[Official] Bitching About Prices, Buyouts and Reprints Thread

[Jamaican Zombie Legend]

So Dig Through Time was banned, and CoCo is just sitting at ~8 but maintaining its value... but I warned you guys about those Khans fetchlands.

As obvious as it seemed, people still didn't buy up every one they could find when they were $10-15 (when I posted this message).

From here on out, welcome to $25+ land, and probably $35+ land for the blue ones pretty soon.

I want to preface this post by saying that you are probably correct about the price trajectory of (Khans) fetchlands. Price memory has far too strong an influence on Magic cards.

That said, they really shouldn't be able to maintain this price after rotation. The amount of demand they are seeing in Standard likely eclipses any sort of demand made by Modern/Legacy/Vintage/EDH...maybe even combined. Standard's just that big and the "conversion rate" from it to other formats isn't that high.

But, yeah, price memory makes the Magic economy seriously dumb, so woo hoo $35 fetches!

[Spam]

It's not that silly, fetches are mandatory for eternal formats. People who claim they shouldn't rise in price really underestimate the "eternal population"
I would also gather every single card for burn that won't see reprints for a while, it's literally gold.

Yes, I have a phone and I'm not afraid to use it.

[jrsthethird]

So Dig Through Time was banned, and CoCo is just sitting at ~8 but maintaining its value... but I warned you guys about those Khans fetchlands.

As obvious as it seemed, people still didn't buy up every one they could find when they were $10-15 (when I posted this message).

From here on out, welcome to $25+ land, and probably $35+ land for the blue ones pretty soon.

You can still get Origins Clash Packs for around $25 online, with a Windswept Heath, CoCo, and a Dromoka's Command, not to mention the other ~$1 foil goodies (Siege Rhino, Seeker, Valorous Charge).

Thanks for reminding me to finish my playsets.

BTW, CoCo is staying flat right now because of the Clash Pack, and it's keeping the price of Heath pretty low too. It won't last forever though.

[dsck]

What is CoCo..?

[H]

What is CoCo..?

Collected Company.

[Whitefaces]

What is CoCo..?

CoCo

[Phreshdawg]

Has anyone seen the prices on King Suleiman or Disharmony recently? Insanity. I was going to get some for Old School, but forget it, now.

[Whitefaces]

Has anyone seen the prices on King Suleiman or Disharmony recently? Insanity. I was going to get some for Old School, but forget it, now.

Yeah, almost all Legends cards are spiking slowly.

[mini1337s]

Yeah, almost all Legends cards are spiking slowly.

Such a trap for these cards. Playable stuff like Serendib and Juzam I understand, but borderline sideboard tech? Please...
Typical MTG finance fleecing. Oh well, what can you do.

[MGB]

After years of sitting at around $9, the FTV Foil Trinispheres are suddenly $30 everywhere I look. What happened?

[death]

At first I was excited about Mizzix's Mastery. Then I realized in a Storm deck (the most logical home for Mizzix's Mastery), it's basically a worse version of Past in Flames. Maybe it could find a role copying a single expensive spell, but I'm not sure what that would be in Legacy. Plus four-mana sorceries don't hold up well in a format with Daze and Spell Pierce. Maybe it will be broken in Commander, but this probably won't be enough to save its price. I'm expecting it to end up around $1.

I'm on the other side on the fence, and I expect it to be closer to $10 (from $3) once it starts putting up results in legacy and vintage.

[Havrekjex]

What happened to ATQ Triskelion? Did someone buy it out?

[sdematt]

Old School.

[hymnyou]

Oldschool (mainly from overseas) and quietspeculation.com minions doing buy-outs. They buy the card out and then put on TCGplayer overpriced. It fucking sucks. Perfect example is Land's Edge going from a 7 dollar card to 60 overnight-that is specifically a buyout.

[Bosque]

Stronghold and 7th edition Ensnaring Bridge just got bought out as well on tcg.

[Mr.C]

Old School.

Nah, its a buyout.

[Havrekjex]

Oldschool (mainly from overseas) and quietspeculation.com minions doing buy-outs. They buy the card out and then put on TCGplayer overpriced. It fucking sucks. Perfect example is Land's Edge going from a 7 dollar card to 60 overnight-that is specifically a buyout.

What a bunch of assholes. I've got the one I need, that's how I discovered the price jump, but having to pay multiple times the price now would make me want to break stuff. The worst part is that they never seem to go all the way down again due to price memory.

[tescrin]

But, yeah, price memory makes the Magic economy seriously dumb, so woo hoo $35 fetches!

Not really. It's just natural. "I paid X and it takes no room to store this. Why should I sell it for X/3 when I could just wait?"
I'm sure you practice mentality naturally on your own cards. When they get high enough that you can realize profit that outweighs your use for the card, you sell it.

The economics are real.

[Crazy Eddie]

Is buyout and/or Old School Magic also the reason the price of an AN Serendib Efreet has gone through the roof?

[guillemnicolau]

Is buyout and/or Old School Magic also the reason the price of an AN Serendib Efreet has gone through the roof?

OldSchool, FBB efreets price is also increasing.