i am a new user just subscribed yesterday, since you mentioned basic lands in the first part of the article, i would like your opinion on what is the roof for some basics i´ve been gathering.

unhinged/unglued basics (non-foil)

zendikar/ zendikar in chinese (full art) foil and non-foil

i´ve been buying/trading the “un-lands” for quite a while and i have seen their price rising overall, and would like an opinion on how high can they go, i´m up to around 400 unhinged and 150 unglued, so i would really like a feedback on these ones.

also if the prices go to high, do you think the demand for the zendikar lands will go up since they would be more affordable?

All the best from Portugal,

Diogo Marques

Thanks! Yeah, that’s my thinking as well. If Mire continues its rise, I’d rather just play Overgrown Tomb in my Modern deck.

Nice score on the foil copy! I had been looking for one forever for my Karador EDH deck and found one at Origins last year. If Mire continues to go up, I may have to sell it and replace it with a golgari guildgate or something…lol.

And I’m glad to see how far ahead we were on Scars lands. I pick up 20+ in the last two weeks.

I did forget to bring up Deathrite Shaman, at least to identify its recent popularity.

I personally bought 3 copies at just under $6 each. I wouldn’t pay much more for them at the moment, and SCG has been restocking these at $9.99 without increasing the price. It would take a lot to move Deathrite Shaman much higher being a rare. I’m tepid on it.

Thanks for chiming in to clarify, Tyler 🙂

I’m not buying 100, but they may reach $1 on buylists if Angel of Serenity continues to dominate.

I think Deathrite still isn’t a buy, even though it’s seeing a ton of play. The set is still being opened and the supply will continue to flood in, which makes the card as a spec a hard call, as it’s been floating between $7 and $10 recently.

I agree with both of your assessments as to when to buy. I do expect people will panic and sell things at the times you cited, which may be a solid time to buy. I will probably wait until the second event happens though (MM spoiler season) since that’s likely when the massive selling will ensue. By the same measure, I’d probably sell extra Modern stuff during the season before people start the panic selling (this is no change from the normal seasonal timings of course).

I haphazardly discovered how expensive Twilight Mire became. The other day I remembered that I had 1 copy of Woodland Cemetery in my Modern deck. So I went to eBay and sold it for $12.89. That opened up a B/G land slot in my deck, and so I figured I’d buy a Mire since it would have better long term price stability and it was SUPPOSED to be cheaper. Doh! Now I’m getting a random foil copy that I found at $18 shipped. I may try to sell that soon for profit and use profits towards a non-foil copy.

Also, good call on the Twilight Mire! 😉 My gut is that they won’t “waste” 10 rare spots in MM for the filter land cycle and they likely won’t reprint only 1 or 2 of them. I guess they could move them down to uncommon but I’m not sure how likely that is either. My guess is they might start showing up in duel decks or other supplementary products to increase the supply of the ones that are climbing in price. Until then, I think Mire is going to hit $20 since most Jund lists have it as a 2-3 of.