Save $3 on Ebay purchase of $3.01 or more -- code is PERFECT3 and expires 03/26/19 23:59 PDT.
I just picked up a few cheap singles for EDH and was able to combine multiple items in my cart before applying the coupon.
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I look at it like this, let someone else play the lottery, while you benefit financially from lower secondary market card prices.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNeLUngb-Xg
The phrase "super cringe", is super cringe.
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Anyone have any thoughts on what might make its way into Modern Horizons? If anything?
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Your evaluation of the card pricing is no accurate. While you can get a playable copy for around those prices, the original versions did not fall to the prices you listed. The original printing of Rishadan Port in MM was around a $100, today it sits at about $50. Karakas from Legends had an all time high of around $180, but today is at about $80. Imperial Recruiter was almost $300 at one point, but today, the original Portals printing is about $120.
The reprinted versions are considerably less, but quoting those prices in your comparison is a little dishonest. Also, you have to consider that many of these cards, like most MTG cards, have their ups and downs in popularity. For example, there was a point in Legacy where one of the most powerful decks revolved around winning off Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, so Karakas was very popular at that time. As the meta shifted away from that, so to did the demand for Karakas.
The same could be said about an Alpha Shivan Dragon, you wouldn't say the price fell to $0.25 when it was printed in M19 from it's $1,300 price point at it's Alpha printing. While an Alpha Shivan Dragon plays the same as a M19 version almost 99% of the time, the two are basically totally different cards. You would need to compare the printing of an M15 and M19 version to get a better understanding of the price changes.
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The interesting thing about Mana Drain, is that the original printing didn't move much, if at all. It's just that the new card was worth $50-$60. Why this is interesting is because the printing of Drain, doesn't actually do anything for the people that want it. In the 93/94 format, you must have a card with the original artwork and old frame, so any modern reprinting does nothing to help offset that demand. The only other two formats that play the card are Vintage and EDH, and Mana Drain in Vintage is not seeing the play it once did, add in that EDH players only want one copy; you just don't have much demand for it. Because of all of this, you still have $200 Legends Drains, but also have a $60 version.
This is a distinctly different situation when compared to something like Tarmogoyf, as any printing of the card is basically the Future Shifted printing (since you can play any version, in any format it's legal in), so all Tarmogoyf cards generally command the same price.
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Here's a Champs Cradle if no one has seen it before. https://scryfall.com/card/wc99/ml321/gaeas-cradle
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However, it would seem that the owner just lost interest in the game and the site itself. Here is his reply from over on Reddit.
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