Hi Naka, I’m glad your enjoy the article.

My article next Tuesday won’t be about Glittering Wish. But I keep that in mind for future articles and maybe talk about this sudden spikes.

For the Wish cases, from what I saw/heard it took Travis Woo and Sam Black (and maybe others) to have ideas about Modern decks with 4 Glittering Wishes in it to spark this huge spike.

I caught the spike 24h later and was able to grab 2 playsets of the wish at, already, 2.5 Tix per copy.There was no where to fin any other copies!
Future Sight cards are in very limited quantity which really helped the price to skyrocket.

With such spikes if you get the info too late with prices already high there is very little you can do about it. I’m not planing on holding my copies for too long, I’ll be happy with doubling here.
This spike being pure speculation as nobody posted a strong result with one of these decks in Modern, the price of the Wish may as well be back to 2 Tix in 2 weeks. Modern season is not what people are looking for now so I doubt the price will hold, especially on MTGO.

Thanks!

Long-term specs may sound strange on MTGO but after this article I convinced myself that is was clearly feasible. 🙂

Thanks for the comment!

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Sheva,

Thanks for the comment,

When rotation occurs supply is getting to its highest while demand its lowest. The vast majority of cards will hit their record low (whether it is 0.05 tix for junks or higher for more valuable cards).

Everyone wants to get ride of these cards to get as many tix as possible for the new fall sets. During these 2 to 4 weeks players wants Tix and tix only to draft and buy new set cards and build new decks for the new Standard.
Modern (or Legacy/Vintage) demand is at its lowest during that period, so even cards that are eternal formats staple are low.
After a month or two the frenzy for the new set has gone and people think about eternal format again and buy back some of these freshly rotated out cards. Prices are picking up.

Also, boosters are no longer available once out of Standard (unless I’m wrong?) so that’s it for fresh available cards. Redemption is now removing cards for MTGO. This will affect mostly mythics and almost not rares though.

Basically it’s the supply/demand model combined to the fact that players don’t have bottom less pockets so they have to sell X to buy Y, and after some time they sell Y to buy X. As speculators/investors we want to buy whatever is low and sell whatever is high, according to players demand.