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Apr 07 2009 12:47pm
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The long awaited RSS feed specific to the podcast is here. Thanks Jamuraa!

MTGO News

Stronghold goes on sale on April 13th. With two weeks of release events and as the first release event since the Conflux disaster, it'll be interesting to see how things go.

Magic Online Player of the Year was announced. The sound many heard was their social lives disappearing as they gear up for non-stop queues.

Divine vs. Demonic card lists went live on monday! The rares include Akroma, Angel of Wrath, Serra Angel, Twilight Shepherd, Luminous Angel, Reya Dawnbringer, Lord of the Pit, Reiver Demon, (Kuro, Pit Lord), and Promise of Power. Unfortunately for the classic players, the only relevant edition this time is Demonic Tutor, and it's already restricted.

MTGO Events

The Magic Online Player of the Year aspect of the Magic Online Championship Series was announced! More information can be found here. Information about the Magic Online Championship Series in general can be found here.

Classic Quarter's Classic Player of the Year (not to be confused with the MTGO Champs Classic Player of the Year. Yes it's confusing) had its prize increased to a full FOIL set of Master's Edition 3 (not to be confused with the prize of the MTGO Champs Classic Player of the Year which gets an invite to one of the 2010 Season Championship Series Season Championships. That's a mouthful).

This week's Weekend PEs:
Saturday April 11 2009 - Classic
Sunday April 12 2009 - Extended/RGD III Championship

MTGO Prices

The Force of Will watch! Holding steady at $80.00 (with some in stock)
In addition, Standard and Block prices continue to rise along with Ticket prices, probably due to a combination of the MTGO Championship Series and the upcoming Standard PTQ season that looms overhead.

PureMTGO News

The long waited RSS feed went live last week! Find us by searching for "PureMTGO" on iTunes or with this RSS feed link: http://www.puremtgo.com/podcast.xml.
Suggestions are being heard and changes are being made so keep talking!

Favorite Article of the Week

Erik - Initial Kaleiodoscope Ideas! - blandestk, Kyle Stout
Sebastian - Qualifying for the 2009 Magic Online Championship -one million words, Pete Jahn 

How to Contact Us

Sebasitan Park (runeliger) - airizel AT gmail DOT com
-Also at www.airizel.net
Erik Friborg (Hamtastic) - erikfriborg AT gmail DOT com

 Thanks for listening!

6 Comments

Are MTGO pricing methodologies proprietary? by Anonymous at Tue, 04/07/2009 - 14:05
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Are MTGOtraders pricing methodologies proprietary? If not, can we see it?

If it is proprietary, is there any way you can give us some ideas of how it is calculated? Clearly its some sort of supply, demand formula, but I'd love to get a better sense of what some of the older prices mean.

It seems that for popular cards, a market exists to drive a market price, but for random invasion cards it doesnt seem to exist. I know MTGOtraders is not in fact a price guide, and is in fact a store, but it is without a doubt a de facto price guide.

Thanks,

donramses/mtgo

prices by hamtastic at Tue, 04/07/2009 - 14:12
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As far as I know, they price their cards based on supply/demand. The IPA cards are a strange thing though. I don't think they use a mathematical formula for each price, just a person looking at the situation and adjusting accordingly.

A lot of the price of the IPA cards is due to scarcity mixed with playability. The reason is that IPA was never the 'new block' on MTGO. When MTGO went live it started with IPA and OTJ in the queues and the OTJ events took priority for most players as it was the 'new thing'. As such, the IPA cards in general cost more than similar power levels of equally powerful cards in new sets. Terminate is one example of this strange phenomenon.

yup by mtgotraders at Tue, 04/07/2009 - 16:00
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Pretty much how I would of answered it. We only use software to show us which cards need fixing basically. We have a way to show which cards are "hot" or "cold" meaning they are either selling faster than we can keep in stock or not selling at all. We then adjust prices accordingly.
Citations by hamtastic at Tue, 04/07/2009 - 17:56
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It was pointed out to me that we didn't cite our source for the rumor information, which is very bad form indeed.

All rumor credit goes to the fine folks at www.mtgsalvation.com for their efforts and work at bringing us all the finest MTG Rumors on the net. Sorry about that!

Also, all cards that are discussed are only rumors until they're printed and as such can be subject to drastically changing between spoiling and seeing print. Any use of the information for buying/selling/trading is done at the individuals own risk!

TimeStamping by under_the_hammer at Wed, 04/08/2009 - 15:42
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I love these but was wondering if you can put timestamps next to the summary so that it was easier for listeners to cherrypick parts which are of most interest etc?

Thanks for that suggestion. by runeliger at Wed, 04/08/2009 - 23:31
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Didn't realize that was desirable. I'll add it to my things to do while podcasting list and have it in the shownotes next week.