Speaking of which Goblin Rabblemaster's buyout on TCGPlayer is practically complete for both the booster box promo and regular version. It's currently around $10 on TCGPlayer. For me, I think Rabblemaster has a very obvious synergy with Mardu's Raid mechanic as you don't care if you suicide your 1/1 Goblin off your Rabblemaster as long as you get the Raid trigger. Also Rabblemaster synergizes very well with Ankle Shanker.
Looks like foil Goblin Rabblemaster was bought out. Sitting at $30 on tcg. Glad I bought my foil for the cube yesterday!
It seems to be very hyped right now, so I wonder what it will settle at.
It will probably depend on both the meta and if its printed in any upcoming tournament decks or anything like that. Courser of Kruphix was in a precon, and the thing still demands $18.
Looks like foil Goblin Rabblemaster was bought out. Sitting at $30 on tcg. Glad I bought my foil for the cube yesterday!
It seems to be very hyped right now, so I wonder what it will settle at.
It will probably depend on both the meta and if its printed in any upcoming tournament decks or anything like that. Courser of Kruphix was in a precon, and the thing still demands $18.
Do note that other than Brimaz, Kiora, and the Temples, Born was a pretty God-awful set overall, so I think that Courser is just sucking up a bunch of the price of the box because no one really wants to open boxes of BNG, given also that Theros block Limited is over and done with. I don't think the same is quite true of M15 at this point - based on my own observations and R-E's price analysis, the box value of M15 is actually rather decent, since the planeswalkers and Painlands are good, the Souls will have a chance to make a splash, and then there's some other decent stuff such as Ensoul Artifact, Doom Engine, Chasm Skulker, and the like that help keep box values up. Plus, it's actually a pretty good draft format; I don't see Rabblemaster going to 18 (rares at 18 are for proven Eternal staples such as Thoughseize & Snapcaster), but I could definitely see it stabilize at 12.
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Looks like foil Goblin Rabblemaster was bought out. Sitting at $30 on tcg. Glad I bought my foil for the cube yesterday!
It seems to be very hyped right now, so I wonder what it will settle at.
It will probably depend on both the meta and if its printed in any upcoming tournament decks or anything like that. Courser of Kruphix was in a precon, and the thing still demands $18.
Do note that other than Brimaz, Kiora, and the Temples, Born was a pretty God-awful set overall, so I think that Courser is just sucking up a bunch of the price of the box because no one really wants to open boxes of BNG, given also that Theros block Limited is over and done with. I don't think the same is quite true of M15 at this point - based on my own observations and R-E's price analysis, the box value of M15 is actually rather decent, since the planeswalkers and Painlands are good, the Souls will have a chance to make a splash, and then there's some other decent stuff such as Ensoul Artifact, Doom Engine, Chasm Skulker, and the like that help keep box values up. Plus, it's actually a pretty good draft format; I don't see Rabblemaster going to 18 (rares at 18 are for proven Eternal staples such as Thoughseize & Snapcaster), but I could definitely see it stabilize at 12.
While I definitely agree with your points (and very good points), the fact that M15 is only going to be out for a year will eventually slow the amount of the set being opened. I agree that it will likely stabilize at $12, but I think it will hold $15 for a while before that happens due to the hype and unpredictability of the changing Standard meta.
I would like to point out that Kiora, the Crashing Wave has been flying under the radar recently. It's gained close to $5 over the course of a month from $14 to $19 now. No doubt that she will see more play in Standard alongside Courser of Kruphix now that there's a heavier influence of enemy colors.
I played with it twice in prerelease, it's pretty easy to just +1, defend him for 2 turns and ultimate (he starts at 4 loyalty and his ult is 6). Both times I ultimated it was auto win, in standard I imagine unless they have elspeth it's very hard to lose too. Even Xenagos saccing a token every turn might not be enough.
This card will be the worst rare in RTR and less remembered than skaab ruibator in three months. It struggles to be on the same power level as mass of ghouls, even in limited.
That its not simply "not good enough for competitive", or underpowered. But that this is offensively bad, the real stinker tier.
Still, my best evaluation is that its approximately on the same power level as a 4/4 for 4 vanilla beater.
Sorin's spike has a lot to do with SCG pricing their cards differently this year by tryig to price cards at what they will settle down to rather than starting high and lowering it bit by bit like everyone else does. Thus, as people often do they price things lower than SCG's typically inflated new card prices and started with even lower selling points. Now we're seeing everyone get in line with the real, temporarily inflated demand of small supply, which is mostly just typical new-planeswalker hype.
In short, this is just a natural market correction of price.
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The set is already overvalued. How can it be correcting upwards?
I think there's some panic buying setting in here and after the product starts to fly off the shelves worldwide in a few days things will settle down over the next 2 weeks.
I don't think there's that many people that are desperate / stupid enough to pay hyper inflated early prices. The singles sellers are going to have a lot of product sitting on the shelf and it will be those that get competitive early that will get the sales.
We can't forget that both Jace and Vraska in RtR were preordering between $40-$50. New planeswalkers being at half that value isn't really all that bad. I wasn't that impressed with sorin at the prerelease, and I beat it 4 of the 5 times it was played against me (the fifth I got crushed by a duneblast beforehand). A bit underwhelming for me, but I suspect there are some decks where he is sick in.
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Well luckily there is still Promo Goblin RabblemasterFoil.
It seems to be very hyped right now, so I wonder what it will settle at.
It will probably depend on both the meta and if its printed in any upcoming tournament decks or anything like that. Courser of Kruphix was in a precon, and the thing still demands $18.
Do note that other than Brimaz, Kiora, and the Temples, Born was a pretty God-awful set overall, so I think that Courser is just sucking up a bunch of the price of the box because no one really wants to open boxes of BNG, given also that Theros block Limited is over and done with. I don't think the same is quite true of M15 at this point - based on my own observations and R-E's price analysis, the box value of M15 is actually rather decent, since the planeswalkers and Painlands are good, the Souls will have a chance to make a splash, and then there's some other decent stuff such as Ensoul Artifact, Doom Engine, Chasm Skulker, and the like that help keep box values up. Plus, it's actually a pretty good draft format; I don't see Rabblemaster going to 18 (rares at 18 are for proven Eternal staples such as Thoughseize & Snapcaster), but I could definitely see it stabilize at 12.
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It's funny that this card doubled in price in the one week since I said this. It was fairly obvious it was going to happen though.
While I definitely agree with your points (and very good points), the fact that M15 is only going to be out for a year will eventually slow the amount of the set being opened. I agree that it will likely stabilize at $12, but I think it will hold $15 for a while before that happens due to the hype and unpredictability of the changing Standard meta.
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I think there's some panic buying setting in here and after the product starts to fly off the shelves worldwide in a few days things will settle down over the next 2 weeks.
I don't think there's that many people that are desperate / stupid enough to pay hyper inflated early prices. The singles sellers are going to have a lot of product sitting on the shelf and it will be those that get competitive early that will get the sales.