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Should I buy a box?
This is one of the first questions most players ask themselves when a new set comes out. Many buy boxes to draft with friends or for the sake of opening boosters---and that's totally fine!
But what about those of us evaluating the purchase from a financial perspective? The common wisdom here on QS is that a box should be bought, opened, and all cards sold within the first days after the release, otherwise you'll start losing your money.
But how much is the loss?
Starting from Shadows over Innistrad, we aim to provide you solid data to help assign the proper value to all your unopened boxes!
Very interesting to see.
But i am curious about the same statistics for OAG and BFZ boxes, because they contain expeditions and those prices seem to have stabilized somewhat.
We are working on that!
What caused the DF mythics (Avacyn, Arlinn, Startled Awake) slot to quadruple in value? That seems weird.
Their percentage went way up because their value remained more closely the same while the overall cost dropped dramatically.
Duh. Just realized that was %, not $. The stat next to DF mythics has a random ‘$’ after it, and it threw me off.
However, to me, the math still looks off. ?
Also the double whammy effect is that as EV decreases , variance increases – esp. £$2-5 ares become bulk. If 2 sets have identical EV the one with the lower variance is obvioulsy the better bet. A month or so also DTK and ORI was neck to neck EV but ORI was a jace lottery while DTK was much more stable due to command cycle & strong rares.
I agree with you. Here you have a validation of what you’re saying https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/06/infograph… DTK is the only one with a solid presence of valuable rare cards