Looking to make an investment
Economics forum
Posted on April 8, 2015, 9:08 p.m. by wnorris17
So I have been selling a few pieces of my modern collection and I want to reinvest 200-300 dollars of it into singles for profit. I want to ideally sit on these cards for around a year or so. Does anyone have any current suggestions?? Thanks!
My personal recommendation is to wait for MM15. My guess is that many modern staples that see reprints will fall in price (at least slightly) for a short period of time. I would buy stuff up while it drops.
April 8, 2015 9:28 p.m.
Shocks and fetches. Also standard modern staples such as thoughtsieze near rotation
April 8, 2015 9:30 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
Hold your money until we see what the post-MM15 and Origins landscape looks like. This is a precarious time to buy back in.
April 8, 2015 9:55 p.m.
Epochalyptik, do you think it is even a bad time for foil legacy buys?
April 8, 2015 9:59 p.m.
but I agree that MM15 will shake the market up. And who knows what origins will have
April 8, 2015 10 p.m.
mathimus55 says... #9
Mtgprice.com just had a really interesting article about shocks not being the mythical must haves for modern that they're hyped to be. The ceiling on your investment is pretty low. Id buy up all the khans fetches I could, but if you're actually looking to get any sort of ROI then investing outside of magic is definitely your safer bet
April 8, 2015 10:24 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #10
I didn't realize you were in it for the money.
Go play the stock market, that's a much safer way to get money back lol
April 8, 2015 10:26 p.m.
Idk, I have had some ridiculous luck playing the mtg stock market... And it's enjoyable. More enjoyable than my stock portfolio.
I sunk money into Abrupt Decay foils when they were 25. My lili's I bought at 35 are worth 80. I sold my 10 Splinter Twin copies for over $100 profit. I'm not making huge money, but it's fun and pays for my hobby :)
April 8, 2015 10:31 p.m.
very little is investible as people said above.
but if that's your price target i would try and find a box or 2 of mm2 around msrp, then just sit on it.
April 8, 2015 10:35 p.m.
julianjmoss says... #13
I'm majoring in economics currently and it's really interesting to see these posts. I don't have have any advice, I'm just subscribing to the thread. Carry on
April 8, 2015 10:48 p.m.
Don't invest in modern. It is a format built with the intention of reprinting the cards that are legal within it. If you would like to invest in magic look at the reserved list and pick some of those cards. Duals are always a good idea along with power.
April 9, 2015 1:08 a.m.
If you want to invest your "safest" bet is cards that see play in both Legacy and Modern as 4of in their decks. So Blue fetch-lands are a good bet to keep value and slowly go up. The monetary rise of fetches will however be dependent on a possible reprint of the Zen fetches this fall. If we get more fetches then the price will be slow to rise, if not they will start to climb more quickly. Shock-lands are also a good investment since they will only go up until reprinted, and investing in the once that see play in the T1 decks in modern will be your best bet. Shocks are probably the cards you'll see go up the most if your looking to invest short-term and only sit on the cards for a year.
If your looking for more of a short-term investment, roughly 6 months, I'd say Red standard cards are normally undervalued by both players and dealers whenever a new set drops. Then after 2-3 weeks when the pros put up some results with them the rest of the magic world starts following.
As an example I bought Goblin Rabblemaster at 2.30 USD the day M15 dropped. I then sold them when they where 16-17 USD during the winter.
I did the same with Eidolon of the Great Revel for a similar gain. I also picked up a small number of Thunderbreak Regent during release for this set and while they have "only" doubled in value so far, that was the expectation when I bought them.
There are very few "Red Players" out there doing the finance thing, and if you are one of those who understand the nature of red cards and why/how a red card is good within it's context in standard or none-rotating format then you can make some good money.
April 9, 2015 4:52 a.m.
mathimus55 says... #16
Also, subscribe to quietspeculation.com. Their forums are pretty much just mtg finance people who share their specs and moves their making, and they're people living off the finance game. I had a 30 day trial and learned a ton of what to look for, how to trade etc. it's worth more than the subscription price imo.
Goja says... #2
Storm Crow. Definitely Storm Crow. A 2-drop for a 1/2 Flyer? What more value do you need? Already the value for it has shot up from $0.13 to well over $0.19. And that was just in the course of 1 year! So at this rate, your Storm Crow will be worth $1,000 after just a short period of time of 16,666 years!
April 8, 2015 9:19 p.m.