While not a perfect system, I think speculators should take a look at cube forums/discussions when looking at potential buys. There are meta-specific cards that cube doesn't predict for but certain general good-stuff like this always piques our interest and we tend to pick it up for cube before it makes gains.
We're talking $8.00 in paper, folks. Pauper has generated a spike that is pushing this even above the City of Brass threshold. This price is insane unless Pauper becomes the real deal on a permanent basis. I suspect it will not, at least not at this level, and we get back closer to $5.00 sans reprint.
Still, orange you glad you bought them back when they were $1.00?
So, it's 2018, and Ash Barrens has gone COMPLETELY INSANE.
I saw this the other day, and while I still feel that it's not a card that I want to have long-term, I think that you can safely say that you were 100% correct in your advice.
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But, gentle reader, don't forget the second part of my advice earlier: since this card has gone above $5.00, there is definitely speculation going on - DO NOT CHASE!
Hopefully ya'll listened to me and DID NOT CHASE the card at $8.00!
I suspected the price would gradually decline to $5.00 even without a reprint. Now that it's being reprinted, I see a short term dip close to $1.00 again. I think price memory keeps it at least above 99 cents. However, given its past performance, I also think we will see this card recover back to a more reasonable 4-5 dollars in the medium term.
Once the price crashes, I'm gonna be gobbling up another 20 or so for my own use!
While not a perfect system, I think speculators should take a look at cube forums/discussions when looking at potential buys. There are meta-specific cards that cube doesn't predict for but certain general good-stuff like this always piques our interest and we tend to pick it up for cube before it makes gains.
Not necessarily just speculator-specific advice, either. It's just good general advice for picking stuff up at their floor.
I maintain a small army of casual 60 card decks for my kids, and I brew more occasionally. This means I need to collect multiple playsets of useful cards, like Ash Barrens, and I'm highly motivated to get them as cheaply as possible. I have found, in the past, that when I find a card useful for some wacky casual deck, eventually someone will stick it into a real deck or a rogue deck they play on a Twitch Stream or something, and eventually the card gets more expensive. Not all the time, but often enough that I try to act quickly when new printings produce cards I can use. Ash Barrens was one; Field of Ruin was another one.
Lesson being: if a card has a unique application or is sought after for EDH or Cube or casual, pay attention. It may have qualities that will eventually cause it to spike.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Commander 2016/Ash Barrens#paper
We're talking $8.00 in paper, folks. Pauper has generated a spike that is pushing this even above the City of Brass threshold. This price is insane unless Pauper becomes the real deal on a permanent basis. I suspect it will not, at least not at this level, and we get back closer to $5.00 sans reprint.
Still, orange you glad you bought them back when they were $1.00?
I saw this the other day, and while I still feel that it's not a card that I want to have long-term, I think that you can safely say that you were 100% correct in your advice.
But, gentle reader, don't forget the second part of my advice earlier: since this card has gone above $5.00, there is definitely speculation going on - DO NOT CHASE!
Hopefully ya'll listened to me and DID NOT CHASE the card at $8.00!
I suspected the price would gradually decline to $5.00 even without a reprint. Now that it's being reprinted, I see a short term dip close to $1.00 again. I think price memory keeps it at least above 99 cents. However, given its past performance, I also think we will see this card recover back to a more reasonable 4-5 dollars in the medium term.
Once the price crashes, I'm gonna be gobbling up another 20 or so for my own use!
Not necessarily just speculator-specific advice, either. It's just good general advice for picking stuff up at their floor.
I maintain a small army of casual 60 card decks for my kids, and I brew more occasionally. This means I need to collect multiple playsets of useful cards, like Ash Barrens, and I'm highly motivated to get them as cheaply as possible. I have found, in the past, that when I find a card useful for some wacky casual deck, eventually someone will stick it into a real deck or a rogue deck they play on a Twitch Stream or something, and eventually the card gets more expensive. Not all the time, but often enough that I try to act quickly when new printings produce cards I can use. Ash Barrens was one; Field of Ruin was another one.
Lesson being: if a card has a unique application or is sought after for EDH or Cube or casual, pay attention. It may have qualities that will eventually cause it to spike.