I’m not saying that they aren’t good, but they sure aren’t backbreaking. Heaven help us, they are going to keep making a zillion products a year. Let’s also not forget that the Magic Digital Next program is also coming, and that might be a whole new siphoning off of money. Is this permanent: Unless the company decides to slow it down, apparently this is the world we live in. I don’t think there’s a market for those who buy every single product released, but that’s a lot to spend money on. Have you seen this list? That’s a murderer’s row later this year, and that’s before you take into account all the stuff we’ve already had this past seven months, which includes a Masters set, three regular sets (I’m including Hour of Devastation) and two different Anthology releases. This is something that Wizards/Hasbro has been doing to us for a couple of years now: We are getting more and more Magic products each year, each designed to suck our wallets dry. Idea #2: We are stretching our Magic dollars New players might not listen to others who have learned, and new cards are always going to sucker us in. I fervently want to believe that players will not break their bank trying to get out ahead of the new cards, but I doubt it in the long-term. That card, one of the banners of the set, a three-drop planeswalker, can be had for $40 a playset now. You think, “It must be worth this much or people wouldn’t be paying this much!” and you plunk down $160 for a playset. You know he’s good with the Gideon, Ally of Zendikar deck you’re already playing. Imagine being someone who looked at the Amonket previews, and saw Gideon of the Trials. Preordering cards is devastating from a feel-bad perspective, and hopefully people who have done that have learned their lesson. Even waiting a week or two can be worth a lot to someone who isn’t a pro player. We’ve learned that unless you’re going to be using these cards the very very first weekend, you’ve got time. Even the Masters-level sets that are only reprints, those follow the same curve most of the time. That’s true of any set, for any of its time as the set that’s being opened at FNM and Grand Prix events. We all know that a set’s value goes down over time as more and more packs are opened. We don’t want $40 Day’s Undoing, or $50 Chandra, Torch of Defiance. Today I want to look at a couple of the reasons why that might be, and if that means we’ve turned a corner as Magic vendors and players. Cards are overhyped and usually very overpriced, but there’s something kind of unusual going on with Hour of Devastation: The preorder prices are remarkably…sane. Hopefully you’ve read enough of what we write here to know that pre-ordering cards is usually a bad idea.
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