So.... what are these worth? The ones that come in the box seem like they will be readily available, but the 5 enemy-aligned release promos might be a bit harder to come by. I don't know of anything like this in the past so I don't have much to compare them to.
I honestly don't think anyone will play with them or care about them.
Previous oversized promotional cards, while I wouldn't compare them to these, are worth very little to the right buyer and nothing to everyone else.
Like the ones from Commander and Archenemy? Or like the ones that came with the MPR?
I see these being somewhere in between and when I asked the guys as my EDH group last night they all seemed interested in grabbing them all up and hoarding them. I laughed until I realized that they were serious.
Like the ones from Commander and Archenemy? Or like the ones that came with the MPR?
I see these being somewhere in between and when I asked the guys as my EDH group last night they all seemed interested in grabbing them all up and hoarding them. I laughed until I realized that they were serious.
Strange. Maybe they could have some value to somebody, but I don't see why anyone would want one, especially without the card version. And if they want both the card and the oversized, then they would probably buy the commander deck itself at the release. They seem nice enough as a bonus, but I'm not seeing the value. Who knows, maybe there will be a scarcity and demand though.
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I'm totally going to keep them in my trade book front pocket. Someone is bound to want all of them as a collection. I personally wouldn't mind a Basandra for my angel collection, but the others aren't worth much to me.
The thing that doesn't make sense to me about these is that you will only be using them if it's your general, in which case you likely bought the deck and already have it.
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Right now it is SO hard to value these cards. The demand for this product is obviously extremely high. It will certainly be their most successful summer release to date. SCG's prices on the singles cards seem exorbiant, but who knows? Is a person willing to spend $90 to pick up the three decks that have the cards he wants or $38 on SCG to get them? Hard to say. If I were going sell mine (which I'm totally not) I'd probably charge prices on the high side just in case. This product is totally unique and unprecidented. It's just too hard to tell right now what their short term and long term values will be.
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They're not functional to anything, which I sort of feel is important for something that retains value but to a very specific collector community (see: Archenemy, Vanguard, etc).
Apparently you can get 12/13 9th Edition box toppers for $20, and this was in the first link I clicked in google without any sort of deeper probing for value (because you're getting 12 cards that are supposedly collectable for $20). I get that oversized Hero of Bladehold and giant Kird Ape don't function in the same capacity as a larger general for your Commander deck, but the funny thing is that we already have normal size foil cards that do exactly the same thing and are fully functional in all facets of the Magic game.
Also consider that there is a very wide release on this item and that people are scrounging them for the actually playable cards. Unless people outright throw whatever they're not salvaging for value in the trash, there's also no limited quantity of these things to prop value up.
Maybe a very specific sect of EDH gamer (a limited pool within a limited pool to begin with) would want these and put any value to them, but you're really going to have to work for your dollar.
Also consider that there is a very wide release on this item and that people are scrounging them for the actually playable cards.
I am asking about the Release Promos and not the ones in the decks. I see the value of the box inserts as being significantly lower than the Promos for the reasons you have stated. But the supply of promos is NOT unlimited.
I am asking about the Release Promos and not the ones in the decks. I see the value of the box inserts as being significantly lower than the Promos for the reasons you have stated. But the supply of promos is NOT unlimited.
Oh wow. Sorry about that.
You might have very long-term value? on these, with emphasis going to the question mark.
With cards like the Planechase and Archenemy promos and Vanguard cards, the oversized objects had a specific function in the game aside from being "LOL DIFRENT SIZE, **SOOO RANDOM** XD" -- and you still need to have a hard copy of your general handy in the event you run into shuffle or bounce effects that prevent it from returning to the command zone. So even though the market for those cards was limited to collectors and people who want to play marginal variant formats (edit: EDH is very obviously not a marginal variant format), you still had a limited item that was fully functional on its own. The oversized promos aren't functional and, for all intents and purposes, are extraneous to Magic as a game (as if pimping out 100 card singleton casual decks wasn't the definition of extraneous, but my bias and digression aside). This limits your resale market to collectors and the aforementioned DIFRENT SIZE SO RANDOM ECKS DEE crowd. However, based on the format's general gravitation toward the extraneous, I go back to my original, "You might have long term value" on the cards projection, with question mark erring on the side of "Do EDH players value something that is both extraneous AND non functional?"
The cards aren't out yet, aren't functional, and no one is preselling. A thing like this hasn't really existed in Magic prior to this, save for the aforementioned prerelease oversized mailers and box toppers, which carry no/next to no value. Speculating for this is just random guessing, and there is nothing to track the value with anywhere online through real numbers.
My best guess is they, like any other Magic rarity, are worthless unless you have a specific buyer that wants them, in which case it is worth $Infinite.
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Previous oversized promotional cards, while I wouldn't compare them to these, are worth very little to the right buyer and nothing to everyone else.
Like the ones from Commander and Archenemy? Or like the ones that came with the MPR?
I see these being somewhere in between and when I asked the guys as my EDH group last night they all seemed interested in grabbing them all up and hoarding them. I laughed until I realized that they were serious.
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Strange. Maybe they could have some value to somebody, but I don't see why anyone would want one, especially without the card version. And if they want both the card and the oversized, then they would probably buy the commander deck itself at the release. They seem nice enough as a bonus, but I'm not seeing the value. Who knows, maybe there will be a scarcity and demand though.
See: Vanguard series I & II
I wouldn't play with them if I had them.
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Apparently you can get 12/13 9th Edition box toppers for $20, and this was in the first link I clicked in google without any sort of deeper probing for value (because you're getting 12 cards that are supposedly collectable for $20). I get that oversized Hero of Bladehold and giant Kird Ape don't function in the same capacity as a larger general for your Commander deck, but the funny thing is that we already have normal size foil cards that do exactly the same thing and are fully functional in all facets of the Magic game.
Also consider that there is a very wide release on this item and that people are scrounging them for the actually playable cards. Unless people outright throw whatever they're not salvaging for value in the trash, there's also no limited quantity of these things to prop value up.
Maybe a very specific sect of EDH gamer (a limited pool within a limited pool to begin with) would want these and put any value to them, but you're really going to have to work for your dollar.
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I am asking about the Release Promos and not the ones in the decks. I see the value of the box inserts as being significantly lower than the Promos for the reasons you have stated. But the supply of promos is NOT unlimited.
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Oh wow. Sorry about that.
You might have very long-term value? on these, with emphasis going to the question mark.
With cards like the Planechase and Archenemy promos and Vanguard cards, the oversized objects had a specific function in the game aside from being "LOL DIFRENT SIZE, **SOOO RANDOM** XD" -- and you still need to have a hard copy of your general handy in the event you run into shuffle or bounce effects that prevent it from returning to the command zone. So even though the market for those cards was limited to collectors and people who want to play marginal variant formats (edit: EDH is very obviously not a marginal variant format), you still had a limited item that was fully functional on its own. The oversized promos aren't functional and, for all intents and purposes, are extraneous to Magic as a game (as if pimping out 100 card singleton casual decks wasn't the definition of extraneous, but my bias and digression aside). This limits your resale market to collectors and the aforementioned DIFRENT SIZE SO RANDOM ECKS DEE crowd. However, based on the format's general gravitation toward the extraneous, I go back to my original, "You might have long term value" on the cards projection, with question mark erring on the side of "Do EDH players value something that is both extraneous AND non functional?"
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My best guess is they, like any other Magic rarity, are worthless unless you have a specific buyer that wants them, in which case it is worth $Infinite.
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