Well, I'm going to play them, so the promo exchange is just about cashing in on the difference.
My only interest in keeping it was if it became a Modern staple and the foil jumped as a result.
Yeah, I opened up a promo Abbey at my prerelease as well. I have no intentions of playing it in anything and I'm debating on whether or not I should try to cash out on it now or if its potential playability (though I guess more for Standard than Modern) could see the promo holding or gaining value or if I'd end up losing out if I wait to sell.
Westvale Abbey may be very fringe Modern playable in a deck like WB Tokens or Soul Sisters. There is no way that drives serious demand as a Standard-legal rare, though.
Collected Company is central to multiple Modern archetypes and is ~$17 mid. Kolaghan's Command is playable in multiple Modern archetypes, as well as Legacy and Vintage, and is ~$19 mid. These are both cards that were printed in a third set that didn't have a ton of it opened, and they're poised to be super-relevant in the upcoming Standard.
There's a chance Abbey keeps its ~$17 pricetag if it tears up Standard, but historically, pre-release prices on things are higher than where they end up a month in, so the prudent choice would be to cash out now and pick some up down the road at $5-8.
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... well, I didn't see that happening to Ancestral Vision. eBay has been pretty much cleaned out already of anything less than $50. I guess people were too busy watching to see when Eye of Ugin would eat the banhammer. I know that I barely considered that other cards might get unbanned today.
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... well, I didn't see that happening to Ancestral Vision. eBay has been pretty much cleaned out already of anything less than $50. I guess people were too busy watching to see when Eye of Ugin would eat the banhammer. I know that I barely considered that other cards might get unbanned today.
I actually remembered to check for unbans, had TCG Player signed in and ready to go, but then my first round of purchases got snagged out from under me, and then the site crashed the second pass through. I can't be too salty, it was actually pretty funny to watch... never seen TCG Player go down before.
Seems obvious from this graph that people were told it was going to be unbanned they just weren't sure if it was last set or this.
AV has been on the "watch" list for possible unban for awhile now... which is why people were picking them up early and the price was already creeping. Forsythe or MaRo or somebody even admitted awhile ago that it was on the "unban watch" list but they wanted to see how the format shaped up post TWIN ban....
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Seems obvious from this graph that people were told it was going to be unbanned they just weren't sure if it was last set or this.
I have two sets that I picked up last year. One to play, both in legacy and in modern in the even of an unban, and one because I had forgotten I had a set already. I held onto it because it was going to go through the roof when unbanned in modern and that was pretty much a matter of time. I have also had my set of SotM for a year, just in case. Both of those cards have been widely speculated to be possible unbans for at least a couple years, and AF even said something about AV right after the Twin ban (right about the time it spiked in that graph, probably not coincidentally). People picking up sets on the chance that it could be unbanned is not really a surprise and doesn't take any insider knowledge. The AF tweet makes this one a little sharper, but a lot of banned cards go up just before banlist announcements. See Stoneforge Mystic every January for the last three years.
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So the big gainers are obviously AV and Sword of the Meek, but others to take note of are Thopter Foundry, which went from 45 cents to $10 (foils went from $6.50 to $35), and Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas which went from $15 to $40.
So the big gainers are obviously AV and Sword of the Meek, but others to take note of are Thopter Foundry, which went from 45 cents to $10 (foils went from $6.50 to $35), and Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas which went from $15 to $40.
Glad to see him jump a bit, but damn..I still need to replace my regular one with a foil for EDH, guess I need to do that sooner rather than later now.
How high do we think AV can realistically spike? Is now the time to sell, or are they expected to keep rising for a little bit before the dust settles?
Foil Agent of Bolas hitting $100+ makes me sad. Was holding off on picking it up to replace my non-foil in Lazav, it's one of like..five cards I still need foiled.
Well, the card initially spiked to $50 after the internet was immediately bought out after the announcement that the card was unbanned. Since then, as more stock has made it way back onto online stores, tcgplayer and ebay, the available price has dropped back down to around $38 on the low end for NM copies. I expect it to continue to drop to around $25-$30 as the market continues to flood with people who have these sitting in boxes/binders. The potential situation of course, would be that the card ends up showing up a lot in top tier modern decks and justifies its price, it could rise back up after that in the long-term, but for now at least, I would say selling sooner rather than later may be the better idea, but its up to you.
I have a playset of nm foil Thopter Foundry. Should I sell now? At what price? I'm awful at this.
The price is unlikely to ever go higher. I would sell them individually, most decks won't want a bunch of copies. You can put them up with a 3-day auction and see how high they go. Or do some searching on eBay and see where others are being sold.
My only interest in keeping it was if it became a Modern staple and the foil jumped as a result.
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There's a chance Abbey keeps its ~$17 pricetag if it tears up Standard, but historically, pre-release prices on things are higher than where they end up a month in, so the prudent choice would be to cash out now and pick some up down the road at $5-8.
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I actually remembered to check for unbans, had TCG Player signed in and ready to go, but then my first round of purchases got snagged out from under me, and then the site crashed the second pass through. I can't be too salty, it was actually pretty funny to watch... never seen TCG Player go down before.
It goes to show that there is some shady stuff happening behind the scenes.
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Seems obvious from this graph that people were told it was going to be unbanned they just weren't sure if it was last set or this.
AV has been on the "watch" list for possible unban for awhile now... which is why people were picking them up early and the price was already creeping. Forsythe or MaRo or somebody even admitted awhile ago that it was on the "unban watch" list but they wanted to see how the format shaped up post TWIN ban....
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Glad to see him jump a bit, but damn..I still need to replace my regular one with a foil for EDH, guess I need to do that sooner rather than later now.
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Depends where it settles. If it ends up as a legitimate card, then I'd say probably $100. If it pulls a Bitterblossom, then more like $75.
They were $50 before the unbanning, so that's a floor. I have to believe that it'll end up higher than that.
People have been saying AV is safe to unban for 2+ years. I remember getting my sets way back then as a hedge. It only paid off now.
There's a totally logical explanation for this but you actually took the time to post a conspiracy theory. Good job
The price is unlikely to ever go higher. I would sell them individually, most decks won't want a bunch of copies. You can put them up with a 3-day auction and see how high they go. Or do some searching on eBay and see where others are being sold.
But I would definitely sell them now.
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