Caution, I have no experience with this particular service as I live in the US, but they basically provide you a US address to ship to and then they forward those packages to you wherever you live. With the services I use for Europe and Asia they charge a fee and then whatever shipping costs.
It's in a bunch of decks that I know of but only 2 of them are actually any good, those being Abzan and Elves CoCo, or at least that's all I can find. It's also in Mono-Green, GW CoCo, Jund CoCo, GB CoCo as well as something called Temur Ascendancy combo as a 2 of. Plus it was 30-40 with just one competitive deck (Pod) and casual and EDH demand. I seriously doubt this drops after rotation as only 1 or 2 Standard decks is playing it at all. If you guys haven't noticed CoCo non-foils are also inching upwards again at almost $14 shipped, with only 3 NM copies below that on TCG. That is important because these 2 cards are likely to be mostly joined at the hip. If you need either of these I'd probably be picking them up posthaste.
The only CoCo deck I can possibly see not playing Chord, due to lack of green creatures to use convoke with, is the Goblin CoCo deck people are brewing up for after Goblin Piledriver is reprinted.
Collected Company foils in the process of disappearing, still a few on eBay I think, well as of a few minutes ago anyway. I'm guessing Non-foils will be next. My guess is Chord should follow after.
So what's up with Dramatic Entrance? It's shot up to #2 on the most sold list of MKM.
Right now, there's a total of 69 left, and in the last hours, every foil below 19 Euros has been snatched up.
Under what circumstances would it be better than just going with Savage summoning? Is there a deck where people are using it to sneak things like Progenitus into play?
Moxdiamond.com cancelled an order for a single cunning wish foil saying they didn't have any, after taking several days to tell me that they didn't. They said they where trying to find a copy, yeah right. They just wanted to see how high it was going to spike.
Here's the message they sent me:
Due to an inventory error we are unable to send you a foil cunning wish. We have spend the previous 3 days trying to locate a copy for you but have come up empty handed. I have issued you a full refund and you should see it on your credit card momentarily. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.
When Modern Masters 2015 first got close, I promised a price match of local brick and mortar stores. Initially, hype was high, and preorders were going for 290+ -- I'm sure everyone has similar stories. Then Channel Fireball and Starcity announced prices, and local game stores planned to adjust to suit. Regulars told me other stores were selling for MSRP, so that's what I did. Then the full spoiler for MM2015 came out, and everyone was pissed. I'm sure other stores had people trying to back out of preorders, and I, too, dodged a few bullets. Fortunately, most people felt that MSRP was at least fair -- till they opened their boxes. I opened one too -- wanted to get back into modern (it got me into Bogles). I didn't really recover MSRP, but at least I recovered cost. Other players were as feast or famine as is being discussed here. One player opened two foil rares and a regular rare in one pack. Two of the boxes were obscene. Most boxes were like mine - with maybe 200 in rares/mythics. A few were unfathomable duds. I'm expecting a much more cautious player base when Modern Masters 2017 comes out - should my hunch that this'll be a biannual event be accurate. MM3 will need to have a much improved pack estimated value for lightning to strike like it did for me on this one. Players won't be burned twice, should they feel burned this time around.
Because of the one box of MM1 I opened having only one Mythic, which was Keiga the Tide Star, and ~$100 in value total I will never again be opening any packs outside of booster drafts and sealed events. Wizards has damn sure burned me for the last time.
Cunning Wish has pulled a disappearing act! Very cunning of it, really. Looking like a buy out has happened already. Wonder what it lands at price-wise.
Reserved list, staple in a Legacy archetype, powerful (though niche) utility in EDH... He may drop to $25 or slightly less, but I really don't see him returning to his pre-unbanning price ever again.
I agree that it never hits it's pre-banning price again. IMO, it's much more likely that it goes up further in the short and long term.
Something to keep in mind is that we may very well be seeing more Eldrazi in the near future (next 2 blocks). That's important because if you do see more Eldrazi, you'll probably see more Artifact based EDH decks popping up, thus more demand for Metalworker when that happens.
I didn't see another topic here for this so I'm wondering what you guys think about where the prices for for the cards that just got banned as well as the ones that got unbanned.
Braids, Cabal Minion is banned
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is banned
Erayo, Soratami Ascendent is banned
Kokusho, the Evening Star is unbanned
Metalworker is unbanned
I feel that the 3 banned ones seeing no eternal play, or none that I'm aware of anyhow, will lose a good deal of their value unless tabletop demand can absorb the newly freed up copies. Even then they will probably still lose much of their value. As for the other 2 I have no idea about Kokusho due to the fact that he was just reprinted and has 3 separate printings overall. My guess is that if it sees any gain it will be slow and over a good deal of time. Metalworker is looking like it still has room to rise after hitting $30+ on TCG for near mint copies and foils appear to be headed over $200 if they aren't already there. In a dedicated artifact deck this card is absolutely and utterly broken. It also happens to see a small amount of eternal play to help with demand for it.
Edit: for transparencies sake, I currently own no copies of Metalworker, or Kokusho.
I'm glad he got his money back. I hate it when people try to get away with crap like this. They know what condition the things are in when they send out the cards. Never send back cards unless it is tracked. The seller was dishonest enough to send you cards that were not in the agreed upon condition then they are dishonest enough to tell you they never arrived when they did.
Guys,
I am reading your complains about the receive the refund because of market pricing floating. I think their behavior in that aspect is awful, but I assure you in my case is worse. I unfortunately have bought using a credit card, and not Paypal. They got my money and do not deliver anything. I wrote them several times asking them to cancel my order and refund my money and so far no success.
This way, my recommendation for you is avoid those guys.
Call your credit card company and do a charge back. Just make sure they know you ordered a physical product and not an non-physical one like MTGO stuff. Some companies like PayPal and others can be touchy about that and will jump to conclusions about that unless you tell them up front about it.
MSRP isn't the end all be all if you are trying to get that for booster boxes. FTV and limited run items yes, $144 for a box of Conspiracy? No. I wouldn't make such a big deal about not charging more than MSRP if you are doing something like that.
ToyWiz is awful, especially about cancelling for any reason at all including because of price spikes. I think they do what many shops do, only list 4 copies at a time. Most shop software can be programmed to only list as many at anyone time as you want to show.
Saito's Card Shop is awesome. I don't think it's ever taken more than 7-10 days for me to get something from Japan to me in Florida. Their conditions are great. I've never had a problem with any card I've gotten from them and I've ordered between 1000-2000 cards from them.
Use a service like https://www.viabox.com/
Caution, I have no experience with this particular service as I live in the US, but they basically provide you a US address to ship to and then they forward those packages to you wherever you live. With the services I use for Europe and Asia they charge a fee and then whatever shipping costs.
The only CoCo deck I can possibly see not playing Chord, due to lack of green creatures to use convoke with, is the Goblin CoCo deck people are brewing up for after Goblin Piledriver is reprinted.
Under what circumstances would it be better than just going with Savage summoning? Is there a deck where people are using it to sneak things like Progenitus into play?
Edit: Yep, that's what happened and I was just guessing. Check the deck that came in first. http://www.mtgpulse.com/event/20349#288458
Here's the message they sent me:
Due to an inventory error we are unable to send you a foil cunning wish. We have spend the previous 3 days trying to locate a copy for you but have come up empty handed. I have issued you a full refund and you should see it on your credit card momentarily. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.
Because of the one box of MM1 I opened having only one Mythic, which was Keiga the Tide Star, and ~$100 in value total I will never again be opening any packs outside of booster drafts and sealed events. Wizards has damn sure burned me for the last time.
I agree that it never hits it's pre-banning price again. IMO, it's much more likely that it goes up further in the short and long term.
Something to keep in mind is that we may very well be seeing more Eldrazi in the near future (next 2 blocks). That's important because if you do see more Eldrazi, you'll probably see more Artifact based EDH decks popping up, thus more demand for Metalworker when that happens.
Braids, Cabal Minion is banned
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is banned
Erayo, Soratami Ascendent is banned
Kokusho, the Evening Star is unbanned
Metalworker is unbanned
I feel that the 3 banned ones seeing no eternal play, or none that I'm aware of anyhow, will lose a good deal of their value unless tabletop demand can absorb the newly freed up copies. Even then they will probably still lose much of their value. As for the other 2 I have no idea about Kokusho due to the fact that he was just reprinted and has 3 separate printings overall. My guess is that if it sees any gain it will be slow and over a good deal of time. Metalworker is looking like it still has room to rise after hitting $30+ on TCG for near mint copies and foils appear to be headed over $200 if they aren't already there. In a dedicated artifact deck this card is absolutely and utterly broken. It also happens to see a small amount of eternal play to help with demand for it.
Edit: for transparencies sake, I currently own no copies of Metalworker, or Kokusho.
Call your credit card company and do a charge back. Just make sure they know you ordered a physical product and not an non-physical one like MTGO stuff. Some companies like PayPal and others can be touchy about that and will jump to conclusions about that unless you tell them up front about it.
Because people who are clueless about their behavior keep buying from them. Not everyone reads feedback about someplace before they buy from them.