Quote Originally Posted by bruizar View Post
With respect nedleeds, I think you are caught up in your own property. You are clearly vested in your collection and will defend your position from the perspective of someone who has a lot to lose.

Should you take some distance and take a look at the matter not from the perspective of your own interest, but as an outsiders who is only interested in observing the trend and its inevitable consequences, you'd come to realize how unhealthy this game is. In fact, I wouldn't call it a game anymore.

A near doubling in price of duals in 4 months is not sustainable, regardless of how you spin it. This market is cooked and cornered. There are literally millions and millions of staples out there. Supply is ubiquitous. It is really not the problem.
The Warhol thing was pretty interesting. He basically stated that with enough money, you can decide the price of an item. If there was a very well-known shop or person paying $1000 for any and all Underground Seas and the word was out there in the market, no one would ever sell their Seas to anyone if they knew they could move them for $1000. This is what the Warhol dealer did, whether for the love of the artist or not. He just paid whatever he could get them at, and eventually, all the ones he bought up at $30,000 are now worth a whole ton more.

Pimping is an entirely different ball game. Unhinged foil basics serve no more utility than free basic lands given away at your local store, but people want to pimp. It's why performance cars exist - it's not the destination (tapping for mana), but the journey and experience (tapping for mana while being lots of money).

Also, the big dual land pic is an old pic from a Bazaar of Moxen prize pool, if I recall. Everyone just uses that pic as a greed pic when it was for prize support, if I recall.

Realistically, I would like to see prices come down and supply increase, however that happens. Sure, if you bought in at $200 Underground Seas it might suck, but then you just don't sell your Seas ever and you're still good to go. Prices going up can be good to a point, but I know that if I were buying into Legacy now, even with the money to spend, I might not want to. Cockatrice and proxies could be an option if I just wanted to fool around. Realistically, reprinting Force of Will and Wasteland and the other cards that aren't on the Reserved List would be a good start.

-Matt