Why are the pain lands suddenly spiking?
Economics forum
Posted on Feb. 21, 2016, 10:43 a.m. by Doom_of_Valyria
This is a weird trend I've noticed over the past couple of weeks. First, Karplusan Forest sky-rocketed, and I figured it was because people finally realized it was almost as good as Grove of the Burnwillows. I mean, it enters untapped and gives r/g for a one-life swing.Now today I just saw Adarkar Wastes shoot up to ~$20 for the 7th Ed one I have. What gives with this? Can we expect pain lands to become more expensive than shocks in the near future? Can they hold this price tag?
TheHelvault says... #3
And the same with all of the standard pain-lands. Buy some of them while you have the chance- I got a playset of each
February 21, 2016 10:58 a.m.
lemmingllama says... #4
Karplusan Forest and Adarkar Wastes in particular spiked hard due to being in the colors for some of the better Eldrazi decks and not being reprinted recently.
In particular, Adarkar Wastes just shot up since the U/W Eldrazi version is dominating this weekend's SCG Open
February 21, 2016 11:12 a.m.
Objection: painlands are nothing like Grove of the Burnwillows
February 21, 2016 11:43 a.m. Edited.
Yeah, I gotta side with ChiefBell on this one. For decks that want the untapped fixing, they don't want their lands to put a clock on themselves, or quicken up the clock being put on them.
February 21, 2016 11:48 a.m.
Grove is great because it's played in decks (namely Tron) that don't give a shit about the opponent's life total, but are very much concerned with their own (because they can't survive aggro for too long). Karplusan Forest is the exact opposite of that - it helps aggro strategies and hurts control. It makes no sense to compare the two, although Karplusan Forest is also very very good (as are painlands in general).
Oh, and let's not forget Grove of the Burnwillows is the main reason Punishing Fire, an otherwise perfectly acceptable card, got banned from Modern.
February 21, 2016 11:53 a.m.
From a standard point of view, it may be because the fetches from khans are going out?
February 21, 2016 11:57 a.m.
xavrr: except the ones that have spiked are allied color painlands, none of which is Standard legal.
February 21, 2016 12:02 p.m.
I think it's simply because they're becoming trilands and people are buying into it since wizards is bound to eventually print more powerhouse cards in colorless.
February 21, 2016 2:07 p.m.
Exactly. They tap for colorless and that's important now. I've been hoarding pain lands for a couple months now waiting for a spike
February 21, 2016 3:26 p.m.
vishnarg: I'd definitely sell them now. Eldrazi decks don't have much longer to live, so I fully expect painland prices to plummet after the next banlist update. Or are they being used somewhere else? Not that I know.
February 23, 2016 11:19 a.m.
Eldrazi decks aren't being emergency banned so there's a while to go yet with them in the meta.
askdylan says... #2
eldrazi decks are causing the spike, as long as people want the colorless source for their decks they will hold value
February 21, 2016 10:46 a.m.