Quote Originally Posted by dontbiteitholmes View Post
Actually it's more like $30-60 and when you are talking about 4x for a playset or 40x full a full playset you are easily talking about overvaluing a set of duals by $1000.
- Even with my numbers overvaluing the duals by some, you do have to admit that shockland format is more accessible than real dual land format.

We're also not including other expensive cards, like Jace, Wasteland and Karakas. Modern has less cards of that value that are non-duals (I think Tarmogoyf, Dark Confidant, and Clique are the big ones).


Quote Originally Posted by Kich867 View Post
Didn't we already discuss that the removal of the reserved list wouldn't even budge the prices?
- It's more a matter of PR and less ab out prices. WotC might get a really bad rep for going back on a promise they made. The value of the cards changing is completely irrelevant: collectors might perceive the prices tanking (regardless of how logical they might be thinking) and this could cause them to lash out at WotC.


Not only that, they aren't even legally bound to the reserved list and "Collectors" is a facade. This vaguely referenced group of people that are somehow holding Wizards to something don't really exist in any sort of sense.
- Then why did WotC make Modern and not drop the Reserved list?

Look, I'm not disagreeing with you entirely, but what a company says or what a person says is meaningless compared to what a company does or a person does. WotC did not drop the Reserved list. WotC DID make Modern to solve the "reprint" issue.