Round one of the trading is complete, and I have accepted Ken S.'s trade for the Overgrown Tomb. Once the trade is complete, I will start taking offers for the Overgrown Tomb. I would like to thank everyone who sent in an offer for the forest. You are all truly generous people.

Here is a scan of the card I am sending Ken. I will scan the image of the card that I will be putting up on the block next, an Overgrown Tomb.

We are down to 1 day left of bidding. Please feel free and tell people about the event, post comments about what trade I should make, and please consider helping me trade up for this great cause.

Current Bids for the basic forest (A) from 4th edition (link):

• Greater Good from Urza's Saga for the forest. - Billy M.


• One Persecute for the forest - c_yun
  


• 1 ENTIRE SET of UNHINGED, nonfoil, obviously missing Super Secret Tech since that card's only available as a foil, for the forest. :)- pstuko


• I will trade an Overgrown Tomb for the forest. (It'll no longer be basic, but at least it'll still be a forest.) - Ken S.

To make a bid, please email me at onebasicforest@gmail.com

Bidding on the basic forest will run until Friday, June 30th at 5:00 PM CST.

Hello Everyone, welcome to OneBasicForest.

I am not sure if anyone knows of the story of the one red paperclip. It is a guy that is trading up from one red paperclip to get a house, and he is almost there.

Well this has inspired me...

I am going to attempt to trade up from a Magic:The Gathering 4th edition basic forest, up to a Magic:The Gathering Alpha/Beta Black Lotus.

Taking prices from www.starcitygames.com, the basic forest is currently worth $.25 and the Black Lotus is currently worth $2000. So you can see I am not trying to trade up along the same scale as the guy from One Red Paperclip.

Why?

Well, it's not because of money. It'll be out of fun and generosity. It'll be fun to see people helping me reach my goal. Once I reach that goal. I am going to sell the card on eBay and donate all of the money to St. Jude Children's Hospital

So up first for trade is one Magic:The Gathering 4th Edition basic forest. Please email me the offers along with scans or description of the card(s) to onebasicforest@gmail.com

I will post the offers below as they come in. Offers on the basic forest will end on 6/30/2006 at 5:00 CST.

Edit: I was asked about which forest it is out of the set and it's condition. The forest is Forest (A) from 4th edition (link) by Christopher Rush, and it is in near mint condition. I will send it in a sleeve and a hardcase.

Thanks,
Jayson Saumer