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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 5:43PM
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I havent had anyone to play with in about 2 years and i recently dug out my cards. The last series i was around for was ROE. When i was playing you could get booster boxes for older sets for about 90 bucks. All but the really old stuff was available and reasonably priced. Now i was thinking of buying a box and holy heck the prices are ridiculous. worldwake for 350 bucks? really?? there was only one card worth a dang in that set and i dont even play blue. I went through the selling list of about all of them like zendikar and there isnt really any singles that are worth too much unless its a foil of something awesome. So could someone fill me in on what happened to make the prices so high across the board on booster boxes. I thought WOTC was still printing some older sets or are they not making anymore after it rotates out of standard play? WHats the deal. I could understand price gouging if there is a very limited amount available. But last time i checked(2 yrs ago) you could get whatever you wanted at about the same price.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 5:52PM
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If you were getting booster boxes of old sets for $90, then there are only a few explanations.
a) The boxes you bought were from sets don't have a lot of demand.
b) You are confused, as the pre-order price for a booster box is $90.
c) You are lying.
Actually, after rereading your post...I'm not sure. Quite often, sets go out of print while they're still legal in Standard. I know Mirrodin Besieged went out of print before Dark Ascension came out, I believe. Even so, Wizards couldn't just keep printing older sets, as it would completely destroy aftermarket card values.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 5:53PM
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zendikar has some vintage cards in random packs, so a box can net you a huge profit if you get one lucky pull.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 6:13PM
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If you were getting booster boxes of old sets for $90, then there are only a few explanations.
a) The boxes you bought were from sets don't have a lot of demand.
b) You are confused, as the pre-order price for a booster box is $90.
c) You are lying.
Actually, after rereading your post...I'm not sure. Quite often, sets go out of print while they're still legal in Standard. I know Mirrodin Besieged went out of print before Dark Ascension came out, I believe. Even so, Wizards couldn't just keep printing older sets, as it would completely destroy aftermarket card values.
I was buying from channelfireball and cardkingdom in 2010. I specifically remember buying lorwyn, zendikar, world wake and rise all at about 90 bucks a box. Some of them were preorder yes. But several of my friends were buying lorwyn block shards and all that all for less than 100 a box. There was a few exceptions such as mirrodin was a little more but only 20-30 bucks and conflux also. Im not talking about 20-30 buck difference, im just confused why everything except the innistrad and newer expansions are several hundred dollars for a booster box. Does wotc discontinue the series once its out of standard and not print anymore than what is already out? If that is the case then i might can see the price due to demand and limited supply.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 6:18PM
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those were not "old sets" back when ROE came out, they were very recent
now WWK and ROE and ZEN is relatively old, and has some chase cards, so of course they will increase the price for the last remaining boxes they have, if they don't sell them they will simply open them and sell the cards for an equal amount
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 6:20PM
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some places sell cases of booster boxes (4 per case). A number like 350 seems like you were looking at cases. The boxes are still around 100 each.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 6:39PM
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If you were getting booster boxes of old sets for $90, then there are only a few explanations.
a) The boxes you bought were from sets don't have a lot of demand.
b) You are confused, as the pre-order price for a booster box is $90.
c) You are lying.
It actually depends on where you go. Generally, I'm not willing to pay more than 90 - 95 dollars for a booster box since that's the price that they normally are. I do at times, but I've never payed more than 109 dollars.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 7:15PM
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some places sell cases of booster boxes (4 per case). A number like 350 seems like you were looking at cases. The boxes are still around 100 each.
Cases are actually 6 boxes
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 7:29PM
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I guess my question now is where can i find a list of what has been discontinued as far as expansions or is there a preset timeframe they will print an expansion and after that it is no more..what is out there is all you can get?
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 7:38PM
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Jul 28, 2010
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It's fair to assume that everything before SOM has been discontinued, probably SOM itself as well
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