Gaea's Cradle performed quite well at the event three days ago, used as a four-of in a deck placing first. Yet the mid tcg price has continued to drop over the last few weeks.
One explanation is that elves have always been "the cheap legacy deck," and the perception of such makes it almost offensive to spend ~$500 on four cards. Another is that the price it initially shot up to (after the new legend rule) was misplaced, and that it was never really worth $150.
Gaea's Cradle performed quite well at the event three days ago, used as a four-of in a deck placing first. Yet the mid tcg price has continued to drop over the last few weeks.
One explanation is that elves have always been "the cheap legacy deck," and the perception of such makes it almost offensive to spend ~$500 on four cards. Another is that the price it initially shot up to (after the new legend rule) was misplaced, and that it was never really worth $150.
Does anyone want to try and explain the trend?
Its definitely the latter. Prices explode when people realize a card is going to be good in the near future. Then when everyone jumps in and they realize theres no one to really dump the cards to, they come back to a more realistic level.
I think you have it down pretty well. The legend rule change made everyone lose their minds for a little while and GC price is a good example. I imagine it won't go back below 100, I'd guess it will hold around the price of Karakas...maybe a little more
Agreed - pretty much just that the impact hasn't measured up to the hype after the uniquess ruling was changed. The price seems stable at about $100 retail, but could easily go up or down depending on how well Elves is doing at any given time.
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One explanation is that elves have always been "the cheap legacy deck," and the perception of such makes it almost offensive to spend ~$500 on four cards. Another is that the price it initially shot up to (after the new legend rule) was misplaced, and that it was never really worth $150.
Does anyone want to try and explain the trend?
Card Tag added. -Galspanic
Its definitely the latter. Prices explode when people realize a card is going to be good in the near future. Then when everyone jumps in and they realize theres no one to really dump the cards to, they come back to a more realistic level.
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