world over
So how does this mess with taxes? if I buy a card off tcg player for 100$ and then I sell it for 100$ then I pay 0 in tax. but if I trade the card and sell the other card then I have to pay full tax on that 100$ I made?
Most state tax codes rely on you to self report income of this nature. The reason we work with PayPal is because they support providing tax docs for these types of income significantly better than other options. I'm not an accountant but PayPal will support these types of transactions
How does it work with disputes exactly? Seems far too easy to send a card and never receive one in return. Has anything like that happened to you personally?
It's theoretically possible to scam people, but the admins are always on the lookout for this. The vast majority of traders are honest and will give you no problems. I personally have sent and received hundreds of packages without a single lost package.
You aren't directly trading cards for cards. You upload your haves (inventory) and then you send them out to people based on how much people are offering for specific cards. Then when the recipient receives the cards they mark them as such and you have funds deposited into your account, which you can then use to make offers on cards. If you don't want to bother with sending cards you can all add funds to your account directly. The admins quickly remove anyone with a pattern of poor behavior and personally I have never had a send not marked as received after hundreds of sends.
We have a dedicated dispute person who handles all of our user satisfaction based items. They have a dashboard with all open disputes and handle everything from condition disputes, fakes and the like. Most of the time we see users getting stuff resolved on their own though like a recent dispute I had where a user forgot to include a certain card so they just sent it as a separate package instead of cancelling the trade.
Can you set geographic limits?
Yes, both when choosing where to ship and who can ship to you.
Good looking haircut! Joey, you ever wear a hard part like with a razor?
i trade mainly on deckbox
Ahhhh... it must be nice to not be anxious at setting up and sending stuff via mail... I am so bad with this, I am always scared I do it wrong (wrong address, wrong stamp, things get damaged) and I cant imagine having to deal with the fallout of it... glad others have a good way of trading, sadly this aint for me
Printing out shipping labels on a regular printer is how I overcame this plus a stamper for my own address
@@mathimus55 thanks for answering! There is a lot behind all of this that doesn't have to do anything with magic and just with my own psyche. Maybe I will try to set something up one day. You guys are doing a great job of spreading information about Mtg and how to play it, please keep it up! :) I was just frustrated with myself after seeing the video^^
Since I decided to convert to full proxy for commander, I've used this to turn my old commander cards into 1.5 modern decks and a pioneer deck! Highly recommend
Not bringing a trade binder to an event is wild to me
Joey, can we get a Red Paperclip 📎 vid based on this platform? (Red Paperclip is the idea of trading something worthless to a house, so something like a basic to a Sheoldred using only the trades on CardSphere)
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sadly there are very few europeans on cardsphere
a binder to a deck box would have probably been better for the cardsphere ad. cool resource though
Is this sponsored? It feels like it is but I'm not seeing any disclosure...
"promo sm" 🤤
I'm a zoomer, what's an envelope?
Joey discovering that MtG is a trading card game
Until I can just go there and buy what I want with my card I am good. Not uploading money.
so... the "secret" is to live in the USA? welp...
CardSphere isn't region-locked (mentioned at 8:35) you can trade with folks in just about any country 😉
Isn't it always? The rest of the world basically doesn't exist for Yanks.
@@EDHRECast but as always, you can rarely find people outside the US, Canada or SOME countries in Europe, and the shipping costs makes not worth it really. Cool tech, but just too narrow and expensive for outside those places...
@@ficus666 Be the change you want to see! Make a site like this on your region!
@@ficus666Cardsphere in particular has lots of Canadian users. You're right that trading to some other countries can be more difficult, though there are active members from Aus, NZ and many European countries.
Just a version of puca trade RIP use with extreme caution.
The difference is that Cardsphere uses real money, so inflation is impossible.
I mean, I've been using it for a year, the potential for it to go wrong is pretty limited. About the worst that can happen is you agree to send someone a card that immediately spikes in price... But that's kind of on you as a trader. The escrow system that uses money you've paid in is a pretty elegant way to give you confidence in trading. I personally love it - it speaks to my enjoyment of gradually getting cool cards and building my decks that way.