What drives prices?
Economics forum
Posted on May 21, 2016, 3:28 p.m. by capriom85
Let's look at Archangel of Tithes for the example. This was a $5 ballpark card going into Shadows Over Innistrad. The great synergy it has with Always Watching drove it up to the $20 range. Now it is sitting around $15. These are good numbers to work with.
Clearly the fact that it fits into a deck that is definitely Tier 1, and synergizes well with a card already played in the deck made it quadruple in price. Nothing much has changed since the price spike. So why the $5 drop in price?nthe deck neither got better not worse. No new cards have been added to the deck (UW Humans for the uninformed). Is it simply the result of people having their play sets now? Is this a price adjustment due to lack of demand? I'm not very well versed in how the economics of cards goes.
So is the drop the effect of people having them who want them and the people who are selling them are trying to move them at a cheaper price yet no one is buying?
May 21, 2016 4:44 p.m.
Let's use Immerwolf for another example:
Before Innistrad, it was a .3 to .5 uncommon that sees play in every 
wolf/werewolf tribal deck. Then, SOI is spoiled, and the card jumped up to $3-$5. Demand went up, and then the price went up. Then the demand fell, and it's sitting at a decent $2.5.
Since it is uncommon from a fairly recent set, we won't see a rise in price to more than $10, unless EMN brings us a legendary creature.
JWiley129 says... #2
It's simple economics. Where there is supply & demand prices will change accordingly. The reason for the price drop is because while the supply has changed, the demand has dropped. Ostensibly because all the people who want their Archangel of Tithes have them and are not selling them.
May 21, 2016 3:40 p.m.