Re:Hasbro dilutes the value of Magic: The Gathering, Bank of...
by graybies on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:56PM
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They just did reprint reserved list cards in mtg 30th. Revised dual lands did take a significant hit to price. If anything I saw more people buying revised duals because of this.
Re:Hasbro dilutes the value of Magic: The Gathering, Bank of...
by __turbobrew__ on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:46AM
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Yea I don’t buy the “reprinting the reserved list will crash everything to 0”. Many old cards hold their value even after they are reprinted. Anything originally printed in 1993/1994 holds tremendously more value than reprints: see anything from legends, arabian nights, alpha, beta, unlimited, antiquities.
Yes maybe original revised dual lands go down to $100 if they are reprinted, but they are definitely not going to be $5.
Maybe a little off, but probably not by much.
MtG cards seemed to be calibrated such that if you preordered the "box set" (whatever it was) directly at retail prices (not speculative ones), you would wind up with a net profit if you went and sold the cards as individual pieces.
This has been increasingly less true over time. And some of the current box sets seem to be a significant loss.
> If they reprinted the reserve list
Every collector would head for the exit, MtG card prices would absolutely collapse, and the system would pretty much curl up and die.