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You are still supposed to report when you buy and sell stuff online.  It's actually a benefit to you if you can claim it as a business, but it's also a lot more work if you want to claim the deduction to say your electric bill due to part of your home serving as part of your business. 

See if you own a business, portions of your overhead/expenses are deductible, and if you're operating at a loss for any period you can actually reduce what you owe significantly.   However on the other hand if you're just buying and selling things on the internet, then the government wants part of your dollar every time it changes hands.  I know in my state if you buy more than a certain $ amount (I think it's $100) online from an out of state vendor and don't pay sales tax, there's a place on your tax forms where you're supposed to put that.  PayPal helps in keeping track of this part of it if you export your history as CSV files and then you can look at what you're making and spending in Excel and filter that to get good data. But this part is no different from buying and selling things on e-bay.

However when you're trying to claim a portion of your house as part of your business (such as having a jewelry studio in your basement) things get complicated, you can claim a certain percentage of your utilities for example based on what square footage of your home is set aside for that purpose.  Some instances you can claim the wear/tear on your vehicle ect. I'm not sure how this would relate to MTG, but I'm sure it could get pretty complicated.  Also to be a business though you need to get a local business license and comply with local laws as well.

Things get complicated when you have a business in your home.

So there's a lot of crap you can write off if you're a business that you can't if it's just a hobby.  That's why you have to justify having a business, and there are rules differentiating a business from a hobby.

LED has been sold, and so have the Etched Champions.

I wanted to move some of this off to e-bay, but never got around to listing it there, so the rest is all still available.

Update 4/29:
Glimmervoids have been traded.  Removed them from the first post.

Ancient Tomb FTV version has two very different prices (foil and normal) yet is only available in foil.  Currently displaying:  $34.21  $26.25 (Normal / Foil).

Things have to be on your tradelist in order to give them a price for the market.  (Market price is literally an extra column in your tradelist that is not available in your inventory). Also, I actually do a bit of the opposite, I put prices on all of the low value cards, because I'd usually like to move them any way that I can.  Generally if you beat the average price you can sell just about any card.     

Higher end cards may not have a price on them unless I have a specific card in mind I would buy if they sold, but they are still on my trade list if I'm willing to entertain offers for them, or if I'd let them go to get a better card.

The following cards do not have a price ($0.00):

Foil Zendikar and Mirrodin Edition Plains
Mirrodin foil Forest
Foil Mountain from Odessy and Fire and Lightning
Foil Swamp from Innistrad and Graveborn

Promo and odd set foils
Reanimate FNM promo
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed - judge foil
Necropotence Deckmasters foil

EDH is a fantastic format, and Treva, The Renewer is a card I have not yet run into as a general, so props for being original.  A lot of the cards that are in there are great cards for 1 vs 1, but not so great in multiplayer.  I would try to limit the Giant Growth effects, focus a bit more on answers and cards that give more value (think acidic slime which does something just for being played, or Verdant Force which does something on every player's turn).

Also Carnivorous plant is a pretty bad wall, yes the stats are good, but for 1 mana more you could be running Cockatrice and have the option to attack, or for 4 mana you could run Yeva, Nature's Herald and have a 4/4 with a good ability.

When I'm building decks using the online interface I'll move things to the sideboard then if I want to put one back in I have to take out something from the deck that is worse than the card on the sideboard. Maybe try that.  Just move cards to the sideboard till you get down closer to 100 then refine the idea you want to build around.

I'd replace Condemn and Disenchant with two Oblivion Ring.  This not only gives you greater versatility in being able to deal with things like Planeswalkers, but also in some cases such as against wormcoil, exiling is just better than destroying.

Not sure how to cancel a sale, but I'd assume you'd do a refund through PayPal.  Try e-mailing your buyer.  Also any prices you set should have stayed.  You can put your account on 'vacation mode' too under the edit profile page.

There is a lot of negativity here, I just wanted to say I have faith that this site will return to full awesomeness, hopefully sooner rather than later.  Thanks Sebi for all of your hard work. 

I've seen other sites have similar problems.  PucaTrade for example ended up writing their own pricing code.

I'm hoping that this change actually allows Deckbox to move away from the restrictions of TCG player and accommodate more of the promos & cards that were not previously listed.

It's fair when you compare it to other sites such as TCG Player or e-bay.
TCGplayer fee = 8.5% + PayPal / Credit Card processing fee = 2.5% + $0.50

Also, thank you. 

You can.  If you create decks and you click on the link to a card's page it will tell you which decks you have that use that card. Assuming you keep your decks accurate you could use this to track whatever random stack of cards you want.  If you want to track a binder make a deck called binder 1.  This does have the limitation however of not tracking the specific edition.  So for a card like Artisan of Kozilek that I had to track down last night I had to check two places because one had the commander version and one had the Eldrazi version, but at least I knew which two decks to look in.