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Quote from Impossible »

Except it's broken in every deck, even the most casual ones. For example, T1>Sol Ring into T2>Thran Dynamo gives you potentially 8 mana on turn 3. Ring into Explosive Vegetation gives you potentially 7 mana on turn 3.

To reiterate papafunk's point. If you're getting crushed by a T2 Thran Dynamo in casual, multiplayer games you/your group is doing something wrong.

It's suuuuuper good tech in Rasputin Dreamweaver.

...and now Academy Rector

Quote from Chickmagnet handle Wampa1 »

For a brief period of time last night it was $6969.69 on TCGP/MTGGoldfish.

Nice

You can easily do superfriends in UW, you can almost do superfriends in any of the mono colors (don't try red yet...) there has been so much support printed for that archetype.

That said, Brago, King Eternal is the most combo-centric and probably most powerful, Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage has great synergy and utility with superfriends, and Isperia, Supreme Judge while a cut below the other two still has good synergy and can be a finisher. Plus you should have a solid amount of artifact ramp whether you are playing her or not, she's the cool, albeit slightly less powerful choice.

Humility has gone completely through the roof and now has copies sold for over $100 on ebay.

Blind Seer comes to mind as a solid deck made out of complete garbage.

Quote from toctheyounger77 »

The big thing is that that's not a problem for you though. Every time MW gets cast you're getting 2 free spells, over and above MW. All you need to do is cast it. Sure it gets expensive but you're running green. It doesn't even matter if he's countered, the cascades still happen.

If you read the OP she is talking about how she stopped running Kaalia due to social pressure. In that context running Maelstrom Wanderer does nothing to solver her problems, and arguably amplifies them. Whether or not you are able to get cascade triggers from casting MW really isn't relevant in that context.

Quote from Stoogeslap »

Only bringing this up because how high the asking price is: FTV: Relics Mox Diamond has hit the roof. Last night the asking price was around $800 w/ 4 or 5 listings on TCGPlayer. This morning there are a few more asking prices hovering around $500. Even if it starts selling at $300, that's still double the price before.

There must've been a buy-out, again.

Asking prices are for the most part not very useful in determining the actual value of a card. While asking prices CAN affect the perception around a card, I think that it almost always makes more sense to just check something like "Sold Listings" on ebay to see what money people are actually willing to pay for something.

As of yesterday copies were selling for ~$190, but there are only a few copies of that card on ebay at the moment, and several cards on tcgplayer all asking for double that (~$400+). One of two things will likely happen in the short term. One: people decide to continue buying FTV: Mox Diamonds at twice the price they were yesterday and the price is justified and stabilizes becoming the new norm even with people deciding to dump theirs, or two: people don't buy at >$400 and the price regulates to some degree over a short period of time while more copies enter the market.

To track back to the original point though, the actual value of the card is ~$190 until people start buying it at higher prices, which no one has yet that I am able to tell.

This card will be fantastic in 1 and 2 cost commander decks and pretty bad everywhere else.

Most of the time Maelstrom Wanderer will draw a bigger bulls-eye than Kaalia of the Vast

Tatyova...just...ugh...

That one was always inevitable, based on the power of the card in commander + reserve list. Same thing will happen with Survival eventually.

With what you have said about your deck, I believe the primus is the more synergistic choice. Having free, onboard instant speed removal with your sac outlets is very strong, plus you're not giving opponents extra Grave Pact fodder.

Depends on your play-style though. I prefer instant speed effects, and subtle plays over windmill slamming the biggest, beefiest, most attention-getting thing every turn.

He is far from alone in talking about the Reserved List. It's not really a new thing, I think however that more people have garnered an interest in MTG finance as the game has grown, and having the ability to manipulate a supply so definitely, with the online market the way that it is also allowing people to manipulate the price of things with such limited quantity, it should be no real surprise that the Reserved List market has been insane as MTG finance and MTG as a whole has grown.

Plus, there's always the chance that someone lands on the next Reserved List Legacy bomb like Drop of Honey. For me, I grabbed some of the sort of CMDR playable Reserved List cards a couple of years ago with the feeling that "I better just get these now".

With the guarantee of no further increased supply, people seem more inclined to buy cards they may not need now, but might possibly need later just because they may never decrease in price. On a personal note, the consistent RL buyouts have diminished my interest in MTG finance and MTG in general lately. It used to be kind of fun to try and figure out what was going to spike next based on history, now it's just sort of blah for me, but I'm sure it is probably pretty exciting for others pulling out old, previously worthless cards and realizing that they are now supposedly worth a fortune.

Just my 2 cents. Also, no one has swept anything under the rug. This forum seems pretty plugged into what is happening with the RL buyouts, but I think fatigue has set in regarding discussion of the topic, which is completely understandable.