Magic the Gathering: Case Study on Flipping Cards for Profit

Hey, I just noticed the "Title Bar" at the top of the page!

I am a hobbyist, if you have not already read that. I consider myself to be an expert on having hobbies; there is nothing I enjoy more.

Would it surprise you to know I am 22 and only recently discovered the wonders of Magic the Gathering?

It should... from the information I provided about myself in the previous post, it should.

When I open a pack of cards I find more value in actually having the cards rather than playing the game. When I was 9 I went mad with Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh (I almost never left the house without a deck...). With the release of Hearthstone, I began to relive the schoolyard days of playing for keeps during recess. My only need for improvement in Hearthstone would be expanding the library of cards available to the players.
     Don't get me wrong, I believe the current set of cards works so well that the whole thing could be a board game ( which Blizzard was most likely trying to do ), but playing with the same cards over and over and over... makes me feel drone-like after about an hour of play time.

My roommate eventually introduced me to the wonderful world of the Multiverse ( for those of you who are not familiar, the Multiverse is the setting for Magic the Gathering ), and sure enough my addictive personality drove me to purchase booster packs, starter decks, and at least one bundle box ( 36 packs of cards, 13 cards in each pack... you do the math ).

I love it. I'm having a very hard time exercising my self-control when I see them. 

Being a college student, money is hard to come by. Work is harder to fit into an already tight schedule. Having a money sink for a hobby complicates the situation even further!

So I am playing with the idea of flipping cards for profit. My reasoning:
   
     If I enjoy having the cards, and these cards hold monetary value to many individuals other than myself; why not buy a booster box, sell all of the cards on ebay, save the profit for the duration of this experiment and allocate some of it to buy another booster box, and repeat the whole process?

-I will receive the satisfaction of pulling the hard to find cards every time
-I will make some side money for my own expenses other than my bi-weekly pay from work
-Many rare cards will be available on the market for purchase by collectors and players alike
-Information data will be acquired from the entire process for future use
     -> should this information become published it would be available to others looking to gets started making a profit from trading card flipping.

             If I have any readers yet, feel free to lend me your thoughts on this idea

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THE ORIGIN OF MY NAME

Bolded, italicized, and underlined because this is important for future fans :D

It all began in middle school, where one of my friends let me use his subscription to the ever popular popular MMORPG World of Warcraft (ooooooooo, aaaaahhhhh...)

Making my first toon was a huge event in my life, and something inside of me at the time knew that, so I decided to put an enormous amount of effort into naming it. Hearing so much about the game from other friends plus spending time reading the strategy guide on the bus rides home gave me opportunity to preform what kind of character I wanted to be while traversing Azeroth.

                                                         DWARF HUNTER  (woahhh guy, chill out..)

Ok then, what are some names suitable for a dwarf? During middle school I discovered the writings of R.A. Salvatore and the answer was clear to me: DRIZZT DO'URDAN!!! Obviously the perfect name for my Dwarf hunter. (Drizzt Do'Urdan was the name of R.A. Salvatore's most popular character, who's lineage stems from a long line of Dark Elves and had absolutely nothing do do with a Dwarf..)

So I typed it into the name field: NAME UNAVAILABLE. Um... ok, how about Drizzt...
NAME UNAVAILABLE. Uh... fine. What about DrizztDo... NAME.IS.NOT.AVAILABLE.

FINE THEN.

So I settled for the next best dwarf out there... IVAN BOULDERSHOULDER!!!! Who wouldn't want to share a name with such a rough and tumble lone warrior and his trusted sidekick Pikel? (ME BRUDDAH!)

I typed it in: Ivanbouldershoulder and hastily hit the create button!

Character Created: Ivanboulders

NICE hey wait... what?!

Nobody told me about the 12 character limit AND SO "Ivan" was brought forth into the world... of warcraft!

From that moment on, all of my gamer tags and screen names have been variations of the original:
Ivan the Boulder, Ivanshoulders, Ivan the Shoulder, IvanMeteor, Ivan, Ivan the Sediment..ious

All of them Ivan and something to do with a rock or a shoulder.

So what have you gathered about me from this second post? That I am a gamer? An idea sharer? or maybe a fan of fantasy and possibly sciencefiction?

Well yes that... but most importantly you should have picked up on the fact that I am impulsive and act before I think... but hey, at least I think, even if it comes second.

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The purpose of this blog is to satiate my need for somewhere to write my thoughts other than on Facebook, because single posts disappear too quickly and I fail in motivating myself to write a journal.

To be clear, this blogs is about me... ME... and I guess a bit about you, if you so choose to comment on me...

Obviously I'm new to this scene so bear with me as I delve further into the mysterious world of blogging. Buckle your belt kiddies, this is going to be a bumpy ride.