[Official] Bitching About Prices, Buyouts and Reprints Thread

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Originally Posted by danyul

Can anybody tell me why Liliana foils are now $150+? I'm genuinely curious. Are any of you smarty arts economy type folks able to explain it?

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Mythic + FOIL + Standard + Modern + Legacy ... I doubt it needed much speculation for this pricetag

I'm actually kind of sad as to the fact that they have jumped so high in price. I sold in 2 regulars at $10 and a foil at $20 last year at Gencon. :frown:

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Originally Posted by Lemnear

Mythic + FOIL + Standard + Modern + Legacy ... I doubt it needed much speculation for this pricetag

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I mean I know it's a good card across multiple formats. But it went from 70+ to 150+ in like less than a week. What causes random jumps like that? It didn't creep up over the course of a month. It just went boomboompow crazy.

LOL foils. There is no cap on that market. If you don't have them, and want them, well you're boned.

Also why I refuse to become attached to foils. They can tank or spike in a matter of days for no apparent reason, or in some cases becomes reprinted as promos.

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Originally Posted by Koby

LOL foils. There is no cap on that market. If you don't have them, and want them, well you're boned.

Also why I refuse to become attached to foils. They can tank or spike in a matter of days for no apparent reason, or in some cases becomes reprinted as promos.

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You know, it was hard as hell for me to start parting with some of mine. But now that I'm out, it feels really freaking good.

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Originally Posted by Lemnear

Mythic + FOIL + Standard + Modern + Legacy ... I doubt it needed much speculation for this pricetag

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I have also another question about Liliana of the Veil, why also normal one is growing up in price and it's always harder to find?
The modern season is near the end!

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Originally Posted by Lorenzo767

I have also another question about Liliana of the Veil, why also normal one is growing up in price and it's always harder to find?
The modern season is near the end!

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Modern is an eternal format. It remains Even after this Season. Liliana is One of the top 3 Walkers ever printed and a repeatable creature removal in a Format defined by creatures. In Addition, the Color combination of BG has an all Time Popularity High with DRS and Abrupt Decay with Modern Masters (Thoughtseize, Tarmogoyf) on the horizon. People rightfully expect BG staying a Force in modern. I don't See a pricedrop before rotating out of standard

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Originally Posted by Koby

LOL foils. There is no cap on that market. If you don't have them, and want them, well you're boned.

Also why I refuse to become attached to foils. They can tank or spike in a matter of days for no apparent reason, or in some cases becomes reprinted as promos.

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I'm thinking of selling out my German foils and just go German. The number of decks I could build would multiply substantially.

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Originally Posted by r3dd09

I'm thinking of selling out my German foils and just go German. The number of decks I could build would multiply substantially.

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I have thought about doing the same with all of my foils as well, but know that I would possibly regret doing so.

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Originally Posted by TheElvishPiper

I have thought about doing the same with all of my foils as well, but know that I would possibly regret doing so.

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I'm worried about the regret as well. I'm not in a tight bind financially, so I'll probably continue pimping in foil for now.

The big thing that scares me is a lot of binders and decks are getting stolen in my area lately. Only thing I have going for me is I'm the only person in Utah that collections German foil, so it'd be almost impossible for the thieves to move my stuff.

Another thing is if I do sell out of my foils and go none foil, I could have a lot of decks built. decisions decisions.

Come to the dark side my son, no shinys. All your cards will be consistent, no more looking like a Pokemon player.

Lol. Isnt every rare in Pokemon (and YuGiOh?) foiled out or something? Maybe every Ultra Rare? I havent played Pokemon since 2000...

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Originally Posted by Koby

Also why I refuse to become attached to foils.

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A better reason: they look ugly. If foils and non-foils cost the same, I'd still choose the latter.

It depends on the foils for me. I hate playing with foils, but for collection (or edh general) purposes if it is a colorful one Ill pick up a foil. Like Soul Ransom. Saw it in a binder. Had to have it.

The prices on onslaught fetches are just crazy. I just picked up an extra set of polluted deltas at at 65 a piece and still think they are not worth it. Five years ago I could have had an Underground sea at that price.

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Originally Posted by GradStudentGuy

The prices on onslaught fetches are just crazy. I just picked up an extra set of polluted deltas at at 65 a piece and still think they are not worth it. Five years ago I could have had an Underground sea at that price.

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The chances of fetches being reprinted is very very high. even though these are not in modern, it just doesn't make sense for only half the fetches to be in modern.

eventually these will be reprinted.

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Originally Posted by KobeBryan

The chances of fetches being reprinted is very very high. even though these are not in modern, it just doesn't make sense for only half the fetches to be in modern.

eventually these will be reprinted.

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I'm not so sure about that. WotC seems to have an aversion to reprinting super expensive cards outside of promos. With Polluted Delta creeping up near $100 I highly doubt they will pull the trigger on rare reprints of the Onslaught fetches in a regular set, and there would be a riot if they printed them at mythic.

http://sales.starcitygames.com/search.php?substring=Angus+Mackenzie&t_all=All&start_date=2010-01-29&end_date=2012-04-22&order_1=finish&limit=25&action=Show%2BDecks&card_qty[1]=1&auto=Y

What is going on here?

I remember when Mirror Universe was the most expensive Legends card....

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Originally Posted by Royal Ass.

I remember when Mirror Universe was the most expensive Legends card....

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Then people realized Mana Drain was good?