So what's up with Dramatic Entrance? It's shot up to #2 on the most sold list of MKM.
Right now, there's a total of 69 left, and in the last hours, every foil below 19 Euros has been snatched up.
Under what circumstances would it be better than just going with Savage summoning? Is there a deck where people are using it to sneak things like Progenitus into play?
Dramatic Entrance + Progenitus has been a rogue deck since cloudpost was still in the format. I remember using 12 post mana to chalice for 5 against them for the win in a daily event. I don't know why it would suddenly become good now.
It depends on if you're a Standard player. If you're considering Modern Masters 2015, you certainly aren't a Standard player exclusively, and DTK has pretty much stone cold nothing of value once it rotates out of Standard.
Collected Company and Kolaghan's Command are seeing play in modern. Kolaghan's Command has only recently seen the uptick but you'd need to have been living under a rock to have missed Collected Company.
To add to that, Atarka's Command is a 4 of in most burn decks and new Anafenza is played in the Junk company decks.
I don't invest in paper, but I do a bit online. Best investment: 12 post and affinity cards right at the beginning of modern. Sold the 12 post cards the night of the ban and the affinity cards maybe 6 months ago. Worst investment: a couple dozen foil logic knots. I don't know why I thought they would ever be worth anything.
Heritage Druid is going through the roof right now. Fortunately, most of the rest of the deck (collected company elves) was either printed/reprinted very recently or is common (thank you C14!). Cavern of Souls could see a bump from this as well since most of the deck is cheap and seems reasonably competitive.
S.M., what are your thoughts about keeping an eye on the Modern event deck? Sword of Feast and Famine, path to exile, and Inquisition of Kozilek are really rebounding from their low point to where you might be able to break even or better opening that too.
So in retrospect buying those decks at the price's you shared, dumping the cards in it reducing your play-set to a very low figure...then selling the guides off as well, shoot that sounds like a huge circle of "I just went nowhere".
Just enjoy your Guides, sell the other stuff and have your set cheap. The overall cost you can have your set is still insanely low...and the reprint wouldn't even hurt you with regards to their value (post re-print).
S.M.
Exactly, busting the decks open makes sense if you need the guides and sell the rest. You lose too much selling the guides too. My rule of thumb as an independent seller is to expect to make slightly less than the current tcgplayer low. This is why I'm less optimistic on selling the filler than S.M., but if you already needed the guides then you can in effect turn a profit.
EDIT: It is very rare that you can turn a profit busting and completely reselling a known commodity sealed product for the simple fact that if the profit were easily made the original owner would have either done it or charged more for the sealed product.
So you would recommend opening them and breaking them up? I recently purchased 2 of the Into the Breach decks for $45 a piece shipped to hold onto and sell later, but if it's more beneficial to open them up then I might just do that now.
Not at current prices I wouldn't. As an independent seller you will probably walk away with less than tcg low unless you are using the cards as trade bait. S.M. has the benefit of being a high volume mover, so he can get better prices/have fees eat up less of his profit margin.
To me, the only real surprise was the lack of serum visions in MM2. The set is amazing otherwise. I am fortunate in that essentially every modern staple I was waiting to pick up is in it. Things like remand and inquisition were already reprinted in a dual deck or event deck. I wouldn't be surprised if serum visions is the same way. People seem to be forgetting them as avenues for reprints.
I used to play in Gavin Verhey's overextended tournaments. After killing with affinity for a while, I built a monored prison deck with 4x chalice of the void as one of the primary lock pieces. I played against a guy on reanimator with life/death and goryo's vengeance. I locked him out of win conditions with chalice on 2 in both games. The second game was especially amusing because he boarded in leyline of the void (or some other permanent graveyard hate) to deal with my 3x hammer of bogardan, which he thought were my only win condition from the first game. He told me to concede because I couldn't win and then told me I was lying about having orochi hatchery in my list. He kept talking trash about me long after the match was over (how my deck was trash (it was haha) and how his was so much better (it was not)). That's when I made the graphic. My continued use of chalice out of the sb of monoblue 12 post in modern (mostly against storm and affinity though I had an amusing match where I set it to 5 against a dramatic entrance deck) and the sb of affinity in modern and legacy led me to make it my profile pic.
EDIT: You can find the list here under bonus lists (this was a very rough draft that got significantly altered in future): http://mtgoverextended.com/0802-tuesday-night-overextended-results/
Had a person send me non NM cards for the second time. I was debating whether to send them back or not, but the fact that they were also postmarked a week later than they were supposedly sent kind of pushed the decision over the edge. For multiple cards, do you open a case for all or just one typically?
Life from the Loam is starting to make a slow uptick across all the 3 printings. It's more noticeable in the Duel Deck and Modern Masters printings have risen a little more than $1 each since FRF. I know it isn't much, but it's still something I would like to point out considering the card has been $3 for quite a while. This might be a Legacy trend so I'm not sure.
I imagine it is the extra interest in dredge strategies since the unbanning of golgari grave-troll.
I noticed him when he had enough for me to look at him for a potential SCM receiver(can give points and has points to give beyond SCM worth), and I have been watching his points grow. Initially around ninety points, now at one hundred thirty five and the cards he sent out is the same. It's increasing hourly. I know you can buy points, but at his speed it doesn't feel right. If it's a card he wants to buy through Puca with already gathered points, wouldn't you just buy the entirety at once instead of gradually?
Maybe he just got gold membership and is sending all his friends his link to get the 300 per new user.
I have two favorite cards: My favorite casual card is sliver overlord. I had a sliver deck put together ever since the original slivers, and was extremely excited to get a hunter sliver as a 'pre-release give away' (the guy at our card shop used to get commons for each set to give away, but I don't know what that mtg policy was referred to). Needless to say, I wanted to get all the slivers. Between my brother and I, we managed to open every one except the overlord. He ended up buying it for me as a birthday present as our first ever single purchased. My favorite constructed card is chalice of the void based on how many people have rage quit from it on mtgo.
Dramatic Entrance + Progenitus has been a rogue deck since cloudpost was still in the format. I remember using 12 post mana to chalice for 5 against them for the win in a daily event. I don't know why it would suddenly become good now.
To add to that, Atarka's Command is a 4 of in most burn decks and new Anafenza is played in the Junk company decks.
S.M., what are your thoughts about keeping an eye on the Modern event deck? Sword of Feast and Famine, path to exile, and Inquisition of Kozilek are really rebounding from their low point to where you might be able to break even or better opening that too.
Exactly, busting the decks open makes sense if you need the guides and sell the rest. You lose too much selling the guides too. My rule of thumb as an independent seller is to expect to make slightly less than the current tcgplayer low. This is why I'm less optimistic on selling the filler than S.M., but if you already needed the guides then you can in effect turn a profit.
EDIT: It is very rare that you can turn a profit busting and completely reselling a known commodity sealed product for the simple fact that if the profit were easily made the original owner would have either done it or charged more for the sealed product.
Not at current prices I wouldn't. As an independent seller you will probably walk away with less than tcg low unless you are using the cards as trade bait. S.M. has the benefit of being a high volume mover, so he can get better prices/have fees eat up less of his profit margin.
EDIT: That being said goblin guide along with inkmoth nexus, grove of the burnwillows, horizon canopy and scapeshift are among the very few modern tier staple rares eligible to be but not reprinted in MM1 or MM2. Expect rises from these as well as possibly linvala, keeper of silence and damnation.
EDIT: You can find the list here under bonus lists (this was a very rough draft that got significantly altered in future): http://mtgoverextended.com/0802-tuesday-night-overextended-results/
It's the version of the deck with Monastery Mentor that did well at an SCG tournament. GerryT had a daily article about it.
I imagine it is the extra interest in dredge strategies since the unbanning of golgari grave-troll.
74 cards with an average price of $9.63.
Maybe he just got gold membership and is sending all his friends his link to get the 300 per new user.