Mutavault...
Economics forum
Posted on May 7, 2014, 12:56 p.m. by BoromirOfGondor
With the next season approaching, is it worth buying Mutavault for current standard decks? Will it retain any of its inherent value post rotation?
Prior to reprint they were extremely high though. I seem to remember seeing prices at over $40.
Just after reprint, though, they were about $10-13 if I recall.
May 7, 2014 1:36 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #4
Yes they were $40 before rotation, but eternal play alone saw them fall to $10. Without standard demand, the price will likely slip and not climb again for a long time.
May 7, 2014 1:38 p.m.
I think they'll slip for sure, and don't expect them to be that high again, but I really do not see them staying at below $20 for long.
May 7, 2014 1:39 p.m.
They were definitely around $10-$15 prior to being reprinted.
What eternal deck plays it, though? Just about nothing. Faeries tries, but it's not a tier-one deck. It pops up occasionally in Merfolk, but there are better lands. This is all Modern, too; it sees zero play in Legacy.
It definitely won't be above $20 for too much longer and likely won't with all the new copies of it circulating and not being in very high demand.
May 7, 2014 1:59 p.m.
Mutavault hasn't shown up in any Legacy decks on TCGplayer over the past 2 months. Legacy Fish runs them sometimes maybe, but they like to stick to Cavern of Souls and perhaps some copies of Wasteland .
May 7, 2014 2:18 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #9
zandl 1-2 weeks before it was spoiled in M14 it WAS up to $40. I had been watching the price hoping that it might drop for Modern Fish reasons. The day it was spoiled it dropped to 15 and has been climbing ever since.
May 7, 2014 2:34 p.m.
ryuzaki32667 says... #10
There's this link that shows Mutavault as 4ofs in each of the merfolk decks, wastelands are the iffy ones that don't always show up, Idk where those events were but I can also say I was personally attacked by a Mutavault on Sunday in the Cincinnati scg legacy open, but the point is Mutavault is used but not any top decks to keep the value up where it's at now
http://www.mtgtop8.com/compare
Just hit compare to show the differences
May 7, 2014 3:38 p.m.
megawurmple says... #11
I run Mutavault in my tempo deck, and I have seen it used in some builds as a 2- or 3-of in case of flooding or a board wipe. It definitely has its uses.
zandl says... #2
It will retain some value, but it certainly won't be $35 beyond Standard. My guess is that they'll drop to around $18-$20 by rotation (with all non-eternal players selling them in droves) and then hover around that for awhile, then trickle down to $15 or maybe even $12, back to around what they were prior to them being reprinted.
May 7, 2014 1:10 p.m.