Tundra (SP) 80
Jace TMS 45
Misty Rainforest 12
Sensei's Divining Top 10
Riptide Laboratory 5
Rafiq of the Many 3
155
-----vs----
Taiga 50
Tarmogoyf 75
Force of Will (MP) 40
165
Those are my values. You're pretty much swapping a SP Tundra and a JTMS for a Taiga and a Goyf... which is a fair trade. Then you're getting rid of some small stuff for a played Force, which is a great deal...
(I made this trade because I owned 3 Bobs, 0 Thoughtseize, and 0 Force of Will and figured I would be better served with sets of good black cards than blue duals I was a long way away from using. Afterwards I realized just how much I was crossing my fingers and thinking "no reprints, no reprints, no reprints" with this trade.)
If you needed the cards, then it is what it is, but for a fair trade, I would have asked for another Thoughtseize or Bob, since your pike is down by about $20-$40 here.
We will see, you don't want to take a 50 cent bet with large payoffs? Up to you. It plays much better than it looks on paper. It's been ignored for a long while because it works best with SNT. Only recently has SNT been such a beating with Griselbrand/Emrakul. Also overmaster does not help Sneak Attack, but it doesn't matter anyway because people still have to counter Overmaster assuming they do not know what is in your hand.
Also against the 2nd most common counter in legacy (after FOW) which is spell pierce, overmaster is really strong against the card. You cast an overmaster, and if they use pierce to counter, you can pay the mana and draw a card. Then try again next turn while +1 card advantage. That is huge, especially since combo decks generally don't have many ways of generating card advantage. It turns one of the most common counters to crap, which is a very strong effect.
Uh, I don't see a large payoff at all. Where do you see this card going? Hypergenesis has an eponymous deck, and it's worth all of one dollar. Overmaster adds marginally nothing to the deck. "S&T generally doesn't have ways of generating card advantage"... uh, it runs 8+ cantrips / filters and a set of tutors.
It's terrible against Spell Pierce or Daze. If you pay the permission cost for Overmaster, you're effectively setting your clock back one. With the extra mana, you could have just paid the cost and combo'd out that turn!
If they're holding more than 1 counter, then Overmaster is essentially a wasted slot.
The only scenario where it's effective is when the opposing player ONLY has a castable Force in hand and you do *not* have a counter in hand. But even then, that begs the question: why run it over another counter or Misdirection?
What would you cut in the deck for Overmaster? You can cut Misdirections, but that's about it. I'm not really sold that it's better than Misdirection. It's sorcery-speed, and has limited usage (read: only 1, i.e. when casting Sneak / Show) vs. Misdirection, which can be used to win counter wars, redirect spells, etc...
Can't see it happening. The price tag is only one part of the aversion factor, but several non-official sources have said that R&D considers Goyf a unequivocal mistake.
There's not much you can do. You can choose to continue pursuing the issue, but it's going to cost you an inordinate amount of time and resources.
If you sell a lot (i.e. > $5k / yr), it would be prudent to set up a contingency / insurance account, and fund it with a small % of the proceeds from every single sale. In the long run though, it's only worth it to get insurance on large orders. You just got unlucky on this one, but it's part of the cost of doing business.
To be honest, it looks like the one guy on eBay is artificially jacking up his values... if you look at his playset auctions, they're all closing > $30, while the rest are middling in ~$20 territory.
If the set didn't have money cards in it, stores wouldn't have the policy. Conversely, if the set didn't have money cards, no one would care enough to buy it.
What's the point of all the bureaucracy, when a seller can make a few purchases, get a good rating, then sell a bunch of stuff at once, ripping people off by requiring Paypal gift, and getting away with it?
Bad Trader Reports can solve problems, but they don't stop people from ripping as you can see from the list of rippers.
Why bother with all the rules and bureaucracy, when you could just enforce the rules of Paypal, and help out more than anything else?
The ratings are what matter here, and those are user generated. The lengthy rules sections do nothing but intimidate new posters and keep an illusion of the staff doing something to protect users. There are just as many, if not more rippers here than anywhere.
Well, because all these things are in place to dissuade rippers from dealing on MTGS. The "bureaucracy" may turn off some users, but it will most definitely get rid of rippers, who have an almost-singular and well-documented mindset when it comes to trading.
What kind of ripper would spend months and months building up rep, only to pull off a mass scam at the end? Not many. He would be the worst ripper in the world. The point isn't to get rid of all rippers (which is impossible), it's to put in place an infrastructure that self-selects the rippers out of the user pool.
The planes aren't worth much by themselves (other than Tazeem).
Those are my values. You're pretty much swapping a SP Tundra and a JTMS for a Taiga and a Goyf... which is a fair trade. Then you're getting rid of some small stuff for a played Force, which is a great deal...
If you needed the cards, then it is what it is, but for a fair trade, I would have asked for another Thoughtseize or Bob, since your pike is down by about $20-$40 here.
Uh, I don't see a large payoff at all. Where do you see this card going? Hypergenesis has an eponymous deck, and it's worth all of one dollar. Overmaster adds marginally nothing to the deck. "S&T generally doesn't have ways of generating card advantage"... uh, it runs 8+ cantrips / filters and a set of tutors.
It's terrible against Spell Pierce or Daze. If you pay the permission cost for Overmaster, you're effectively setting your clock back one. With the extra mana, you could have just paid the cost and combo'd out that turn!
If they're holding more than 1 counter, then Overmaster is essentially a wasted slot.
The only scenario where it's effective is when the opposing player ONLY has a castable Force in hand and you do *not* have a counter in hand. But even then, that begs the question: why run it over another counter or Misdirection?
Pile B is ahead by about ten bucks
Trops might have a tad bit more to go, but that's about it.
If you're super skeptical, you can try the light test, but I doubt it's a reback anyway.
If you sell a lot (i.e. > $5k / yr), it would be prudent to set up a contingency / insurance account, and fund it with a small % of the proceeds from every single sale. In the long run though, it's only worth it to get insurance on large orders. You just got unlucky on this one, but it's part of the cost of doing business.
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Remand won't be reprinted.
And Caverns are great, I think $10-15 is a good long-term valuation point on them.
It exists for the same reason we have the ACLU, Black Panthers, Muslim Brotherhood, and the Tea Party.
I can't believe we're going into victim blaming in the above posts haha... absolutely unacceptable.
Well, because all these things are in place to dissuade rippers from dealing on MTGS. The "bureaucracy" may turn off some users, but it will most definitely get rid of rippers, who have an almost-singular and well-documented mindset when it comes to trading.
What kind of ripper would spend months and months building up rep, only to pull off a mass scam at the end? Not many. He would be the worst ripper in the world. The point isn't to get rid of all rippers (which is impossible), it's to put in place an infrastructure that self-selects the rippers out of the user pool.