Comments on: Insider: What Makes a Great Preorder Spec?

By: robert bixler

robert bixler — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 05:19:25 +0000

I think that this is a great compliment to your last article. I’m not sure how objective your six criteria for each card is, but until actual statistical analysis is conducted to discover how each facet of a card (such as CMC, color identity, flexibility, metagame, set number, etc.) affects price I think these are decent rules of thumb that I have seen discussed in other places.

By: Luca Ashok

Luca Ashok — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:33:35 +0000

In reply to Shoey_UK.

I think it’s great to speculate on cards that fit into your preferred archetype because you are more likely to judge the card correctly. It does suck that it competes with Thunderbreak, but that just gives it even more room to grow when DTK and ORI rotate.

There have already been a couple authors saying good things about Castigator. I just read an article dedicated to it by Sperling and PV wrote about it as well.

I love how great this card is against planeswalkers, which are poised to make a comeback when the format slows down.

By: Shoey_UK

Shoey_UK — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:06:46 +0000

I really like the Goldnight Castigator pick and preordered a playset – mainly because I play mono red and I can see this being a 4 of if the deck moves more towards mid range with the loss of swiftspear (although it competes with thunderbreak which is another rotation spec).

I’m turning my attention to mtgo spec and for paper I’m just interested in getting what I need to play before price spikes. Being in the UK, the lack of a market as liquid as the US makes paper specs too costly to transact. At $5 for a playable mythic can’t go that wrong.