It's very rare to get a good deal on anything before the actual release date.
Everybody is scrambling to buy all the cool stuff they want to play with at the first FNM in an effort to brag about how they found it before the pros did when whatever it might be sees plays at the Pro Tour.
That's not to say never speculate. That would be crazy.
If this new set doesn't have fetchlands or expeditions there's nothing to deflate values. If you see something you like for a low price scoop up a playset. I'd rather pay $40 for a planeswalker that is going to be absolute gas than $20 for one that could be worth $5 in a few weeks.
Not as good as Gideon but still decent. Feels like she does what Ob Nixilis Reignited does in a less efficient way as to enable madness interactions.
You just know the hype is going to have the buy in high so it's important to be able to evaluate the card on merit in a dispassionate way.
If you take the removal spell part out of the equation you're looking at a 3 turn clock on dropping the biggest baddest thing out of your library. That's nice but it doesn't feel like a win on the spot.
Could be good without being very playable in standard.
I said this about a year ago and, judging by the reactions, you'd think that I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. There's way too much money tied up in the secondary market; it is less plausible that some kind of collusion doesn't exist. Hasbro is in the money making business and MTG is in the money printing business. It may not even be an intentional relationship, but I'd be astonished to find no traces of "insider trading", especially considering how niche of a market it is. If I had any vested interest in/decision-making powers at SCG, TCGplayer, etc, I'd pay some WoTC grunt a pretty penny for leaked information....
Painting this as a conspiracy is looking too much into it. It's simple really -- Wizards has done a poor job reprinting cards. The players have realized this and it has caused them to lose faith in the ability for Wizards to inject reliable supplies of staples into Modern. This loss of faith has translated into mass buyouts which has created a self-fulfilling prophecy in the secondary market.
That's why I compared this to a bank run. Except in this case it's a mass frenzy to pull all cards out of the secondary market in fear of the lack of reprints.
Yep didn't take long after the full spoiler of MM15 for everybody smart in the secondary card market to realize Wizards hates reprinting anything and will only do it for maximum profits hence concluding buyouts are easy money almost every time and a safe investment.
Guys - we just lost THE deck in the format and the deck that MOST effected how everything else is built and what is relevant. When you remove something like that you don't just see the decks it preyed on rise to the top. EVERYTHING changes. Everything. Now decks don't have to have mainboard answers to twin, maybe the dedicate slots to things like affinity or tron, etc.
Yep so much this.
Decks had to be built in a way that didn't lose to Twin. Abrupt Decay, Path to Exile, whatever the cost. So we see lots of 3 color monstrosities because you need to splash for instant speed Exarch removal or lose to twin.
Infect is still a turn 3 deck and will probably have all eyes on it now.
RG Tron can't take over because Scapeshift slaughters it 9 times out of 10.
I think what will happen is more fair aggro decks will work. The type that don't need to have 8 removal spells that stop twin from beating you on the spot. This is a good thing.
Seems strange that they would ban a card from MM15 but I think what happened here is it should have been banned just after it won the PT but because they reprinted it that would have looked really stupid so they had to wait.
Everybody is scrambling to buy all the cool stuff they want to play with at the first FNM in an effort to brag about how they found it before the pros did when whatever it might be sees plays at the Pro Tour.
That's not to say never speculate. That would be crazy.
If this new set doesn't have fetchlands or expeditions there's nothing to deflate values. If you see something you like for a low price scoop up a playset. I'd rather pay $40 for a planeswalker that is going to be absolute gas than $20 for one that could be worth $5 in a few weeks.
Narset Transcendent seems to be a watershed moment because people didn't learn the lesson from Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker.
You just know the hype is going to have the buy in high so it's important to be able to evaluate the card on merit in a dispassionate way.
If you take the removal spell part out of the equation you're looking at a 3 turn clock on dropping the biggest baddest thing out of your library. That's nice but it doesn't feel like a win on the spot.
Could be good without being very playable in standard.
Will a mill deck be viable? 13 cards milled for 4 mana does seem like a decent rate.
I'm having a hard time seeing these mythics as powerful players in a new standard format myself.
Cool cards though, dripping with flavor.
Perhaps that's just dreaming lol
Really this will be a set for expensive non modern legal cards. Crucible of Worlds possible but who knows.
Top and half of the Omnitell deck can be printed. Actually quite a few expensive legacy/commander cards out there so this might not be a total flop.
They will print what few legacy/vintage staples they can. Port and FoW are basically the only high priced non reserved cards.
In before pre modern jank as far as the eye can see.
I like the new metagame even if it stuffs up GP Melbourne royally. People already didn't wanna go because the organisers are charging too much.
Yep didn't take long after the full spoiler of MM15 for everybody smart in the secondary card market to realize Wizards hates reprinting anything and will only do it for maximum profits hence concluding buyouts are easy money almost every time and a safe investment.
BG infect.
Some here told me to stay quiet. The naysayers said nay.
Here we are less than 2 weeks later with a big tournament being won with a deck using a playset.
I did my testing. I'm not just throwing darts.
Infect is about to become a menace.
Busted card. Way too good. I just keep getting killed on turn 3 over and over because of this card.
Wizards needs to be consistent, they have slowed down Bloom and Twin now it's time to slow down Infect.
Obviously we will have to be seeing the deck winning but I think we will.
I can just count all the ways I can lose to it playing my RG Tron deck. If I don't have a Pyroclasm or a god hard I can't win.
Buy up the staples now if you want to play it.
Yep so much this.
Decks had to be built in a way that didn't lose to Twin. Abrupt Decay, Path to Exile, whatever the cost. So we see lots of 3 color monstrosities because you need to splash for instant speed Exarch removal or lose to twin.
Infect is still a turn 3 deck and will probably have all eyes on it now.
RG Tron can't take over because Scapeshift slaughters it 9 times out of 10.
I think what will happen is more fair aggro decks will work. The type that don't need to have 8 removal spells that stop twin from beating you on the spot. This is a good thing.
Seems strange that they would ban a card from MM15 but I think what happened here is it should have been banned just after it won the PT but because they reprinted it that would have looked really stupid so they had to wait.