<|endoftext|> everyone says is a “must have”. If you have a keen eye for competitive play, you can often identify things that will be good in competitive play and if you are an avid collector, you will have a good idea of what characters people will like to collect. These are the things you need to think about when determining “value” of a figure. Most often, the competitive figures will start off mid to high value and will increase. For example, SR Wolverine sold for $25 when X-Men: Xavier’s School released. It now fetches between 60-90 dollars consistently because it goes on nearly every team. I accrued these early on because I “knew” with ID cards it would be a competitive staple. Conversely, Mr. Sinister, a fan favorite character which is a chase, started off around $50 and now can be found very cheap ($15 even). Because he does not play well in competitive play. So if you want to make money flipping Heroclix, you need to identify the “must play” figures. If you need help with this part of it, stay tuned to podcasts like ours or Married with Clix where we often discuss these sorts of things and suggest which figures to be on the look out for.
If you have been living under a rock, the new Avengers: Black Panther and the Illuminati set has both of these key aspects. There are Infinity Gems, Infinity Gauntlets, Cosmic Cubes and even an Ultra Chase Thanos! WOW! So what is a must have from this set? Well, that really depends on the way you want to play the game. For competitive play, you are looking at things like The Collector, Chase Black Panther, and any and all characters that come with equipment objects. For collection, there are some nice figures in the upper rarities that will be valuable. Now that we have identified these figures, how do we obtain them?
OLDIES BUT GOODIES
There are two resources we can consistently count on when trying to acquire new Heroclix. They are cash and chases. Of course we can always go out and buy things with cash whenever we want (assuming we have it), but that’s not really what this is about. Let’s talk about trading.
Almost without fail whenever a new set releases, there is a flood of chases in the market from previous sets. This can be a good opportunity to swoop up on figures you missed out on by trading the hot new super rares and chases for the good but cheap figures like Earth X SR Iron Man. He is about a $10 figure. Upon release, and especially during pre-release, you can realistically sell or trade super rares for between $25 and $45 in value depending on which they are. So you can trade one Super Rare figure for two or three, or possibly even trade them straight across for older chase figures.
On the other side of that coin, if you are sitting on some chases and super rares that you acquired because you thought you would play them and just never got around to it, why not use them to get that figure you really wanted to get from the new set? I have multiples of Captain Venom, Wolverine, Sheriff Strange, and more. Of these, the only ones I have played like I thought is Captain Venom, but it was something I don’t need to play twice. For this reason, these will be some of the main figures I will try to use to obtain the highly valuable figures I want. Personally, Ultra Chase Thanos is something I must have as Annihilation is my favorite Marvel Story and this figure is modeled off of Annihilation #4 (not whatever his card says). For many, they will seek out the Gauntlets and Cubes for their obvious competitive play viability. I will tell you that quite possibly the “best” figure in the set is either Collector or Chase Black Panther. So these are figures I suggest tracking down, but be careful what you give for them. Collector you don’t need more than one of so, much like Earth X Daredevil, expect his price to start high and then drop low.
SINGLES OR PACKS?
A question I get all the time is “Should I buy singles, or a brick/case?” The answer is almost always “What can you afford?” But for once, I will address this question directly. To do so, you must decide what you want out of the set.
If you just want to get some cool new figures to play at your local monthly organized play events, you might consider just getting some singles and a few packs here and there. If you are a completionist, a case is usually the best place to start. This is especially true when sets have extra items like ID cards and Equipment. You will generally get in a case 5