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3 years ago ::
May 12, 2010 - 12:58PM
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I was looking at a recent MTG card price guide and I sorted it by most expensive first. I thought this was interesting: One of each of the 75 most expensive magic cards is worth $27,974.64 ($373.00 each) One of each of the remaining 15,213 magic cards are worth $27,783.61 ($1.83 each)

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3 years ago ::
May 12, 2010 - 1:02PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 15, 2008
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Um... Yeah?
The Pony Co. Because none of us are as loving as all of us. Contact info
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In case contacting me over the forums is not possible for some reason or another, my email is morten.c.k.olsen@gmail.com. Please state who you are, because I will most likely end up ignoring people that I don't know at least somewhat. Alwaaaaays, I wanna be with you!
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You clearly overestimate my cognitive skills by assuming that I could have accumulated that knowledge independently.
Okay, I'll be sure not to make that kind of assumption in the future. 
Now, if you'd like to go back to the main Magic General 'forum' page (that's the one that lists all the different 'discussion threads' that people have 'posted') from this page, just press the up-arrow key on your keyboard until you reach the top of the page, then click the link that says "Magic General"--it should be in fairly small font, just above the buttons labeled "Post Reply" and "Subscribe" and the box labeled "Jump Menu", but below the blue link labeled "Preferences". It'll be in a line with a number of other small-font links with different names.
From the 'forum' page you will be able to select another 'thread' to view; 'threads' that people have 'posted' to since you last looked at them will have their names listed in bold font and have the number of unread replies listed just to the right of the name. If you click that unread replies number, it will take you right to the last reply you viewed in the 'thread' so that you can continue reading all the new replies from there. To get back to the main Magic General 'forum' page, just repeat the process from the previous paragraph--don't worry if you're on a different page, all 'thread' pages will have the same basic layout, so it should work exactly the same on any page in the Magic General 'forum'.\
And remember, if you accidentally click on the wrong link and find yourself on a page you're not familiar with, there's no need to panic; you can always press the 'back' button in your browser to go back to whatever you were looking at before. It should be on the left-hand side near the top of the screen, just below the menu bar, and will probably have a picture of some kind of arrow pointing to the left on it.
Hope that helps! 
The explanation given was that since land cards represent mystical bonds to far-off places rather than actual tangible things like creatures and other permanents, a person might have more than one memory of an area, or different mages could forge a bond to different parts of a place, etc. and that simply being a unique location doesn't necessarily mean that a land card has to be legendary.
"I remember my days as a schoolboy at the Tolarian Academy ..." "Really? I went there too-" "Wait don't- Well ****, there goes my childhood."
I was clearly wrong about Dragon_Whelp, he clearly is a jerk.
Allow me to extrapolate—regular game play, as defined by WotC, is tournament play. As such, Casual, EDH, Planechase, and all that other stuff is irregular Magic; if Magic at all.
So the next time someone says Competitive Constructed decks are not the only decks that count in Constructed (Casual Constructed), then I can gleefully point to the definition set forth by WotC and say that Competitive Constructed is in deed the only ones that count, and that they are playing some irregular form of Magic.
Dragon, just don't argue with Hovercraft. He's his own Legacy metagame.
One with Nothing is the third iteration in an attempt to make Black Lotus fair:
Black Lotus : That's too good, we need to tone it down. Lion's Eye Diamond : Dammit, players are still using it in a very broken manner! One with Nothing : Alright! We got it now.
What happened to the really fun cards? Well you see a long long time ago the earth was ruled by dinosaurs. They were big so not a lot of people went around hassling them. Then a giant meteorite struck the earth, good bye dinosaurs. But what if the dinosaurs weren't all destroyed? What if the impact of that meteorite created a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs continue to thrive and evolve into intelligent vicious aggressive beings? What if they found a way back? ....wait that's not what happened to the fun cards that's the intro to the mario brothers movie. Get those two confused all the time, my bad.
It's a folllow-up on the Priceless Treasures, Deadly Perils idea. See, what happened was, you got the packs that the Eldrazi had already gotten to--the had annihilated everything but the land itself.
In fall, expect to open some packs and find cards covered in goopy, black oil.
It's all about the marketing angle, people.
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3 years ago ::
May 12, 2010 - 4:32PM
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Is this counting cards like the blue Hurricane ?
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3 years ago ::
May 12, 2010 - 5:25PM
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Date Joined:
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I was looking at a recent MTG card price guide and I sorted it by most expensive first. I thought this was interesting:
One of each of the 75 most expensive magic cards is worth $27,974.64 ($373.00 each)
What about #s 1-9 vs 10-75?
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3 years ago ::
May 12, 2010 - 5:34PM
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What about Miscuts, Test Prints/Proofs, etc?
I know those can also have a lot of value.
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3 years ago ::
May 12, 2010 - 5:39PM
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Which price guide were you using?
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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3 years ago ::
May 13, 2010 - 4:38AM
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Date Joined:
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If this were an exhaustive list, even ignoring cards like Proposal or the 1996 World Champion, it would be pretty boring. It'd be dominated by summer magic and test prints, primarily the latter. I think a lot of people sometimes underestimate how valuable test prints (not proofs) are, and just how many test prints there are that are 1k and up. The only normal card to get on might very well be black lotus, and the average value would be 4 figures.
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3 years ago ::
May 13, 2010 - 5:55AM
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To answer some questions: I used www.magictraders.com/pricelists/ 's price list for non-foil cards. It does not include miscuts, test prints, or anything like that. Just one of each basic MTG card. Top 10 vs remaining 65: top 10 value = $8,612.14 11 through 65 value = $18,074.58 top 75:
| Black Lotus (B) |
$1,788.22 |
| Black Lotus (A) |
$1,430.50 |
| Mox Sapphire (B) |
$876.00 |
| Mox Jet (A) |
$793.00 |
| Mox Pearl (B) |
$785.46 |
| Underground Sea (B) |
$780.73 |
| Ancestral Recall (B) |
$735.81 |
| Mox Ruby (B) |
$711.92 |
| Underground Sea (A) |
$710.50 |
| Tundra (B) |
$705.33 |
| Black Lotus (U) |
$694.27 |
| Mox Jet (B) |
$649.99 |
| Ancestral Recall (A) |
$600.00 |
| Mox Sapphire (A) |
$600.00 |
| Volcanic Island (B) |
$592.50 |
| Timetwister (A) |
$577.09 |
| Mox Ruby (A) |
$560.01 |
| Mox Pearl (A) |
$560.00 |
| Time Walk (A) |
$554.99 |
| Time Walk (B) |
$525.40 |
| Mox Emerald (A) |
$515.12 |
| Mox Sapphire (U) |
$428.99 |
| Ancestral Recall (U) |
$415.36 |
| Time Vault (A) |
$413.73 |
| Time Vault (B) |
$408.25 |
| Mox Emerald (B) |
$408.10 |
| Mox Jet (U) |
$405.24 |
| Timetwister (B) |
$383.19 |
| Tundra (A) |
$355.00 |
| Mox Emerald (U) |
$354.02 |
| Time Walk (U) |
$336.89 |
| Imperial Seal |
$330.45 |
| Tropical Island (B) |
$324.25 |
| Mox Ruby (U) |
$322.58 |
| Mox Pearl (U) |
$319.17 |
| Savannah (A) |
$313.03 |
| Bayou (B) |
$303.51 |
| Scrubland (A) |
$240.35 |
| Taiga (B) |
$240.00 |
| The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
$239.09 |
| Scrubland (B) |
$235.16 |
| Mishra's Workshop |
$234.80 |
| Time Vault (U) |
$228.66 |
| Tropical Island (A) |
$221.78 |
| Badlands (B) |
$217.31 |
| Birds of Paradise (A) |
$213.04 |
| Bazaar of Baghdad |
$211.84 |
| Bayou (A) |
$209.99 |
| Savannah (B) |
$206.50 |
| Taiga (A) |
$206.50 |
| Mana Vault (A) |
$190.23 |
| Timetwister (U) |
$180.67 |
| Illusionary Mask (A) |
$167.43 |
| Moat |
$162.15 |
| Vesuvan Doppelganger (A) |
$160.73 |
| Plateau (A) |
$157.82 |
| Plateau (B) |
$155.83 |
| Library of Alexandria |
$155.63 |
| Birds of Paradise (B) |
$155.20 |
| Juzam Djinn (AN) |
$148.25 |
| Mind Twist (A) |
$146.15 |
| Shivan Dragon (A) |
$144.80 |
| Mana Vault (B) |
$144.14 |
| Illusionary Mask (B) |
$144.07 |
| Fork (B) |
$142.85 |
| Fastbond (A) |
$142.32 |
| Balance (A) |
$136.45 |
| Gauntlet of Might (B) |
$131.62 |
| Loyal Retainers |
$131.52 |
| Wheel of Fortune (B) |
$129.50 |
| Wrath of God (B) |
$126.63 |
| Cyclopean Tomb (A) |
$119.85 |
| Ravages of War |
$114.97 |
| Chaos Orb (B) |
$112.21 |
| Zodiac Dragon |
$112.02 |
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3 years ago ::
May 13, 2010 - 8:43AM
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Date Joined:
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Only one of those I have is a beta wheel of fortune.
I have a beta balance, too, but I don't see that on there.
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3 years ago ::
May 13, 2010 - 9:20AM
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Playing with that price list, here's some additional tidbits: Remember the 80-20 rule? 80% of the wealth is held by the top 20% of the population? Well here it's more like 80-6--the top 1016 cards (just over 6%) command just over 80% of the total price of the list. The top half command 95% of the value.
It's not all that surprising, really, when you think about it, but it is kind of interesting to see it in action.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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