[MTGO] Vintage Masters set - POWER 9

[Linqed]

Underground Sea - $40

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Unde...+Sea+%5BME2%5D

Polluted Delta - $21

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Poll...elta+%5BONS%5D

Mana Drain - $26

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Mana+Drain+%5BME3%5D

Workshop - $28

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Mish...shop+%5BME4%5D

force of Will - $103

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Force+of+Will+%5BMED%5D

I personally would never remotely consider paying this for database rows. You can buy real, reserved list cards for this kind of outlay. Fetches and duals for $5-10, forces and other staples for $5-10 I think is fine, when your fake cards are 1/4-1/2 of real cards you really need to question what you are doing. Cockatrice works.

Database rows, pieces of cardboard with a bit of ink on them, what's the difference? In the end, the value of these rows and pieces of cardboard is the one we're willing to pay for it. Paper cards are no more/less valuable than these pieces of data if you think about it.

I guess collectors are more attracted to physical objects, but if you want to play badly enough, MTGO is your best bet. There is no place to play that's so accessible and has such quality players most of the time. So that what it'll probably boil down to; do you want to play or do you want to sit on a pile of (very expensive) cardboard.

Let's be real, Vintage has no future IRL, it has on MTGO.

[Higgs]

In light of the spoilers I think it's about time to necro this thread.

P9, FoW, Jace, all dual lands, Mana Drain, Workshop, Bazaar and it keeps coming. I'm quoting from theManaDrain and I fully concur:

This set is like every magic player's wet dream

So I guess the question is, is the new client bad enough to stop people from buying in?

[Michael Keller]

Yeah, I don't know for certain if Vintage Masters will affect the pricing on real Power. It may slightly, but I mean come on - these cards are worth northwards of a grand a piece. It's not like Timmy can ask Mom for a thousand dollars to pick up a piece of power.

[Higgs]

I meant buy-in to MODO.

[Michael Keller]

I meant buy-in to MODO.

Oh yeah, I know. I'm just saying there's been a lot of speculation on Power's price rising because of V.M., but I still don't think it will affect it all that much.

[Higgs]

I think it already did. I started my journey last year and was settling in for the long run. Then VM got announced and I said shit. Have been trying to complete my set since then as fast as I can and the prices seriously climbed up since last October. If 10 other people in the world went through the same thing probably we pushed the prices higher together.

[Kemp]

I just hate the thought of getting power online and having those atrocities. So I put together a file of original arts to replace P9 new art in the .dat files. This is nothing special and anyone could do it and they could probably get the 1/16 inch of space between the top of the picture and the border to line up properly. I did this for other iconic cards such as Mana Crypt/Vault/Drain, Sol Ring, FoW etc. If anyone is interested drop me a PM and I'll e-mail the file to you.

[nodahero]

Drafting UB storm in Vintage Masters. I got a Bargain, Desire and Disk for bombs plus a Tendrils, Fissure and a Freeze in addition to the usual storm suspects including Rits, Research, high tide and turn about.

[mini1337s]

Underground Sea - $40

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Unde...+Sea+%5BME2%5D

Polluted Delta - $21

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Poll...elta+%5BONS%5D

Mana Drain - $26

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Mana+Drain+%5BME3%5D

Workshop - $28

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Mish...shop+%5BME4%5D

force of Will - $103

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/card/Force+of+Will+%5BMED%5D

I personally would never remotely consider paying this for database rows. You can buy real, reserved list cards for this kind of outlay. Fetches and duals for $5-10, forces and other staples for $5-10 I think is fine, when your fake cards are 1/4-1/2 of real cards you really need to question what you are doing. Cockatrice works.

Just to touch on this, a year out, here is what the price changes look like:



That said, there are still a lot of problems (just a few random cherry-picked examples):
Wasteland - $105-110
Tangle Wire - $40+ (FTV is cheaper but never available)
Griselbrand - $55-60
Misdirection - $95
Hurkyl's Recall - $55

Flashback drafts of Tempest aren't putting a dent in Wasteland. Some of these cards need aggressive reprints, like Khan's fetchlands.