[Official] Bitching About Prices, Buyouts and Reprints Thread

[yawg07]

Is TES the cheapest tier deck in the format, now?

[Nessaja]

Dredge is very likely cheaper.

[yawg07]

Dredge is very likely cheaper.

I haven't been keeping up with some decks, is Dredge still winning a lot?

[jamesh]

dedge is awesome

[GGoober]

SCG is no longer buying them at $43, I believe it's just $35 now. Now time to laugh at the other stores buying at $60 and end up not being able to make good profit margins. MWAHAHAA. I seriously doubt these online retailers put in as much effort as SCG does wworking out profit margins and stocking/emptying inventory. Their website shows :P Oh god I'm starting to trollz!


(I don't see wastelands ever going higher than $70 in the next month. Period. In the next year maybe but not in a month).

[Bignasty197]

My local store raised the prices on all of the legacy cards they have last week.
Underground Sea was $81, now $110
Tundra was $76, now $91
Bayou was $51, now $73
a beat-to-shit Wasteland with whitening and shuffle creasing is at $53.
Tarmogoyf was $55, now $70
Force of Will was $50, now $75.
There are others that spiked in price but I forgot by how much.

It's pretty intimidating to new players or players thinking about converting from Standard to look on the other side of the counter and see price tags like this. I guess on the bright side of things, most people that play T2 that I know are complete douchebags and I wouldn't want to be sitting across from them anyway. This is probably a good thing because this leaves Legacy a format in which only mature people with a job and decent cash flow can participate.

[Koby]

Wasteland is getting out of hand IMO.

I bought them late last summer (in the thick of the SCG Open season) for a little under $25 a pop. I'm almost at the point where they are worth more than double, in less than 1 year's time.

IMO, some chase uncommons need to show up as a reprint in an Event deck ala Standard's RDW, but for Legacy.

Event deck: Merfolk anyone?

[MattH]

who has an arrow and just bought a foil decree of pain for $11

<--this guy

[(nameless one)]

Wasteland is getting out of hand IMO.

I bought them late last summer (in the thick of the SCG Open season) for a little under $25 a pop. I'm almost at the point where they are worth more than double, in less than 1 year's time.

IMO, some chase uncommons need to show up as a reprint in an Event deck ala Standard's RDW, but for Legacy.

Event deck: Merfolk anyone?

This would be sweet. I believe nothing on Vial Goblins, Merfolks or even Death and Taxes are on the Reserved List. Hell, they can even do Dredge!

[MattH]

This would be sweet. I believe nothing on Vial Goblins, Merfolks or even Death and Taxes are on the Reserved List. Hell, they can even do Dredge!

Not unless you're splashing in the tribal decks! I thought Karakas was reserved, but it appears I was wrong:

http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/art.../reprintpolicy

[death]

It feels really good looking at my immaculate Wastelands right now, I paid like $2 for a playset back then.

Barely used them in my unpowered Vintage Oath and proxied MUD.

[GGoober]

sdematt you're such an ass but such a genius at the same time :) That's the best way to get people questioning eternal price jumps and how ridiculous the situation is.

http://www.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/083778.html

And +1000 posts from me aka I have no life and need to get off the forums :P

[android]

I remember a time when asking those prices would have been greedy (and it's not that long ago).

[Pippin]

SCG is no longer buying them at $43, I believe it's just $35 now. Now time to laugh at the other stores buying at $60 and end up not being able to make good profit margins. MWAHAHAA. I seriously doubt these online retailers put in as much effort as SCG does wworking out profit margins and stocking/emptying inventory. Their website shows :P Oh god I'm starting to trollz!


(I don't see wastelands ever going higher than $70 in the next month. Period. In the next year maybe but not in a month).

What are you on about? SCG wasn't buying Wastelands for $43, but first for $30, then they raised it to $33, and now it's currently sitting at $35. So it's just going up

[Comrade]

a 35 dollar common that has a symbol on it for Mirrodin Pure, since mirrodin pure won't exisit it becomes a highly collectable piece. since there are a very limited number of this card. since only the stores who participated in games day, and there was only two cards given to each store with each symbol. Look at the blue hurrican for example its roughly 5000 dollars? why because it is limited in run and print so it drives the prices up. this card is collectable for that very reason and it's only sitting at 35 on ebay at the moment. so it wouldn't surprise me this fetching near or around 40-60 dollars momentarly. Since even wizards said one card will be in, the other will be out.

Whoa there Kemo Sabe, settle them horses. A Pristine Talisman will never reach the legendary tier of a blue hurricane in a million years. This thing is about as useful as a Wyvern backed Elvish Hunter, but only half as cool. Unless that's your auction up there, I see no reason to get that excited.

[sdematt]

I thought it was a great way to shake up the boards and get people thinking about exactly what the hell's going on with the market. Hopefully my post made you all think a little.

-Matt

[Pale Moon FTW]

Wasteland is getting out of hand IMO.

I bought them late last summer (in the thick of the SCG Open season) for a little under $25 a pop. I'm almost at the point where they are worth more than double, in less than 1 year's time.

Hell, I bought them for less than $25 a piece two months ago and others were buying them for as little as $18 a piece at that time. The rate of price increase on Wasteland has been minuscule until recently, the madness has all happened during the last couple of months.

[Royal Ass.]

One of my Wastelands has the word "Stabilizer" written in sharpy on the back of it. Someone used it as a proxy. That should give you an indication of how long I have had my set of wastelands! They were probably worth less than $5 in trade value at the time, and if I remember correctly the "Stabilizer" one was worth next to nothing when I traded for it. I wonder how much the "stabilizer" one is worth now :)

One more fun story: There used to be a local card shop that I would frequent. They had this card dispenser machine where you would put a few quarters in a slot and push the lever in and it would spit out a random batch of cards that the store had put together. In the front of the machine there was a glass display with a few of the nicer cards that would tempt you to try your luck at the machine. I remember that two of the cards were a Force of Will and a Dual Land. I asked the shop owner if I could just buy the cards in the front of the display. He let me and I specifically remember the FOW costing $9 and the dual was $10. Lol. That was a long time ago. I still have that FOW. I don't remember which dual it was.

[dahcmai]

Makes you wonder what would happen if one of those "hoarder" type collectors dumped all at once. There are people who actually have several hundred copies, if not thousands of some cards due to dealing in them back when card shows were the place to get stuff as opposed to the internet. Some of those guys could drop the price to virtually nothing overnight.


I knew one guy who had an entire bedroom full of cards. Literally, to the ceiling, boxes and boxes of old stuff. There's some people out there with entirely too much money and nothing to do with it.

[Finn]

I know I don't qualify dahcmai, but my wife and I did an inventory of our assets last year and my cards were our number one. I wonder if I can get them insured.