Comments on: Insider: Food Chain, Time Spiral MTGO and Getting the Most of your Insider https://www.quietspeculation.com/2012/05/insider-food-chain-time-spiral-mtgo-and-getting-the-most-of-your-insider/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: mglewis https://www.quietspeculation.com/2012/05/insider-food-chain-time-spiral-mtgo-and-getting-the-most-of-your-insider/#comment-31585 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:51:40 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=27543#comment-31585 In reply to knx.

re Karakas

Online prices are not well anchored to irl prices, especially for out of print cards. There is no way to take an online Karakas and turn it into a physical copy, so the only use for it is within the MTGO client. If Legacy and Classic were more popular online, you'd start to see Karakas go up in price. As it stands, those constructed formats are not well supported online compared to Standard, Block, and Pauper.

In general, it is a mistake to look at irl prices alone when considering what the price of a digital object should be. Notice that Underground Sea also carries a 40:1 ratio of irl/online prices (approximately). For in print cards, there is an outlet for digital objects via redemption. But prices still do not correspond perfectly, even for in print cards. Snapcaster Mage is a 6 tix card online and arguing that it should be higher because the physical price is higher is a faulty argument.

]]> By: knx https://www.quietspeculation.com/2012/05/insider-food-chain-time-spiral-mtgo-and-getting-the-most-of-your-insider/#comment-31578 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:07:30 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=27543#comment-31578 I'd like to hear why Karakas is a 45-dollar card but not even ONE tic online…
I appreciate that you are trying to bring more mtgo-news, keep up doing that because a lot of your subscribers only play/trade online.

]]> By: zach5000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2012/05/insider-food-chain-time-spiral-mtgo-and-getting-the-most-of-your-insider/#comment-31576 Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:01 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=27543#comment-31576 Great article. The food chain email payed off for me and I am planning on selling mine soon as possible

One question thou, Why do so many people think Karakas is going to be in FTV realms.
To me it is one of the least likely cards I could see them printing because it is only played in one format and not very many casual players are even familiar with it.
It is also a very valuable card and would be the berserk / mox diamond of the set preventing other, multi format cards like rishidan port or wasteland or mutivault from getting printed.

Please tell me why Karakas is everyones number 1 pick for the set

]]> By: mglewis https://www.quietspeculation.com/2012/05/insider-food-chain-time-spiral-mtgo-and-getting-the-most-of-your-insider/#comment-31538 Mon, 07 May 2012 08:03:38 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=27543#comment-31538 It looks like cardbot is holding the line on Tarmogoyf's price for the moment. I don't have access to modo but supernova is quoting a price of 46.5, indicating to me the market price of Tarmogoyf is well below what you could have sold it for at the time of the Insider email.

Can't agree more that the forums are a great resource for QS readers.

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