Thanks Matt 🙂

Yeah Chance of success would bring an interesting dimension. If you wanted to implement something like that I would say start easy with something like “likely, maybe, not likely”. But to Matts point below. Great article. Articles like this force us to critically think about each card and where it may fit in.

Also as you pointed out in the Teferi section, last year I got squeamish on the Scarab God around 12, and boy did I leave some money on the table there. So ill be picking up teferis when the price seems right, and probably in somewhat large quantities.

anyway thanks for the article!

Also, I think I need to add another category: “Chance of success” or something like that.

You’re probably right about Verix. The one thing in its favor is that it’s a mythic (which is something I’ve forgotten on occasion because it’s the power level and complexity of a rare). But it is probably too likely to get outclassed by future printings to be #5 in the rankings.

It probably belongs in the same league as Jaya Ballard and Phrexian Scriptures…cards that need the right level of help and luck to see a big boost.

One thing I do think is that it is almost impossible for Verix and Jaya to go lower than they are now. It’s rare for planeswalkers to dip below a dollar, must less below $.75, but here we are with Jaya. Verix is also $.50, which is very low. The risk in investing in them is virtually nil, but the likelihood that they would pay off as speculations is probably lower than I imagined.

Just a few thoughts on your picks. I like the pick on the blue wizard seems like potential there. Verix and Jaya are interesting in how they work together, but I’m not completely sold on them, but not complete unsold either. I like to think of Verix as a 7 mana broodmate dragon, and just like the original broodmate, it doesn’t seem to stack well against Lyra Dawnbringer (baneslayer back then). How Lyra hasn’t seen more play with all of these red decks running around I have no idea. The other issue is that Verix trades with Rekindling Phoenix, but the phoenix will stick around and Verix wont. So I think verix best application is in a ramp deck. Jaya is weird in that its a 5 mana walker that does not create creatures or remove creatures. It does generate card advantage and ramp, but its hard to say if that’s enough. From the instances that I have tracked it seems like 5 mana walkers seem to become popular late in their standard life. Ob nixilis, Nissa Vital force as examples. Also I think its a safe bet that the fall set will contain 1 OP AF 4 mana planeswalker. Which color it will be I have no idea, but that seems to be the tool they use to sell the set. So it is possible the 4 cmc gets too crowded for Verix. So I’m a wary of both, but if I can get them for bargain basement prices, they might be worth the shot. Just my thoughts.

Thanks,

Peter