Slow Midweek, Dumping Standard

The objective for this week is to try and dump all of my Standard cards for Modern/Legacy staples instead. Even though I don’t really play a particular format other than EDH, the prices of Standard cards are a little more erratic than other formats. Though the format has a low cost of entry, the tradeoff is the fact that you are probably going to build a new deck once or twice a year. If the deck costs $300-$400, it starts to stack up over time. Rotation doesn’t come for another nine months, but I would like to rid myself of any cards that are exclusively for Standard that are over ten bucks. I’m not going to be fire selling midrange cards just because losing a couple bucks isn’t that big of a deal. But a card like Elesh Norn is 13 bucks and I’d like to move it before I get stuck with a five dollar mythic.

Fortunately I don’t have much in my binders in term of Standard. The Elesh Norn and Consecrated Sphinx are problematic, as are three Inkmoth Nexus. I can probably hold on to Spellskite for now and no one is going to want Stromkirk Nobles. I have a binder full of Innistrad rares but they are all cheap and I can bulk them out if I really want too. It’s more about getting the higher risk cards out for stable alternatives. Barring a banning or major policy change, you aren’t going to have to worry about Legacy/Modern staples losing value and the parts are a little more interchangeable. It’s almost certain that every October you are building a new deck if you are playing Standard.

Wednesday didn’t have much action and as a result I only completed two trades. The store was pretty much dead with what looked like a dozen people playing Standard and nobody there just hanging out. I only completed two trades; one involved trading Darkslick Shores straight up for a Death Baron. I picked up three Nantuko Shades in the trade too, bringing my collection count close to 160. Nantuko Shade was the first rare I pulled in a pack of Torment, and the reprint rendered them close to useless and easier to horde. The other one involved me sending Textless Rampant Growth, Mana Vault, Foil Rune-Scarred Demon, and Mirror Entity for a Glen Elendra Archmage and a Nevinyrral’s Disk. As expected, someone wanted a slightly pimper Rune-Scarred Demon for EDH and I got some useful EDH cards in return.

Thursday was also pretty slow. I made no trades as nobody brought their cards to the 1v1 EDH tournament. I went 2-2 with some mixed results running Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed. I’m not sure how to evaluate the deck since I lost round one partially because I mulled to four both games. I lost round two after getting busted by Hymn to Tourach game two and not drawing land and drawing too much land game three. In a stupid move, I accidently took my Grim Tutor proxy out of the deck during changes and need to put it back in. I plan to build Uril, the Miststalker Zoo since my current deck has no answers to planeswalkers, artifacts or enchantments.