[Official] Bitching About Prices, Buyouts and Reprints Thread

[mini1337s]

Well gentlemen, it's been a pleasure, but I think I'm out. Volcanic Island and Underground Sea have crept up to $300 on the retail end, Force of Will is ~$100 and creeping upward, and Wasteland is apparently $150 now. Where the blue duals are at in particular was the price point of Moxes when Vintage started to die out. I guess SCG can keep the format artificially alive for a little while longer, but I'm pretty sure there's only a year or two left in the old girl before they take her out and shoot her.

Really, prices across the board are getting out of hand, barring Standard. Maybe that's the goal? Who knows. At any rate, the money's too tempting, and I don't get to play as much as I'd like anyway. I'll probably keep my EDH decks and build a cube or something, but I'm cashing in everything else.

If you do decide to cash out, I'd recommend building a cube. At the very least, you'll be able to draft the strategies you've played all these years.

[Mr.C]

Well gentlemen, it's been a pleasure, but I think I'm out. Volcanic Island and Underground Sea have crept up to $300 on the retail end, Force of Will is ~$100 and creeping upward, and Wasteland is apparently $150 now. Where the blue duals are at in particular was the price point of Moxes when Vintage started to die out. I guess SCG can keep the format artificially alive for a little while longer, but I'm pretty sure there's only a year or two left in the old girl before they take her out and shoot her.

Really, prices across the board are getting out of hand, barring Standard. Maybe that's the goal? Who knows. At any rate, the money's too tempting, and I don't get to play as much as I'd like anyway. I'll probably keep my EDH decks and build a cube or something, but I'm cashing in everything else.

I remember that time. 'OMG Mox [whatever] is a $300 card, how am I supposed to afford that?!?!?!?'

[apple713]

I remember that time. 'OMG Mox [whatever] is a $300 card, how am I supposed to afford that?!?!?!?'

i remember that, I was 13 @ the time and I had a handful of dual lands. Now I can almost trade an underground sea for a mox... somethings wrong here.

[Megadeus]

One sees infinitely more play than the other to be fair...

[Mr.C]

i remember that, I was 13 @ the time and I had a handful of dual lands. Now I can almost trade an underground sea for a mox... somethings wrong here.

Just means that I'll be trading duals for Moxes soon. Might be able to finish that Unlimited set I've been postponing, heh.

[apple713]

Just means that I'll be trading duals for Moxes soon. Might be able to finish that Unlimited set I've been postponing, heh.

yeah it'll be interesting. It might meld the legacy and vintage crowds since there is like 90% overlap and just a handful of extra duals can get u all the vintage staples

[Bed Decks Palyer]

yeah it'll be interesting. It might meld the legacy and vintage crowds since there is like 90% overlap and just a handful of extra duals can get u all the vintage staples

Vintage, from what little I do understand about the format, is completely different from Legacy. I doubt it's just about throwing Mana Drains where there were Spell Pierces, and calling it a day. I for one will never play Vintage, no matter how wide is the overlap, because I find nothing thrilling about Vintage and its broken cards for even more broken prices.
While Legacy decks at 2000 - 3000 bucks are stretching the limit, Vintage piles are simply insane.

I'm afraid that the answer is somewhere in the posts above: non-rotating format are doomed to this fate - massive reprints or slow death.
Otoh, it's told for years, and it still didn't happen.

Well gentlemen, it's been a pleasure, but I think I'm out. Volcanic Island and Underground Sea have crept up to $300 on the retail end, Force of Will is ~$100 and creeping upward, and Wasteland is apparently $150 now. Where the blue duals are at in particular was the price point of Moxes when Vintage started to die out. I guess SCG can keep the format artificially alive for a little while longer, but I'm pretty sure there's only a year or two left in the old girl before they take her out and shoot her.

True. Yet I got my duals, and with them I got all that I need. I may sit on them for half a century, it's not like I need the money and until the power creep kills Goyf, Delver or Mongoose, I may play the tournaments together with my grandson.

What I can't justify are new purchases and buying into [insert format]. But I think I may be able to keep eighteen lands, four Goyfs and four Forces plus maybe some Vendilion Clique and/or Sylvan Library.

Sadly, it gets worse when speaking of the sideprojects and fun decks, but then again, either our casual group rises from the ashes in full force (and then I'll have all the fun one may have), or it won't rise and then I'll keep the abovementioned sideprojects and fun decks until the final day when I simply burst out and throw them on (some future) MKM.

We're discussing a one-time investment of 2000 bucks. Not an amount of money I'd throw out of window, but well, it's not that much if it may be your only investment for next few decades.

[Megadeus]

I'll be honest, I've been thinking about cashing out since prices have gotten ridiculous. It might be because I'm feeling old and washed up - if 26 is considered old, then I'm practically dead.

I've thought about it, but then I remember how much fun traveling to SCG events and such is. I would miss that aspect. I could see those who have a TON of stuff shaving their collection down, but if I did that I would want to keep at least 1 deck to play with.

[Lemnear]

I gave up on pimping out my Elves further. I'm not willing to spend that much money for non-blue duals and fetches. Rest is FOIL anyways ... for me it's a sign.

Cashed in everything that isn't in decks or are slot-changes

[lordofthepit]

I'll be honest, I've been thinking about cashing out since prices have gotten ridiculous. It might be because I'm feeling old and washed up - if 26 is considered old, then I'm practically dead.

Tupac died at 25.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

You're missing out. Yes, it is a different format than Legacy - Vintage is to Legacy like No-Limit Hold'em is to Limit Hold'em.

Maybe. I never played a single game of pokre in my life and I plan to play even less of it than that of Vintage, so I can't evaluate your point.

I'm not saying Vintage is easy or "turn1 kills derp derp" or whatever else. I don't find the decks (often with an EDH-esque structure) appealling, I can't imagine myself throwing another thousands of dollars into the Magic void, etc. My only concern was exactly what I wrote: no matter how much the two formats overlap, I won't play Vintage. Also, I'm not a fan of proxies.

[Philipp2293]

Cashed out of my foil pool yesterday. Felt good, my wallet never felt thicker before. Now to decide what to do with my regular legacy stuff, since I'm feeling somehow burned out.

[Megadeus]

Get your food chains while they are hot

[Seraph2k]

Why is ancient Tomb's price climbing?

[UnsungHero]

Why is ancient Tomb's price climbing?

Sol lands have been on the rise for awhile. City of Traitors $100 now so it would make sense that Ancient Tomb would go up too.

Speaking of weird price jumps, Ensnaring Bridge is $25 on SCG!

[Nocley]

Ensnaring bridge has been 20 on scg since Richmond because some decks played it. Looks like another reddit caused buyout for the tombs, but not really surprising because the sol Lands are getting played a decent amount and that price did always seem low. I would expect tombs to stabilize around 12

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[danyul]

I sold everything but my petdeck. Made a bunch of money. Bought a new computer and some Nikes with plenty more cash for fun times + savings.

Zero regrets. This game is getting stupid expensive. And the mental clarity/relief that came after I let go of all that cardboard felt pretty great.

[Barook]

Ensnaring bridge has been 20 on scg since Richmond because some decks played it. Looks like another reddit caused buyout for the tombs, but not really surprising because the sol Lands are getting played a decent amount and that price did always seem low. I would expect tombs to stabilize around 12

It was at 12$ before, so I doubt it goes back that low again until Wizards does a reprint in some form. But yeah, seems like another typical, tactical buyout, maybe in the wake of the SCG Invitational because I can see lots of (Standard) players picking up Sneak & Show due to it being piss-easy to play.

[prateta]

Food chains rising. MKM 5 euro, TCG MID $12. That's double in price since last week. Any guess why?

[ThediscoPower]

Food chains rising. MKM 5 euro, TCG MID $12. That's double in price since last week. Any guess why?

it was in the top 8 of yesterday's SCG open.

Seriously tho, I am also thinking about just selling the cards I don't play, and keep my pet decks. It's stupid that we are now in a world where the moment a card gets a top 8 apparition, or, even worse, the moment a card merely gets mentioned by a pro at some point, that card basically doubles or triples value because all the copies of that card just disapears from the internet something like 15 minutes later.