MTG Salvation

He was just outside of budget range, but is definitely a titan worth using once you start crossing that line. I've even gone back and forth about using him in my non-budget build.

If you want to add more fetching, absolutely! I like Tusker more for the card draw he brings, and Monitor because it puts it in play as actual ramp. Eternal Dragon is a good 3rd, but was bumped out by Monitor. Tastes may vary, of course.

Valley Rannet could be a fourth, but he's far less useful than Eternal Dragon when you don't need to cycle, so I would definitely put him as a distant fourth.

I agree, both cards are definitely strong. They're both slightly outside of the budget constraints though. There were quite a few $3-$4 cards I wanted, but I didn't want to break budget anymore than I felt I had to. The four I did go slightly out of budget can easily be purchased for around the $2 mark if you're ok with SP, and I felt they were a necessity.

By the end, I felt the article was starting to get a little long, so I didn't want to add much more to the expanded budget section. Believe me, I could write an article on that alone, heh.

Land Grant is awesome, but it's not Modern legal. >_<

Something I learned many years ago: Green Stompy always has a chance. I've seen versions in almost every format, and while it may change shape and form, it always has a chance. Sometimes it's a marquee deck, sometimes it's rogue. But whatever is sitting across the table from it has a short clock and can't handle bad draws.

I have a modern super budget version (under $40) that I love.
(I also have legacy and pauper versions to boot >_<)



I love Blossoming Defense and Vines main deck. Everybody packs removal, and saving your creature while increasing damage puts a lot of pressure.

Our prices are pulled from TCGPlayer.

Each price is, specifically, the median listed sell price on TCGPlayer (for NM non-foil). TCGPlayer has hundreds of sellers through there sites, so this is generally a strong indicator of the average price you'll see online through businesses, large sellers, etc. This is the Median price.

Now, the Market Price is "how much has this card actually been selling for recently". Market price is almost always lower than the Median price, since people almost always buy the cheapest listings.

Additionally, ebay is usually cheaper than most online shops and businesses, since you're going person-to-person who's motivated to sell quickly, and without the assurances/etc of an online shop. Even online shops like Troll and Toad will unload extras and slow movers on ebay cheaper than they list on their site (personally bought from them like this). Ebay is on the cheap.

There is give and take between Median and Market. Market is much better at determining what you will actually get from selling now. Median is better at determining the average that you'd pay through a shop, and is much better at predicting changes.

For instance, if there's a sell out on CardX, then the market price will show what that sell out went for. It has no care for current price and availability, only what happened recently. The Median price will show what it's looking like now, and a better idea of what it will be when the items get restocked.

All values here represent the realistic best case scenario, giving no discounts. Set Value is a good example. Set value is the total value of every card in the set, assuming the average price. One would never be able to sell for that full amount, and would hopefully never pay that. BUT, if you were to give the exact average selling price for each and every card in the set, that's what you'd end up with. (Reality is usually half that or less)

Only the Estimated Value gives concessions, by ignoring all card values that aren't worth at least $0.50. This gives a more accurate estimated value, but is still assuming you get full value out of everything over $0.50.

In reality, if you're an individual selling your cards in small doses, you will be taking a 20%+ hit. You have a lot of competition, and if you don't want your card to sit in a listing for months like businesses can, you need to undercut. If you're a shop, your sales are across larger volumes, allowing cards to sit for longer periods at better-for-you prices, and making up ground by actually selling the lower priced cards.

There's a layout bug where Internet Explorer is mangling the top of the page and the article links are floating behind the page. This makes the article links take over parts of the top even though you don't see them. A fix is in the works, apologies for the trouble.

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Ok, wrong place but this is the only place I can apparently post this. Whenever I click on "Create Thread", it links me to this article. I can't even send a PM to a mod to report this as when I click on "Send a private message" in a user's profile, guess what? It opens this article.

Pretty weird...

Try clearing your cache.
If you're on a PC, CTRL+F5 to redownload anything.
Iphone: Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data
Android: Ξ button in your browser > Settings > Privacy > Clear Browsing Data

This will hopefully fix it.
If not, reply to this post

Perhaps it wasn't the best, but it might have been worth a chuckle with the revealed "Battleshift" mechanic I mentioned. I thought it'd be ok to just do for BFZ since it's the epitome of horribleness price wise. I kept the rest of the article on point, so sorry if that one bothers you.

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Anyway to change the text back to something friendly with MTG Dark setting? Cant't read the article. Happened last week too.

Ahhh!
Apologies, something was messed up in the styling.
Should be completely readable now.
Always let me know anytime you get something like this!

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Will we also see a price list for Modern Masters as well?

No. MMI only keeps up with expansion sets (and master series therein) for Standard-legal sets.

Saheeli Rai spiked midday yesterday, after AER was fully spoiled and the Felidar Guardian combo was realized. We always use the previous day's pricing (Thursday) to avoid any daily fluctuations, and this massive spike happened after I had written all of the Kaladesh commentary.

As such, we'll go into more detail on Saheeli next week.

In case you overlooked the paragraph at the top and are at all confused:

Due to the upcoming holiday weekend, The Magic Market Index has been reformatted this week. Each set's scope has been greatly extended, showing all cards at $1 or above, and all data is presented without commentary. Hopefully you'll enjoy the extended view and have a great holiday weekend!

Ah.
I didn't test it out on MTGDark.
That was my oversite, apologies.

I've fixed it to make it readable.

I see now I need to adjust the images as well.
I'll make sure they're better for next week, for sure!

I'm not sure what browser you're using, but evidently some of the older browsers weren't interpreting things correctly.
I've adjusted things. Better now?