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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 13:59:00 No.14750010 View View Reply Original Report

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>Chatting with friend about MTG card prices.
>Randomly decide to check the price of a foil MM Brainstorm on SSG.com
>80$
>wut
>Oh, it must just a weird fluke since the non-foil is only 2$
>Check other websites: 68-70$
>wut

ITT, card prices that make absolutely no goddamn sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:00:00 No.14750023 Report

Quoted By: >>14750038

ITT, people who even a casualfag like me facepalm at

Next you'll be wondering why Necropotence was banned

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:03:00 No.14750038 Report

Quoted By: >>14750066 >>14750332

>>14750023
I know it's a good card, but even if it's foil it's still a fucking common. Arcbound Ravager back when it was raping Standard and nearly everyone was playing, it was only like 40$

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:05:00 No.14750066 Report

Quoted By: >>14750090 >>14750370

>>14750038
>it's still a fucking common

Back in MY day, card power wasn't determined by rarity!

Also, brainstorm is old, so many copies of it have already been snapped up by other players. Less supply=Higher prices.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:05:00 No.14750074 Report

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Doubling season fucking 20$ cards

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:06:00 No.14750075 Report

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People want to replace cards with foil versions to pimp out their deck. Admit it, if you get a foil something, you'll switch out a non-foil.

Point is that every goddamn blue deck on the face of the earth runs Brainstorms. Every fucking one. Foils are hard to come by, ergo foil Branstorm's in high demand. Someone out there's gonna be willing to cough up that much for a foil, and scg laughs all the way to the bank.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:06:00 No.14750076 Report

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04 Foil promo brainstorms are 20 bucks a pop on channel fireball.

But yeah, most legacy players are crazy with their money, and brainstorm is probably the #2 most played spell in the format.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:07:00 No.14750090 Report

Quoted By: >>14750219

>>14750066
Hmm... True enough. Still, 70$ seems a little excessive. Then again, I haven't actually PLAYED mtg since like Kamigawa and prices (from what I've seen) have inflated massively.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:20:00 No.14750219 Report

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>>14750090
The set it was released in was one of the first to have foils and foils during that age were very difficult to make and very rare so naturally the smaller amount of them leads to a higher price for them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:29:00 No.14750332 Report

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>>14750038
I am worth way more than 4x$10 tokens!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:32:00 No.14750370 Report

Quoted By: >>14750410

>>14750066
back in my day a deck consisted of nothing but flying men, counterspells, and islands.

galvanicAutogenitor !!lh2+0hXHAN0

galvanicAutogenitor !!lh2+0hXHAN0 Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:37:00 No.14750402 Report

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It's because it's a 4-of in so many Legacy and Vintage decks, who are all crazy about 'pimping' their decks. Combine the fact that that's one of the most liked arts, in the old card frame [grognards!], when foils were still rarer and a novelty, and that many have been damaged/lost/destroyed over the years, leads to the price.

Here's one that threw me: Trygon Predator is very occasionally used in some Legacy sideboards. It's a very popular Commander card. It's about a dollar. A foil? 10-ish, due to Commander. A japanese foil?

One hundred and twenty american dollars. I shit you not.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 14:39:00 No.14750410 Report

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>>14750370
Dood, I love frickin' flying men

I killed my friends fancy schmancy vampire deck with a bunch of Flying Men and other stupid blue weenies

>his face when I win with my shitty decks because I "Believe in the heart of the cards"

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