Death Rune Shops — Margin or Nothing
Magic shops sell death runes at a fixed shop price. If the GE instant-sell is enough above that after tax, you world-hop and bank the difference. If it isn’t, this method does not exist that day. Irons cannot sell on the GE, so this is mains and alts only.
Skip if: the GE price is hugging the shop price, you hate hopping, or you are an iron.
0 some weeks, OK others
Wiki Magic Guild / typical rune shops
Required to buy from Akutha
Clicks and hops, no combat
Requirements- Members, GE access, cash to buy a shop’s stock a few times over
- Teleports you actually have — 25 Magic Varrock is enough to start at Aubury
- 66 Magic for the Yanille Wizards’ Guild, plus The Hand in the Sand to buy from Wizard Akutha
Look at death rune on the GE tracker before you leave the bank. Shop buy + GE tax has to lose to the sell price or you are paying for Magic XP you are not getting.
The loop- Teleport to a magic shop, buy deaths (right-click buy-X / shop stock).
- Hop worlds. Stock is per world, not per account. Restock is slow (~minutes, not seconds).
- When the inventory / rune pouch is full, bank. Sell on the GE at a price that actually fills.
- Do not dump a 50k stack at once if the book is thin — you will crash your own hour.
Shops| Shop | Stock | How |
|---|---|---|
| Yanille Magic Guild Wizard Akutha (1st floor) | 250 | 66 Magic (boostable) and The Hand in the Sand to buy; Watchtower / NMZ / Yanille tele |
| Varrock Aubury | 250 | Varrock tele, south-east rune shop |
| Port Sarim Betty | 250 | Explorer’s ring / glory to Draynor, walk south |
| Lunar Isle Baba Yaga | 250 | Lunar Isle tele (Lunar Diplomacy) |
| Arceuus Magic shop | 250 | Kourend Castle / Arceuus home tele |
| Ape Atoll Magic shop | 250 | Ape Atoll tele after Monkey Madness |
Stock is 250 deaths at the usual shops, including Yanille — the guild is worth the tele because it is next to a bank and sells the other runes on the same click, not because it has a secret 1,000 pile. Baba Yaga and Ape Atoll only if those teles are already in the cape / pouch.
Profit honestyThis is not 1M/hr as a lifestyle. Wiki money-making snapshots assume a fat GE premium and empty worlds. Bots contest the good worlds. Treat it as an alt activity when deaths are expensive, and switch to High Alchemy or a real gather method when they are not.
Common mistakes- Using last year’s “200 buy / 240 sell” as if it were still true.
- Forgetting GE tax on the sell.
- Hopping the same 10 worlds forever — stock needs time to respawn.