But yeah, no edit option to put my name on that post sucks.

Yeah, being able to earn some free booster packs rocks. Like you said, the worst case scenario is you’d lose like 10 bucks re-selling the cards. I don’t think it’s as simple as that though. I would GLADLY pay 10 bucks to gain confidence and experience with speculating on cards. If I could have done that, I would of only bought a single playset of Warren Instigator instead of 3 playsets. I bought them at 5.50, now they go for 2 dollars. I saw 13ish instances of the word Goblin in the Orb of Insight, and was sure there’d be some good ones to make Warren go up. Dumb move. 13 wasn’t big enough of a number to indicate a tribe happening, and buying 3 playsets was way too much. With my meager income, a single playset would of been more optimal. I haven’t sold them though, and am still sitting on them in the hopes that they might do something miraculous. Point is, making mistakes is just as valuable as being right.

Starting out small is important. And you don’t even have to just use money to get these cards, I’m sure you have a card collection of your own you can use to trade for cards. Recently a made a 1:1 trade to someone with me giving him some shards cards for fetchlands, and while I was thinking about it he commented on how I was actualy getting 10x a better deal even though it was 1:1 because shards was going to rotate and fetchlands soon will probably just go up and up once Zendikar is out of print, like Shards is now.

Just another option for acquiring the cards and getting a taste for speculation. Just start small, gain some confidence and make some mistakes that will teach you what not to do.