The great thing about using a ratio, it doesn’t matter what the number is as long as you have something to compare it to. Removing junk rares from the values would shift the ratio, but does the resulting number mean anything? No, you’d have to compare it to other ratio values, and it’s in the comparison that some knowledge can be gained.

By comparing ratios, you can get a feel for how prices are moving. At this point, for the particular ratio that I am calculating, 0.33 seems to be the low end and 0.80 seems to be the high end. It might be that I could further refine the ratio, but I haven’t yet considered what might be a good approach or if it’s even necessary at all to change it.

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Keep in mind that although cards do not get destroyed or lose quality online, the player base is churning, and some players who stop playing won’t sell their cards into the market. So, in sense, digital cards also get stacked away.

I have no idea how many copies of a given card exist.

I have been wondering about this, and perhaps this might be a reason : there are a lot of new players online, wizards tell us there never have been more and they stick around longer, meaning much more product is opened.

But those new players rarely go into playing standard (or any type of constructed) I suppose, so the demand for these possibility-cards doesn’t rise accordingly. With real cards a lot ‘disappear’ from the grid, getting stacked away, worn out,… whereas all online cards stay mintyfresh.

What I also always wanted to know : do you have any idea of how many of a given standard card exist online ?

Thanks! I agree it’s probably a good bet to get to 1 tix at some point, but not a sure thing. Sounds like you got a nice stash at a good price, so I want to emphasize to other readers to not overpay for a card like Counterflux. At 0.1 tix or higher, that’s too much to speculate on a card like this.

I’ve been reviewing the rares I speculated on from Innistrad, and my binder is littered with cards I saw potential in, but in the end have gone nowhere. Only Stromkirk Noble and Gavony Township turned out to be profitable specs for non mythics. Overpaying on too many junk rares is a quick way to lose tix.

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.