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If you like MOTL Secret Santa, I suspect you will like this as well (since you get "secret Santa" packages at other times throughout the year!).

A friend of mine built this site and he is looking for more people who are interested in sending and receiving customized booster packs. I have been a member for a couple of months now and so far have sent out 8 packs and received 7 packs. The service itself is free, the only thing you pay for is postage.

Basically, you put together a "booster pack" (for example) of 15 cards based on a randomly selected registered member's wish list/profile. Then you send it out. The system registers that you have sent and you go into a pool of available recipients that can be selected for the next sender. The pack you receive will come from another random member. It is based on the concept of Postcrossing, which in itself is neat.

More info can be found here. I am a big fan of this concept, it is really, really fun. It would be awesome to have more folks join up. Thanks for reading.

Packs of 15 random cards- yet, if said person only has said 10 wants- you can't complete a full pack.

It's a nice idea though. I'll try it out to prove my point prolly. lol

Another example-

Here is my 15 random wants:

Polluted Delta
Savannah
Badlands
Underground Sea

...are you getting the picture and idea...

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There are no requirements to provide what is on the wish list. The wish list and the profile exist to try and help the sender put something together that you will enjoy opening. Obviously if you have unrealistic wishes you will be disappointed.

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Originally posted by stab107:
One of my recipients had no wish list and no profile at all. I had nothing to go on. So I put together a pack for the member and mailed it out. They were happy to receive and said thanks.

There are no requirements to provide what is on the wish list. The wish list and the profile exist to try and help the sender put something together that you will enjoy opening. Obviously if you have unrealistic wishes you will be disappointed.

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Alrighty- on to the next problem:

Yes, I made an account. Yes, I will prolly be deleting the account soon. Send 3x out, to where you ask?

The Netherlands.
The Netherlands.
The Netherlands.

Gee, I wonder if the Netherlands is available to send to.

EDIT:

Got to see what address they give me for the 4th send out, I'' bet its....drumroll plz....The Netherlands.

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Currently, most of our users are from the Netherlands since I'm from the Netherlands myself, but it would be great to have more users from other countries. So I would like ask everybody who is interested just to give it a go and send a pack, since you'll always get something back. Going forward, I have geographic "limitation" on my list of features I would add to the service down the road, but the community now just too small to make this work properly.

I'm constantly trying to improve the site based on feedback from the community. Last week I made it possible for people to add foils and promo's to a wishlist after several members requested this tool. So give it a go and let me know what you think would make this site better!

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Originally posted by knarf:
Frank here, creator of MTG Crossing. I've built this service in my spare time to allow people to send and receive personalised Magic booster packs. I wanted to give something back to the Magic-community where in a fun way people could give away the cards that are collecting dust, and in return get cards that might actually be useful.

Currently, most of our users are from the Netherlands since I'm from the Netherlands myself, but it would be great to have more users from other countries. So I would like ask everybody who is interested just to give it a go and send a pack, since you'll always get something back. Going forward, I have geographic "limitation" on my list of features I would add to the service down the road, but the community now just too small to make this work properly.

I'm constantly trying to improve the site based on feedback from the community. Last week I made it possible for people to add foils and promo's to a wishlist after several members requested this tool. So give it a go and let me know what you think would make this site better!

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First and foremost, You need a foundation of traders from the largest place of traders, USA? Promotion/advertisement also helps.

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Would you have any suggestion on websites/forums which would be a good place to start?

So do give MTG Crossing a go and let me know what you think! In the last 6 months already more than 200 personalised boosters have been send and it would be great to double this number before the end of the year!

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Originally posted by knarf:
I'm happy to announce it's now possible to indicate you only want to send personalised boosters to people from your own country.

So do give MTG Crossing a go and let me know what you think! In the last 6 months already more than 200 personalised boosters have been send and it would be great to double this number before the end of the year!

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I'll bite. Again.

well, I tried, but it won't let me back in. I only have one username for it. Same as here.

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oneofchaos: "Anyone recommend anything in the terms of playmat protection?"

Just like the secret santa.

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Originally posted by ProfileNotFound:
From what I understand you don't have to send them the exact cards on their want list, it's just a general guideline. I could be mistaken though.

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Correct, it's a guideline. If you're indeed expecting P9 cards you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

Of course I'm biased, but I'm having good fun with it. I'm currently building a deck exclusively from cards received via MTG Crossing. I have only indicated that I want it to be B/W.

And the community is very generous. Today somebody was surprised with a pack consisting out of 15 x 15 cards: https://mtgcrossing.com/pack/NL-NL-527

1) My collection is jank. I do not have a tradeable card over the value of $20 (save one). So, in the end, they would be getting jank, and resulting in a poor rating of my pack sent. That is not much incentive to send a pack out.

2) Um, sure great, now I can send out to my own country, USA, but how many are there? 2? Am I gonna get my address to send a pack to because there are hardly any US traders addy's?

3) Sending out 4 packs to get 1 pack is bad math ratio. I really do not want to send out 4 packs, or 6 or 10 or whatever, to recevie 1 or 2 packs in return, say within a 6 month time frame.

4) My wishlist is exactly that. a wishlist. If I do not get one card from that list of mine, its cool with me. But then again, I really do not want 15x commons and/or uncommons. I think its like getting a grabbag of 15 random cards from someone, Not knowing if you are getting a randomingized pack of cards or his leftover cards from a draft of standard.

~Revenger

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It's not about the value of what you send or what you receive; it's more about having a little fun with the concept. We all love opening boosters, but have we ever thought about building them? Likely not.

It's an interesting concept. Unfortunately, it is limited in North America right now and that makes it a bit of a turn off as far as making quick exchanges. Then again, there's nothing like opening the mailbox to find that unexpected booster that you'd forgotten was on its way.

With school ending soon for the semester, I fully expect to be back on the site and more active as I've been lucky enough to receive two great, well-thought out, and generous boosters from other members.