All,

I would not place much faith in the automated market prices that we are seeing today. Many of them are manufactured by buying out product with a low liquidity and no playability. I fully understand the supply demand aspect, but this is not an efficient market. For every legitimate spike in price, like chalice of the void, there are 5 or more silly ones. In general, the smaller the amount of product that is available, the less faith I would put in these automated "market value" estimates.

People act as if these automated "market value" calculators are fully appropriate, as if the changes they show indicate real value. This is not the weather, we are part of the equation. In the end, stupendous spikes in the value of a card can not be created by purchasing a couple thousand dollars of a crappy card. Sure, you can cause the needle of the stupid calculator to skyrocket, but who cares. It isn't like you can offload a thousand "One with Nothing" cards for a set of power within the 13 minutes that the stupid calculator says that it is actually worth that much.

Peace