![]() Modern Prices: Tier 1 Decksīecause Wizards isn't going back on the Reserve List, no matter how many reddit, Source, and Salvation players argue otherwise, Legacy will continue to have reprint issues. This article assumes that rising prices are a potential source of worry, especially for those who fear for Modern's longterm health. We all know players who don't care how "available" a Tarmogoyf is if it's still about $150. Whether or not Wizards acknowledges Modern prices as a problem, the community is certainly worried. I don't want to get too involved in this argument here and you shouldn't either. Did Wizards promise a format to solve card availability issues? Yes! Did they promise one to solve card price issues? Not explicitly, and maybe not even implicitly depending on how you define "availability" (Wizards hasn't). This also relates to a classic eternal/nonrotating format argument about the difference between card "price" and card "availability". It will happen even if Wizards tries to meet demand with supply increases through reprints and Modern Masters-style sets. As Modern becomes more popular, prices are virtually guaranteed to rise. Some players do not find these trends worrisome, or even unexpected. Even uncommons and commons weren't immune to this effect: see Heritage Druid ($18.50), Might of Old Krosa ($8.99), and the embarrassing Serum Visions ($13.10). Modern hallmarks like Blinkmoth Nexus, Cavern of Souls, and Aether Vial all saw huge price increases since the Modern community confirmed their MM2015 absence. Modern Masters may have driven down prices for staples like Confidant (down about 50%) and Tarmogoyf (-25%), but any card excluded from the set skyrocketed in the opposite direction. Cards like Snapcaster, Moon, and Liliana rose over 90% (over 100% in Snapcaster's case). This was perhaps most notable in individual card prices, if not necessarily the decks using them. Although some decks held value (Jund only jumped by a negligible 2%), the overall picture was one of increasing Modern prices. ![]() Price differences ranged from 12%-15% for decks like RG Tron and Affinity, 25%-30% for Grixis Twin and Burn, and around 60% for Elves and Amulet Bloom. This will help us check if you can play competitively in both formats on similar budget, or if one is actually cheaper or pricier than the other.īack in early July, MTG Goldfish published an article showing a 25% price increase in Modern over just the last six months. ![]() Then again, if Modern prices spike so much that they are comparable to Legacy ones, who cares how "available" the cards really are? Why not play Legacy if the formats have similar prices? To answer these kinds of questions, I'll compare the prices of key Legacy decks to Modern ones. Legacy will always be hamstrung by the much-maligned Reserve List, which leaves Modern as the non-rotating format where card availability shouldn't be an issue. This isn't what many players expected of a format billed as not having "the card availability problems of Legacy", and it has led many player to question Modern's effectiveness.Īs a longtime Modern supporter, I see why many people are worried about the relationship between price spikes and longterm format health. We saw Blood Moon double from $25 to $50 in about two months and cards like Gilt-Leaf Palace spike almost 1000% overnight. Snapcaster Mage jumped from $33 to $75 in the same time frame. Liliana of the Veil climbed from about $55 to a TCGPlayer average of $98 since January. The last six months since the January ban announcement have seen price jumps across the format, both on staple effects and on wild speculation targets. Modern prices have been rising since the format's birth, but 2015 brought these spikes to new levels. ![]()
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