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3/30/3018 Important Updates

Added 2018-03-30 23:44:14 +0000 UTC

Lets start with the most suspicious.

Revised Dual Lands across the board are disappearing on ebay/tcgplayer I believe a large investor or a major store like is buying them up quietly. The number of dual lands is decreasing by 1-4% EVERY DAY. The prices are quietly moving up.

Since Arabian Nights/Antiquites/Legends have been mostly bought up by stores/investors at this point we are starting to see money moving into Alliance cards (land cycle/rares) Tempest Rares, and of course the continued push into Urza's Foils and other older foils (7th edition).

It also appears all UNLIMITED edition cards are being bought up...even commons.

I believe Revised edition cards even with the HIGH print run will start to become expensive over the next 5 years.

Alpha/Beta will continue to hit insane levels, that are difficult to grasp moving into the future as they become "museum" pieces.

Next, the discontinuing of Modern/Eternal Masters into these "themed" sets, has caused all legacy/modern cards to skyrocket in price.

Liliana,Snap,Fetches...etc...

I do NOT recommend buying into these items, Wizards is in a position where they NEED to have sales/revenue, they WILL tap into this secondary market on a future product to capitalize it with some form of "master/Premium" product. I would be very very careful buying these very pricey cards that could easily take 30-60% hits.

There is a group of investors targeting Lottery cards from BFZ/Oath and Kaladesh/Aether. They are going to continue to buy these cards out. They know these sets are about to rotate out of standard and be out of print within the next 3-4 months. I have no idea what the intentions of these people are if they are going to hold the cards or dump them on the market, use caution as the depth/quantity of lottery cards is pretty big in size and a true buyout that holds will be very difficult. I do not believe whoever is doing this has the capital to see it through.

As crazy as it sounds...but if any new set is going to appreciate over the coming 5 year period the odds are tilted on kaladesh/Aether.

The Challenger decks are NOT going to have any impact on crushing prices or lowering single card values. As of right now i have asked about 15 stores and all stores are getting literally 1-2 cases per store. The supply is so low its almost like a From The Vault product. I am expecting something stupid like 1 case per distributor :-( And to be completely honest, if you can get them for under 100.00 i would buy them for fun, but i would not invest in a reprint product with nothing special about it. I think its a flash in the pan product.

Dominaria is probably going to be a powerhouse on sales. It will probably shatter sales records and be a new playing field for the next couple years. I do NOT expect to run out of boxes since it is a standard magic set and it will be the normal 79.99 a box. I will start preorders 1-2 weeks out. No real rush.

As weird as it sounds, i actually do believe wizards is going to throttle back on print runs and the products due to all the problems/collapses in box pricing in the last year. They are very slow to react but i think it is coming. We already saw Hour of devastation taken out of print early.

Im going to try a Final Fantasy Trilogy Case also Opus I,II,III,IV,V

Thanks again everyone

New product list will be out on 4/1/2018 at night

-Rudy

-Leave emotion at the door...and stay the course :-)