The Art of Selling

[Ecrilon]

I have 146 upgraded cards, some of which I upgraded myself, most of which I won from False Gods. 23 of them are used in my False God deck. 14 (non inclusive) are variously used in my AI3 and T50 decks. 29 (again, non inclusive) I acknowledge to be too important to sell due to their frequency of use or because it's the upgrade of a rare. That leaves around 70 cards that have sell potential that I am not selling. That's a lot of money, on the order of the amount I need to fully upgrade my False God deck (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15199.0.html). These are the upgraded cards I possess, fascinatingly enough, there are exactly 60 unique cards at the time of posting:

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6qq 6rn 6tt 6u0 6u1 6u2 6u3 6u4 6u6 712 717 718 71b 748 74a 74b 74e 77a 77b 77i 77j 7ac 7ad 7af 7ag 7ai 7am 7dg 7dh 7dk 7dm 7dn 7dp 7ds 7gm 7gp 7gr 7gt 7h1 7jp 7jq 7jv 7k1 7n2 7n3 7n7 7q1 7q2 7q4 7q5 7qc 7t6 7t7 7tc 7td 80b 80d 80f 80g 80iDuplicates:
+6 Quantum Tower, +1 SoG, +2 Chaos Power, +2 Supernova, +3 Fallen Druid, +1 Retrovirus, +5 Graveyard, +1 Unstoppable, +3 Elite Oty, +1 Graviton Firemaster, +2 Jade Dragon, +2 Leaf Dragon, +1 Elite Cockatrice, +5 Feral Bond, +5 Burning Tower, +1 Brimstone Eater, +1 Cremation, +1 Abyss Crawler, +3 Arctic Octopus, +1 Arctic Dragon, +2 Inundation, +5 RoL (Oddly I managed to win 6 RoL from various gods), +1 Improved Blessing, +1 Morning Glory, +1 Animate Weapon, +3 Elite Queen, +4 Shockwave, +1 Fate Egg, +3 Electrum Hourglasses, +1 Siphon Life, +1 Vampire, +3 Twin Universe, +1 Elite Phase Dragon, +1 Phase Recluse, +2 Fractal.

Up to this point, I have been largely content to keep the upgraded cards because I had not settled on a False God Killer that I wanted. However, I have recently developed one (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15626.0.html) and want to use it instead of upgrading my current one. So my questions to you are roughly as follows: Should I sell, and what should I sell? Should I sell most of my non-upgraded cards first (I also have a large archive of unupgraded cards)? Which cards, upgraded or non-upgraded, really ought not be sold?

[zse]

Don't sell these if you don't have more than 6, or more than the number mentioned:
13 Quantum Tower, SoG, Supernova, 2 Fallen Druid, 2 Elite Oty, Cremation, RoL, 2 Elite Queen, Electrum Hourglasses, Fractal.

What to sell first
Graveyard, Feral Bond (keep some until you get 6 SoG), Shockwave.

[Kuross]

The first question that would need to be answered is how much electrum do you need? Aside from that, ones I'd highly consider selling are..

Elite Phase Dragon
Innudation
Massive Dragon
Basalt Dragon
Fate Egg
Elite Deja Vu
Shockwave
Pharoh
Rewind


There are probably a lot more, but the ones listed are either too specific for decks to generally use often or can be easily won back from FGs.

[Ecrilon]

I need about 30,000 Electrum to get the cards I want. Though I also need to get a few more shards for SoGs.

[Kuross]

So, you need to sell about 26 upped cards (using the average cost at 1150/sold upped card). With the 9 I suggested and the Graveyard zse suggested to sell, you only need to sell 16 more to get the electrum you need for your FG deck.

Now please take note, I personally would rather see you grind Lvl3 for the remaining roughly 19,000 electrum you need since it's much easier to do that than sell upped cards which you may later regret selling, but if you are deadset on selling some cards, I'd recommend the following...

x2 Jade Dragon
x2 Innudation
x2 Leaf Dragon
x2 Siphon Life
x2 Retrovirus
Improved Mutation
Maxwell's Demon
Arctic Dragon
Elite Phase Dragon
Massive Dragon
Graviton Firemancer
Deadly Poison
Basalt Dragon
Fate Egg
Steel Golem
Elite Deja Vu
Shockwave
Pharoh
Rewind

Total: 24 cards for 27,600 electrum (24 * 1150)

Now, keep in mind, this is only my personal opinion. The cards I suggested above are either cards that can be easily won back from FGs or aren't necessary unless you are using a very specific deck. In most cases, some of the above cards need many copies of to be useful, so either you need to be trying to build a deck around those cards or dump them in favor of a deck you know you'll use.