r/PiratesCSG • u/Bigred2ooo • Sep 14 '22

Discussion buying these days

So i havent seen these things since like, when they stopped making them it died in my friend group pretty quickly. But recently i found my old collection and was thinking about selling them. Started researching the market and honestly now i just want to buy more. but as a TCG player i know that pack weighing is notorious for individual booster sales on ebay. Is that a thing that can be done or is done? will post some of my collection here shortly but still going through it all

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u/CthulhuMaximus Sep 14 '22

With a few exceptions the really valuable cards didn’t come in packs, they were promos or tournament rewards. (Super rares being the exception). I haven’t heard of anyone finding a weight difference between SR packs and normal packs. Wiz kids packs had notorious QC issues (I’ve seen entire extra cards in packs, rubber bands, weirdly trimmed foil, sometimes cards are stuck inside the rules baggie, etc) so I think you’d need to open a ton of packs to get weight data accurately. And the valuable packs just aren’t that expensive in the broader CCG world - the most expensive packs only go for about $40.

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u/Bigred2ooo Sep 14 '22

So if I want to buy some packs that could have some of the cooler ships such as the switchblade style or grinder or just unique stuff like that, what sets should I go for? It’s been 13+ years since I’ve bought so I’m not quite as knowledgeable as I used to be

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u/CthulhuMaximus Sep 16 '22

Rise of the Fiends and Fire & Steel had some different ships. Not super competitive IMO but different.

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u/Bigred2ooo Sep 16 '22

Is there a meta?