Japanese cards
Economics forum
Posted on Aug. 25, 2014, 8:42 p.m. by abenz419
in terms of value, where do japanese card land when it comes to effecting value? I know some languages are more rare than others just not sure what the order of rarity really is.
Epochalyptik says... #3
It depends on the card. There's no set percent increase for any given language.
Japanese cards do command the third highest premium after Korean and Russian.
August 25, 2014 9:04 p.m.
ryuzaki32667 says... #4
here is an article from way back in 2011, that goes over the more sought after languages Korean, Russian, Japanese, and Russian and some example modifiers , just keep in mind this is an old article and its not always exact this equals this in ~ language.
August 25, 2014 9:16 p.m.
It's a Temple of Malice .. I was going to use it in an EDH deck so I don't mind that it's foreign. I know being foreign doesn't guarantee a big price spike, that's why I was curious about where Japanese cards fall in terms of foreign rarity. Which you both have answered. I just figured if Japanese cards were one of the most common then I wouldn't really need to factor it being foreign into it's value.
Also, I just noticed i repeated myself in my question. What I meant was "where do Japanese cards land when it comes to foreign rarity". I must have been looking back at what I had typed and repeated it.
August 25, 2014 9:21 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
You only really start to see the price difference when you get to foils. Nonfoil foreigns might cost only $1-5 more for sub-$50 cards.
August 25, 2014 9:23 p.m.
Well it's going for about the same price retail of an English one. I know if I search around I can find an English version for less than market value, so I was just trying to figure out if being foreign would make it worth paying closer to retail. It's not a necessity to have a Japanese version so I don't mind just waiting till I find an English one a little cheaper, but I also don't mind paying just a little extra for a card if it's gonna hold a little more value because it's foreign. The way I see it, down the road when it's not being used by me anymore it'll have more trade value. I know people around here like having foreign cards. Some just like foreign cards and others like them in their EDH decks.
WovenNebula says... #2
I'm not sure the cost of foreign lands but I believe Russian and Korean are the most expensive of the bunch and that Japanese follow suit shortly after.
August 25, 2014 8:55 p.m.