How It Works Buy a PSA 9 of a card where the PSA 10 premium is very large Carefully crack the card out of the PSA slab Resubmit the card to PSA (or sometimes to a different grading company) Hope it comes back as a PSA 10 When People Do This Cracking makes financial sense when: The PSA 10 is worth 3x+ the PSA 9 The card in the PSA 9 slab appears to be in outstanding condition (possibly a "strong 9") The grading fee ($20-50) is small relative to the potential upside For a card where PSA 9 is $500 and PSA 10 is $3,000, spending $30-50 on a resubmission for a shot at turning $500 into $3,000 is a reasonable gamble if the card is genuinely on the borderline
Its rarely used for its anthem effect, but youre not turning that down either, are you
This feels like an extremely flavorful way to capture his final moments and a great piece of utility against board wipes
When I asked the old man, he said that he had these cards for 25 years
Preordain | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov Card draw includes any effect that puts extra cards in your hand and explicitly uses the word draw. Generally speaking, card draw in Magic works the same as in any other card game, be it a TCG or classics like poker or bridge: To draw a card, you take the topmost card from your library and put it in your hand