State of the Program for August 18th 2017
Hunt for Ixalan Promos Will Involve Geocaching: Wizards has announced that Ixalan will be about exploration and discovery. To simulate this, Wizards will distribute “trackable game pieces” to magic celebrities, stores, fans and volunteers. People will be finding and tracking these items using geocaching. As items move ad are discovered, they will trigger spoilers, in some manner. Details, such as they are, are
here.
Next Throwback Gauntlet Announced: Randy Buehler has given us the contents of the Lorwyn “mostly tribal” throwback standard gauntlet we can start playing next week. (Joshua's Note: Due to the issues with the Ravnica gauntlet, we are playing the Lorwyn gauntlet now) The tribes include Elves, Fairies, Merfolk, and Kithkin, plus decks like Doran (with Goyf), Teachings, Cruel Ultimatum, BW Tokens and Skred Red. Details and decklists
here.
August MOPR Promo is Fatal Push: Wizards has announced that both the store and event promos for August will be an alt art Fatal Push. Since next month MOPR rewards will change over to a random promo from the list I published last week, Wizards is clearly giving the old program a big send-off.
Ten Million Sanctioned Magic Events: Wizards announced that sanctioned event number 10,000,000 happened recently. These are paper events, sanctioned through Wizards of the Coast. That’s a lot. Wizards supplied some additional info, plus photos,
here.
This is a list of things we have been promised, or we just want to see coming back. Another good source for dates and times is the
calendar and the weekly blog, while the best source for known bugs is the bug blog which appears sporadically on MTGO.com. Most of the major upcoming events we know of are listed. Not listed, but important: Wizards offers either one or two online PTQs each weekend, with qualifiers running the three days prior to the PTQ.
Upcoming Events
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Timing
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Extended Downtime
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Aug. 23rd, Sept. 20th, Oct. 25th
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Sealed MOCS Monthly
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September 15th, October 8th
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Modern MOCS Monthly
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August 27th
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Standard MOCS Monthly
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October 21st
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Current Leagues End
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September 23rd
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Ixalan release
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September 25, 2017
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Rivals of Ixalan
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January 21, 2018
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Core Set Magic 2019
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July 20, 2018
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Commander 2017 details here.
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November 2017 on MTGO
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25th Anniversary Edition Masters
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March 16, 2018
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Next B&R Announcement
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August 28, 2017
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DTK, ORI, BFZ & OGW Redemption Ends
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November 2, 2017
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SOI and EMN Redemption Closes
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April 28, 2018
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Flashback, Throwback Standard and CUBE for 2017
Wizards will be offering either a flashback draft league, a flashback Standard gauntlet, a CUBE league or prerelease / Release events each week. Here’s the schedule so far.
Flashback and Such Rotation
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Begins
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Ends
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Ravnica Standard Gauntlet
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Cancelled
|
Cancelled
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Tribal Lorwyn Gauntlet
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Happening Now!
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August 23rd
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Flashback draft: TBA
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August 30th
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September 6th
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Worldwake Standard Gauntlet
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September 6th
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September 13th
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Modern Cube
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September 13th
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September 24th
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(break for Ixalan limited)
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September 25th
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October 25th
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The new Flashback Leagues are still draft, and still you-keep-the-cards. They are 12 TIX / product plus 2 TIX / 120 Play Points. However, they are no longer single elimination. Now you play until you have three wins or two losses. Prizes are 150 play points for three wins and 70 Play points for 2 wins. The leagues run one week.
The Throwback Standard Gauntlet events provide a random choice of prebuilt decks from a past standard environment. These will function like the Pro Tour Gauntlets – you won’t need to own the cards. The entry fee is 10 TIX or 100 Play Points. Prizes are in Play Points: 150 for 3-0, 100 for 2-1, 40 for 1-2 and 10 play points as a bad beats award.
Opinion Section: Cost of Magic
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I was thinking a lot about the cost of MTGO cards and decks this week. I want to play some GB Delirium, but I never had any luck opening the cards for that deck. I would have to buy most of the rares and Mythics – totaling around $250 – so I’m having trouble pulling the trigger. That also has me wondering what the cost of decks was like in years past. Is current Standard more or less expensive?
Well, here are some approximate prices for decks in the current metagame, using MTGOTraders prices as of earlier this week.
· GB Constrictor $330
· Ramunap Red $190
· Mono-Black Zombies $200
· Mardu Vehicles $335
· Temur Energy $200
So it looks like I’m considering buying into one of the most expensive decks around. I guess that’s why I still haven’t bought the cards, despite looking longingly at the archetype for months.
For comparison, let’s look at prices from years past. I’m pulling bits from my old State of the Program articles. I’ll look at prices for decks and cards from August of various years.
August 17, 2011:
Most Expensive Cards
|
Price
|
Set
|
Last Week
|
|
$ 124.00
|
MED 1
|
# 1
|
|
$ 96.00
|
Mirage
|
# 2
|
|
$ 78.00
|
Future Sight
|
# 5
|
|
$ 75.24
|
Apocalypse
|
# 3
|
|
$ 68.00
|
Visions
|
# 4
|
|
$ 49.00
|
Tempest
|
# 6
|
|
$ 44.50
|
Apocalypse
|
# 8
|
|
$ 44.00
|
Weatherlight
|
# 9
|
|
$ 40.00
|
Odyssey
|
# 10
|
|
$ 34.95
|
Worldwake
|
# 7
|
And costs of sample decks. I used to feature one deck, and price that deck out as well. I stopped pricing the decks a while back, but here they are. I had links to some of these decks, but the links are dead. Illusions had
Phantasmal Bear,
Phantasmal Image and
Lord of the Unreal – and no, I don’t remember it either.
· Illusions cost $108 on August 17th
· UB Control cost $185 on August 10th.
· Night Shift cost $210 on August 2nd.
· Birthing Pod cost $182 on July 27th.
· Post-Jace Caw Blade cost $240 on July 20th.
· Tempered Steel cost $151 on July 13th.
· UB Tezzeret control cost $299 on July 5th .
· Elves cost $163 on July 1st.
Article from August 12, 2012:
Here’s the “Good Stuff Table” from that article. (Wow, I’ve been doing the Good Stuff since 2012!) I also premiered the big number back then – but I calculated the cost of owning one copy of every non-foil card, but double counted all duplicates. I dug up the original price data and calculated the big number without duplicates: it was $5,065 for a single, $20,260 for a playset of everything. Back then, the list of non-foil cards on MTGO ran about 17,250. That list has grown by over 5,000 cards now.
(note: the current interface for uploading articles found this table indigestible. Good news - the new website is going into beta, so might not be a problem forever.)
Article from August 2013
The Big number back in 2013 was $23,600. Not sure if I was excluding duplicates back then. The process and formulas I used to snip them are fairly easy, but I don’t remember when I learned them, and when I upgraded to a version of Excel that included those capabilities.
The Good Stuff table had Lion’s Eye Diamond at $136.05, and Force of Will and Rishadan Port tied at $85.17. Wasteland was next at $68.44. However, the list of Standard cards is probably more relevant. Here’s the Standard table from 2013.
Standard & Block Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$7.74
|
$7.93
|
($0.19)
|
-2%
|
|
$14.00
|
$13.31
|
$0.69
|
5%
|
|
$9.44
|
$9.28
|
$0.16
|
2%
|
|
$25.70
|
$26.26
|
($0.56)
|
-2%
|
|
$6.12
|
$5.61
|
$0.51
|
9%
|
|
$6.65
|
$6.33
|
$0.32
|
5%
|
|
$16.54
|
$15.26
|
$1.28
|
8%
|
|
$20.99
|
$21.84
|
($0.85)
|
-4%
|
|
$8.99
|
$6.95
|
$2.04
|
29%
|
|
$12.80
|
$11.37
|
$1.43
|
13%
|
|
$9.64
|
$10.56
|
($0.92)
|
-9%
|
|
$8.41
|
$8.93
|
($0.52)
|
-6%
|
|
$27.73
|
$24.91
|
$2.82
|
11%
|
|
$15.97
|
$15.23
|
$0.74
|
5%
|
|
$5.72
|
$6.47
|
($0.75)
|
-12%
|
|
$17.43
|
$16.86
|
$0.57
|
3%
|
|
$9.72
|
$10.26
|
($0.54)
|
-5%
|
|
$51.36
|
$46.13
|
$5.23
|
11%
|
|
$6.00
|
$6.56
|
($0.56)
|
-9%
|
|
$10.03
|
$10.61
|
($0.58)
|
-5%
|
|
$8.89
|
$9.45
|
($0.56)
|
-6%
|
|
$6.95
|
$6.97
|
($0.02)
|
0%
|
|
$8.54
|
$9.05
|
($0.51)
|
-6%
|
|
$7.51
|
$9.17
|
($1.66)
|
-18%
|
|
$5.54
|
$6.28
|
($0.74)
|
-12%
|
|
$10.27
|
$11.44
|
($1.17)
|
-10%
|
|
$37.92
|
$39.58
|
($1.66)
|
-4%
|
|
$6.15
|
$7.44
|
($1.29)
|
-17%
|
|
$3.71
|
$3.17
|
$0.54
|
17%
|
|
$26.91
|
$28.17
|
($1.26)
|
-4%
|
|
$39.24
|
$38.22
|
$1.02
|
3%
|
Liliana of the Veil has never been exactly cheap.
August 15th 2014:
In the news that week: Premier events were cancelled – replaced with more Dailies. And MOCS and PTQs returned that week – they had been on hiatus because the client kept crashing. Not a good time for MTGO.
My opinion section that month was about the transition from V3 of the MTGO client to V4. This was not a good time for Magic Online, and the prices of cards reflect this. Magic lost a ton of players during that time. That said, here are the Standard money cards from August, 2014.
Standard & Block Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$9.06
|
$9.70
|
($0.64)
|
-7%
|
|
$6.56
|
$7.07
|
($0.51)
|
-7%
|
|
$17.98
|
$14.00
|
$3.98
|
28%
|
|
$16.96
|
$16.57
|
$0.39
|
2%
|
|
$6.98
|
$7.33
|
($0.35)
|
-5%
|
|
$9.55
|
$9.40
|
$0.15
|
2%
|
|
$7.64
|
$7.83
|
($0.19)
|
-2%
|
|
$15.72
|
$16.32
|
($0.60)
|
-4%
|
|
$7.28
|
$9.50
|
($2.22)
|
-23%
|
|
$10.24
|
$11.08
|
($0.84)
|
-8%
|
|
$7.00
|
$6.40
|
$0.60
|
9%
|
|
$10.67
|
$9.10
|
$1.57
|
17%
|
|
$12.63
|
$12.30
|
$0.33
|
3%
|
|
$23.22
|
$19.57
|
$3.65
|
19%
|
|
$22.76
|
$22.00
|
$0.76
|
3%
|
|
$10.47
|
$10.49
|
($0.02)
|
0%
|
|
$18.05
|
$16.57
|
$1.48
|
9%
|
|
$9.79
|
$9.49
|
$0.30
|
3%
|
|
$5.77
|
$5.13
|
$0.64
|
12%
|
|
$27.61
|
$26.39
|
$1.22
|
5%
|
|
$9.94
|
$9.86
|
$0.08
|
1%
|
A year later, and players were still salty about V4 and MTGO. However, things were getting better. Wizards had not only announced leagues, the constructed versions were to roll out a month later. The new Mulligan rule (scry on mulligan) had been trialed at the Pro Tour, and was being made universal. And one of my news items was titled “Play Points Arrive – Death of MTGO Fails to Happen.”
Standard & Block Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$10.27
|
$6.16
|
$4.11
|
67%
|
|
$7.79
|
$7.14
|
$0.65
|
9%
|
|
$22.55
|
$22.19
|
$0.36
|
2%
|
|
$9.15
|
$7.83
|
$1.32
|
17%
|
|
$14.12
|
$10.22
|
$3.90
|
38%
|
|
$7.43
|
$4.83
|
$2.60
|
54%
|
|
$16.91
|
$19.30
|
($2.39)
|
-12%
|
|
$10.31
|
$7.47
|
$2.84
|
38%
|
|
$6.84
|
$4.78
|
$2.06
|
43%
|
|
$8.89
|
$6.54
|
$2.35
|
36%
|
|
$26.45
|
$25.66
|
$0.79
|
3%
|
|
$19.21
|
$21.42
|
($2.21)
|
-10%
|
|
$7.67
|
$6.65
|
$1.02
|
15%
|
|
$10.72
|
$7.82
|
$2.90
|
37%
|
|
$9.02
|
$8.02
|
$1.00
|
12%
|
|
$14.27
|
$13.88
|
$0.39
|
3%
|
|
$6.94
|
$6.55
|
$0.39
|
6%
|
|
$5.68
|
$5.81
|
($0.13)
|
-2%
|
|
$10.58
|
$6.79
|
$3.79
|
56%
|
|
$13.53
|
$13.54
|
($0.01)
|
0%
|
|
$12.28
|
$8.74
|
$3.54
|
41%
|
|
$7.26
|
$6.22
|
$1.04
|
17%
|
|
$9.55
|
$9.01
|
$0.54
|
6%
|
The big number, as of summer of 2015, was $24,060. The big number seems to be holding fairly constant over time.
August 19th 2016
By 2016, MTO was in a much better place. Instead of articles about the failing client or premier events being cancelled because the client could not support them, the news last year lead off with the announcement that the MOCS was being capped at 1,024 players, and the prize pool raised. The Standard money cards looked like this.
Standard Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$16.93
|
$19.97
|
($3.04)
|
-15%
|
|
$8.50
|
$13.46
|
($4.96)
|
-37%
|
|
$14.30
|
$15.44
|
($1.14)
|
-7%
|
|
$11.87
|
$18.48
|
($6.61)
|
-36%
|
|
$16.58
|
$17.10
|
($0.52)
|
-3%
|
|
$6.34
|
Under $5
|
|
$12.15
|
$15.27
|
($3.12)
|
-20%
|
|
$33.92
|
$46.23
|
($12.31)
|
-27%
|
|
$23.78
|
$23.88
|
($0.10)
|
0%
|
|
$20.19
|
$13.21
|
$6.98
|
53%
|
|
$43.81
|
$41.71
|
$2.10
|
5%
|
|
$11.39
|
$14.09
|
($2.70)
|
-19%
|
|
$6.57
|
$5.44
|
$1.13
|
21%
|
|
$17.15
|
$19.83
|
($2.68)
|
-14%
|
Sylvan Advocate
|
$6.22
|
$4.86
|
$1.36
|
28%
|
|
$6.01
|
$5.78
|
$0.23
|
4%
|
This was quite a down week. The Pro Tour had shaken the metagame to its core, but the GPs the following weekend seemed to reset the status quo ante. The big number, that week, was a whopping $29,000, up over $3,000 from the week before. That’s quite a week. And at that time, Rishadan Port was $240 each, Black Lotus was about $120 and Liliana was just under $100.
So what does all this tell me? Not a lot. It looks like Standard on MTGO has always revolved around a dozen or so chase cards, and those cards typically range in value from $5 to $20, with a couple that can peak near $40. This is nothing new. I guess I am just noticing it more, at the moment, because I want to buy the most expensive deck in the format. If I was trying to put together the UR Riddleform deck, I probably would not have thought about prices.
The tables showing prices from Standards past does bring another point to mind. I am thinking about buying a Standard deck, composed of Standard cards. Most Standard cards lose a lot of value when they rotate, and many of the cards in the GB Delirium build will be rotating soon. I should probably think about that, and make sure I am buying cards that will hold their value. Some do – and some gain. I just want to make sure I am buying cards like
Collected Company ($7.79 in 2015 Standard, $21.52 now) and not
Bonfire of the Damned ($25.70 in the day, $2.28 now.)
Standard: The GPs last weekend were Modern, but we had a Standard PTQ online. Here’s the winning deck.
Modern: We had two Modern GPs last weekend, one in
Birmingham and one in
Sao Paolo. The metagame was fairly diverse, with the Top 8s including Burn, Jeskai Control, Grixis Shadow, Bant Knightfall, Bant Humans, Titanshift, Counters Company, Abzan Midrange, BG Tron, Lantern Control, and BG Rock.
Pauper: I generally don’t feature Pauper decks, because I so rarely see anything outside the typical metagame. I also don’t play all that much – what time I have is usually draft, or sealed, or some other format. Plus I had to mouse over Flurry of Horns. It’s been a long time since I have seen that played.
Legacy: The last big Legacy event was the 300 player MKM Legacy Series in Prague. That was a couple weeks ago now, but until we get something new...
Vintage: Montolio took down the latest Vintage Daily. If you have been following Vintage on MTGO for a while, you know what he brought to the table.
Note: all my prices come from the fine folks at
MTGOTraders.com. These are retail prices, and generally the price of the lowest priced, actively traded version. (Prices for some rare promo versions are not updated when not in stock, so I skip those.) You can get these cards at
MTGOTraders.com web store, or from their bots: MTGOTradersBot(#) (they have bots 1-10), CardCaddy and CardWareHouse, or sell cards to MTGOTradersBuyBot(#) (they have buybots 1-4). I have bought cards from MTGOTraders for over a decade now, and have never been overcharged or disappointed.
Standard staples: Standard prices are down this week, pretty much across the board. People seem to be down on black this week.
Standard Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$42.73
|
$40.15
|
$2.58
|
6%
|
|
$9.31
|
$14.17
|
($4.86)
|
-34%
|
|
$6.27
|
$6.19
|
$0.08
|
1%
|
|
$7.54
|
$11.59
|
($4.05)
|
-35%
|
|
$6.53
|
$11.91
|
($5.38)
|
-45%
|
|
$8.67
|
$7.95
|
$0.72
|
9%
|
|
$10.51
|
$10.66
|
($0.15)
|
-1%
|
|
$25.02
|
$25.85
|
($0.83)
|
-3%
|
|
$12.06
|
$17.23
|
($5.17)
|
-30%
|
|
$35.56
|
$46.90
|
($11.34)
|
-24%
|
|
$5.85
|
$6.47
|
($0.62)
|
-10%
|
Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
|
$7.69
|
$6.63
|
$1.06
|
16%
|
|
$13.82
|
$12.47
|
$1.35
|
11%
|
|
$10.90
|
$11.05
|
($0.15)
|
-1%
|
|
$8.62
|
$8.00
|
$0.62
|
8%
|
The Scarab God
|
$9.36
|
$6.69
|
$2.67
|
40%
|
|
$10.99
|
$17.45
|
($6.46)
|
-37%
|
|
$19.01
|
$20.84
|
($1.83)
|
-9%
|
|
$5.13
|
$5.87
|
($0.74)
|
-13%
|
|
$12.22
|
$11.76
|
$0.46
|
4%
|
|
$8.47
|
$8.58
|
($0.11)
|
-1%
|
Modern staples: Modern prices are pretty quiet again this week.
Modern Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$18.30
|
$19.42
|
($1.12)
|
-6%
|
|
$20.27
|
$20.23
|
$0.04
|
0%
|
|
$24.11
|
$20.68
|
$3.43
|
17%
|
|
$41.36
|
$37.20
|
$4.16
|
11%
|
|
$29.16
|
$31.40
|
($2.24)
|
-7%
|
|
$21.52
|
$21.30
|
$0.22
|
1%
|
|
$25.85
|
$25.32
|
$0.53
|
2%
|
|
$37.31
|
$36.99
|
$0.32
|
1%
|
|
$36.75
|
$36.64
|
$0.11
|
0%
|
|
$22.25
|
$21.41
|
$0.84
|
4%
|
|
$37.86
|
$39.19
|
($1.33)
|
-3%
|
|
$39.10
|
$35.52
|
$3.58
|
10%
|
|
$66.75
|
$72.20
|
($5.45)
|
-8%
|
|
$13.77
|
$17.34
|
($3.57)
|
-21%
|
|
$53.82
|
$51.48
|
$2.34
|
5%
|
|
$22.23
|
$22.16
|
$0.07
|
0%
|
|
$25.67
|
$26.82
|
($1.15)
|
-4%
|
|
$31.16
|
$32.22
|
($1.06)
|
-3%
|
|
$27.25
|
$26.12
|
$1.13
|
4%
|
|
$26.08
|
$26.81
|
($0.73)
|
-3%
|
Legacy and Vintage: Prices are slightly down this week overall, but not a lot. Nothing too surprising – this sort of churn just happens.
Legacy / Vintage Cards
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
|
$49.63
|
$56.32
|
($6.69)
|
-12%
|
|
$41.67
|
$41.02
|
$0.65
|
2%
|
|
$85.79
|
$81.01
|
$4.78
|
6%
|
|
$33.00
|
$33.42
|
($0.42)
|
-1%
|
|
$38.18
|
$38.06
|
$0.12
|
0%
|
|
$29.00
|
$29.25
|
($0.25)
|
-1%
|
|
$44.04
|
$39.35
|
$4.69
|
12%
|
|
$22.33
|
$24.03
|
($1.70)
|
-7%
|
|
$30.59
|
$25.95
|
$4.64
|
18%
|
|
$41.93
|
$41.93
|
$0.00
|
0%
|
|
$58.77
|
$57.43
|
$1.34
|
2%
|
|
$50.52
|
$49.53
|
$0.99
|
2%
|
|
$146.88
|
$146.88
|
$0.00
|
0%
|
|
$32.41
|
$36.18
|
($3.77)
|
-10%
|
|
$47.63
|
$56.52
|
($8.89)
|
-16%
|
|
$29.06
|
$30.78
|
($1.72)
|
-6%
|
|
$20.20
|
$18.91
|
$1.29
|
7%
|
|
$48.01
|
$47.53
|
$0.48
|
1%
|
* A significantly cheaper promo version of Rishadan Port is available, but I do not include promos prices on the table. MTGO has over 900 promo cards on the list, and occasionally those cards are sold out for months at a time, so their prices do not reflect the market price. I tried checking numbers in stock, but 900+ is too many.
Standard Legal Sets: This table tracks the cost of a single copy of every card in each Standard legal set, plus Treasure Chests and the current booster packs. I’ll keep tracking these because they are interesting (at least to me).
Complete Set
|
Price
|
Last Week
|
Change
|
% Change
|
Aether Revolt
|
$73.48
|
$72.30
|
$1.18
|
2%
|
Amonkhet
|
$73.98
|
$72.21
|
$1.77
|
2%
|
Battle for Zendikar
|
$30.71
|
$40.09
|
($9.38)
|
-23%
|
Eldritch Moon
|
$75.08
|
$101.03
|
($25.95)
|
-26%
|
Hour of Devastation
|
$54.00
|
$48.23
|
$5.77
|
12%
|
Kaladesh
|
$134.09
|
$128.13
|
$5.96
|
5%
|
Oath of the Gatewatch
|
$94.21
|
$111.85
|
($17.64)
|
-16%
|
Shadows over Innistrad
|
$39.76
|
$43.79
|
($4.03)
|
-9%
|
Treasure Chest
|
$2.29
|
$2.22
|
$0.07
|
3%
|
Amonkhet Booster
|
$1.98
|
$2.02
|
($0.04)
|
-2%
|
Hour of Devastation
|
$3.94
|
$3.99
|
($0.05)
|
-1%
|
The following is a list of all the non-promo, non-foil cards on MTGO that retail for more than $25 per card. These are the big ticket items in the world of MTGO. Pretty similar to last week, but I took Rishadan Port off the list. The Mercadian Masques version is super-expensive, and the promo version is in stock. Besides, the sell price of the Masques version hasn’t changed in over a month.
Name
|
Set
|
Rarity
|
Price
|
Exploration
|
UZ
|
Rare
|
$ 85.79
|
Liliana of the Veil
|
ISD
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 66.91
|
Liliana of the Veil
|
MM3
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 66.75
|
Mystic Confluence
|
PZ1
|
Rare
|
$ 58.77
|
Wasteland
|
TE
|
Uncommon
|
$ 58.24
|
Mox Opal
|
MS2
|
Bonus
|
$ 54.83
|
Wasteland
|
TPR
|
Rare
|
$ 54.77
|
Mox Opal
|
SOM
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 53.91
|
Mox Opal
|
MM2
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 53.82
|
Horizon Canopy
|
EXP
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 52.32
|
Mox Diamond
|
ST
|
Rare
|
$ 52.20
|
Wasteland
|
EXP
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 52.07
|
Mox Diamond
|
V10
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 50.75
|
Mox Diamond
|
TPR
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 50.52
|
True-Name Nemesis
|
PZ1
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 49.64
|
Black Lotus
|
VMA
|
Bonus
|
$ 49.63
|
Wasteland
|
EMA
|
Rare
|
$ 48.01
|
True-Name Nemesis
|
C13
|
Rare
|
$ 47.63
|
Force of Will
|
MED
|
Rare
|
$ 44.61
|
Infernal Tutor
|
DIS
|
Rare
|
$ 44.04
|
Dark Depths
|
CSP
|
Rare
|
$ 43.06
|
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
|
KLD
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 42.73
|
Chalice of the Void
|
MS2
|
Bonus
|
$ 42.34
|
Misdirection
|
MM
|
Rare
|
$ 41.93
|
Dark Depths
|
V16
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 41.67
|
Chalice of the Void
|
MMA
|
Rare
|
$ 41.66
|
Chalice of the Void
|
MRD
|
Rare
|
$ 41.36
|
Karn Liberated
|
NPH
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 39.90
|
Karn Liberated
|
MM2
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 39.10
|
Force of Will
|
EMA
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 38.77
|
Gaea's Cradle
|
UZ
|
Rare
|
$ 38.18
|
Horizon Canopy
|
FUT
|
Rare
|
$ 37.86
|
Engineered Explosives
|
MMA
|
Rare
|
$ 37.73
|
Engineered Explosives
|
MS2
|
Bonus
|
$ 37.71
|
Ensnaring Bridge
|
7E
|
Rare
|
$ 37.40
|
Engineered Explosives
|
5DN
|
Rare
|
$ 37.31
|
Ensnaring Bridge
|
8ED
|
Rare
|
$ 37.10
|
Ensnaring Bridge
|
ST
|
Rare
|
$ 37.06
|
Ensnaring Bridge
|
MS2
|
Bonus
|
$ 36.75
|
Unmask
|
V16
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 36.07
|
Liliana, the Last Hope
|
EMN
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 35.56
|
Force of Will
|
MS3
|
Special
|
$ 33.39
|
Force of Will
|
VMA
|
Rare
|
$ 33.00
|
Underground Sea
|
ME2
|
Rare
|
$ 32.55
|
Show and Tell
|
UZ
|
Rare
|
$ 32.41
|
Scalding Tarn
|
EXP
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 31.97
|
Scapeshift
|
MOR
|
Rare
|
$ 31.16
|
Underground Sea
|
ME4
|
Rare
|
$ 30.67
|
Leovold, Emissary of Trest
|
PZ2
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 30.59
|
Volcanic Island
|
ME3
|
Rare
|
$ 30.06
|
Tarmogoyf
|
FUT
|
Rare
|
$ 29.44
|
Celestial Colonnade
|
WWK
|
Rare
|
$ 29.16
|
Unmask
|
MM
|
Rare
|
$ 29.06
|
Grim Monolith
|
UL
|
Rare
|
$ 29.00
|
Containment Priest
|
PZ1
|
Rare
|
$ 28.41
|
City of Traitors
|
EX
|
Rare
|
$ 28.35
|
Tempt with Discovery
|
C13
|
Rare
|
$ 27.76
|
City of Traitors
|
TPR
|
Rare
|
$ 27.69
|
Tarmogoyf
|
MM3
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 27.60
|
Surgical Extraction
|
MM2
|
Rare
|
$ 27.50
|
Gorilla Shaman
|
ALL
|
Common
|
$ 27.32
|
Surgical Extraction
|
NPH
|
Rare
|
$ 27.25
|
Underground Sea
|
VMA
|
Rare
|
$ 27.17
|
Volcanic Island
|
ME4
|
Rare
|
$ 27.14
|
Scalding Tarn
|
MM3
|
Rare
|
$ 26.46
|
Tarmogoyf
|
MM2
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 26.39
|
Tarmogoyf
|
MMA
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 26.08
|
Eidolon of the Great Revel
|
JOU
|
Rare
|
$ 25.85
|
Scalding Tarn
|
ZEN
|
Rare
|
$ 25.67
|
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
|
OGW
|
Mythic Rare
|
$ 25.02
|
The big number is the retail price of a playset (4 copies) of every card available on MTGO. Assuming you bought the least expensive versions available, the cost of owning a playset of every card on MTGO is approximately $ 23,155. That’s down about $150 from last week.
GenCon is this week. For the first time in over a decade, Ingrid and I are skipping it. Gencon has just gotten too big. Hotels sell out, the show is expensive, and the crowds are just too big. Worse yet, the events now fill the entire convention center (which is gigantic) and all of the conference rooms in all of the surrounding hotels. Going from one event to another can involve a 30 minute walk, some of it outside (and Indianapolis in August is no picnic.) It just made more dollars and sense not to go. But I’m missing it right now.
On the plus side, will have time to get a few drafts in, both paper and MTGO, this weekend. I may even break down and buy that GB deck.
PRJ
“One Million Words” on MTGO
This series is an ongoing tribute to Erik “Hamtastic” Friborg.
HammyBot Super Sale: HammyBot was set up to sell off Erik Friborg’s collection, with all proceeds going to his wife and son. So far, HammyBot has raised over $8,000, but there are a lot of cards left in the collection. Those cards are being sold at MTGOTrader’s Buy Price.
5 Comments
Why take Port off the list? Why not just replace with PRM R.P.?
Fixed a hidden section that was showing a wall of html, thanks to Paul for the assist!
I spent hours trying to get rid of that, but I couldn't. Thanks to both of you.
It was hidden in table code, and when I was able to find that it was super easy. Paul helped out a ton.
Happy to be of service. :)