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Hey there everyone,

I just let lose a good £240 on Ellusionist and got a free Gold Arcane Deck ( 1 of 5,000 ) currently valued at £45 on Ebay.

I want to use this deck to start a playing card collection, and want to keep the cards in mint condition, what are the best ways to achieve this?

Thanks allot

Danny.

Don't open them

Sell them now, buy them back later. Here is why...

Collectors will go nuts about the #/5000. The same numbering will be applied to all kinds of decks that the manufacturer dreams up. The market will become flooded. Hype dies off.

Until the ultra-super-duper #/2500 decks are made. Rinse and repeat.

Until the ultra-ultra-super-duper #/1500 decks are made. Rinse and repeat.

And so on and so on until you get down to the #/50 or whatever range.

Along the way there will likely be even more rare "inserts" numbered /25, /10, /5 and 1/1. So the deck itself may be /5000 but in your deck the 4D is individually /5 or whatever.

When all of this is happening, the value of your /5000 deck plummets. It's not so special any longer. Sell it now while it's high, buy it back later when it tanks in value.

This is exactly what happened with sports trading cards here in the USA. One of the major companies is UpperDeck, another was Donruss. It wasn't that long ago that USPCC hired some higher-ups previously employed by UpperDeck and Donruss.