Why is EVERYTHING rising in price?
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Posted on Jan. 19, 2014, 3:35 a.m. by Turn_Soonest
I've noticed everything keeps rising in price lately.... Karn, Phyrexian Obliterator , Grove of the Burnwillows , the gods, Wurmcoil Engine , Stoneforge Mystic , Thoughtseize , Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and more. Why is all of it shooting up in price?
R/G Tron accounts for most of the cards you listed. It's quickly becoming one of the better decks in the format after Seething Song was banned. It has a strong match-up vs. Pod, Jund, and Affinity. It still does poorly against Splinter Twin , so it hasn't taken over the format.
Phyrexian Obliterator is a popular card in EDH and people are speculating that a mono-black devotion deck will show up in Modern. It won't, but people are trying to speculate anyway.
Thoughtseize is played in every format it's legal, besides EDH.
U/W/x Stoneblade decks have become insane with the printing of True-Name Nemesis . Stoneforge Mystic is a key component of that deck.
In other words, the metagame in Modern is shifting. Jund is still king, but not as good as it once was and many other decks are well-positioned against it. Innistrad and RtR are now out of print, which changes the way people build deck that involve cards from those two sets. Lastly, the results of Eternal Weekend are starting to trickle down among Legacy and Vintage players. We don't get sanctioned events very often, so it can take a while for prices to kick in since non-sanctioned events generally allow a few proxies.
January 19, 2014 4:15 a.m.
Turn_Soonest says... #6
sylvannos I'm building Tron so I noticed the stuff for that jumped a lot mostly :P
January 19, 2014 4:20 a.m.
TurboFagoot says... #7
Modern is the format for a few upcoming GP's, thus Modern playable cards are rising.
January 19, 2014 6:22 a.m.
Please also note modern season is about to begin and this was expectex to happen. December is the right time to buy modern staples.
January 19, 2014 4:42 p.m.
Modern season is coming up, luckily I found a foil phyrexian oblitorator for my mono black edh for 25$ so its been a good day. But trying to find force of wills, true-names and stuff for legacy and modern is hard because of the season coming up
Represser says... #2
Supply & Demand
January 19, 2014 4:05 a.m.