No one thing today, just ramblings:
- Dude- Eureka. Only picked it up last year for the g/u OmniTell deck, which I cannot run without borrowing Tropical Islands. Even though I got the Italian, I got it for about $150 at the time. Now I could almost trade it for another dual land or so. Ha!
- Just made Diamond level on Arena via Historic again. This time powering with Elves. As much as I hate Collected Company, I made 2 and well- damnit- its good. Grrrrr.
- I pre-ordered two 'draft' boxes of Time Spiral Remastered via Amazon so I could do a sealed deck play against a couple friends on webcam. At the time I ordered them, they were $15 each. Right. Boxes are still $181. The draft boxes of 3 packs are sold out via Amazon direct. On TCG, individual packs are at least $9 each. We shall see how this shakes out. WoTC is very good at creating fear-of-missing-out for new product by squeezing the numbers at the beginning and slowly flooding the market. I've heard stories of vendors waiting for sets to just go out of print and scooping up a ton at super depressed prices, sitting on them for a bit, then slowly selling to make profits. Makes sense if you can do it.
- USPS swallowed my attempt to buy two Progenitus for $10. Damnit. I've seen weirder things happen, so I am holding out hope that it just shows up one day. But not in those "sorry our machines ate your mail" plastic bags. Eep.
- I think how WoTC handles the D&D set this summer will show the path forward for their making a Hobbit/LoTR set. Also, commander decks for Warhammer will be interesting. I am slightly scared the space marines will
dual wield guns(Doh!) thus popping the fantasy aspect of this stuff. - Subnote- it would be aces if they had alternative versions of cards you could get from a special subset of cards, sort of how they did the Ikoria godzilla monsters. That would be fine as well.
- Oh, Time Spiral Remastered- seems MANY MANY people want the old frame Ponder. So much, as of this blog post, pre-sale for it was sold out on TCG. CardKingdom has them, but for $65 each.
- I agree with the Canadian Threshold podcast regarding the reserve list. Now that WoTC has been bumped up the importance chain in terms of Hasbro, the parent company. Which means to me, that they had their importance vastly noticed because they were a massive money making entity for Hasbro which saw revenues slump elsewhere. In the mean time- some fresh new MBA wonk will take a look at how to make more money, realize what the reserve list is, and come to the amazing conclusion that the possible legal issues can be VASTLY out weighted by the amazing money making opportunities by printing money. Folks, its coming. I don't know how, or when- but its a step closer. Hasbro will want to maximize profits.... this is a huge money making machine waiting to happen.
- Looking forward to the days I can play some physical cards against physical humans in shared air space without masks. I suspect that will occur this fall. Total speculation. I am curious to see how many previous weekly legacy players make their way back to MTG First. Between the pandemic squishing play, prices going insane, people reviewing their life decisions, etc. Even though First allows 100% proxy decks because its not sanctioned, I wouldn't be surprised to see a loss of 25% or more
- Recent investment targets, not saying they are good, but they are what they are- 6-12 month hold:
Weathered Runestone & (33) Valakut Exploration (showcase). Runestone is for the gamble that there will be some card in standard that needs this as a SB answer in a new set. Valakut is because it is a step away from being good in EDH, which drives ALL sales. I'm still holding on to 36 Migration Path. Waiting for it to climb to a buylist of $1 plus.
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