Corbin,

Thanks for the comment! I had no idea that AVR was opened so much. I mean, I always thought the set would be a hit because of the casual appeal. So many Angels are sweet!

Do you have a source for this datapoint? If you have access to info on how much product hit the market, I’d be excited to learn more.

Thanks,

Sig

Yeah, there are definitely some exceptions, but I usually find that kitchen table players are more than happy to trade away foils. In my local area, I know at least one player who has Richard Garfield in their cube, and another who made a Commander deck with him as the general. I don’t really understand the appeal of Un cards and their foils, though I can see why Who What Where When Why would be cool in Cube.

Very good point here. But why do Unhinged foils get so expensive then? Surely these are only kitchen table cards, right? Maybe barring the few that are played in Cube? But you can’t tell me Foil Richard Garfield, PhD is anything but kitchen-table. Yet foils are so expensive!

Todd Anderson used them in the Modern Goryo’s Vengeance deck and Sam Black touted them in a Modern 5- color manabase but I think they were high before then anyway. The Judge promo is the only ‘Modern’ face version.

Oh God, you mentioned foil Ponder… I remember having one when I just started out 1,5 years ago and I traded it away too! Ah, we were all noobs once… I’m happy I understand the appeal of foil cards now.

Looks like 5x – seems on par with some of the other example I cited since it does see Legacy play. At least it used to – assuming it still does once in a while in Storm or Dredge decks. I had no idea these were so expensive though – time to keep my eyes out for them!

Anne, this is an excellent build! I completely neglected to mention foil Commons/Uncommons but sometimes they are even easier to profit on. I was all over Twitter yesterday asking about foil copies of Young Pyromancer – these are selling in the $12 range right now even though it’s an M14 Uncommon! Especially when a newly printed Standard card sees Legacy play, it’s great to pick up foils on the cheap. I still regret trading away the Foil Ponder I had a couple years ago.