Pulled it in a Believers in Love secret lair apparently. Has anyone seen anything else about this? Looks cool but definitely my least favorite of the ones shown so far lol.

I am currently holding about 60% of the set and plan to complete ut besides the golden smaug. I am holding for my love of tolkien. But I noticed I bought way to early on a lot of these cards and am wondering if they are still falling or if they reached the bottom yet? Mox amber foil for example is 500€ flat in germany rn… I bought in an 700€ after the spike with fear of missing out since I was obviously biased due to my loce for the book. 500€ feels cheap to me for such beautiful card. but yeah… let me know hoe you handle hobbit stuff right now. Especially interested in collector opinion of this set. But everyone is welcomed to discuss in here if it constructive.

Hey guys just checked and it looks like Amazon is once again having some issues fulfilling on time. Thankfully my RF CBBs didn’t move this time around still for the 26th but we’ll see at this point anyone else get the bundles moved too? They really want us to buy that damn secret lair bundle with the lairs together I guess lol.

Tonight at 9 EST, some crazy prices from a big box in my opinion.

EDIT: this is actually just going to be a regular botmart queued drop.

With Commander Mystery Booster orders next week I reckon there will be plenty of folks looking to build [[Itazura, Lingering Wick]]

[[Brand]] and [[Homeward Path]] are both bangers in a donate focused version of this deck.

Brand, specifically, only has 2 print runs, one being the list the other Urza's Saga.

I see this also having longer-term viability as well given the popularity of the donate theme in casual commander.

I'm in for 50 copies, let's see what happens...

Anecdotally, it feels like a UB reprint tanks the price of that specific version, while letting the other (mostly UW) versions retain their value.

As an example, the latest [[Black Market Connections]] from MSC is about 10 EUR on Cardmarket while the LCC version is about 19 EUR.

The same is technically true for [[Flawless Maneouver]] - latest from FRC is 7 EUR while other versions with the exact same art are listed at 13 EUR. But I can't imagine anyone buying those.

What I can't get just by looking at Cardmarket is whether the UW versions still move at the higher price point. I am fairly certain people aren't buying Maneouvers from other sets at double the price, but are people buying Connections at almost double the price just to avoid the Marvel art?

A more general question - do your older versions still sell at "legacy" prices or do you have to undercut the current cheapest version to get it to sell? Does that differ when it comes to UB vs UW?

Should I leave these in the packaging? Just wondering if anybody cares about/there's value in them being sealed in particular? Most of these cards are anywhere from 2-50 dollars, nothing crazy

I have a collection valued around 13k in ManaBox. I’ve been playing for around 10 years so I’ve had a lot of cards from back around that time that have shot up in value from commander (and MTG in general) exploding in popularity alongside the universes beyond implementation. (Cut to me angrily opening a smothering tithe as my P1P1 rare in every single ravnica draft)

In theory my collection and all of our collections will continue to rise in value as the game continues to grow and new IP’s get implemented into universes beyond that continue to bring in new players (waiting on you fromsoftware)

But thee is one thing that has had me considering selling my collection at some point in the next couple years, and brings me to the question I wrote this post for.

Do any of you think the rollout of a digital commander client would decimate the value of physical cards? Not completely, but heavily. It’s all but confirmed (maybe even actually confirmed?) that they’re working on either a separate commander client, or working on implementing 4 player commander into arena itself. This obviously is a matter of when, not if, this happens. And it would be something that would cause a mass selling off of physical decks/collections as people move on to being able to play commander digitally.

I was curious what the opinions of the mtgfinance sub are on this, because the day this actually happens is probably closer than we thing

Serious question. Every Commander table is super friendly to proxies, and competitive Magic is slowly dying. Why would anyone pay a premium for what they can print themselves?