Quote Originally Posted by majikal View Post
Standard cards aren't really so bad right now. The only real offender is Jace, and even he has leveled off around $45 from what I'm seeing on MOTL. The biggest problem is presale prices - the speculators drive the market into a frenzy initially, but it always levels off a week or two after release.
I can definately agree with this. When everyone and their mother wants a playset of Jace 2, and there are practically none of them in stock because it's a PRE-sale, the price is naturally going to balloon like crazy.

I also think that Wizards clamping down on the spoilers massively has been a factor to this as well. On Salvation, we could have a card get spoiled that turns into a chase rare, but since it was spoiled like three weeks before the pre-release, it gives some time for the hype to cool down. Since Jace 2 was fully spoiled by Wizards like a week and a half before the prelease, the hype started much later before the set was fully spoiled.

I am fully expecting Jace 2 to slowly drop in price over time. Simply put, there will actually be an *increase* in stock to help curb the slowly decreasing demand (now that the initial hype is starting to subside). Unfortunately, we can't say the same for the supply for Legacy staples that have been out of print for well over a decade.