Let's be honest here, those price changes are crazy. Going from $12 to $50 in a matter of MINUTES is not healthy at all.
Does TCGPlayer have an automatic algorithm that adjusts prices? Not all sellers could be possibly present during the B&R announcement to adjust their prices, so I feel like the software did automatic adjustments in response to a buyout or to one seller adjusting prices.
Let's be honest here, those price changes are crazy. Going from $12 to $50 in a matter of MINUTES is not healthy at all.
Does TCGPlayer have an automatic algorithm that adjusts prices? Not all sellers could be possibly present during the B&R announcement to adjust their prices, so I feel like the software did automatic adjustments in response to a buyout or to one seller adjusting prices.
After the initial buyout after the unban announcement, there was only 2 sellers of NM copies listed on tcgplayer, and both were at right around $50 per card. The rest of the available copies were bought out with the unban at the previously listed prices. In this case the restock was likely by those sellers who were available for when the unban took place and took the opportunity to put some up at the $50 price to see if people would be willing to pay that. And you would be surprised at the sheer number of active sellers/stores that will make sure they are watching wizards website like a hawk for the banned/restricted announcements. I know I certainly was when it was announced. I was surprised as anyone at the unban announcements, (and wasn't surprised at the eye of ugin ban, it seemed like the most logical option to lower the power level of the deck, while still keeping it viable but slower.) I tried to log into tcgplayer initially to see what was going on with the cards in question, but the website kept popping up with errors and such and I had to wait a bit to get the information about what happened with the cards prices. Ebay didn't go down but by the time I checked ebay was completely sold out save for a single $50 buy it now listing, and a few auction listings that had been there previously.
As for the specific question about a re-price algorithm of some kind with tcgplayer, I honestly don't know. I know I have seen such things before, I'm just not sure if I've seen it with tcgplayer. In the case of the listings that I did see after the unban as I said, I suspect it was individuals/online stores that caught the unban and picked a price to see how it would go.
Not sure if Ancestral Vision is really going to stabilize lower in the long run without a reprint. The card can slot into many different decks, and if a variety of Modern control decks emerge in the future, expect this card to be an easy 4-of in all of them. While the primary reason for its ban no longer exists (an efficient way to cheat it out), it remains a very powerful card, especially when cast on turn 1 (or, even better cast on turn 1 and followed up with another on turn 2).
Prices have largely stabilized now, and if you have any interest in playing one of the emergent control decks that will be tested out in Modern, you should probably pick up your playset now. It has a very limited supply, only being printed in Time Spiral and as a 1-of in Duel Decks with very limited print runs.
Of course, I could be forced to eat my words with an EMA reprint in a few months (the card is a Shardless BUG staple), but I guess people are free to take that chance.
Actually it doesn't slot into any existing archetype without some major adjustments, that's why it was brought back, and the initial reason why it was banned is not that it could be cascaded into (it probably factored in a little, but that wasn't the main cause), the reasoning (as I recall, since the link to the original announcement seems to be dead) was that it allowed control players to trade/sacrifice resources early and refuel completely in the mid/late game, negating most of the hard work or other more aggressive/linear decks, now they've seen that those types of control decks to tune down combo decks and linear strategies, sadly making aggressive decks a lot worse in the process, but improving the overall quality of the format.
Actually it doesn't slot into any existing archetype without some major adjustments, that's why it was brought back, and the initial reason why it was banned is not that it could be cascaded into (it probably factored in a little, but that wasn't the main cause), the reasoning (as I recall, since the link to the original announcement seems to be dead) was that it allowed control players to trade/sacrifice resources early and refuel completely in the mid/late game, negating most of the hard work or other more aggressive/linear decks, now they've seen that those types of control decks to tune down combo decks and linear strategies, sadly making aggressive decks a lot worse in the process, but improving the overall quality of the format.
There is no evidence that they have made the format better. These are the same people who didn't see this eldrazi deck being a thing , so don't get your bets that the format is, healthier./ It will probbaly be the same for awhile and then get a new broken deck and we are back to square one.
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Actually it doesn't slot into any existing archetype without some major adjustments, that's why it was brought back, and the initial reason why it was banned is not that it could be cascaded into (it probably factored in a little, but that wasn't the main cause), the reasoning (as I recall, since the link to the original announcement seems to be dead) was that it allowed control players to trade/sacrifice resources early and refuel completely in the mid/late game, negating most of the hard work or other more aggressive/linear decks, now they've seen that those types of control decks to tune down combo decks and linear strategies, sadly making aggressive decks a lot worse in the process, but improving the overall quality of the format.
There is no evidence that they have made the format better. These are the same people who didn't see this eldrazi deck being a thing , so don't get your bets that the format is, healthier./ It will probbaly be the same for awhile and then get a new broken deck and we are back to square one.
Per wizards statements... they knew the deck was going to be too good, they just allowed it to happen.
I'm pretty sure these bans and unbans will do almost nothing to help the format in the short term future. We will still have an extremely powerful Eldrazitron deck which I'm in no way convinced will go away due to the eye ban, we have thopter foundries which have to stand up against a ton of artifact hate, and ancestral visions which will go in to too slow and non-existent control decks.
This format will always be bad until wizards allows control to be a thing. Obviously with their aversion to 4 mana board wipes, counters, and land destruction that isn't going to happen anytime soon. Without wasteland and a force of will type counter, control in modern will always be relegated to the back seat due to lands that are too good and cards that are played too quick. It's pretty ridiculous you can cast Karn Liberated on turn 3 a thought-knot seer on turn 2... yet can't cast a decent counterspell due to 'new players not liking it".
Until wizards bites the bullet, and prints a couple decent counterspells and land removal in standard, we'll always be stuck with a halfass format where combo and agro make up 80%+ of the format.
So it was Eye. Oh well... I was hopeful it would be Temple but what's done is done.
Surprised by the Ancestral unban honestly. The buyout that's happening right now is quite possibly everything I hate about Magic now: the volatility and abject insanity that is the singles card market.
Sword unban is interesting. Curious to see what a new combo deck in Modern looks like.
I don't get it. What's to hate? I am now tempted to try Visions in Modern, and want a few copies too. Are the people holding them supposed to sell them to me for the same price as when they were banned out of the goodness of their hearts?
Sorry, are you saying you actually like the 4x-5x price explosion that seems to happen on a whim lately? Must be nice to be so flush with extra cash to blow on cardboard.
Price volatility is a commonly sore subject among MTG players.
And the decks that want good counterspells play Karn as a win con...
Conditional counterspells on 2 exist, play them.
Control is an archtype, it does not make a format balanced, it just makes everyone play control to counter it. see Eldrazi v Eldrazi. Combo and Aggro is a good simple balanced fight.
I could be like everyone else and complain that my Mill Deck does nothing but lose because there aren't any good mill spells, or just keep building it as a board stalling slower mill which still works. Move on from Control and try something that isn't "feel bad" because counterspells just plain suck at making the game interactive and fun. Which was all covered in the Counterspell thread.
And people should stop saying the eldrazi deck lives, cause it doesn't. Vesuva can replace it, but Urborg has no value in it now and the quick starts are really all the deck had.
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So it was Eye. Oh well... I was hopeful it would be Temple but what's done is done.
Surprised by the Ancestral unban honestly. The buyout that's happening right now is quite possibly everything I hate about Magic now: the volatility and abject insanity that is the singles card market.
Sword unban is interesting. Curious to see what a new combo deck in Modern looks like.
I don't get it. What's to hate? I am now tempted to try Visions in Modern, and want a few copies too. Are the people holding them supposed to sell them to me for the same price as when they were banned out of the goodness of their hearts?
Sorry, are you saying you actually like the 4x-5x price explosion that seems to happen on a whim lately? Must be nice to be so flush with extra cash to blow on cardboard.
Price volatility is a commonly sore subject among MTG players.
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You don't have to be flush with cash to benefit from price explosions. A little foresight can go a long way. AV and Sword were in constant discussion as candidates for removal from the ban list. Aaron Forsythe even hinted AV was being considered for unbanning. Paying attention can help people buy in way ahead of the curve.
If you don't have foresight, you can also have patience. Wait until the spike dies down and the value levels out to buy. Or wait until a reprint.
If you don't have foresight or patience, you can develop good play and trading skills. Playing better means you win more prizes. Being able to trade intelligently means you can get the cards you want without spending more cash.
If you don't have ANY foresight, patience, skills, OR money, you're probably pretty unhappy right now. Fortunately, I'm confident most people have or can at least develop at least one of those attributes!
Now I'm sore that Oath of the Gatewatch happened even more; the original Eldrazi remain some of my favorite cards to make decks around and Eye of Ugin was one of my favorite lands back when it was fair. Damn those tiny Eldrazi breaking the card, I will miss ye Eye.
Hopefully this drops the price of a foil, I forgot to grab one when I started my collection way back when and Modern spiked it like crazy
Now I'm sore that Oath of the Gatewatch happened even more; the original Eldrazi remain some of my favorite cards to make decks around and Eye of Ugin was one of my favorite lands back when it was fair. Damn those tiny Eldrazi breaking the card, I will miss ye Eye.
Hopefully this drops the price of a foil, I forgot to grab one when I started my collection way back when and Modern spiked it like crazy
tHIS RIGH THRE FLUB HERE If Mimic was a 3, it'd be fair, and balanced still in my eyes. Does forcing the eldrazi deck to wait until turn two to drop two mimics and turn three to smash face matter?
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Actually it doesn't slot into any existing archetype without some major adjustments, that's why it was brought back, and the initial reason why it was banned is not that it could be cascaded into (it probably factored in a little, but that wasn't the main cause), the reasoning (as I recall, since the link to the original announcement seems to be dead) was that it allowed control players to trade/sacrifice resources early and refuel completely in the mid/late game, negating most of the hard work or other more aggressive/linear decks, now they've seen that those types of control decks to tune down combo decks and linear strategies, sadly making aggressive decks a lot worse in the process, but improving the overall quality of the format.
There is no evidence that they have made the format better. These are the same people who didn't see this eldrazi deck being a thing , so don't get your bets that the format is, healthier./ It will probbaly be the same for awhile and then get a new broken deck and we are back to square one.
Per wizards statements... they knew the deck was going to be too good, they just allowed it to happen.
I'm pretty sure these bans and unbans will do almost nothing to help the format in the short term future. We will still have an extremely powerful Eldrazitron deck which I'm in no way convinced will go away due to the eye ban, we have thopter foundries which have to stand up against a ton of artifact hate, and ancestral visions which will go in to too slow and non-existent control decks.
This format will always be bad until wizards allows control to be a thing. Obviously with their aversion to 4 mana board wipes, counters, and land destruction that isn't going to happen anytime soon. Without wasteland and a force of will type counter, control in modern will always be relegated to the back seat due to lands that are too good and cards that are played too quick. It's pretty ridiculous you can cast Karn Liberated on turn 3 a thought-knot seer on turn 2... yet can't cast a decent counterspell due to 'new players not liking it".
Until wizards bites the bullet, and prints a couple decent counterspells and land removal in standard, we'll always be stuck with a halfass format where combo and agro make up 80%+ of the format.
You don't need force of will, you don't need counterspell, remand and mana leak are fine as long as you have a good enough late game to back those up, as for wrats, there's plenty of conditional 3 mana wrats and unconditional 4 mana ones to go around, control in modern has 2 main problems:
- There's no good card selection/draw in the format, Ancestral vision fixes that without feeding degenerate combo decks with cheap cantrips, it may or may not be good enough, but it certainly looks like it helps quite a bit, as in theory it will allow the control player to trade cards for time in the early game and refuel in the mid to late gam until it can turn the corner and close the game.
- There's too many strategies that require specific answers, control decks prey on stablished metagames, you can't prepare for everything, and this format is too diverse, the more potent/effective answers are too narrow thus relegated to sideboard, and the more flexible ones are usually not impactfull enough to win you the game. Here AV doesn't help a lot, where a maindeckable "catch all" answer like FoW would, there's still discard thou, and AV certainly helps you get to your more impactful cards.
As for the LD comment... what the hell are you talking about? Competitively costed LD makes control's life miserable, yes the mana bases are crazy good in modern, but if you introduce competitively costed LD in modern the decks that get more severely punished are control decks, as those are the ones that suffer the most from mana denial, as their gameplans in general take more time/mana to kick in.
These price jumps are ridiculous.Discusting really
Since when has MTG ever had price control in the secondary market? It's like watching the worlds biggest roller coaster just go crazy all over the place.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
These price jumps are ridiculous.Discusting really
Bitterblossom had the same thing happen after it was unbanned, where it went from $20 to $80 overnight, but it did fall to a decent price over time. I don't like the sudden price jumps either, but this always happens with cards like these where they were banned for so long. Gotta give it some time and it should regulate.
And to explain the 2 C only works on Eldrazi cards and nothing else. Case and point it will not be able to cast Dreamstone Hedron because it's not a Eldrazi spell.
And the decks that want good counterspells play Karn as a win con...
Conditional counterspells on 2 exist, play them.
Control is an archtype, it does not make a format balanced, it just makes everyone play control to counter it. see Eldrazi v Eldrazi. Combo and Aggro is a good simple balanced fight.
I could be like everyone else and complain that my Mill Deck does nothing but lose because there aren't any good mill spells, or just keep building it as a board stalling slower mill which still works. Move on from Control and try something that isn't "feel bad" because counterspells just plain suck at making the game interactive and fun. Which was all covered in the Counterspell thread.
And people should stop saying the eldrazi deck lives, cause it doesn't. Vesuva can replace it, but Urborg has no value in it now and the quick starts are really all the deck had.
Blue really only needs Counterspell to be more competitive at this point.
As for Eldrazi, Eldrazi is a spectrum of decks plural. The original was straight Processor, then came Dread Summonsing, slowly Processor-Aggro hybrids until we saw the full out Eldrazi Aggro and then Eldrazi Tron at the same time. With that said. Looking at specific Processor lists with the current arrival of cheaper, faster and more aggressive creatures we will see some sort of Midrange deck arrive that preys on graveyard decks in graveyard metas at the very least for Tier 2.
Eldrazi Tron's fate is still up in the air as to what it will evolve into and whether it can climb into Tier 2.
I agree that Eldrazi Aggro as we know it is dead.
The next shift for Eldrazi will come from the introduction of new Eldrazi's through Emrakul's set.
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I'm curious why the Rumor Mill is where Banned List changes go.
Is the Rumor Mill more of a 'confirmed news, leaks, and some rumors' forum?
The history of the Rumor Mill starts with a site called MTGNews.com. Years ago, it was the central source for finding unofficial card spoilers and other leaked information. It's Rumor Mill forum was by far the most popular part of the site.
Eventually, there was some conflict behind the scenes of MTGNews that resulted in some admins splitting off and forming MTGSalvation.com. The idea was to keep the good parts and leave the bad parts of the previous site behind. The Rumor Mill was definitely a good part and it was kept. It became one of the most popular forums on this new site as well.
Through the years, WotC has undergone a shift in understanding the importance of spoilers. In the early days, they were almost all unofficial leaks, and WotC took a hard line against them. But eventually they wised up and realized that early information about the product they are trying to sell is highly beneficial to them. So WotC started releasing more and more official spoilers over the years. We get relatively few unofficial spoilers these days.
It has been a slow transition, though. And for years, we got both official and unofficial spoilers at the same time. It made sense to post those in the same place for convenience. People were used to coming to the Rumor Mill for information, so that's where new information went. We had a "News" forum at one point, but it didn't get much use. Tradition is a powerful thing.
There's a certain irony to it all. MTGNews was a site made famous as the source for rumors. Now the Rumor Mill is best place for actual news about MTG.
I must say as a former part time lurker turned relatively new member this confused me a lot. I understand it is a delicate situation. You have your long time established members use to this so don't want to throw them off, but at the same time new people are thrown off.
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Does TCGPlayer have an automatic algorithm that adjusts prices? Not all sellers could be possibly present during the B&R announcement to adjust their prices, so I feel like the software did automatic adjustments in response to a buyout or to one seller adjusting prices.
After the initial buyout after the unban announcement, there was only 2 sellers of NM copies listed on tcgplayer, and both were at right around $50 per card. The rest of the available copies were bought out with the unban at the previously listed prices. In this case the restock was likely by those sellers who were available for when the unban took place and took the opportunity to put some up at the $50 price to see if people would be willing to pay that. And you would be surprised at the sheer number of active sellers/stores that will make sure they are watching wizards website like a hawk for the banned/restricted announcements. I know I certainly was when it was announced. I was surprised as anyone at the unban announcements, (and wasn't surprised at the eye of ugin ban, it seemed like the most logical option to lower the power level of the deck, while still keeping it viable but slower.) I tried to log into tcgplayer initially to see what was going on with the cards in question, but the website kept popping up with errors and such and I had to wait a bit to get the information about what happened with the cards prices. Ebay didn't go down but by the time I checked ebay was completely sold out save for a single $50 buy it now listing, and a few auction listings that had been there previously.
As for the specific question about a re-price algorithm of some kind with tcgplayer, I honestly don't know. I know I have seen such things before, I'm just not sure if I've seen it with tcgplayer. In the case of the listings that I did see after the unban as I said, I suspect it was individuals/online stores that caught the unban and picked a price to see how it would go.
Prices have largely stabilized now, and if you have any interest in playing one of the emergent control decks that will be tested out in Modern, you should probably pick up your playset now. It has a very limited supply, only being printed in Time Spiral and as a 1-of in Duel Decks with very limited print runs.
Of course, I could be forced to eat my words with an EMA reprint in a few months (the card is a Shardless BUG staple), but I guess people are free to take that chance.
There is no evidence that they have made the format better. These are the same people who didn't see this eldrazi deck being a thing , so don't get your bets that the format is, healthier./ It will probbaly be the same for awhile and then get a new broken deck and we are back to square one.
Selling some cards I don't want.
Generally less than tcg mid.
Per wizards statements... they knew the deck was going to be too good, they just allowed it to happen.
I'm pretty sure these bans and unbans will do almost nothing to help the format in the short term future. We will still have an extremely powerful Eldrazitron deck which I'm in no way convinced will go away due to the eye ban, we have thopter foundries which have to stand up against a ton of artifact hate, and ancestral visions which will go in to too slow and non-existent control decks.
This format will always be bad until wizards allows control to be a thing. Obviously with their aversion to 4 mana board wipes, counters, and land destruction that isn't going to happen anytime soon. Without wasteland and a force of will type counter, control in modern will always be relegated to the back seat due to lands that are too good and cards that are played too quick. It's pretty ridiculous you can cast Karn Liberated on turn 3 a thought-knot seer on turn 2... yet can't cast a decent counterspell due to 'new players not liking it".
Until wizards bites the bullet, and prints a couple decent counterspells and land removal in standard, we'll always be stuck with a halfass format where combo and agro make up 80%+ of the format.
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Sorry, are you saying you actually like the 4x-5x price explosion that seems to happen on a whim lately? Must be nice to be so flush with extra cash to blow on cardboard.
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Conditional counterspells on 2 exist, play them.
Control is an archtype, it does not make a format balanced, it just makes everyone play control to counter it. see Eldrazi v Eldrazi. Combo and Aggro is a good simple balanced fight.
I could be like everyone else and complain that my Mill Deck does nothing but lose because there aren't any good mill spells, or just keep building it as a board stalling slower mill which still works. Move on from Control and try something that isn't "feel bad" because counterspells just plain suck at making the game interactive and fun. Which was all covered in the Counterspell thread.
And people should stop saying the eldrazi deck lives, cause it doesn't. Vesuva can replace it, but Urborg has no value in it now and the quick starts are really all the deck had.
Selling some cards I don't want.
Generally less than tcg mid.
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You don't have to be flush with cash to benefit from price explosions. A little foresight can go a long way. AV and Sword were in constant discussion as candidates for removal from the ban list. Aaron Forsythe even hinted AV was being considered for unbanning. Paying attention can help people buy in way ahead of the curve.
If you don't have foresight, you can also have patience. Wait until the spike dies down and the value levels out to buy. Or wait until a reprint.
If you don't have foresight or patience, you can develop good play and trading skills. Playing better means you win more prizes. Being able to trade intelligently means you can get the cards you want without spending more cash.
If you don't have ANY foresight, patience, skills, OR money, you're probably pretty unhappy right now. Fortunately, I'm confident most people have or can at least develop at least one of those attributes!
tHIS RIGH THRE FLUB HERE If Mimic was a 3, it'd be fair, and balanced still in my eyes. Does forcing the eldrazi deck to wait until turn two to drop two mimics and turn three to smash face matter?
Selling some cards I don't want.
Generally less than tcg mid.
- There's no good card selection/draw in the format, Ancestral vision fixes that without feeding degenerate combo decks with cheap cantrips, it may or may not be good enough, but it certainly looks like it helps quite a bit, as in theory it will allow the control player to trade cards for time in the early game and refuel in the mid to late gam until it can turn the corner and close the game.
- There's too many strategies that require specific answers, control decks prey on stablished metagames, you can't prepare for everything, and this format is too diverse, the more potent/effective answers are too narrow thus relegated to sideboard, and the more flexible ones are usually not impactfull enough to win you the game. Here AV doesn't help a lot, where a maindeckable "catch all" answer like FoW would, there's still discard thou, and AV certainly helps you get to your more impactful cards.
As for the LD comment... what the hell are you talking about? Competitively costed LD makes control's life miserable, yes the mana bases are crazy good in modern, but if you introduce competitively costed LD in modern the decks that get more severely punished are control decks, as those are the ones that suffer the most from mana denial, as their gameplans in general take more time/mana to kick in.
Since when has MTG ever had price control in the secondary market? It's like watching the worlds biggest roller coaster just go crazy all over the place.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Bitterblossom had the same thing happen after it was unbanned, where it went from $20 to $80 overnight, but it did fall to a decent price over time. I don't like the sudden price jumps either, but this always happens with cards like these where they were banned for so long. Gotta give it some time and it should regulate.
I'm not sure what jumped
But I'm sure the eldrazi temple is going to stay at remand like price. And not get a immense jump like inquistion of kozilek
And to explain the 2 C only works on Eldrazi cards and nothing else. Case and point it will not be able to cast Dreamstone Hedron because it's not a Eldrazi spell.
Blue really only needs Counterspell to be more competitive at this point.
As for Eldrazi, Eldrazi is a spectrum of decks plural. The original was straight Processor, then came Dread Summonsing, slowly Processor-Aggro hybrids until we saw the full out Eldrazi Aggro and then Eldrazi Tron at the same time. With that said. Looking at specific Processor lists with the current arrival of cheaper, faster and more aggressive creatures we will see some sort of Midrange deck arrive that preys on graveyard decks in graveyard metas at the very least for Tier 2.
Eldrazi Tron's fate is still up in the air as to what it will evolve into and whether it can climb into Tier 2.
I agree that Eldrazi Aggro as we know it is dead.
The next shift for Eldrazi will come from the introduction of new Eldrazi's through Emrakul's set.
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Is the Rumor Mill more of a 'confirmed news, leaks, and some rumors' forum?
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Pretty much, yeah. Almost every true rumor gets locked.
Don't ask why, I'm not sure either.
People come here for information about what's happening. This is information.
It may not be the best way to do it, but it's how it's done. *shrug*
The history of the Rumor Mill starts with a site called MTGNews.com. Years ago, it was the central source for finding unofficial card spoilers and other leaked information. It's Rumor Mill forum was by far the most popular part of the site.
Eventually, there was some conflict behind the scenes of MTGNews that resulted in some admins splitting off and forming MTGSalvation.com. The idea was to keep the good parts and leave the bad parts of the previous site behind. The Rumor Mill was definitely a good part and it was kept. It became one of the most popular forums on this new site as well.
Through the years, WotC has undergone a shift in understanding the importance of spoilers. In the early days, they were almost all unofficial leaks, and WotC took a hard line against them. But eventually they wised up and realized that early information about the product they are trying to sell is highly beneficial to them. So WotC started releasing more and more official spoilers over the years. We get relatively few unofficial spoilers these days.
It has been a slow transition, though. And for years, we got both official and unofficial spoilers at the same time. It made sense to post those in the same place for convenience. People were used to coming to the Rumor Mill for information, so that's where new information went. We had a "News" forum at one point, but it didn't get much use. Tradition is a powerful thing.
There's a certain irony to it all. MTGNews was a site made famous as the source for rumors. Now the Rumor Mill is best place for actual news about MTG.