Top Trades of the Month June 2016 WRITTEN BY James Rosenblum

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This will likely be my last post as the first Editor of PucaTrade Articles. After two years and three months, PucaTrade has decided to let me go. Although I'll be leaving, I am grateful that I had the opportunity to have built and maintained the Articles page almost from inception.

From the beginning, I believed that PucaTrade could be a place for great content, and looking back on it, it has been. From set reviews, to financial articles, to strategy pieces, to oddball pieces, raw and polished creativity has shined. As the earliest writer outside the California circle, I pushed for articles at the be included in PucaTrade, and I took over as editor when I was the only one willing to do the work. I originally worked for no money. Hector Cure was a great early contributor, and I think the next guard took over at the end of 2014 when Nick Wolf joined. Over the history of my editing tenure, we've had so many writers, and such a great variety of content. I was privileged to have my own little corner of the site to run, and I'm proud of what we made. I hope that the Blog/Articles Page has been a source of enjoyment, learning, pleasure and diversion for many of you. I encourage you all to revisit the numerous and great past articles all still up on the site, and share with me if something we did was particularly meaningful or helpful for you. I am not sure what my next professional plans will be, but once again, I am grateful to have had this opportunity.

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And now...It's time for another Top Trades of the Month -- from June 1- July 8, 2016. During this period, PucaTrade had its second ever piece of Alpha Power traded: Alpha Mox Jet! Not to mention: there were two other Unlimited Moxen traded, along with a Time Walk! That makes four pieces of the Power 9 traded in five weeks.

The other headline, to me, is that a ton of old valuable Magic cards were traded: Dual lands like Beta Volcanic Island, Beta Tundra, Beta Taiga, and Alpha Savannah, and others like Alpha Shivan Dragon, Berserk, Sol Ring, Illusionary Mask, Gauntlet of Might, Balance and Bad Moon saw new homes. There were Arabian Nights cards like Juzám Djinn, Library of Alexandria, Serendib Efreet and Guardian Beast traded, and Legends cards like The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Eureka, Moat and Chains of Mephistopheles that took a trip in the mail. If PucaTrade were around 20 years ago, I could see this kind of list being commonplace, but it's really interesting to see the high demand and relatively high trading volume for these cards. And it makes sense for both sides of the trade. Some collectors have had these sitting around for years, and the chance to trade them into other useable cards gives something to both sides (the other side wanting a chance to own these old collectibles).

On the lower side of this chart, you'll see the movement in Eternal Masters cards, including a whopping 53 Mana Crypts, 10 foil Wastelands (the cards on this list worth under 10,000 PucaPoints in regular print are foils), and 15 foil Dack Faydens. There were also 10 foil Eternal Masters Jace, the Mind Sculptors, 11 foil Force of Wills and 12 foil Karakases traded.

The chart is arranged from high value to low, with the foils near the bottom (Eternal Masters Force of Will and below, where foil copies exist).

Now, let's take a look at the top 11 most frequently traded cards over 1,000 PucaPoints over the same time period (June 1 - July 8). As usual, Standard staples, especially Planeswalkers this time around, are at the top of the charts. Entomb from Eternal Masters also snuck on the list.

That's it for this edition. I hope you enjoyed this look at the Top Trades of the Month.

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