For the week ending 1/19/2013,

469 trades were completed on #PucaTrade. Among these were Eureka, Wasteland, Scavenging Ooze, Bonfire of the Damned, Survival of the Fittest, Sublime Archangel, Thragtusk, Gifts Ungiven, Verdant Catacombs x2, Sliver Legion, Aether Vial x4, Aluren, Marsh Flats x2, Sphinx’s Revelation, Deathrite Shaman x2, Kiki-Jiki, Deathbringer Liege, Blood Crypt, Steam Vents, Wurmcoil Engine, Overgrown Tomb, and Pygmy Hippo (I love that guy). Additionally, 18 new PucaTraders joined our ever-growing community of traders. Welcome!

What are we doing? #PucaTrade Week 4 of 52:

This week, PucaTrade welcomes a new member of Team Puca: Dan Miller aka Sonwithagun on PucaTrade. Besides being a rad guy in general, Miller’s one of the hardest workers I’ve ever met—a pretty great dude to have on the team. He’s offered to help out with the case resolution process, so if anything goes wrong with one of your trades, he’ll likely be the guy that gets in touch. The best part about this is that it’s already freeing up more time for me to work on improvements to the site. I had an awesome brainstorming session with our new Designer, and we put together some great rough drafts of the next version of PucaTrade. In particular, we really made some awesome progress with the “Send a Card” screen. Our goal is to make the act of sending cards be a mostly visual experience (read: “The Grid” has gotta go). We think displaying cards in clusters (or packages) will be a really superior way to manage your potential trades. Brain Chambers is workin’ on some shiny new mockups now. Hopefully we’ll have something slick to show you next week. Until then, be nice to The Grid. He’s ugly, but loyal.

Cards Traded on PucaTrade:

Mailing out today on #pucatrade Rugged Prairie #mtg

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For the week ending 1/12/2013,

401 trades were completed on #PucaTrade. Among these were Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Vendilion Clique x2, City of Traitors x2, Vindicate x2, Grim Monolith, Sphinx’s Revelation, Hallowed Fountain, Volrath’s Stronghold, Restoration Angel x2, Bitterblossom, Cryptic Command, Arid Mesa x2, Sword of War and Peace, Elspeth, Knight Errant, Entreat the Angels, Thragtusk, Aether Vial, Deathrite Shaman, Ajani, Caller of the Pride, Marsh Flats, Mox Opal, Enlightened Tutor, Tooth and Nail, Demonic Tutor x2, Academy Ruins, Ancient Tomb, Terminus, Overgrown Tomb, Blood Crypt, Liliana of the Dark Realms, and Lich’s Mirror (yes really). Additionally, 23 new PucaTraders joined our ever-growing community of traders. Welcome!

Cards Traded on PucaTrade:

Just received on #pucatrade Wasteland! Look out Legacy, here we come! #mtg

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What are we doing? #PucaTrade Week 3 of 52:

I returned from vacation this week, and when I landed in Oakland I hit the ground running. I blasted through 342 e-mails on Tuesday, and was able schedule a meeting with Justin Johnson and Nathan Ross, the founders of LateLabs. LateLabs is an amazing concept: “CrowdCoding: We trade awesome code for equity.” Pretty self-explanatory, right? This seems like a perfect fit for PucaTrade. They’re awesome dudes, and we all left the meeting feeling pretty optimistic about the next steps. If things continue to go as planned, this has awesome implications for PucaTrade. An elite team of 3 or 4 developers will agree to bust out some new features for us, under my direction and with the programming linguistic support of a friend of mine named Topher White (since I know almost nothing about writing code). So I spent much of the week designing the new PucaTrade, and I’m really excited for what’s next. It really helped to utilize all of the comments and feedback we’ve received so far, and the next batch of updates are gonna be rad, rad, rad. Last week, someone asked me specifically what we had in mind for the new year. PucaTrade’s New Year resolutions are simply this: To exit Beta. With that comes a slick, understandable User Interface, support for Foils, condition, Non-English support, a feedback system, and more control for you around who sends you cards. This is just the beginning, but I can’t give up all my secrets. Happy Trading!

Cards Traded on PucaTrade:

Mailing out on #pucatrade today: Rats! #mtg

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