side board cards printed once can’t be worth money? Leyline of Sanctity :p people need to re think that for sure..

I dont really have a top X spec target list, I have like 10 cards/items that are on my radar and just focus on like 4-5 of them. That does 2 things for me: 1) It helps manage money a bit and 2) I don’t just like randomly tossing spec ideas out there that I don’t have faith in because it makes me look bad when they are wrong and I want people to make money based off of what I tell them, not lose.

It has a lot to do with people’s idea that just because it is in the sideboard it shouldn’t be worth money…makes no sense to me

Nothing specific to do with you, Stu, but in general I’d like to see more context in mtg finance calls. Like, are these B/R picks in your top 50 specs, top 100, etc? Is Torpor Orb a top 10? top20 spec? (By the way, Phyrexian Revoker seems like another one to target.)

Also I have a 5c glass cannon Hermit Druid deck ready that involves Unburial Rites, Demigod of Revenge, Dread, Dark Ritual, Rite of Flame, Past in Flames and Memory’s Journey.. very fragile but it’s a nice Hermit Druid build.

She reminds me most of Gideon in that she creates an interesting subgame of “kill the planeswalker,” because in most cases you aren’t able to ignore her, same as Gideon. So yeah, control decks.

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This also sells me on Orb over Cage as well. Thanks for the adds.

Its basically nothing at this point in Modern

Torpor Orb is also a house in EDH…especially against green decks

grafdigger’s cage has the advantage of being Trinket Mage-able, which is not nothing

From what I have learned, these sets are all of the extra sets Hasbro was going to sell on their website, but canceled people’s orders who tried to order too many, so instead of a relisting, they choose this option

Yep, that makes me want to do Torpor Orb even more

I have tweeted about Earthcraft in the past, but the 3 I picked I wanted 3 super-cheap picks and purposely left Earthcraft off.

I don’t think Grafdigger is going to be as played. Yeah, it turns off Ooze and Deathrite and Snapcaster, but I think the decks those are in right now are either A)Too hard to meta correctly and may occasionally spike a tourney but not be consistent or B) there are better decks.

Torpor Orb hits 2 of the most important decks in the format in Pod and Twin and can still hit Snapcaster Mage.

Hermit druid I think is so low, and the potential is so high, it has been the same price forever so I don’t think you can ever lose and winning would be insane.

You might be right on Thoughtseize, but I am like 60-40 it will stay higher than Ooze.

I guess EC is much more expensive to start, but black vise just… come on, that card’s not getting unbanned. Mind twist, in my estimation, is the only one of those cards with high potential to come off the list, and earthcraft is at least equal in that likelihood. the limited number of earthcrafts (by comparison to MT) make it a much better speculation candidate, in my mind.