So if youre behind on board, playing them for full cost may be the safer call
Now that you have it, you should consider getting it graded by CGC Cards
And, now that the pre-launch hype has died down, there are a bunch of cards that have dropped in value and are well worth a look
Appa, Steadfast Guardian's Value in MTG $55.53 for a Borderless foil version $39.32 for Borderless non-foil $24.85 for regular non-foil 8 8 - Ozai, the Phoenix King Ozai, the Phoenix King is a Rakdos card in MTG that costs 6 mana total (2 generic, 2 Black, 2 Red) for a 7/7 creature with trample, haste, and firebending 4
In order to generate the large image I simply render UIImageViews onto a UIView that is the correct size, loop through each image and download it, and then use the snapshotting APIs to capture the view as a UIImage ready for exporting as a JPEG that usually weighs in at around 3MB
Some of the better token producers include Automated Assembly Line and Phyrexian Ironworks to create many small tokens