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This is 100% how I feel about it, too. I miss the days of a 249 card set with a handful of related promos. The only post-"booster fun" set I've tried to collect an entire playset of is Eldraine. And like you said..... oodles.

To the actual idea: I honestly think just more customizable collection goals in general would be awesome. Specify which sets (or portions of a set) you want 4x of or 1x of. Completely ignore entire editions. Etc.

I'm sure any implementation would be very complicated, so I'm not holding my breath on it being soon, but I think it's something that should be worked towards.

You're not missing anything. Sebi just hasn't had a chance to get the tokens imported yet. Should be soon.

I just remembered that there is a group here for set collectors:

https://deckbox.org/communities/set_collectors

If you join, then it is very easy to look for trades with this group as you can always browse the members list or post in the forum (not that it is very active right now).

Celtic68 wrote:

I  am actually not either. I am more than willing to talk about doing one for one trades though - especially if someone wants to complete something specific.

Just out of curiosity, do you happen to have any foreign cards you're trying to find a way to deal with? I've bought large collections in that past that came with handfuls of foreign cards which I don't want to keep. I'm considering posting in here seeing if anyone who wants a specific language is willing to do one-for-one trades. I think they'll be otherwise difficult to move.

As to condition, I don't collect anything worse than LP, nor will I send anyone MP or worse cards, unless they specifically don't care. And I'm pretty picky about the lines between those three. Cards quickly become LP with anything more than a couple small nicks, and they quickly become MP with any amount of substantial wear. (Once you get to MP, there's a lot of room for damage before it becomes HP, and similarly, most really yucky cards can be considered HP, not damaged.) I am willing to send scans of cards that I feel are on the line between those conditions if you'd like to see.

That all said, if we do a trade of a couple hundred cards, and a half dozen 10 cent cards arrive in what I'd call MP, I'm not going to make a big deal out of it!

What's your stance on condition for your own collection? Are you fine with MP cards, especially if they're older? Or do you also want only very clean cards?

I'm in the same boat and have actually been considering posting this sort of memo. Life's just been too busy for me to get my act together!! But I'm definitely interested.

I don't have as big of a collection, probably around 45k, but about 10k of that is duplicates past a playset. I'm mostly interested in trading bulk (though not all my extras are strictly bulk, with a good handful in the $2-$5 range). It may seem counter-intuitive, but I actually feel way better outright buying (rather than trading for) a single $100 card than I do 200 cards averaging 50 cents. It's surprisingly expensive to fill out playsets of bulk cards, and they feel way worse to buy!

Question for you: Are you trying to collect reprint sets like Masters sets or precons like Duel Decks? I'm actually not, unless the card has artwork that can't be found in a regular expansion. If you are, would you be willing to do one-for-one trades of the same card, just from different editions? This question also applies to things like Core Sets that often have the same card with the same art.