The price tick for all is probably related to Atraxa tbh. A lot of people hearing there is a good pre-con set... so they head out to their local game shop, target, walmart and look for it.... they don't find it so they just look at the others out of desperation to walk away with something. I have seen it before with so many other pre-cons, this is probably the same. Just desperation to walk away with something, when you can't walk away with the best on an impulse buy trip
I agree it wont last at this price point. But it is a card that has been on the tip of exploding for a long time. If we don't see a reprint in MM3 it could stay around $55 forever and then spike whenever it makes a splash at a national.
the first set is still hard(er) to come by and by all appearances had smaller numbers printed, it will always remain higher than the rest. But yea, every year these get printed, the less the demand (until there is a godlike walker printed that is modern/standard playable).
this is not a speculation thread...as the mod stated countless times in this thread. Please keep the discussion based around actual huge gainers and not speculation.
Hey all of my work browsing bros with strict web proxies to try and get around; I recently managed to install Tor on my work machine and it bypasses the flags that usually block almost all the sites my proxy looks for. It allows me to see the MTGS beta site from work, just an fyi.
Hope it helps. Might not defeat DNS level stuff though.
Faithless, I think you missed a lot of points made in this thread... but rather than rehash it again, I'll just suggest you go back and read some of it again. It's not about playability or format at all with this set cards. It's all about super low quantity, exclusivity and collectability...
All we can do is wait and see who's right, but I of course would bet on me being right on this being a long term riser and a highly sought after set in the overall spectrum of MtG collecting...not playing. It just needs time to sink in for a lot of people, for just how rare these will turn out to be.
I do love how most current players somehow deny that there is not a huge collecting>playing crowd/market out there. This set is for them, not you...
Hello, now that the beta is back... I am back, with the same old questions about the site tags, curse sites being blocked at work and any solutions that have been found.
Was there anything mentioned in the last go-round with Curse?
This is the period where they market will be flooded most, so they will trend slightly downwards. Once everyone has seen that these were indeed a one-timer... or knowing Hasboro- lack of any real word on what their future plans for exclusives are (we'll give up trying to guess)... This set will start trending upwards as collectors dig in for the long haul and various MtG selling outlets try to build a good stock of them (attempting) to corner the market and flip for profit.
My best guess, since I have been watching them and following them closely is- $400 in the august interim, follow by an uptick to around $600 by years end. From there it's bananas in pajamas- as various ploys to increase profit and gouge collectors through auction sites unfold, and various sellers with multiples in stock get bought out by more aggressive market tacticians.
Can't make a prediction on broken up sets and singles though, that will fall squarely on playability and popularity of each walker, within the MTG community.
The set is awful as a whole. Too bad Jace alone will make it the best selling and highest price of any FTV ever, showing kind of a false 'success' in set design. (but i honestly think they knew and planned it this way 'add Jace TMS rest don't matter!')
I guess a foil Venser on top of your Jace will help convince the poor schmuck paying $200-300 above MSRP that it was all worth it.
I am kinda surprised at a lot of the choices that already got a reprint or promo foil. Many of which I hardly consider to be a "defining" card from that year of MtG.
is everyone in agreeance that Olivia looks UNDERPOWERED????? 'splain!?
3/3 flyer for 3, discard engine that pump-hastes dudes on eotb? I'm not seeing her bad side?
Mythic rarity will blow that price up imo.
Hope it helps. Might not defeat DNS level stuff though.
So long MTGS and thanks for all the fish.
(i'll probably still lurk on weekends like once a month)
All we can do is wait and see who's right, but I of course would bet on me being right on this being a long term riser and a highly sought after set in the overall spectrum of MtG collecting...not playing. It just needs time to sink in for a lot of people, for just how rare these will turn out to be.
I do love how most current players somehow deny that there is not a huge collecting>playing crowd/market out there. This set is for them, not you...
$0.06 (I'm tallying up those 2 cent posts!)
Was there anything mentioned in the last go-round with Curse?
My best guess, since I have been watching them and following them closely is- $400 in the august interim, follow by an uptick to around $600 by years end. From there it's bananas in pajamas- as various ploys to increase profit and gouge collectors through auction sites unfold, and various sellers with multiples in stock get bought out by more aggressive market tacticians.
Can't make a prediction on broken up sets and singles though, that will fall squarely on playability and popularity of each walker, within the MTG community.
$0.02
I guess a foil Venser on top of your Jace will help convince the poor schmuck paying $200-300 above MSRP that it was all worth it.
I am kinda surprised at a lot of the choices that already got a reprint or promo foil. Many of which I hardly consider to be a "defining" card from that year of MtG.