There are a lot of good ones mentioned, but these are the ones that are staples in EDH and in Cube and really should not have the price tags they carry.
As an aside, I got three Mana Crypts for 60$/each a few months after Eternal Masters came out. I just saw the current price tag and vomited a bit in my mouth.
i could come up with a list of 20 or 30 cards desperately in need of reprints.
will any of them get reprinted? hell no. not here. over the past 3 releases or so they've proven they'll include a few new cards that are meant to attract legacy players and as a result fetch a high price, but anything commander actually benefits from? nope. expect another printing of high market instead.
Does the Top see significant play in Modern, Legacy or Vintage? If so it probably wouldn't - and shouldn't - be reprinted in a Commander project. Most of the rest of what people are recommending seem pretty solid options, and definitely Rhystic Study.
Banned in modern and legacy. Paper vintage isn't a big enough thing to drive prices and I'd hazard a guess that Top isn't the financial hurdle for most people interested in that format. EDH is probably the primary driver of demand for the card at this point unless there's more 60 card casual demand for the card than I'm giving it credit.
I'd like to see more P3K reprints, particularly Three Visits. Dong Zhou, the Tyrant and Yuan Shao, the Indecisive would also be good ones. There have been a number of P3K reprints in these sets in the past, so it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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Some areas of cards that I really think that they should look for reprints:
1) More P3K - They have done a pretty good job of reprinting a lot of cards from this set, and I'm not asking for something like Capture of Jingzhou, but things like Three Visits, Rolling Earthquake, or more of some of the interesting legendary creatures would be great.
2) More Pauper staples - The Commander decks would be a perfect place to reprint some cards whose cost has gotten a little out of control due to Pauper. I'm hinking something like Swat, Chainer's Edict, Ash Barrens, Capsize, Tangle, etc. are all inexpensive enough to include without spiking the cost of the C19 product, but would go a long way towards making these cards more available. These are also cards that are good enough to see play in Commander as well, so introducing them to a new audience seems like a good idea.
4) Pick at least four to eight (1-2 per deck) popular Commander cards that have not been reprinted and reprint them before they get out of hand. Parallel Lives ($15), Mana Echoes ($20), Oversold Cemetery ($8), Helm of Possession ($5), Cabal Coffers ($30), Oracle of Mul Daya ($35), etc. are all cards that appear in multiple decks and are becoming harder to find. Vintage/Legacy players won't be buying up Commander becaus of it and it will make these cards much more reasonable and available.
6) Better Lands - or at least less lands that enter the battlefield tapped, or if they enter tapped then at least make them worthwhile.
There are so many good cards that would make reasonable reprints that there is no reason that they cannot come up with something that can check off multiple needs. I think that WotC took a small step forward with some of the reprints in C18 (Mimic Vat, Unwinding Clock, Mirrorworks, Halimar Depths, Hunting Wilds, etc. were a hit in my book), but they need to cut the chaff reprints (Spawning Grounds, Zendikar Incarnate, Scuttling Doom Engine, etc. I can do without).
Maybe not a commander product but something like a Masters set, like Commander Masters or Casual Masters. WotC can put a lot of desirable cards in a set that don't see a lot of competitive play:
A lot of cards with a high casual potential and maybe a few cards with competitive potential so the competitive players buy a lot of boxes and the prices of the cards will fall.
The price tag for Bloom Tenderis just ridiculous… A lot of cards from the Lorwyn block are just sky high in price.
Please don't reprint Rhystic Study. The more people forget that that thing even exists, the better, as it only creates miserable games where one schmuk always decides to not pay for his vanilla 5/5's or something.
Except no one is going to forget (I assume you were being facetious), and the price is only going to climb higher and higher unless it gets a reprint (and I don't count judge promos as a reprint - I mean in a set or a precon).
Maybe not a commander product but something like a Masters set, like Commander Masters or Casual Masters. WotC can put a lot of desirable cards in a set that don't see a lot of competitive play:
A lot of cards with a high casual potential and maybe a few cards with competitive potential so the competitive players buy a lot of boxes and the prices of the cards will fall.
The price tag for Bloom Tenderis just ridiculous… A lot of cards from the Lorwyn block are just sky high in price.
Agree with all of these picks. Unfortunately WotC have stated that UMA was the last masters set to be released into the foreseeable future. So barring reprints in standard sets or additional supplementary sets, we're really only likely to see reprints in the precons. For now, at least.
I doubt we are gonna see the voting stuff from Conspiracy just printed as a one off effect and they are very skittish about printing extra turn cards again at any kind of speed
The nr 1 thing I want for commander is playable lands to fix your colors decently while not playing green from within your landbase. Or, more concretely: I want them to print the enemy color versions of the Mirage fetchlands, accompanied by a set of enemy colored dual lands with basic lands types. Or new cards that perform a similar function. But made so that they are not modern/legacy good so it stays affordable.
Most of my other picks have already been mentioned.
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I doubt we are gonna see the voting stuff from Conspiracy just printed as a one off effect and they are very skittish about printing extra turn cards again at any kind of speed
Agreed regarding extra turn stuff. It gets painful too easily. Regarding the voting stuff, you never know. There's been mechanics in commander sets that have played around with that design space - things like Join Forces and Tempting Offer have generally been pretty well received. And if there's a format other than conspiracy draft that would be a decent home for the voting cards it's probably commander. I don't think there's a ton of them that really warrant reprinting, but Council's Judgment is decent, and so is Selvala's Stampede.
I doubt we are gonna see the voting stuff from Conspiracy just printed as a one off effect and they are very skittish about printing extra turn cards again at any kind of speed
Agreed regarding extra turn stuff. It gets painful too easily. Regarding the voting stuff, you never know. There's been mechanics in commander sets that have played around with that design space - things like Join Forces and Tempting Offer have generally been pretty well received. And if there's a format other than conspiracy draft that would be a decent home for the voting cards it's probably commander. I don't think there's a ton of them that really warrant reprinting, but Council's Judgment is decent, and so is Selvala's Stampede.
As for extra turn cards, I think that the trend is to make sure that they exile themselves (Karn's Temporal Sundering, Part the Waterveil, Temporal Mastery, Temporal Trespass), shuffle back into the library (Beacon of Tomorrows, Nexus of Fate. Timestream Navigator), or with some sort of significant drawback (Chance for Glory, Savor the Moment) so as to try and prevent recursion shenanigans. I think that the last Sorcery extra turn card that was printed without those safeguards was Walk the Aeons (unless you count Notorious Throng as not having a significant drawback). I would think that with Expropriate self-exiling, it would be fine to reprint in a Commander product.
Personally, I still think Expropriate is gross. Casting it once is often enough to combo out or end the game otherwise. Even if it does exile, you're still getting more than one extra turn out of the spell, possibly up to 4. No matter how you cut it, the value is high, and I don't want to see it reprinted. Walk the Aeons is a little different. Buying back at the cost of manabase is costly unless you have a way to work around it. It's still abusable in the right (wrong?) place, but the drawback is much higher. Just my two cents. If Expropriate were the conspiracy mechanic card they choose to reprint, I'd be pretty disappointed.
I tried to focus on $10-20 cards that were at one point just a few dollars and current pricing trends have forced them entirely too high.
Tithe - this card is like $15 now and while its a great card, its a shame its price tag has gotten this high. Its generally only run in mono white and probably 2ish color non green decks but its a solid card that is really unfortunate to have its price tag creeping up.
Stoneforge Mystic - I would like its price tag to be maintained under $20. Its a sweet card but it only sees play in commander so its unfortunate that its price tag is creeping up.
Oracle of Mul Daya - great card, it desperately needs a reprint. I still remember when it was new and I ordered a playset of them for like $2 or something silly. I had so many of them I defaced one with a highlighter to make it look like it had a double ended lightsaber lol. The current going price is over $20.
Sylvan Library - another $20ish card that often should be in every deck that can run it.
Cyclonic Rift - its price tag is very high for a card that has been put in a commander product before. We need another copy to make circulation. $15 is too high.
Rhystic Study - another card at $15 because it hasn't been reprinted.
Most red things I can think of are reserve listed (Wheel of Fortune / Gauntlet of Might). I guess some of the mythic dragons are creeping up in price but I can't think of a staple red card that is really high priced...
Tithe is, sadly, on the reserved list, which is probably another reason the price keeps creeping up.
Is Stoneforge Mystic not played in Modern or any other formats? I thought it was, but if not, I would love to see a reprint.
Oh that sucks. I guess its just going to keep getting worse.
Stoneforge is banned in modern for absolutely no reason. Modern is a brutal format where games end on turn 3 but for some reason it remains banned despite not being half broken enough to make an impact on the format.
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Is that just a carryover from Cawblade in standard back in the day? If so, that's dumb, because I can't imagine a Cawblade deck that would even have a chance in Modern.
Is that just a carryover from Cawblade in standard back in the day? If so, that's dumb, because I can't imagine a Cawblade deck that would even have a chance in Modern.
That and presumably because it limits future design space for equipment. That's also a terrible argument because we're (a) unlikely to see anything on the level of Swords or Batterskull again and (b) Skullclamp and Umezawa's Jitte are (rightly) also banned. It's consistently on the community's radar as a possible unban, which is why it goes up in price every January before dropping back down gradually. It does see some legacy play, but probably not enough to drive prices compared to EDH demand. If it is ever unbanned in modern, expect the price to double or triple over the short term as those players grab them. It's not something to sleep on forever if you want more copies.
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What was the last piece of equipment that even saw a significant amount of play in any competitive format? Last I can recall is Runechanter's Pike in Delver. I'm sure there's been something since then, but the vast majority of new equipment except for a few Commander cards has been limited fodder.
In terms of recent prints, pretty much nothing. Some of the MRD era stuff sees occasional modern or legacy play, like Cranial Plating. There's a glass cannon modern combo deck that runs all of the 0 CMC equipment with Puresteel Paladin and Sram, Senior Edificer, so that probably runs one or two more recent prints. Otherwise, I'm not really aware of anything. I'm not at all a standard player, so there may be something there that I'm missing. I wouldn't even be able to guess at what, though. WotC has played it much safer with equipment after the early busted ones.
All of that said and bringing it back to the original topic, I still have trouble seeing Stoneforge in a commander precon. There's enough speculation that it's going to see a modern unban, it sees enough legacy play, and it's a popular enough casual card that any deck including it ends up being the in demand one unless the other decks have correspondingly high profile reprints. As much as WotC claims they don't follow secondary market pricing, they're very careful with how much value they put into precon products.
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will any of them get reprinted? hell no. not here. over the past 3 releases or so they've proven they'll include a few new cards that are meant to attract legacy players and as a result fetch a high price, but anything commander actually benefits from? nope. expect another printing of high market instead.
I'd like to see more P3K reprints, particularly Three Visits. Dong Zhou, the Tyrant and Yuan Shao, the Indecisive would also be good ones. There have been a number of P3K reprints in these sets in the past, so it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Cavern just got reprinted in UMA, so it's as low as it's gonna be for a while lol.
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1) More P3K - They have done a pretty good job of reprinting a lot of cards from this set, and I'm not asking for something like Capture of Jingzhou, but things like Three Visits, Rolling Earthquake, or more of some of the interesting legendary creatures would be great.
2) More Pauper staples - The Commander decks would be a perfect place to reprint some cards whose cost has gotten a little out of control due to Pauper. I'm hinking something like Swat, Chainer's Edict, Ash Barrens, Capsize, Tangle, etc. are all inexpensive enough to include without spiking the cost of the C19 product, but would go a long way towards making these cards more available. These are also cards that are good enough to see play in Commander as well, so introducing them to a new audience seems like a good idea.
3) More cheap and/or flexible removal - Cards like Vindicate, Path to Exile, Council's Judgment, and Aftershock either haven't been reprinted or it has been a long while.
4) Pick at least four to eight (1-2 per deck) popular Commander cards that have not been reprinted and reprint them before they get out of hand. Parallel Lives ($15), Mana Echoes ($20), Oversold Cemetery ($8), Helm of Possession ($5), Cabal Coffers ($30), Oracle of Mul Daya ($35), etc. are all cards that appear in multiple decks and are becoming harder to find. Vintage/Legacy players won't be buying up Commander becaus of it and it will make these cards much more reasonable and available.
5) Conspiracy and Conspiracy: Take the Crown - there are a bunch of cool Conspiracy cards that don't see the light of day because people barely know they exist or they just can't find them. Dack Fayden, Brago, King Eternal, Grenzo, Dungeon Warden, Marchesa, the Black Rose, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, and Selvala, Explorer Returned are just some of more popular ones. They also reprinted a lot of cards that needed reprints a single time in the Conspiracy sets that should be looked at for reprint in a Commander product (like Hallowed Burial, Gratuitous Violence, Followed Footsteps, and Kami of the Crescent Moon).
6) Better Lands - or at least less lands that enter the battlefield tapped, or if they enter tapped then at least make them worthwhile.
There are so many good cards that would make reasonable reprints that there is no reason that they cannot come up with something that can check off multiple needs. I think that WotC took a small step forward with some of the reprints in C18 (Mimic Vat, Unwinding Clock, Mirrorworks, Halimar Depths, Hunting Wilds, etc. were a hit in my book), but they need to cut the chaff reprints (Spawning Grounds, Zendikar Incarnate, Scuttling Doom Engine, etc. I can do without).
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The price tag for Bloom Tenderis just ridiculous… A lot of cards from the Lorwyn block are just sky high in price.
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Agree with all of these picks. Unfortunately WotC have stated that UMA was the last masters set to be released into the foreseeable future. So barring reprints in standard sets or additional supplementary sets, we're really only likely to see reprints in the precons. For now, at least.
Most of my other picks have already been mentioned.
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Agreed regarding extra turn stuff. It gets painful too easily. Regarding the voting stuff, you never know. There's been mechanics in commander sets that have played around with that design space - things like Join Forces and Tempting Offer have generally been pretty well received. And if there's a format other than conspiracy draft that would be a decent home for the voting cards it's probably commander. I don't think there's a ton of them that really warrant reprinting, but Council's Judgment is decent, and so is Selvala's Stampede.
As for the voting stuff, Council's Dilemma would be a fine thing to reprint in Commander; Expropriate, Capital Punishment, Selvala's Stampede, etc. would all be pretty cool. And Will of the Council is perfectly fine; Council's Judgment, Magister of Worth, Plea for Power, etc. all seem fair enough.
As for extra turn cards, I think that the trend is to make sure that they exile themselves (Karn's Temporal Sundering, Part the Waterveil, Temporal Mastery, Temporal Trespass), shuffle back into the library (Beacon of Tomorrows, Nexus of Fate. Timestream Navigator), or with some sort of significant drawback (Chance for Glory, Savor the Moment) so as to try and prevent recursion shenanigans. I think that the last Sorcery extra turn card that was printed without those safeguards was Walk the Aeons (unless you count Notorious Throng as not having a significant drawback). I would think that with Expropriate self-exiling, it would be fine to reprint in a Commander product.
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Personally, I still think Expropriate is gross. Casting it once is often enough to combo out or end the game otherwise. Even if it does exile, you're still getting more than one extra turn out of the spell, possibly up to 4. No matter how you cut it, the value is high, and I don't want to see it reprinted. Walk the Aeons is a little different. Buying back at the cost of manabase is costly unless you have a way to work around it. It's still abusable in the right (wrong?) place, but the drawback is much higher. Just my two cents. If Expropriate were the conspiracy mechanic card they choose to reprint, I'd be pretty disappointed.
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Is Stoneforge Mystic not played in Modern or any other formats? I thought it was, but if not, I would love to see a reprint.
Oh that sucks. I guess its just going to keep getting worse.
Stoneforge is banned in modern for absolutely no reason. Modern is a brutal format where games end on turn 3 but for some reason it remains banned despite not being half broken enough to make an impact on the format.
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All of that said and bringing it back to the original topic, I still have trouble seeing Stoneforge in a commander precon. There's enough speculation that it's going to see a modern unban, it sees enough legacy play, and it's a popular enough casual card that any deck including it ends up being the in demand one unless the other decks have correspondingly high profile reprints. As much as WotC claims they don't follow secondary market pricing, they're very careful with how much value they put into precon products.