Still, 7th isn't anything to snuff at; congrats. What were you playing?
Sneak Show in Legacy. Really wanted the Underground Sea...
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Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Still, 7th isn't anything to snuff at; congrats. What were you playing?
Sneak Show in Legacy. Really wanted the Underground Sea...
Same. Gotta get ready for eternal weekend!
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
Still, 7th isn't anything to snuff at; congrats. What were you playing?
Sneak Show in Legacy. Really wanted the Underground Sea...
Same. Gotta get ready for eternal weekend!
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
I actually think it spiked because alliance was expected to make the colors more viable but it didn’t really bring anything into the format.
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
I actually think it spiked because alliance was expected to make the colors more viable but it didn’t really bring anything into the format.
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Still, 7th isn't anything to snuff at; congrats. What were you playing?
Sneak Show in Legacy. Really wanted the Underground Sea...
Same. Gotta get ready for eternal weekend!
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
It’s not even a question of ‘spike blue’ anymore, it’s ‘spike everything but white’.
The bottom two in value of the opposing five are the white ones. The bottom two in value of the allied five are the white ones. Yes, even the white blue one, is below two other non blue ones.
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
I actually think it spiked because alliance was expected to make the colors more viable but it didn’t really bring anything into the format.
Weeps in Temur.
Agreed, frilled mystic was a great opportunity to give the format a strong UG creature and they give us mystic snake that's harder to cast with an extra 1 power and some tribal synergies...ugh. Prime Speaker Vannifar was probably carrying an obscene amount of the load for the guild in WOTC eyes because sorcery speed pod on a stick sounds so good...unfortunately the decks that would want her had already warped to turbo kiki builds or saheeli builds.
Glad I picked mine up when I did. Kicking myself for not buying the 4th tarn when they were reprinted though...that one hurts every time I see UR phoenix on camera lol.
Still, 7th isn't anything to snuff at; congrats. What were you playing?
Sneak Show in Legacy. Really wanted the Underground Sea...
Same. Gotta get ready for eternal weekend!
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
It’s not even a question of ‘spike blue’ anymore, it’s ‘spike everything but white’.
The bottom two in value of the opposing five are the white ones. The bottom two in value of the allied five are the white ones. Yes, even the white blue one, is below two other non blue ones.
True; I've picked up way more copies of Windswept Heath over the last 3 years than I'd like to admit. Hard to pass them up when ONS copies can be had for $15 and KTK for $11 as recent as a week ago. Arguably the least desirable fetch next to Marsh Flats, but it can't stay sub-$20 forever...or at least that's what I've been telling myself since KTK rotated out of Standard...
Went to shop online for some Grim Flayers to add to my sultai deck, then discovered they have dipped. Some months ago it was 7-8 dollars each, that was after trophy got spoiled. Then today, they're just 3-4 dollars each... I guess since goyf is cheap, the budget goyf alternatives also become cheaper.
Went to shop online for some Grim Flayers to add to my sultai deck, then discovered they have dipped. Some months ago it was 7-8 dollars each, that was after trophy got spoiled. Then today, they're just 3-4 dollars each... I guess since goyf is cheap, the budget goyf alternatives also become cheaper.
Modern is extremely hot right now and I think it's going to get extremely turbulent in the next two. I've actually put my buy list on cards for enhancing my death and taxes list with legacy cards viable for reprint that will definitely stabilize higher than they are at now. I'm thinking they may go cleric and angel tribal on this one off set to print both sanctum prelate and containment priest into modern. Prelate is a nightmare for a format with a compressed mana curve.
Err... on prices, I think modern is a sellers market and will be so for the next six months.
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2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Went to shop online for some Grim Flayers to add to my sultai deck, then discovered they have dipped. Some months ago it was 7-8 dollars each, that was after trophy got spoiled. Then today, they're just 3-4 dollars each... I guess since goyf is cheap, the budget goyf alternatives also become cheaper.
Simply put, nobody plays old Grimmy boy any more. I wouldn't be surprised if they dipped more. It's a good card that has better alternatives and being a Midrange card in this current format doesn't help any. I would expect the same to have happened to Bloodbraid Elf, although obviously that one has had multiple printings as well.
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Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
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Why didnt wizards print Modern Masters 2019?
Thats so stupid of them imo
They could sell modern staples at $10 per piece of paper
Now players complain and counterfeiters get a free season of printing Jace, Opal, Liliana, fetches and so on
Well, I'm selling my misty rainforests. I only used it in infect, which I don't like much. My take is that Wizards will either reprint fetches eventually and make them affordable again or Modern will be Legacy-lite with the mana base representing a too-big slice of a deck price, making it hard to get into.
How I wish the original Magic sets had not established that a good mana base was costly!
Oh well, I'll take my 85$ and buy other cards I want instead.
Why didnt wizards print Modern Masters 2019?
Thats so stupid of them imo
They could sell modern staples at $10 per piece of paper
Now players complain and counterfeiters get a free season of printing Jace, Opal, Liliana, fetches and so on
I think horizons will bring them more money than another masters set easily. If even 2 new cards are staples in modern that’ll be enough to sell tons of packs as it’s the only way to get them.
Why didnt wizards print Modern Masters 2019?
Thats so stupid of them imo
They could sell modern staples at $10 per piece of paper
Now players complain and counterfeiters get a free season of printing Jace, Opal, Liliana, fetches and so on
I think horizons will bring them more money than another masters set easily. If even 2 new cards are staples in modern that’ll be enough to sell tons of packs as it’s the only way to get them.
i dunno, i dont think there is enough information about production costs to make this assumption. choosing a set of reprints-only adhering to some theme seems quite a bit easier than designing entirely new cards and testing them. horizons will cost more than standard sets with a premium attached, but still falls short of the ludicrous margins masters had despite (or maybe because) of their 'limited print' nature.
as for the original question, the simple and reductive answer is that the masters series wasnt sustainable. too many competing interests, and the product either had to adapt or move aside for something new.
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Why didnt wizards print Modern Masters 2019?
Thats so stupid of them imo
They could sell modern staples at $10 per piece of paper
Now players complain and counterfeiters get a free season of printing Jace, Opal, Liliana, fetches and so on
I think horizons will bring them more money than another masters set easily. If even 2 new cards are staples in modern that’ll be enough to sell tons of packs as it’s the only way to get them.
i dunno, i dont think there is enough information about production costs to make this assumption. choosing a set of reprints-only adhering to some theme seems quite a bit easier than designing entirely new cards and testing them. horizons will cost more than standard sets with a premium attached, but still falls short of the ludicrous margins masters had despite (or maybe because) of their 'limited print' nature.
as for the original question, the simple and reductive answer is that the masters series wasnt sustainable. too many competing interests, and the product either had to adapt or move aside for something new.
They're bringing it back. Wizards of the Coast has a very predictable pattern with how they do things: Find a successful something, and then do it until people are so sick of it that they start turning into raving lunatics on social media and have to cart out some new popular voice of reason to tell everyone they are fixing things. Then they "fix magic" and proceed to run the new direction into the ground.
There is just too much untapped potential in modern and commander cards to not cash in on it. They are just making a strategic retreat to let the market settle down and recover from the insanity printing levels they did the last few years.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
You can't Reprint without psychology. If you say you will print all expensive cards and show this, prizes don't go up and they don't make money. Look as example on tarmogoyf... How often they make cash with reprints and it is still so high? They printed this card 373747 time and there is no reason for this still high prize. This is the way you need to go and this you can only do if sometimes a break between reprints. You need to hide your goal
Went to shop online for some Grim Flayers to add to my sultai deck, then discovered they have dipped. Some months ago it was 7-8 dollars each, that was after trophy got spoiled. Then today, they're just 3-4 dollars each... I guess since goyf is cheap, the budget goyf alternatives also become cheaper.
Simply put, nobody plays old Grimmy boy any more. I wouldn't be surprised if they dipped more. It's a good card that has better alternatives and being a Midrange card in this current format doesn't help any. I would expect the same to have happened to Bloodbraid Elf, although obviously that one has had multiple printings as well.
I guess Grim and Tarmo are having a hard time competing with flying red vengevines and something cold.
Thanks for reminding about the elf. Will get some BBE while they are still low. None of my decks need her right now, but in the near future I might build a deck that needs them.
Went to shop online for some Grim Flayers to add to my sultai deck, then discovered they have dipped. Some months ago it was 7-8 dollars each, that was after trophy got spoiled. Then today, they're just 3-4 dollars each... I guess since goyf is cheap, the budget goyf alternatives also become cheaper.
Simply put, nobody plays old Grimmy boy any more. I wouldn't be surprised if they dipped more. It's a good card that has better alternatives and being a Midrange card in this current format doesn't help any. I would expect the same to have happened to Bloodbraid Elf, although obviously that one has had multiple printings as well.
I guess Grim and Tarmo are having a hard time competing with flying red vengevines and something cold.
Thanks for reminding about the elf. Will get some BBE while they are still low. None of my decks need her right now, but in the near future I might build a deck that needs them.
Exactly. But I often wonder how some people do solidly with GB Midrange (the Rock) right now. I tried it at FNM this past Friday and went 2-2. Tried it during E Tron's rise over a year ago and went 3-1, losing to E Tron. I made 2 misplays that I know of during the 2-2, but one was in a match that I ended up winning. The other one was being too aggressive, which is better than losing by being not aggressive enough (at least that's what my friend tells me). Too many one for ones unless I can make it to the late game.
So I trade decks to play for a tournament today, trading Rock for Amulet. He beats me in Round 1, then losing to a top deck Bolt by Jund in the top 8 while I split in the finals with Blue Tron. Very small tournament, but I don't know what it is for the Rock and myself. I played Jund and Abzan strongly when I tried them, but admittedly the sample size is tiny, tiny for me playing Midrange, lol.
There are whole sub forums devoted to Modern. This one is for prices, specifically.
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Why didnt wizards print Modern Masters 2019?
Thats so stupid of them imo
They could sell modern staples at $10 per piece of paper
Now players complain and counterfeiters get a free season of printing Jace, Opal, Liliana, fetches and so on
I think horizons will bring them more money than another masters set easily. If even 2 new cards are staples in modern that’ll be enough to sell tons of packs as it’s the only way to get them.
i dunno, i dont think there is enough information about production costs to make this assumption. choosing a set of reprints-only adhering to some theme seems quite a bit easier than designing entirely new cards and testing them. horizons will cost more than standard sets with a premium attached, but still falls short of the ludicrous margins masters had despite (or maybe because) of their 'limited print' nature.
as for the original question, the simple and reductive answer is that the masters series wasnt sustainable. too many competing interests, and the product either had to adapt or move aside for something new.
They're bringing it back. Wizards of the Coast has a very predictable pattern with how they do things: Find a successful something, and then do it until people are so sick of it that they start turning into raving lunatics on social media and have to cart out some new popular voice of reason to tell everyone they are fixing things. Then they "fix magic" and proceed to run the new direction into the ground.
There is just too much untapped potential in modern and commander cards to not cash in on it. They are just making a strategic retreat to let the market settle down and recover from the insanity printing levels they did the last few years.
Whether or not we should take the comments at face value or not is a different conversation, but they've already stated how MM did more to suppress Modern reprints than promote them and going forward they'll be able to reprint more Modern staples now that MM is decommissioned. Folks keep asking how will they be able to reprint Modern cards without a Modern Masters set every 2 years, which seems like a legitimate concern at first glance, but if we look back to the set lists as a whole, we can clearly see how inefficient they were.
Using MM15 as an example, 249 cards were in the set and as of today there are 48 cards currently worth more than $1. Out of those 48 cards, less than half are Modern staples or see fringe Modern play; the other half are holding value due to Legacy or EDH play. That's 24 Modern-relevant reprints from an entire set dedicated to Modern and 225 cards that are either draft chaff or irrelevant to competitive Modern. That's far from an efficient reprint strategy; WotC's comments regarding their ability to reprint more Modern staples across X amount of misc supplemental sets, products, etc seem much more reasonable considering they have two years worth of products in which they would have to scatter those 24 reprints across.
IMO, Modern's mana base is the only major obstacle to this sort of reprint strategy, namely fetch lands. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see enemy fetches show up in a future Standard set despite how problematic that may be; if Arena continues to perform well despite the inevitable clunkers of standard set(s) then I can see WotC caring much less about how fetch lands/shuffling affect gameplay.
Yeah, Kalitas has been criminally undervalued in Modern since it was printed; I'm still surprised it took this long though.
Well, he only sees play in one of the 3 main GBx versions: GB Rock. Jund never runs him (prefering BBE) and Abzan has a choice between Kalitas and Anafenza. Plus, he was in Oath of the Gatewatch, a set with the powerful Eldrazis (Thought-Knot Seer, Eldrazi Mimic, Matter Reshaper, Reality Smasher) Oath of Nissa, AND Expeditions, so a lot of the value was captured by other cards.
That's 24 Modern-relevant reprints from an entire set dedicated to Modern and 225 cards that are either draft chaff or irrelevant to competitive Modern. That's far from an efficient reprint strategy; WotC's comments regarding their ability to reprint more Modern staples across X amount of misc supplemental sets, products, etc seem much more reasonable considering they have two years worth of products in which they would have to scatter those 24 reprints across.
Given the number of rares and mythics in a set, that's actually a fair number. There are only so many common staples.
MM and other product never were at odds except in Wizards' twisted rethoric. Printing staples in one product never did prevent printing differnet staples in another.
Wizards has vowed to reprint cards in normal products repeatedly, while failing to do so in meaningful numbers.
That's 24 Modern-relevant reprints from an entire set dedicated to Modern and 225 cards that are either draft chaff or irrelevant to competitive Modern. That's far from an efficient reprint strategy; WotC's comments regarding their ability to reprint more Modern staples across X amount of misc supplemental sets, products, etc seem much more reasonable considering they have two years worth of products in which they would have to scatter those 24 reprints across.
Given the number of rares and mythics in a set, that's actually a fair number. There are only so many common staples.
MM and other product never were at odds except in Wizards' twisted rethoric. Printing staples in one product never did prevent printing differnet staples in another.
Wizards has vowed to reprint cards in normal products repeatedly, while failing to do so in meaningful numbers.
That number includes cards like Vines of Vastwood, Mutagenic Growth, Mirran Crusader, Bolt, Swans of Bryn Argoll, etc; I tried to be generous by including anything that might've been in a tournament list within the last 4 years, including Twin. And exactly; the fact that there are only so many common/uncommon staples is a great example for why dedicating an entire set to the purpose of reprinting 24 Modern-relevant cards is less efficient than jamming those cards into other products over the same 2 year time span and use that R&D on something else, Like Modern Horizons.
& 3. As mentioned, what WotC recently promised and whether or not we should accept it at face value is a whole conversation unto itself. WotC hasn't given me much reason to defend them in recent years, so I rarely do, but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Charging players more money for less cardboard is a profitable gig, and since I find it hard to believe WotC just doesn't like easy money, it makes sense to think there's some truth to their logic.
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Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Same. Gotta get ready for eternal weekend!
Misty rainforest is showing a $5 drop on MtgGoldfish. I'm not that surprised, as that color combination doesn't see a ton of play in any format. I think it was an attempt to go "oh blue fetch, spike it."
I actually think it spiked because alliance was expected to make the colors more viable but it didn’t really bring anything into the format.
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It’s not even a question of ‘spike blue’ anymore, it’s ‘spike everything but white’.
The bottom two in value of the opposing five are the white ones. The bottom two in value of the allied five are the white ones. Yes, even the white blue one, is below two other non blue ones.
Agreed, frilled mystic was a great opportunity to give the format a strong UG creature and they give us mystic snake that's harder to cast with an extra 1 power and some tribal synergies...ugh. Prime Speaker Vannifar was probably carrying an obscene amount of the load for the guild in WOTC eyes because sorcery speed pod on a stick sounds so good...unfortunately the decks that would want her had already warped to turbo kiki builds or saheeli builds.
Glad I picked mine up when I did. Kicking myself for not buying the 4th tarn when they were reprinted though...that one hurts every time I see UR phoenix on camera lol.
True; I've picked up way more copies of Windswept Heath over the last 3 years than I'd like to admit. Hard to pass them up when ONS copies can be had for $15 and KTK for $11 as recent as a week ago. Arguably the least desirable fetch next to Marsh Flats, but it can't stay sub-$20 forever...or at least that's what I've been telling myself since KTK rotated out of Standard...
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Modern is extremely hot right now and I think it's going to get extremely turbulent in the next two. I've actually put my buy list on cards for enhancing my death and taxes list with legacy cards viable for reprint that will definitely stabilize higher than they are at now. I'm thinking they may go cleric and angel tribal on this one off set to print both sanctum prelate and containment priest into modern. Prelate is a nightmare for a format with a compressed mana curve.
Err... on prices, I think modern is a sellers market and will be so for the next six months.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Simply put, nobody plays old Grimmy boy any more. I wouldn't be surprised if they dipped more. It's a good card that has better alternatives and being a Midrange card in this current format doesn't help any. I would expect the same to have happened to Bloodbraid Elf, although obviously that one has had multiple printings as well.
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Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
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Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Thats so stupid of them imo
They could sell modern staples at $10 per piece of paper
Now players complain and counterfeiters get a free season of printing Jace, Opal, Liliana, fetches and so on
G Green Stompy
RG Shamans
UB Mill
UG Infect
WUBRG Slivers!
How I wish the original Magic sets had not established that a good mana base was costly!
Oh well, I'll take my 85$ and buy other cards I want instead.
I think horizons will bring them more money than another masters set easily. If even 2 new cards are staples in modern that’ll be enough to sell tons of packs as it’s the only way to get them.
i dunno, i dont think there is enough information about production costs to make this assumption. choosing a set of reprints-only adhering to some theme seems quite a bit easier than designing entirely new cards and testing them. horizons will cost more than standard sets with a premium attached, but still falls short of the ludicrous margins masters had despite (or maybe because) of their 'limited print' nature.
as for the original question, the simple and reductive answer is that the masters series wasnt sustainable. too many competing interests, and the product either had to adapt or move aside for something new.
UWGSnow-Bant Control
BURGrixis Death's Shadow
GWBCoCo Elves
WCDeath and Taxes(sold)They're bringing it back. Wizards of the Coast has a very predictable pattern with how they do things: Find a successful something, and then do it until people are so sick of it that they start turning into raving lunatics on social media and have to cart out some new popular voice of reason to tell everyone they are fixing things. Then they "fix magic" and proceed to run the new direction into the ground.
There is just too much untapped potential in modern and commander cards to not cash in on it. They are just making a strategic retreat to let the market settle down and recover from the insanity printing levels they did the last few years.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I guess Grim and Tarmo are having a hard time competing with flying red vengevines and something cold.
Thanks for reminding about the elf. Will get some BBE while they are still low. None of my decks need her right now, but in the near future I might build a deck that needs them.
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There are whole sub forums devoted to Modern. This one is for prices, specifically.
Whether or not we should take the comments at face value or not is a different conversation, but they've already stated how MM did more to suppress Modern reprints than promote them and going forward they'll be able to reprint more Modern staples now that MM is decommissioned. Folks keep asking how will they be able to reprint Modern cards without a Modern Masters set every 2 years, which seems like a legitimate concern at first glance, but if we look back to the set lists as a whole, we can clearly see how inefficient they were.
Using MM15 as an example, 249 cards were in the set and as of today there are 48 cards currently worth more than $1. Out of those 48 cards, less than half are Modern staples or see fringe Modern play; the other half are holding value due to Legacy or EDH play. That's 24 Modern-relevant reprints from an entire set dedicated to Modern and 225 cards that are either draft chaff or irrelevant to competitive Modern. That's far from an efficient reprint strategy; WotC's comments regarding their ability to reprint more Modern staples across X amount of misc supplemental sets, products, etc seem much more reasonable considering they have two years worth of products in which they would have to scatter those 24 reprints across.
IMO, Modern's mana base is the only major obstacle to this sort of reprint strategy, namely fetch lands. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see enemy fetches show up in a future Standard set despite how problematic that may be; if Arena continues to perform well despite the inevitable clunkers of standard set(s) then I can see WotC caring much less about how fetch lands/shuffling affect gameplay.
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I have a reply for your post, but since you deleted it I guess this is not the place.
Anyway, as for prices... another thing I noticed is Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet went back up. Some months ago, he was 8-10$... now back to almost 20$.
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Well, he only sees play in one of the 3 main GBx versions: GB Rock. Jund never runs him (prefering BBE) and Abzan has a choice between Kalitas and Anafenza. Plus, he was in Oath of the Gatewatch, a set with the powerful Eldrazis (Thought-Knot Seer, Eldrazi Mimic, Matter Reshaper, Reality Smasher) Oath of Nissa, AND Expeditions, so a lot of the value was captured by other cards.
WBC Eldrazi & Taxes CBW
UR Keep on Cantripin' (UR Phoenix) RU
WU Surprise! It's not UW Control! (UW Midrange) UW
BG The Rock, Straight BG
U Mono-Blue Fish U
RBW Mardu Pyromancer BWR
RG Rabble! Rabble! (GR Blood Moon Aggro) GR
Legacy
W Death & Taxes W
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