In Japan, basicly. I haven´t seen it anywhere in germany so far, and have seen no big events for the rest of europe.
Japan and the US are the two major places currently playing frontier, but it will probably spread about more as the card pool grows and people want to get into a non-rotating format. I personally enjoy it with friends and sort of prefer it to standard at the moment. Right now Frontier is poised pretty much to keep growing because of the paywall on modern being so high. Meanwhile modern is basically as big as it's going to get and probably start dipping as time goes by if the support for it is as lackluster as it has been the last few years.
Doubtful, one has Wizards support, the other does not.
I can't be the only one that wants the power level of modern to ramp up higher than what we have now. I would like to have seen how Dredge would fair against Ugin Eldrazi or Twin. I'll even like to see Eldrazi vs POD.
Ramp up is one thing, but if your talking about the power level of the Eldrazi from last winter? There are not enough decks that could compete, you would need to remove the banlist.
So give me some context, when you say hundreds of dollars, I'm thinking Goyf/Lilly type value, but then you say they are not competitive cards, but collectors items.
Now, when I think 'collectors items' I think Black Lotus.
You are simply wrong. In my lgs, people dont play standard anyway, and by packs for the thrill of it. And all editions availible in our lgs are being sold, be it the second innistrad, kahns, or conspiricy2. Sure, they are not opened by big vendors en mass, and they are no longer drafted, but a lot of casuals still buy them, and the higher the prices for those cards, the more they are willing to buy "just some more packs".
This is what I see locally as well, but I also hang out with a bunch of Table Top gamers, and we flush money down the toilet as a hobby.
(And yeah, I played 40K, so to me its not too steep :D)
Doubtful, one has Wizards support, the other does not.
Also, in one of those fat packs or whatever, I pulled 2 Torrential Gearhulk are they good? Dont know.
Ramp up is one thing, but if your talking about the power level of the Eldrazi from last winter? There are not enough decks that could compete, you would need to remove the banlist.
Now, when I think 'collectors items' I think Black Lotus.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/MTG-MAGIC-THE-GATHERING-BETA-BLACK-LOTUS-BGS-10-THE-HIGHEST-GRADED-/310327005845
So give me some context here.
Is there a meaningful secondary market for Pokemon??
I still need a few in paper, but thems the breaks.
This is what I see locally as well, but I also hang out with a bunch of Table Top gamers, and we flush money down the toilet as a hobby.