https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-882 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:20:28 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-882 The new duals are definitely going to quickly find themselves in the 8-12 range, no way around it. Everyone's losing pain lands, and everyone uses pain lands just about (though to varying degrees); whether or not the new duals will live up to the pain lands is yet to be seen of course. Of course the likelihood is that they will (they kind of have to). Regardless, they're probably the biggest talking point of M10, and will likely fetch respectable prices on (and after) release.

]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-883 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:30:51 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-883 Its funny how you say "hold value" and "pithing needle reprint in 10th" in the same sentence.

]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-884 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:49:50 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-884 The price of the dual lands will depend on what decks are popular at the time. My Bant deck leans hard on painlands, and I will probably need to pick up M10 lands fast. Tokens decks will need to only replace a few painlands, and might just wait a bit.Either way, with the PTQ format being Limited for a while, the prices won't be insane as they might be if Standard was still in full swing. If M10 is a good set (and it looks like it will be), I see useful duals hitting $8 (like Secluded Glen did, as it was essentially Underground Sea for a Faeries deck), with less-used ones down to $3-4 (like Shivan Reef or Sulfurous Springs are now).

]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-885 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:56:32 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-885 There will be some Nationals where M10 becomes legal on the day of those Nationals. That'll certainly drive the price. Overall, having new cards will certainly improve sales, especially considering that some of those new cards will be rare lands.-Saemar

]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-886 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:28:22 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-886 I'm hoping there's a window between M10's release and the Lorwyn rotation when the new dual lands might be "undervalued" due to people still mostly using the Lorwyn block filter lands or vivids+reflecting pools for fixing, despite the new dual lands in M10 being pretty good.If so, then there might be a brief window to pick up a full playset of all of them for only an arm, instead of the likely post-rotation cost of an arm and a leg. I definitely do think that the the new lands are going to be very good, because M10 is going to need something to sell it.Speaking of M10 I am already speculating what life is going to be like in a post-Wrath of God world. I think it's finally high time that card was put out to pasture for the same reasons that Counterspell and Lightning Bolt faded away.

]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-887 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:26:31 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/2009/06/the-effect-of-new-cards-in-m10/#comment-887 The correct pluralization of "Grand Prix" is "Grands Prix" for future reference : )-Doug, the wordy nerdy

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