Why is Undiscovered Paradise suddenly so expensive?

[Occam]

While the metal cards cost quite a bit today, I wouldn't make any offers for them (even though I was tempted by the Hurloon Minotaur which moved within the last year) because it is reasonably easy to make fakes of those, and the questionable quality of the originals makes it hard to tell anyway.

I'm going to seek to correct my mistake regarding the efreet soon. It's going to hurt the wallet. :(

[Nihil Credo]

I've never heard of these metal cards, and Googling them in various phrases misdirects towars different card games. What are they?

[Occam]

I've never heard of these metal cards, and Googling them in various phrases misdirects towars different card games. What are they?

They're basically test prints (and I use this phrase very loosely, because they weren't really test prints) that were etched in metal (aluminum I believe). Some have a much neater finish (something like Pickle's shivan) and seem to be factory made while others look messy and relatively amateurish. The latter are legit even though they can look fake, as I know that some Wizards employees had them previously. The problem is telling a fake apart from the real thing, and it isn't something I want to bet $1.5k-$2k on.

There are several of them -- birds (good shout for the most expensive birds around), bolt, shivan, fork, hurloon minotaur, dragon whelp etc.

[donaldB]

Whoa, when did this happen? I just got a playset of Undiscovered Paradises on the 7th for 20$ on ebay, and that was after the release of zendikar.

[andrew77]

Whoa, when did this happen? I just got a playset of Undiscovered Paradises on the 7th for 20$ on ebay, and that was after the release of zendikar.

Probably has something to do with bad players playing bad cards (bloodghast) in bad decks (bloodghast dredge). It also received a lot of hype. I mean it did well at SCG 5k. Guess nobody read the tourny report where it shows the deck faced no hate. You can take an extended dredge deck and it will win if it doesn't face hate.

[Tangle.Wire]

I definitely think Goyf is an anomaly to the norm. I hope he gets reprinted over and over and over again, because I think that's the only way he's going to go down at all. I'm with DDK, I had been waiting until they went down, but now I'm not so sure. Silly me thought $30 was crazy, and now this.

I remember back in the day Undiscovered Paradise was a $15 card, and then it fell off the map, and now it's back. I don't think too many cards get new life that often, but it has been kind of a trend lately, hasn't it? Grindstone, Natural Order, Dark Depths, etc. all used to be mediocre and now have double digit prices. I just can't get my head around the fact that Cursed Scroll is a $6.00 card, Masticore $5 and Morphling about $9.00. I'm stuck in the year 2000 when those cards were bombs.

You said it

[HAVE HEART]

It was also mentioned in one of Evan Erwin videos (interview with a creator of goyf and info that it was supposed to be 1GG).

It was also 2G at one point as well, not to mention */*, not */1+*. Then Mike Turian said it would not be that bad to make it the way it is now. It was in the Evan Erwin interview with R&D: Kenny Nagle, Mike Turian, and Mark Rosewater.

[keys]

It was also 2G at one point as well, not to mention */*, not */1+*. Then Mike Turian said it would not be that bad to make it the way it is now. It was in the Evan Erwin interview with R&D: Kenny Nagle, Mike Turian, and Mark Rosewater.

Link?

[HAVE HEART]

Link?

Just do a YouTube search.

[Phoenix Ignition]

Just do a YouTube search.

I just tried, with all three of their names, tarmogoyf, and creation, in every possible combination. If you have a link it would be appreciated.