Whys doubling season worth $15 or more?

[Shanghi Knights]

I was searching through card vendors and noticed some had it at 15 or even 20 bucks, when and why did it become so valuable. I'm not trying to say its a bad card by and means but i don't understand why retailers would mark it so high. It doesn't seem to warrent any value north of 5 in my opinion but i assume there's something I'm over looking.

Did it broken some where in competitive magic?

[rockout]

A retailer can charge whatever price he wants, but that doesn't mean reasonable people will spend that much on it.

[RoddyVR]

Its not a competitive card. It is an amazing casual card.
Almost every person who plays magic casualy will at some point want to make a deck that abuses either a type of token, or a type of counter. And they find doubling season. Some casual players wont buy singles, and just use the cards they already have for decks, but quite a few do go out and get singles when they find a deck they like.
Combine that with the fact that "some of the casual players" is a considerably larger number of actual people then "most competitive players", and you get a non competitive card that sells high.
Sliver Queen is another card that has the same thing going for it and there are probably others.

[Shanghi Knights]

if it be compared to sliver queen, it didn't think of it falling into a realm of just being casually popular. sliver queen though seems to have a fanfare about it thought when i talk to people about it. just never thought doubling season would potentially be viewed as such by casual players.

Most of the time I'm too use to retailers marking stuff high because its got some use in competitive magic.

[conboy31]

This thread is amusing, just this morning while I ate breakfast did I look at the prices of some cards and noticed doubling seasons price at magiccards.info I hope I did not trade any away at a price of like 4 which is where I would put them.

[beastman]

I got my set when as soon as they got reprinted.

[Nekrataal]

IZ has become more powerful with the printing of Planeswalkers. I have a casual deck that utilizes both in combination with Rings of Brighthearth. ITs funny if you land a Chandra with 12 counters and do 20 damage for removing 8.

[MTG-Fan]

I've known quite a few casual players who only ever played Magic at home, with friends, in multiplayer settings, and believe me, this card is for casual players what a bug zapper is for insects.

Casual players can't resist the temptation to build decks around thousands of little tokens.

[LostButSeeking]

In a related question, why is Darksteel Forge eight dollars or something? I play a lot of casual magic, and I've never seen anyone play darksteel forge.

[Bryant Cook]

Elder Dragon Highlander.

[TeenieBopper]

Elder Dragon Highlander.

Truth.

I think I found win condition number 5. Suck it.

[Shanghi Knights]

it wasn't till after i made this thread i realized how good doubling season really was in conjunction with the planeswalkers

[cdr]

Doubling Season + Opalescence + Followed Footsteps.

[Shanghi Knights]

enduring ideal would make that work real nice.