This is a thread about techniques to collect and trade cards. (I'll try and make this post look tidier at some point!)
Hopefully I'm not duplicating any similar thread!
Please, no offers to buy or sell on this thread. Keep it to techniques & useful information only. Thanks!
Official Cards FAQ
Please contribute your tips to this thread. If you can improve on any of the tips, please do! Suggested topics are:
Card Farming (using puppets to generate cards). How do you use your puppets / what do you do with the cards and bank they generate?
Trading
I want a card, but no-one has it up for sale...
Card Flipping (when you have a copy of a card that is at auction, and use it to buy cheap & sell high at the same moment)
How to do it, and what can go wrong.
Best bidding techniques when only one ask price is available
Best bidding techniques when more than one ask price is available
Best asking techniques when there is already another ask
Managing your collections
When you have a lot of cards, managing your collections becomes tricky. Any tips?
What is the maximum number of unopened packs I can have?
What is the maximum number of cards I can hold?
What happens when you hit capacity
Similar
How does card gifting work?
See this thread
How to transfer cash from one nation to another?
Maybe not quite this way - If someone else holds the card you are using for this technique, they can start putting in asks and bids, and end up taking your cash.
These tips improve your chances
Maybe this?
What happens if you bid against yourself?
See here
How to search for cards
try this
How is rarity decided?
Try this
or this
and this
List of all Admin/Mod/Editor Cards
here!