Quote Originally Posted by oldbsturgeon View Post
And just to make sure noone overpays for 1 flusterstorm, coolstuffinc has their polictical puppets deck in the on sale page for 19.99.

With that said, will snapcaster be the first rare in a while since mythics being introduced to get to a high price.
It already is more than any recent standard rare I can think of at this moment, but of course I don't always think very well.
Is the upcoming states going to make it go even more?
States is the reason Innistrad cards are so high right now. The set just officially came out a week and a half ago and in less than one week we have States, which if you count all states attendance together, is probably going to be the biggest Magic event ever. Last year 5757 people played in States, the year before it was 6605 people. Assuming 20% of these people are playing or want to play 4x of any one new card that means you are looking at demand of around 4000-5000 of that card by this Saturday on a set that hasn't even been out 2 weeks. Liliana is a mythic, which means less than one a box. Many decks lately have been running 3x-4x Liliana. Add in the people who want the cards but aren't even playing in States then apply what you already know about supply and demand.

After States the prices are going to drop pretty quickly. More and more of the chase cards will be opened, Snapcaster is likely not as good in Standard as everyone originally thought (plenty of bad matchups), Liliana is also probably going to under-perform as people start to hate on Solar Flare more and more, everyone who needed the cards for States will either have them already or no longer have to sense of urgency that lead people to overpay for cards this week, ect. The prices will drop after States unless one strategy completely dominates and we end up with a new Caw/Blade scenario. Barring that everything indicates the prices have nowhere to go but down.