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Apr 7, 2019SonofaBith75 posted a message on Magic Market Index for March 15th, 2019Why in the introduction to this write up does it say this is a weekly series (not once, but twice), and here we are on April 7th, 14 weeks into the year, and there’s been a grand total of 3 of these in 2019? These don’t even happen frequently enough to be considered monthly, let alone weekly.Posted in: Articles
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- steve_man
You just replied to a post nearly 11 YEARS OLD, genius.
Congratulations on breaking news that’s nearly 3 months old. While also ignoring the fact that set boosters replaced draft boosters. Good reporting.
“It's as if WOTC is so incompetent at making $15 60-card base rules precons that they gave up.”
The answer is simple: because Wizards understands that the secondary market exists and no product can be competitive at the $15 price tag. $30-$40 precon decks seem to be the sweet spot. They can put in ~$50-$60 worth of value, include 1-of’s, maybe 2-of’s of the pricey cards, and while you may not have a tournament winner, at least you won’t die on turn 3 while having a miserable experience. A $15 deck would need so many upgrades there wouldn’t be anything left of the $15 deck by the time you shuffle up, therefore there is no market for such a product.
Wizards isn’t incompetent for not making $15 decks, but you likely are for thinking they can and should.
When evaluating the value of something, you need to take into account not just the resultant values of cards, but the value of the cards prior to and up to the time of release.
OG Omnath and the FTV version were both $30 cards at the time CC: Green was announced. Both Freyalise’s were $12-$13. Seedborn Muse is currently the 21st most used card in Green according to EDHrec and despite numerous printings, refuses to budge from its $8-$10 price tag.
A lot of the cards in CC: Black will drop after their CC: B release, so comparing their pre-release prices to that of post-release CC: Green is apples to oranges. There was plenty of value in Green above the two cards you mentioned.
rather than pissing and moaning about the Pioneer decklists, why not follow the link instead of making ignorant guesses?