Three for One Trading is growing bigger and bigger every year. The new colleagues that joined us in 2023 are already an established part of the team now, but we still want to take a look back at who actually joined us in the last year:

Welcome everybody, see you on Monday!

We are very happy about how many people took the time to play at our store this year.

No matter if it was a Store Championship, 1K Tournament, Draft, Commander, Prerelease or any other special event, you guys turned up to turn some cards, and we are very grateful for that!

Especially our regular tournaments such as Commander and Draft have always guaranteed to leave very little seats left which is amazing for everyone involved and lets us continue to host these kinds of events with enthusiasm!

Here are only some of the impressions from the events over the year 2023. We can’t wait to see all of you sitting here again next year!

While all of you have been busy winning at our tournaments, the Three for One team has been busy winning tournaments elsewhere*!

Because we are a WPN Premium store, we received a Polaroid camera and a bunch of picture frames in the form of 1/1 human token from Wizards of the Coast for the Magic Celebration event (featuring The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth). Thank you very much!

We tried to make the best out of this opportunity and thanks to you, the players, we now have a great picture wall of all of you to show off!

We hope you all had a great time during the Magic Celebration event, and for all those who didn’t get their very own Human Token:

We still have some film left, ask to get your picture taken!

You all know we love our New Arrivals Drop on Wednesday, but this year something special happened: We had the biggest drop so far on March, 9th, 2023. Here’s a breakdown to understand why we are still talking about it now:

7 Black Lotus (1 Alpha, 4 Beta, 2 Unlimited)

15 Beta Power Nine cards (NOT counting the Lotus)

9 Unlimited Power Nine cards (NOT counting the Lotus)

2 Alpha Scrubland and Badlands

2 Beta Volcanic Islands

1 playset Library of Alexandria

1 playset Juzam Djinn

And those cards are only the tip of the iceberg! We basically had a full Alpha and Beta set for sale (minus the Power) and all Old School staples you could wish for. If you missed it back in March, you can still see all the cards from the Super Drop here.

We can’t wait for our next Super New Arrivals Drop in 2024, it’s going to be insane!

What also has been super was the amazing people we worked with in 2023! In general, we tried to reach out to more people in 2023 for collaborations and giveaways. That went super well for everyone involved, and we got to work with cool content creators and YouTubers around the globe.

Thanks to everyone who decided to reach out to us or accepted our reaching out to them! We hope we can continue this in 2024!

Our biggest collaborations have been with Boshnroll, Corey Baumeister, Filipa, Umotivo and, of course, Zen Takahashi (whom you all know from the great blog articles he writes for us). In case you haven’t heard from any of these guys before, check out their respective social media down below!

MTG FILIPA

COREY BAUMEISTER

BOSH N ROLL

UMOTIVO

We didn’t only work with people from all over the world, we also visited different events around the globe! Let’s see… the biggest events we were present with our Three for One Trading booth have been:

And then we have of course also been to many different European countries such as Italy, Prague, France and Germany as well as the United Kingdom. Our experienced buyers and travelers can’t wait to see what’s on the list for 2024!

You know the saying “Your eyes are bigger than your belly”? Well, our eyes sometimes are bigger than our cars! When our buyers are out on their trips to get the most and the best cards they can find for you, they are not afraid to bring back big hauls of cards, no matter how.

These are only some of the big collections we bought over the year 2023. Just imagine how the office looks for a while after unpacking and going through all of these cards!

We actually get asked a lot of times if we can handle large collections, and the answer most definitely is: YES! If you have a larger collection that you need to get rid of for any reason, contact us here. We are happy to help! Who knows, maybe your collection will be featured in the 2024-year review!

We already did this in our review of 2022:

How many Black Lotus did we sell this year?

Overall, we sold more Black Lotus than in 2022, which is already great news! So if you remember how much it was last year, you might be able to guess how many it’s this year. We count Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Collectors’ Edition and International Edition.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with our Commander tournament entrance fee: It will cost you €5 admission, and you will get 5 Event Tickets which is worth the same amount in store credit. Either way, you’ll get something in value for your entrance fee. And apparently some people are taking this to absurd levels!

To quote us around this time from the year 2023 :

All this hard work of buying, selling, sorting and promoting cards paid off, and we are really proud to announce that we reached over 200 5-star reviews on Google in 2022! Who knows, maybe we will crack the 300 milestone in 2023?

Short answer:

WE DID IT!

Be sure to leave a review too, we appreciate it!

We all know that Black Friday is a big opportunity for every small and big business each year, and this year was no different.

However, we might not have expected how big the sale might end up being! Especially, our friends at the High-End Sales department had their hands full all the time. Don’t worry, they are still up and running, fetching cards for your orders right now!

While we are talking about the future, the biggest Austrian Disney Lorcana tournament so far will be held by Rarehuntershop and Three for One Trading this winter:

ENCHANTED TOUR – WINTER EDITION 2024

Be there when the best Lorcana players duel for the title of the first Enchanted Champion on February 3, 2024. The prize pool includes prizes worth a total of €3000!

Oli, Wenzel and David go out of their way to keep the team happy and motivated. Therefore, they keep coming up with new great team building events every other month. Here is some of the fun stuff we did together as a team besides working with Magic cards all day long (Spoiler: Magic cards are also involved).

One of the first team events of the year 2023 has been go-kart racing! We decided to leave our Magic cards at home (that’s a lie, some couldn’t part ways with their decks) and went to a go-kart racing track here in Vienna. The goal was to build some chemistry, but it turned out it was more of a race for death and glory and yeah, also fun (that’s actually true, big fun)!

Every Friday and Saturday, before the release of a new Magic set, we hold a prerelease for you guys.

But what you don’t know is…

We are actually all playing together a day before you on Thursdays among co-workers, ha!

What started as a modest birthday invitation (Lukas S. and me have our birthdays two days apart, how could we not celebrate this?) evolved into 99% of the company joining us for a huge board game night. We went to the local Paradice Board Game Bar (if you haven’t been there yet and live in or near Vienna, it’s a great place with A LOT of board games).

We were all invited by our bosses for drinks AND food, which was mighty generous of them, because this wasn’t what we’d planned at all. On top of two great birthday cards signed by everyone, we also got two thoughtful gift vouchers (I don’t know what Lukas will get with them, but I will spend mine on Old School cards).

If you are still looking for a (Christmas) gift, you can also get gift vouchers from our store here!

For those of you that follow a bit along with our articles, already know that Old School has been a big draw for 75% of the employees here at Three for One Trading. About 16 out of 25 coworkers own at least one Old School deck, and we hosted three tournaments this year. One of which was not open for public, but was soon followed by two public tournaments.

The very first inhouse tournament of 2023 was on April 20th with a total of 14 players present. It was quickly followed by another tournament on June, 23rd. The data for that tournament is missing, but we can assure you it was HUGE, and we have pictures to prove it! Then came the last tournament of the year, which was on October 20th. We had a whooping 22 players ready to play!

The tournaments always followed the same structure: €5 admission fee with cards from 93/94 in the prize pool sponsored by Three for One Trading.

Deck building rules were: Old School Swedish rules with Ravenna rulings, which means: Reprints (for example from Revised and Time Spiral) are allowed to be used in your deck as long as they had the OG artwork on them, for budget reasons. A limit of three Power Nine pieces were allowed per deck.

And that wasn’t even all the Old School madness that happened this year! Behind the scenes, Ivo had the great idea to organize an Old School League. Each week, we were paired against a different opponent and collected points for the league score board. At the end, the top 4 will battle it out for the first place!

The Top 4 even got time to decide who will take home first place before the year ended! Our League Winning Champion is no other than Old School Veteran and CEO of this very company: Oli

Congratulations! 

Like last year, we had an amazing Christmas party! We met at 5 PM in our store for welcome drinks, a review of the successful last year, gifts and group pictures. Everyone of the 25 employees here at Three for One Trading was gifted a 24 booster Chaos Draft for their hard work over the year (you maybe can still get one for yourself here)!

Then we moved on to dinner at the same restaurant as last year (Rosnovsky, excellent Austrian cuisine with lots of black pepper). The food was delicious, the drinks were bottomless, and the atmosphere was joyful!

As always, there’s no Three for One Trading gathering without Magic: The Gathering, and so we played a bunch of different games. Old School (pay attention to those drinks!), Chaos Draft, Love Letter, Tichu and a new favorite: Cabo!

The party went on until around 4AM, if you believe the last survivors. Overall it was a great evening, and we are ready for another amazing year with another one of these kinds of Christmas parties at the end of it!