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The Magic Market Index is a weekly series that documents the prices of all new released expansions throughout their life in Standard. -
The Magic Market Index for January 6, 2017
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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The World of Zendikar Part VI: Oath of the Gatewatch
The Vorthos Guide to Magic: The GatheringWelcome back to Archive Trap, the unofficial story column for all things Magic: The Gathering! Today we’re returning once more to the world of Zendikar, the plane that jumpstarted our articles and that we’ve returned to in Battle for Zendikar and Oath of the Gatewatch. In Part I, we filled you in on all the key players and gave you a little bit of background on each. We also talked about the geography of Zendikar itself, which is as much a character as anything else, with its Roil-torn landscape, ancient dungeons and flavorful artwork. In Part II, we took you back 6,000 years into Zendikar’s past, where three planeswalkers decided the fate of Zendikar, and then took you all the way to just after the Eldrazi's release and Gideon's vow to find help. In Part III we filled you in on what happened between Gideon’s vow to find help and his eventual return to the plane, leading right up to Battle for Zendikar. Part IV explored what's changed since we were last around and addressed the plane as it exists now. Today we're going to talk about the plot and the end of the Eldrazi conflict. Part V took you through the story of Battle for Zendikar, right up to the emergence of Kozilek. Today we take you through the formation of the Gatewatch, in Oath of the Gatewatch.
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The Magic Market Index: Set Review of Oath of the Gatewatch
Oath of the Gatewatch will be coming out in the prerelease this weekend and with this article will review the cards in the set. Two caveats before this review. Expeditions are not mentioned because Expeditions are good and it best to keep them for later as their value will only increase. The other is if a card is not mentioned on the list, it is bulk quality of common and uncommons. All rares, mythics, and notable uncommons/commons are reviewed.
This set overall is good, but it will go down as this is the highest point of value for a new set and values will go down as more product is opened. There are some cards that have potential to grow in value as noted in the comments. Note that just because a card is marked as worth investing, that does not mean right now, but more after the set has been officially released.
With that out of the way, it is time to look at the set.
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Oath of the Gatewatch Spoiler Digest #1: Kozilek, Chandra, Nissa, All Expeditions, and More!
The first week of Oath of the Gatewatch spoilers have concluded, and that means it's time for the first Spoiler Digest. The Oath spoiler season started off with a bang, as an unauthorized leak spoiled nine of the mythic rares and the entire set of expeditions. The rest of the first week revealed many other cards, including the three remaining manlands and a slew of terrifying Eldrazi.