Selling Magic cards was my first business! My friend and I took all of our Bar Mitzvah money, drive two hours across town to the “bad” part of town, and bought two boxes with 50 cases each. It worked out to $1.25 per pack.

Then we sold the packs individually out of my trunk at places where nerds hung out for $2.50 each (retail was $3, but we had no overhead because dad paid for the car and gas!).

We sold one box worth and opened the other box, so we broke even but got a bunch of rare cards.

Including multiple sets of multilands. I put two full sets into sleeves and packed them away, and then made a five color deck with all rares and multilands.

My buddy and I were basically unbeatable.