Along this same tangent, Ethan Fleischer occasionally posts on The Mana Drain, and he had this to say about Containment Priest:
Not to stifle this interesting discussion about what the motivation was for designing this card, but I can authoritatively say that it was indeed designed with Vintage in mind. White is pretty underrepresented in Vintage. Oath and Tinker put a lot of pressure on aggro-control decks, so I thought that GW Beats and similar decks could use a little help. The fact that the card hoses one of my least-favorite Commander cards, Deadeye Navigator, was icing on the cake!
I wasn't thinking too much about Legacy, though shutting down Show and Tell -> Absurd Fatty seemed like a good idea. Show and Tell just gets stronger every year...
Back on the topic of its price, this is a card I could easily see making the leap to Standard/Modern one day a la Scavenging Ooze. It's unlikely to interact significantly with strategies in Standard, and would be nice against Pod in Modern. In the absence of such a printing its price should be determined by its Legacy playability.
I m not very familiar with the list but couldn't they just modify it to alow reprints in suplemental products( functional or foil ones) or better make something like : " give us a card that is on the RL and we will print 2 new copys( old frame + new frame) of it ( and cut the old one ) then give you the copy you choose and the other will be put on a booster pack in the land slot ( similar of what they did in Zendikar ) "
I think something like this would be nice and every one would win.
There used to be an exception which did, in fact, allow for foil promos (and supplemental products) to break the RL (e.g. this is the reason Karn and Mox Diamond were in FTV:R). That loophole was closed a few years ago and since then it's been a very hush-hush subject with R&D members. Unfortunately nothing suggests that we might move back in that direction.
Extremely limited print runs combined with the fact that there are no normal foil Wastelands and the fact that Wasteland is a pillar of Legacy and an EDH staple. Both the judge foil and MPR foil will probably keep climbing up steadily for the foreseeable future.
The Tempest printing has also been steadily increasing over the past year or so, too. It's not reserved, but it's at both a secondary market price point and overall power level that mean WotC won't reprint it in sufficient quantities to tank its price. As far as cards go, Wasteland (any version) is an incredibly safe investment.
Yeah, it looks to me (from an eBay perspective) like Tempest Wasteland finally had an honest increase in price, instead of the vacillations we've seen previously. Also, with cards like Tectonic Edge being 'too strong' for Standard, the chances of a large-scale Wasteland reprint have to be pretty darn low. Even if this were to happen, it wouldn't be in the old frame, making the MPR version a doubly safe buy.
If I may piggyback on this question, what happens if I Strionic Resonator my Spellweaver Helix's Imprint? I obviously get (up to) 4 exiled sorceries. By my reading of the new rules, casting any one of the 4 allows you to cast 1, 2, or all 3 others for free. Is this what happens?
If we're talking eBay auction prices, I would ballpark the moxen at 400, the Walk at 450 and the Recall at 500. Obviously there's lots of variation in what power sells for, but I think you could look for at least that much.
I have a hard time seeing Sliver Queen going back down, at least to where it was at the start of yesterday. That card has hovered in the $20-30 range for as long as I can remember, despite reserved list, casual appeal, etc etc. And now that slivers are coming back for the first time in so many years, when the MTG player base has exploded, you're going to have a lot of casual players suddenly becoming interested in them.
I'm no expert on Legacy cards so keep that in mind as I say this, but I would so trade a foil Jace for a Mox. The Mox will hold its value. I can't believe a foil Jace will stay at $800 for very long.
I'm of the opposite mind. Foil Jace is quickly eclipsing most Mox values, which have seen a slow steady increase at best over recent years. I don't see the Jace dropping, while his growth potential is much greater than that of a Mox.
The back has some odd "crease" marks, there are two that almost split the card into thirds in lines (they are not actual creases, just lines that you can see, but no true crease). They do not come through very well on the scans. They do not appear on the front at all.
These 'creases' are not uncommon in Unlimited cards - they come from the printing. So that's nothing to worry about.
I've sold to CFB before, and it was very smooth. As far as info on how it works, there's a decent amount written about it if you go to their main buylist page and scroll down, which I think should answer the questions you've asked here.
Back on the topic of its price, this is a card I could easily see making the leap to Standard/Modern one day a la Scavenging Ooze. It's unlikely to interact significantly with strategies in Standard, and would be nice against Pod in Modern. In the absence of such a printing its price should be determined by its Legacy playability.
There used to be an exception which did, in fact, allow for foil promos (and supplemental products) to break the RL (e.g. this is the reason Karn and Mox Diamond were in FTV:R). That loophole was closed a few years ago and since then it's been a very hush-hush subject with R&D members. Unfortunately nothing suggests that we might move back in that direction.
Yeah, it looks to me (from an eBay perspective) like Tempest Wasteland finally had an honest increase in price, instead of the vacillations we've seen previously. Also, with cards like Tectonic Edge being 'too strong' for Standard, the chances of a large-scale Wasteland reprint have to be pretty darn low. Even if this were to happen, it wouldn't be in the old frame, making the MPR version a doubly safe buy.
Both the Judge and the MPR version have moved steadily up. Whenever I've looked they've been ~$10 apart - from 80 vs. 90 to 140 vs. 150.
I'm of the opposite mind. Foil Jace is quickly eclipsing most Mox values, which have seen a slow steady increase at best over recent years. I don't see the Jace dropping, while his growth potential is much greater than that of a Mox.
I think exiling the card vs. discarding it is the white part.
These 'creases' are not uncommon in Unlimited cards - they come from the printing. So that's nothing to worry about.