And now there's been more buyouts on the Reserved List cards. Seems people are trying to find any low hanging fruit left in the card pool and buy them out. The Dark just got hit in a few places like with Preacher and Season of the Witch. I wish they would just get rid of the blasted reserved list. It's not helping anyone and just making people miserable all over the place.
What in ball blazes? I was made fun of when I completed my Dark set Yonkers ago. First set I put together.
Now speculators are snapping this up twenty something years later?
Are you even paying attention WotC? How much more? Wait until Black Lotus becomes a portfolio feature? Who is on the board of directors over there at at Hasbro and how many of them have kids investing in MtG cards?
aaand...someone has bought every single TCG Direct copy of Opt . I just wanted a playset for TiTi. oh well, they will be back. I hope whoever did it just paled in horror as they realized it's a common in Ixalan. May they lose their butt on this.
Same dude asking $5 for moderately played copy?
Why buy up the direct copies anyways? What's the benefit over say... then on-direct copies?
The value in the iconic masters set is likely going to come from the iconic low cmc tribes. Everyone has been focusing on the top end, but there has to be stuff in the set to get to the big stuff or to play other strategies besides ramping to giant creatures or playing a strait control game. Elves, Goblins, and Merfolk could potentially fill out the lower roster.
I concur.
I feel that WotC keeps transmitting two messages about their Masters sets by telling us these are good for Newish Modern players to flesh out their collections then going out of their way to make the set suitable for drafting. The scenario you describe seem like it would be exactly in-line with that sort of mentality.
I'm not certain if players would be satiated with that kind of set or toss their boxes through windows when they realize they spent $200 on jank.
I'm not sure all the modes were necessary as the crew 4 means you probably have enough of lands in play once it flips.
R&D is against having lands that don't produce mana as that is their defining trait.
I feel they tend to do that because "new" players don't want mana-less lands. Same reason they tend to shy away from land destruction.
Th card is very interesting. I'll grab a play set for giggles but I don't know what deck I'll put it in. I tend to play a lot of cards that work to dampen down creature threats. I usually don't have a lot of resources to dedicate over to crewing 4.
I don't think being a "contract" has anything to do with it. As try as I can, all I can find are "verbal" agreements for the creation of the RL. No lawsuit. No signed contract. Just an announcement and a barely remembered story. Estoppel Promissory is a bit of a stretch since, historically, the RL has had cards removed. Loopholes. Even an instance of an "accidental" printing. And at one point, support from WotC staff for its removal.
But no actual full blown lawsuit over the RL.
I think the truth, once it comes out, might be a lot more shocking.
My imagination must be working overtime because both sides look like some kind of helmet, almost Greek-like. Zoom in on either side and you can see what looks like a face inside.
Personally I think they should modify "reserved list" policy same way only with reprinting Legacy only and "reserved" cards when they breach $80-$150+ ranges in cheapest version, but its discussion for elsewhere (and I plan put this to official reserved list thread too)
That would not work as expected. I point to Shivan Dragon which sits somewhere North of $300 for the Beta edition (Alpha is over $1000) on TCGPlayer and has been reprinted at least 14 times since. The cheapest edition is less than 25 cents.
You have the right idea though. Shivan is indicative of a healthy card price structure driven almost entirely by collectors and players.
Black Lotus is an unhealthy price driven almost entirely by investors and speculators. I just recently read an investment article recommending that investors improve their investment portfolio by buying RL cards as a stable means of parking money with high returns.
A very rough and informal and in no way scientific examination at TCGPlayer shows that to complete the Vampire deck buying individual cards would cost $78 showing the deck is undercosted by about $28 dollars.
Are we expecting the deck price itself to explode once supply dries up or the card to drop once the market is saturated?
It is intended for EDH, so is this not what we want? No other format is picking the card up, correct?
I used to store posters in these triangle shaped tubes. I got ticked off when the fricken tunes themselves became collctables. I don't remember where I bought mine but they look like the type sold by ULine. You can order 50 for just under $40. The nice thing about these is the empty ones store flat. They have square ones too. My only beef with the above is they don't do much to keep out bugs that really want to get in. Like those annoying little moths.
I hear of people using PVC pipes with caps. Don't do it. PVC uses plasticizers and the outgassing chemicals may react with certain materials in the mat causing melting or embrittlement. It's fine for temporary storage in your bag or while rafting or whatever, but not long term storage on your shelves.
If you insist on tubing, look at the cardboard tubes used to store blueprints or maps. Staples sell them for about $1.50 a pop. Uline sells 50 for $37.50. I have 70 year old blueprints stored in brown tubes without any noticeable damage other than intense curl. But.... they're blue and paper so....
As for play mats themselves. I hate curl. So I have an old IKEA dresser I put in the spare room and my mats are laid out from biggest to smallest with a bit of paper between them inside one of the drawers. I don't have a ton of mats (3) so I have other things in there too. Works OK until my wife decides to cram my clothes in there when she's angry.
Well, Didn't think I'd make three consecutive posts with no other people commenting ever, but this takes the cake. People selling the FNM promo cards before anyone even gets to earn them. Fatal Push is being spammed all over Ebay. This is why we aren't getting good promos anymore.
Didn't WotC used to mail out promos if you were a member of something or another?
I was running late yesterday so both LGS closed for the night. Swung by Wal*Mart closest to my house (not the one with prostitutes) and found Wizards, Cats and a damaged Dragon. A hole had about the size of a small nail went right through the center, damaging the oversized card underneath. Bummer.
I forgot my plastic at home and only had a $20 in my wallet. Oh well. Next time.
Part of the reason we've got sets the way they are now is actually due to the reserved list. There are a lot of unilateral effects and other gimmicks that got lost to time due to the inability of developers to make another version of it that works. Mana Cache is one such unilateral card. We also lost rather unique hate cards like Mana Web.
While that's certainly part of it, I firmly believe that a larger part of the anemic sets as of late is their contradictory policies of A) printing bad card to make good cards look good and B) pushing good cards into higher rarities than necessary. In essence, every level of rarity from Common to Mythic and even those awful chase cards, have chaff with the lower rarities suffer with a way higher percentage of garbage cards. A great example is Fatal Push, an uncommon, is the current Lightning Bolt, a common.
What in ball blazes? I was made fun of when I completed my Dark set Yonkers ago. First set I put together.
Now speculators are snapping this up twenty something years later?
Are you even paying attention WotC? How much more? Wait until Black Lotus becomes a portfolio feature? Who is on the board of directors over there at at Hasbro and how many of them have kids investing in MtG cards?
Same dude asking $5 for moderately played copy?
Why buy up the direct copies anyways? What's the benefit over say... then on-direct copies?
I concur.
I feel that WotC keeps transmitting two messages about their Masters sets by telling us these are good for Newish Modern players to flesh out their collections then going out of their way to make the set suitable for drafting. The scenario you describe seem like it would be exactly in-line with that sort of mentality.
I'm not certain if players would be satiated with that kind of set or toss their boxes through windows when they realize they spent $200 on jank.
I feel they tend to do that because "new" players don't want mana-less lands. Same reason they tend to shy away from land destruction.
Th card is very interesting. I'll grab a play set for giggles but I don't know what deck I'll put it in. I tend to play a lot of cards that work to dampen down creature threats. I usually don't have a lot of resources to dedicate over to crewing 4.
But no actual full blown lawsuit over the RL.
I think the truth, once it comes out, might be a lot more shocking.
That would not work as expected. I point to Shivan Dragon which sits somewhere North of $300 for the Beta edition (Alpha is over $1000) on TCGPlayer and has been reprinted at least 14 times since. The cheapest edition is less than 25 cents.
You have the right idea though. Shivan is indicative of a healthy card price structure driven almost entirely by collectors and players.
Black Lotus is an unhealthy price driven almost entirely by investors and speculators. I just recently read an investment article recommending that investors improve their investment portfolio by buying RL cards as a stable means of parking money with high returns.
Are we expecting the deck price itself to explode once supply dries up or the card to drop once the market is saturated?
It is intended for EDH, so is this not what we want? No other format is picking the card up, correct?
I hear of people using PVC pipes with caps. Don't do it. PVC uses plasticizers and the outgassing chemicals may react with certain materials in the mat causing melting or embrittlement. It's fine for temporary storage in your bag or while rafting or whatever, but not long term storage on your shelves.
If you insist on tubing, look at the cardboard tubes used to store blueprints or maps. Staples sell them for about $1.50 a pop. Uline sells 50 for $37.50. I have 70 year old blueprints stored in brown tubes without any noticeable damage other than intense curl. But.... they're blue and paper so....
As for play mats themselves. I hate curl. So I have an old IKEA dresser I put in the spare room and my mats are laid out from biggest to smallest with a bit of paper between them inside one of the drawers. I don't have a ton of mats (3) so I have other things in there too. Works OK until my wife decides to cram my clothes in there when she's angry.
Didn't WotC used to mail out promos if you were a member of something or another?
But I guess people abused that too?
I forgot my plastic at home and only had a $20 in my wallet. Oh well. Next time.
While that's certainly part of it, I firmly believe that a larger part of the anemic sets as of late is their contradictory policies of A) printing bad card to make good cards look good and B) pushing good cards into higher rarities than necessary. In essence, every level of rarity from Common to Mythic and even those awful chase cards, have chaff with the lower rarities suffer with a way higher percentage of garbage cards. A great example is Fatal Push, an uncommon, is the current Lightning Bolt, a common.
You'll have to explain to me why it doesn't.