Old M:tG cards

[Merkuri]

I'm not sure exactly where they are and I have no idea what made me think of it, but I have a box somewhere full of old Magic cards from when I used to play. I believe I sold all the semi-valuable ones off a while ago when I decided to give it up, but there are probably around two or three hundred common and uncommons in that box of varying colors. The catch is these cards are all from the days of 4th and 3rd edition. I've been out of the Magic loop for a long time, but I hear they're now up to 6th edition. Are these cards worth anything? What might I expect if I decide to put them up on eBay? Or should I ask, is it worth putting them up on eBay? Not all of them are from 3rd or 4th edition, a bunch are from the various expansions, like Fallen Empires and Ice Age (and more that I don't remember). Are they all just scrap paper worth a few cents each, or does their age make them more valuable?

[Darkwalker]

Merkuri said:

I'm not sure exactly where they are and I have no idea what made me think of it, but I have a box somewhere full of old Magic cards from when I used to play. I believe I sold all the semi-valuable ones off a while ago when I decided to give it up, but there are probably around two or three hundred common and uncommons in that box of varying colors. The catch is these cards are all from the days of 4th and 3rd edition. I've been out of the Magic loop for a long time, but I hear they're now up to 6th edition. Are these cards worth anything? What might I expect if I decide to put them up on eBay? Or should I ask, is it worth putting them up on eBay? Not all of them are from 3rd or 4th edition, a bunch are from the various expansions, like Fallen Empires and Ice Age (and more that I don't remember). Are they all just scrap paper worth a few cents each, or does their age make them more valuable?

Mmmm....very nice indeed. FYI, they are up to 8th edition now. The cards, depending on which ones you have, might be worth more than some of the rares of today...others might be worth less than the paper they are printed on. If you find them post some of them here and I will be better able to tel lyou if you have a decent find there.

[Merkuri]

Ooh, found them and apparently I haven't sold all of my better cards. I still have five cards in the plastic sleeve (which I'm assuming I did because they were valuable): Three Gaea's Liege, one 3rd ed and 2 4th ed, a 3rd ed Cockatrice, and a Serpent Generator from some expansion I don't recall the name of... a little piece of a greek-looking pillar is the mark.

And here's a list of some of my other cards (I had them in some order in the box, I think it was edition, rarity, color, abc.. anyway, I'll just post them in the order they were in the box):

3rd:
Conversion
Wall of Swords
Control Magic
Lifetap
Water Elemental
Channel
Lifeforce
Regrowth
Benalish Hero
CoP: Black x3
CoP: Green
CoP: Red x3
CoP: White x3
Death Ward
Disenchant
Healing Salve x2
Holy Armor x2
Holy Strength x2
Mesa Pegasus
Samite Healer
Blue Elemental Blast x2
Creature Bond
Flight x2
Jump
Merfolk of the Pearl Trident x4
Power Leak
Power Sink x4
Reconstruction
Spell Blast x3
Unstable Mutation x3
Unsummon x3
Drain Life
Drudge Skeletons x3
Erg Raiders x2
Fear x2
Frozen Shade x3
Howl from Beyond x3
Paralyze x3
Pestilence x3
Plague Rats x4
Scathe Zombies x3
Unholy Strength x2
Weakness x4
Disintegrate x2
Dwarven Warriors x3
Firebreathing x3
Gray Ogre x2
Hill Giant x2
Hurloon Minotaur x3
Mons's Goblin Raiders
Shatter x2
Giant Growth
Ironroot Treefolk
Shanodin Dryads
Stream of Life x2
Tranquility x3
Wall of Wood
War Mammoth x2
Wild Growth
(An assortment of lands I'm not gonna bother to count)
... more coming

[Merkuri]

4th:
Alabaster Potion x2
Amrou Kithkin
Benalish Hero x2
Brainwash x2
Death Ward
Fortified Area x3
Holy Armor
Holy Strength
Mesa Pegasus x2
Pearled Unicorn
Piety
Pikemen
Samite Healer
Seeker x2
Tundra Wolves
Erosion x2
Giant Tortoise
Prodigal Sorcerer
Psychic Venom
Sea Serpent
Spell Blast x2
Unstable Mutation x2
Unsummon
Bog Imp
Cyclopean Mummy x2
Drain Life
Drudge Skeletons x2
Erg Raiders
Frozen Shade
Howl from Beyond
Lost Soul x2
Marsh Gas
Pit Scorpion
Scathe Zombies x2
Bird Maiden
Blood Lust
Brothers of Fire
Disintegrate
Dwarven Warriors x3
Firebreathing x2
Fissure
Giant Strength
Goblin Rock Sled
Hill Giant
Immolation
Ironclaw Orcs
Lightning Bolt x2
Shatter x2
The Brute
Giant Spider x2
Ironroot Treefolk
Llanowar Elves
Nafs Asp x2
Regeneration
Sandstorm
Scryb Sprites
Shanodin Dryads
Stream of Life x2
Tranquility
Venom x2
Wall of Wood
War Mammoth
Wild Growth
Cave People
Life Force
Wanderlust
Blight
Bog Wraith x2
Evil Presence
Spirit Shackle x2
Air Elemental
Mind Bomb
Phantom Monster
Angry Mob x2
Divine Transformation
Karma
Osai Vultures
Visions
Green Mana Battery
(many lands)

... and still more...

[Merkuri]

Ice Age:
Blessed Wine x3
CoP: Black x3
CoP: Red
CoP: White x2
Cooperation x2
Disenchant
Elvish Healer x2
Heal x2
Kelsinko Ranger x3
Kjeldoran Guard
Kjeldoran Warrior x3
Prismatic Ward x4
Rally x2
Brainstorm x2
Clairvoyance
Errant Minion x2
Hydroblast
Illusionary Wall
Infuse
Krovikan Sorcerer
Mistfolk
Mystic Remora x2
Portent
Power Sink x3
Ray of Command x4
Ray of Erasure
Snowfall
Zuran Enchanter
Brine Shaman
Dark Banishing
Fear x3
Foul Familiar x2
Gangrenous Zombies x2
Gaze of Pain
Hoar Shade
Howl from Beyond x3
Kjeldoran Dead x2
Legions of Lim-Dul
Lim-Dul's Cohort
Moor Fiend
Norritt x2
Pestilence Rats x2
Siezures
Songs of the Damned
Barbarian Guides x2
Battle Frenzy
Orcish Conscripts x4
Orcish Farmer
Orcish Lumberjack
Panic x4
Stonehands x2
Aurocks
Chub Toad x3
Dire Wolves
Foxfire x3
Fyndhorn Brownie x2
Pyknite
Rime Dryad
Shambling Strider
Black Scarab x2
Blue Scarab x2
Drought
Hallowed Ground
White Scarab
Thunder Wall
Icequake
Karpulsan Giant
Nature's Lore
Wall of Pine Needles
(assorted snow-covered and regular lands)

..and there's still more...

[Merkuri]

These are the same expansion as the Serpent Generator, I think. But they have different marks... I think there was one expansion that combined and re-printed a bunch of out-of-print expansions and this is it... Legends was it called? Anyway, the copyright's 1995 and the marks include the pillar, a crecent moon, and an arabian-looking sword.

D'Avenant Archer
Divine Offering x2
Indextructible Aura x3
Keepers of the Faith x2
War Elephant x3
Boomerang x4
Fishliver Oil
Flash Flood x4
Remove Soul x5
Bog Rats
Cuombajj Witches x2
Giant Slug x2
Harsran Ogress
The Fallen x2
Active Volcano x2
Goblins of the Flarg
Goblin Shrine x3
Mountain Yeti x3
Wall of Heat x4
Argothian Pixies x3
Cat Warriors
Emerald Dragonfly
Ghazban Ogre x2
Metamorphosis x4
Scavenger Folk x2
Feldon's Cane
Tormod's Crypt
Urza's Mine
Urza's Power Plant
Urza's Tower
Witch Hunter
Enchant Alteration
Juxtapose
Puppet Master x2
Recall
Wall of Vapor x3
Shimian Night Stalker x3
Transmutation x4
Wall of Opposition x3
Craw Giant

I think these are Homelands? Something like that. The mark is a circle with blobs in it (a planet?) and the border is black.

Abbey Gargoyles
Serra Paladin
Dark Maze
Orcish Mine
Hungry Mist
Shrink

...and still more...

[Merkuri]

Fallen Empires:

Combat Medic x4
Farrel's Zealot x5
Icatian Infantry x5
Icatian Javelineers x3
Icatian Moneychanger x4
Icatian Scout x6
Order of Leitbur x7
High Tide x7
Homarid x3
Homarid Warrior x6
Merseine
Tidal Flats x3
Vodalian Mage x4
Vodalian Soldiers x5
Armor Thrull x3
Basal Thrull x3
Initiates of the Ebon Hand x3
Mindstab Thrull x2
Necrite x7
Order of the Ebon Hand x5
Brassclaw Orcs x4
Dwarven Soldier x4
Goblin Chirurgeon
Goblin Grenade
Goblin War Drums x5
Orcish Spy x4
Orcish Veteran x5
Elvish Hunter x2
Elvish Scout x4
Elven Fortress x6
Night Soil x2
Spore Cloud x3
Thallid x4
Thorn Thallid x2
Thallid Devourer

Not sure what these are at all. Black borders and a waving flag mark, copyright 1996.

Kjeldoran Escort
Martyrdom

... and that's all. So, any good finds in there?

[Darkwalker]

You have a decent selection there. Nothing anywhre near the super-rare level, but with that there you could build a decent deck or two...I would have to sit down with an Inquest to see how much they would be worth though.

[GIR]

not bad, you could make a playable you can make. i like the urzas lands. they are cool. but not worht much about $2CDN each

[Merkuri]

Well, they've already been shipped off to somebody who can make better use of them than I could. Thanks anyway.