Quote Originally Posted by Pippin View Post
2) What is the correct price for staples? Someone mentioned that $45 is acceptable for Underground Sea? But is it really? Why haven't those people bought Seas for that price back in the past? If Sea tanks to $45, what prevents people from claiming that it's still too high and they want 10$ duals? I can say you right now that in my local scene there wouldn't even be a 10% growth of players if mass reprints happen. Those that wanted to get in the format have already done so, those that have complained about prices didn't buy the staples when they were more affordable, nor would they buy them if prices drop considerably.
As a bonus - if you reprint something from reserved list and crash the prices, what prevents the price growth in future? Regular reprints each year, like a core set for eternal formats? Will Wizards need to hire some guys that will monitor the prices at secondary market, and as soon as card approaches lets say 20$... order a reprint? How do you solve this problem? Only thing that jumps to mind is direct singles sales from WotC. This is easy to comprehend since there's always another staple waiting around the corner that can have it's price increase to high levels (cards like Jace, etc)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

you're making a fallacy of the heap because you are demanding that our claims be arbitrarily precise. is there a magic number where the price NEEDS to be? of course not, price of cards change due to all sorts of factors. But this isn't a financial market, it's a game that exists for fun as the bottom line, so WotC arbitrarily reprinting when them and players feel prices have had a degenerative effect on a format that is obviously fun and popular. So the playerbase and wizards should roll over because there is no price written in the sky as specific as youd personally like it? cmon man