Bird Collector

Hi! I'm Dove, and I collect TCG cards with birds on them. That's it! It/Its pronouns, sideblog.

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Hi! This is a sideblog for me to document my TCG collection.

I focus on MTG, largely because I casually play it, and also because it has a huge assortment of kickass birds in a variety of styles. Pokemon has been my thing for much longer, but the nice birds are often too pricey for me. :(

My favorite MTG card is City Pigeon, from the Spider Man set. I am not attempting a buy out, or anything silly like that. I just love pigeons. :)

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Dudunsparce master set! It looks ridiculous due to that same art being printed so many times.

(My masterset criteria: Each holo option from each printing, English plus Japanese exclusive promo cards when applicable)

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Clodsire master set, plus a Wooper promo!

(My masterset criteria: Each holo option from each printing, English plus Japanese exclusive promo cards when applicable)

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Skiddo masterset!

(My masterset criteria: Each holo option from each printing, English plus Japanese exclusive promo cards)

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My entire carefully curated bird Pokemon binder is worth less than 10% of a single lizard I pulled as a kid and wrapped in rubber bands. Wild.

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Traded in a few old, damaged cards at my new favorite LCS, and got a bunch of new birds!! :D The Pidove and Unfezant were my biggest chases!

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1,353 city pigeons...

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More artist proofs, and a friend went through her collection to give me more miscellaneous birds :D

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I love him. Nothing bad can happen to him.

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Some new artist proofs today!

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Hit a milestone today! Broke 200 Holo City Pigeon, and 900 total (exact).

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Another Maha from a friend, and the fruits of establishing myself at a new LCS!

92 new bird cards (some are duplicates of some favorites: Purelace and Thieving Magpie)

86 new City Pigeons, unfortunately all non-holo.

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While I have been focusing on collecting bird cards for a while now, I only just decided to make a sideblog for it. So, there's some catching up to do! Current collection summary under the cut.

As of today, my box columns are City Pigeon, Holo City Pigeon (+ card sleeves), other MTG (sorted by art cards, regular cards, tokens, and then artist proofs), and then other TCG and graded cards (mostly Pokemon, but also cookiedove's bird of the month and some miscellaneous things).

I track my MTG cards in the Delver Lens app. I mostly track so I don't buy duplicate birds at my LCS, but it's also cool to marvel at the Maha spike right after I got mine at $7. Here's my top 5 cards! Fun fact: I got Jeweled Bird for $0.50.

If I really love a card and I can get a graded one for about the same price as raw, I'll do it. I play Magic, too, but I just like seeing my favs in a fancy box sometimes. While I do have more Pokemon birds, all of my graded Pokemon cards worth over $50 are in a safer storage space.

I love connecting with artists and buying proofs, and have been gifted some as well. As City Pigeon is a Universes Beyond card, it sadly has no artist proofs. However, David Szabo is incredibly kind, and will be signing some of my pigeons towards the end of this year. As of today, I own proofs from Ryan Pancoast, Steven Belledin, Aaron Miller, Allen Douglas, Chris Rahn, and Terese Nielsen.

Yes, Scalding Salamander isn't a bird. However, it looks just like my salamander, so it stays in this place of honor.

To finish off this first post, some pigeon numbers:

739 copies of City Pigeon

547 of which are regular

192 of which are holo

From here on, I'll be updating with new acquisitions!