These are good, needed reprints. And now just to be a debbie downer let me point out that you could open a goblin guide and still not get $15 of value in your $15 pack.
I realize that Double Masters may be printing hilariously bad $100 packs. I recognize that this set has a ton of sub-par rates that make $15 packs feel even worse.
With that said, I only use Masters sets as an excuse to buy high-cost cards at around a 20%+ cost reduction and the larger number of rates in this set means that there are more cards that I want (like these) than that I can comfortably buy, which I consider to be a positive thing from my end.
I realize that Double Masters may be printing hilariously bad $100 packs. I recognize that this set has a ton of sub-par rates that make $15 packs feel even worse.
With that said, I only use Masters sets as an excuse to buy high-cost cards at around a 20%+ cost reduction and the larger number of rates in this set means that there are more cards that I want (like these) than that I can comfortably buy, which I consider to be a positive thing from my end.
Agreed. One question I have is how much will this reduce the prices. They increased the number of rares and mythics, so that the chance of any particular rare/mythic showing up in a pack is no greater than with a regular set. And the packs are $15. So how much will that impact the prices? Take a well-desired mythic from ultimate masters, which had $10ish packs - these packs are 50% more expensive. More printings will obviously help but I'm not anticipating huge price drops for cards except those that were only expensive due to scarcity.
I realize that Double Masters may be printing hilariously bad $100 packs. I recognize that this set has a ton of sub-par rates that make $15 packs feel even worse.
With that said, I only use Masters sets as an excuse to buy high-cost cards at around a 20%+ cost reduction and the larger number of rates in this set means that there are more cards that I want (like these) than that I can comfortably buy, which I consider to be a positive thing from my end.
Agreed. One question I have is how much will this reduce the prices. They increased the number of rares and mythics, so that the chance of any particular rare/mythic showing up in a pack is no greater than with a regular set. And the packs are $15. So how much will that impact the prices? Take a well-desired mythic from ultimate masters, which had $10ish packs - these packs are 50% more expensive. More printings will obviously help but I'm not anticipating huge price drops for cards except those that were only expensive due to scarcity.
Ultimate Masters has a similar price point with notable cost reductions. My only concern here is that the more variable value of packs (even compare with ultimate master) may lead to fewer people who aren’t resellers buying the pack, which means that random Joes selling their cards on TCGplayr may not nudge the price as low as normal... theoretically.
Agreed. One question I have is how much will this reduce the prices. They increased the number of rares and mythics, so that the chance of any particular rare/mythic showing up in a pack is no greater than with a regular set. And the packs are $15. So how much will that impact the prices? Take a well-desired mythic from ultimate masters, which had $10ish packs - these packs are 50% more expensive. More printings will obviously help but I'm not anticipating huge price drops for cards except those that were only expensive due to scarcity.
Cards that have constant demand, like Doubling Season, will likely see the smallest discount (max 25%) for a short time, especially since Masters booster boxes have a limited print run.
Players are better off letting the retailers and big money individuals assume the financial risk of opening Double Masters packs and just buying singles.
If you got to https://www.mtgstocks.com/sets/354 and look at just the rares, you can get a good idea how much value you could pull out of a booster. As of this writing, only 5 rares are worth near or more than $15 average (6 if you add Mana Reflection from today's reveals). Those are the cards that will recover from the discount faster than the others after Double Masters goes out of print. There are another 10 or so rares that are $5-$10 that are discounted a lot from this release, but their prices will recover in 1-2 years if they are not reprinted, because they are mostly used in Commander.
Now that's what I'm talking about two amazing red cards and the showcase for both is awesome
I realize that Double Masters may be printing hilariously bad $100 packs. I recognize that this set has a ton of sub-par rates that make $15 packs feel even worse.
With that said, I only use Masters sets as an excuse to buy high-cost cards at around a 20%+ cost reduction and the larger number of rates in this set means that there are more cards that I want (like these) than that I can comfortably buy, which I consider to be a positive thing from my end.
Agreed. One question I have is how much will this reduce the prices. They increased the number of rares and mythics, so that the chance of any particular rare/mythic showing up in a pack is no greater than with a regular set. And the packs are $15. So how much will that impact the prices? Take a well-desired mythic from ultimate masters, which had $10ish packs - these packs are 50% more expensive. More printings will obviously help but I'm not anticipating huge price drops for cards except those that were only expensive due to scarcity.
Ultimate Masters has a similar price point with notable cost reductions. My only concern here is that the more variable value of packs (even compare with ultimate master) may lead to fewer people who aren’t resellers buying the pack, which means that random Joes selling their cards on TCGplayr may not nudge the price as low as normal... theoretically.
Cards that have constant demand, like Doubling Season, will likely see the smallest discount (max 25%) for a short time, especially since Masters booster boxes have a limited print run.
Players are better off letting the retailers and big money individuals assume the financial risk of opening Double Masters packs and just buying singles.
If you got to https://www.mtgstocks.com/sets/354 and look at just the rares, you can get a good idea how much value you could pull out of a booster. As of this writing, only 5 rares are worth near or more than $15 average (6 if you add Mana Reflection from today's reveals). Those are the cards that will recover from the discount faster than the others after Double Masters goes out of print. There are another 10 or so rares that are $5-$10 that are discounted a lot from this release, but their prices will recover in 1-2 years if they are not reprinted, because they are mostly used in Commander.