Oops sorry edit: “while the player base *is increasing at a slower rate*”

Aside from Dragonspeaker Shaman, I really like all of these as well. Great targets, and while the player base is not increasing at a slower rate, that could easily change.

MTG has always gone through ebbs and flows, but looking at the market on these cards from a Technical Analysis, these could appreciate, albeit at a slow rate.

I feel like the new PPTQ policy will help drive interest in Modern, more so than there already is.

I should have mentioned that with the exception of Dragonspeaker Shaman…I have been speccing on ALL of the above mentioned cards. The point of the article though was to take a step back, understand one’s own bias’s and to critically review the cards from the opposing point of view. Too often we allow our internal bias’s to override flaws and then are surprised when our biased predictions turn out wrong (often because others DID notice the same flaws).

As more people pick up modern, the mana bases will go up. I’m personally banking on more interest in Modern. But I’m not stockpiling fetchlands and shocklands because I expect to make a ton on them going up, they are a safe place to park money that will likely earn a very modest percent. It’s a good place to lock in profits.

Tasigur I personally feel is underplayed. I think they is absurdly good. I see more and more modern decks running 2 or even 3. I think some of the points you made are invalid. I’ve never said to myself “I wish my opponent would give me a land” when I already have 4 mana to activate his ability. Tarmogoyf doesn’t have any evasion or resilience to removal spells either. Even without any additional graveyard manipulation, getting any spell back is fine. Most of the time when I delve to cast him, I am able to remove all of the useless spells that I don’t want to get back. Tasigur is stagnating a bit right now because he is available in trade binders, but Fate Reforged was only the newest set for like 7 weeks and was very undervalued.