Grocery List

UPDATE: I managed to get just about everything on my list - only Liliana remains. I will have to trade for one, or sell a couple of my high-value rares. As for the Nin deck, it's not coming together the way I'd hoped. I'm thinking of scrapping that and going Red/Black instead... not sure yet.


Well, it's Friday. September 30th. The day Innsitrad becomes available for purchase. Sweet!

I have used my limited Excel skills to compile a list of all of the Innistrad cards I want for the decks I currently have together, as well as a Nin, the Pain Artist deck that will be my next project.

This has given me a list of the cards that I need to buy in order to have everything I need for all my decks, so that I don't wind up buying a bunch of stuff that I think is really cool, but then don't have a deck to put it in. I definitely want couple of Bloodgift Demons and a Balefire Dragon or two... at some point down the road. But for now, I don't have a deck to put either of them in, so I would like to prioritize purchases that will go into decks immediately, or those cards that are needed in order for me to build the Nin deck I'm working on.

If I'm just going to stick it into my binder for future use, I can just wait and buy it later. Here is the list of what I need immediately:

Geist of Saint Traft

Grimoire of the Dead

* Liliana of the Veil *

Olivia Voldaren

Past in Flames

Blaspehmous Act x2

Bloodline Keeper

Cackling Counterpart x3

Charmbreaker Devils

Clifftop Retreat

Curse of Stalked Prey

Evil Twin x2

Falkenrath Marauders

Hinterland Harbor

Isolated Chapel

Mentor of the Meek x2

Nephalia Drownyard

Parallel Lives

Runechanter's Pike

Skrisdag High Priest

Snapcaster Mage x2

Stensia Bloodhall

Stromkirk Noble

Sturmgeist

Sulfur Falls x2

Undead Alchemist

Woodland Cemetery

Trepanation Blade

Desperate Ravings

Falkenrath Noble

Intangible Virtue

Make a Wish

Rakish Heir

Runic Repetition

This will satisfy all of my needs for currently-built decks, plus the Nin deck that will be built over the course of this weekend. Hopefully tonight, but we'll see.

I  am a bit dismayed to see a Liliana and TWO Snapcaster Mages on the list, as those are two of the most expensive cards in the set.

On the flip side, I'm relieved that MOST of the other stuff I want is pretty cheap, even Olvia Voldaren isn't all that high anymore. And I don't need quite as many of the new dual lands as I feared, so they shouldn't be too problematic to acquire.

I'm  buying a box and a fat pack, in hopes that I can open the high-end stuff and maybe a cool foil that I can trade. I also have two Vendilion Cliques for trade, which I forgot to bring to work with me... so I'll have to wait to trade those later. Oh well. I guess if I fail to open a Liliana, I can wait a bit, and trade or sell my Cliques to help me acquire one later.