MTG Salvation

Quote from cfusionpm »

So Monastery Mentor is now $50. LOL.

Kinda makes me look dumb for not buying the foils I wanted (just 2) for $25 a while back. At least I can still play the card, as I did buy 4 non foils during Khans.

UW's all the rage. Maybe something there should get banned?

Quote from tronix »

yeah lyra and baneslayer are often paired up, but both showing up in sideboards has been less frequent as of late. i personally also benched baneslayer and put resto angel in its place and it has been surprisingly effective.

thats not to say the card is obsolete or anything so anyone who bought baneslayers are likely to hold onto the card as its still a solid option to play if the meta permits. so id chalk any price increase to the total supply out there just shrinking naturally.

i love me some baneslayer though. i do want to pick up an m10 foil at some point cause the art is awesome, but damn is my wallet tired from buying all the crap i needed from WAR and MH1 to update my decks.

Same. I've wanted a foil Baneslayer Angel ever since I saw someone sell 4 to a vendor for $100 each just for the vendor to flip them for $150 to an unknown dude. (during Standard obv.)

Iconic card - almost pulled the trigger years ago when my friend pulled one in a Walmart pack that his girlfriend bought for him (can't search packs for foils at Walmart). I just can't justify $28 for a card I "like," but won't play. Maybe some time...

Quote from khayoz »

When would be the best time to pickup a play set of Urza?

You can probably wait. The prices seem to be dropping slowly, as Wren and Six accelerates to the most pricey card in the set at $50. (Well, it's been that way for a week now, but the gap is growing...)

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Quote from FoodChainGoblins »

What happened to Reshape? I don't remember it being above $7. It's $25 now.

Urza edh hype

Is it possible that it's from the Modern Urza deck? I know that deck hasn't been proven competitive. There was 1 in the top 8 of that 189 person Win a Mustang tournament in Alabama (Gamers and Geeks). Does THAT deck play Reshape? I guess I can look it up, lol.

What happened to Reshape? I don't remember it being above $7. It's $25 now.

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=22176&d=350108&f=MO

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=22007&d=348539&f=MO

This was my search from 5-1-19 to 6-14-19. Surely this can't be the only reason, outside of a buyout, that Teferi's Puzzle Box spiked? Odd to me. I guess it's more speculation of what it does with Narset, Parter of Veils more than someone actually going out and getting results that show up on mtgtop8?

Do you have a deck list for a list with Teferi's Puzzle Box? I saw the card spike a bunch and I was curious as to what it is being played in specifically. (In addition to a buyout of course.)

The other option is I can probably type Teferi's Puzzle Box in mtgtop8 and see what deck lists pop up.

Quote from idSurge »

Shhhh FCG. I want it to hit $10.

Lol.

I feel you. My friend who doesn't even play that much says that if they hit $10, he's buying literally thousands of dollars worth of them. I believe him because he managed to get 8 of the 10 War of the Spark Mythic Boxes that he ordered (through varying identities of course). I told him they won't hit that. But it got me thinking. I may be willing to invest around $500 myself towards a bunch of these if they do in fact go down to that price.

*As of right now, I actually need 4 Nurturing Peatland foils for my Elves deck to replace Horizon Canopies. It's one of the few decks that I actually really enjoy playing in Modern right now.

**I should also state that Ravenous Trap seems to be on the move (again) a bit. I'm telling you, any card that helps deal with the new Hogaak Vine deck is definitely going to be precious material in the next few months. Humans is probably one of the few decks that can somewhat hang with it, so Humans could possibly go up as well, but that's a bit of a stretch.

I think Horizon lands are amazing.

I learned this many years ago when our local Pro Player (pure Control player) used to run Kithkin at FNM (just to prove that he can beat scrubs with anything, not just Control). He always ran 4 Horizon Canopy, which I questioned at first. Then I quickly realized it just gives more options with very little drawback.

Do you see the prices going up even with the new wave of War of the Spark boxes coming out soon? A friend at my LGS says that there will more supply at that time, thus the prices of individual cards should come down.

(I already know the answer to this, but my bullheaded self needs to hear it from others.)

What do you think about buying Teferi, Time Raveler and Karn, the Great Creator? My LGS is selling Teferi at $18 and Karn at $14, which is way higher than I can get elsewhere. But I have a bunch of Store Credit, so I almost don't care. Then again, I have no need for them any time soon. I need 3 more Karn and 3 more Teferi, as I was able to buy them at $10 a piece at another store, but that's all they had in stock.

Compare with Hogaak, the Arisen Necropolis, which has also spiked to around $30. For anyone that really, really needs them, you can get them for around $25 on tcgplayer. I considered it myself, but am taking a hiatus from Magic starting on the 15th, which is 1 day before they can ship. So there's really no point, especially since the card can only go down from here.

Quote from idSurge »

Went looking at Fetch prices as I want to brew a fun Jund sacrifice deck, and...wow. Verdant Catacombs at $70 is a joke, and Scalding Tarn back up to $120 as the best colour pair should be, is just gross.

Time for some reprints.

Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. Whenever something goes down because of reprints, something else goes way up. I'm personally at the point where my will to sell out because of these prices is trumping my laziness to put up a list of the cards I want to sell.

(Most of this is reserve list spikes, as opposed to Modern though.)

Quote from The Fluff »

I see. thanks for that. I guess it's ok to wait now for the prices to bottom a little more.

I feel you on the alternate art Planeswalkers from War of the Spark. I've been fiending for them as well and have a seller from Japan on FB for $240 for 1 of all 36 of them. I've been so close to pulling the trigger and probably will once I sell some of the cards that have spiked recently. I wish I had patience, as I'm not even really planning on using any of them any time soon.

Quote from Colt47 »

Dear lord do not buy any japanese cards until the supply hickup gets dealt with. It's really, really bad right now on War of the Spark and everything is inflated into oblivion.

Thanks. I was suuuuper tempted and put all kinds of planeswalkers into my cart on Ebay. Finally had the restraint to say **** it. I am still considering a play set of uncommons from Singapore. I know it's not the best place to buy cards from, especially out of a 52 rep seller, but it's available.