Comments on: Insider: Reading Between The Lines https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sigmund Ausfresser https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-46095 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:03:51 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-46095 In reply to Daniel Yang.

I think it is due for an additional bump. The card is everywhere. I don’t think buying 100 is right, but if the card remains dominant in Standard, it should see a bump as RtR cards disappear from trade binders. Sorry for the confusion. I did sell my copies, but I bought a few more recently. Only have 3 so far, but I’m buying below $17…probably up to 2 playsets.

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By: Daniel Yang https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-46063 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:13:37 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-46063 So… sphinx’s rev. You want it to rise or go down? I’m confused. (We already had that period where it went from 4 to 25 so that was the spike it needed, now its at 18 and mw dictionary says bullish means waiting for it to go up? but we’ve *theoretically* already sold our copies for profit)

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By: David Schumann https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-45903 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:45:02 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-45903 In reply to Mathieu Malecot.

Agreed. I actually do believe Legacy is healthy from a players standpoint (i.e. there are lots of viable decks, there is no archetype that dominates to the point of pushing out other decks (i..e nothing ban worthy currently..though I do feel Show and Tell is probably at the top of R&D’s list)), now from a financial perspective I am truly concerned. I love the format and enjoying playing it, but given SCG’s willingness to axe it for more standard (because THAT’s soooooooo much more fun //sarcasm), I am a bit concerned about it’s long term viability. However, one important thing to note is that while the reserved list may eventually kill legacy from being the competitive format for SCG’s Sundays, the fact that it’s incredibly fun and it’s player base is far more devout than Standards to me implies that should SCG completely cut legacy out of their rotation…local people will still play and the cards will still hold value (they would drop some as the competitive grinders exit the game) but their staples will get scooped up by the true Legacy players/stores and the format will survive. Once you go Legacy…standard just doesn’t do it for you anymore…as you yourself can attest.

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By: Mathieu Malecot https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-45887 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:36:25 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-45887 In reply to Sigmund Ausfresser.

legacy is less volatile and already had its huge run up. great time to sell staples if you are planning on redeploying cash into something else.

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By: Sigmund Ausfresser https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-45884 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:25:39 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-45884 In reply to Lochlan McIntosh.

Good add, thanks for the comment. I just assumed it was Modern-driven because it spiked once already for Modern a few months back.

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By: Sigmund Ausfresser https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-45883 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:24:42 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-45883 In reply to David Schumann.

Fair point. It is a combination of ease of “breaking out” and likelihood of players to buy in. You think Legacy is completely healthy then? I still feel like it is exhibiting weakness overall.

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By: David Schumann https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-45881 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:14:50 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-45881 ” If the format was growing significantly, more such examples would exist on the mtgstocks.com list”. I have to disagree with you on this statement. The reason cards have drastic jumps is because they “break out”, Legacy is just the hardest format to “break out” in because the power level is so high. The more restricted the card pool, the lower the power level of each individual card, thus the more oppurtunity to “break out” a card has, which is why standard/block can have such rapid price swings. Standard players are also more likely to chase the “next big thing”, whereas, Legacy players are more likely to stick with a deck archetype they enjoy and tweak were possible. When that’s the case if some obscure red card were to suddenly break a specific matchup; players who had red in their deck (RUG, Sneak and Show, Burn) might adopt the new card, but people running Death and Taxes/BUG/Nic Fit won’t. Whereas in Standard if some obscure red card were to break a commonplace matchup everyone who didn’t have red in their deck might splash for it.

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By: Lochlan McIntosh https://www.quietspeculation.com/2013/03/insider-reading-between-the-lines/#comment-45875 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:07:16 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=36661#comment-45875 Goryo’s Vengeance jumped after Jacob Kory took second at the SCG Vegas Legacy Open. Modern speculation may have played a part, but make no mistake: this card went up because of Legacy.

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