Basically it saves you tons of time, giving you a competitive advantage on buying magic cards! “Got a Tarmogoyf, eh? save hide report. There are either a lot of people out there who are planning on trying out the new Dredge deck in Modern, or one dude who is planning on discarding a lot of cards (many of which will likely be the other Conflagrates he picked up). Following are two lists: valuable commons and uncommons. Generally speaking there are over 80 commons and uncommons. Each one sells for 8 dollars. In addition to a Grand Prix Top 8 and being a member of the 2014 Magic Community Cup, he added a Pro Tour Top 8 to his resume at his very first Pro Tour, Oath of the Gatewatch. Like, what does it even do? You know what else seems crazy? So dollars and cents, yes $30 is worth it. Cards like Blood Moon and Engineered Explosives have risen exponentially in just this past year even, and I recently had to pick up my last 2 Cavern of Souls at about $50 each. 0. Although most MTG commons and uncommons are bulk or only valuable enough to sell as playsets (x4), some have proven so useful that they have become some of the most valuable and sought after cards (FORCE OF WILL, ANYONE?). Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. I’ll sacrifice my Dryad Arbor.” I have about 100 of them sitting in a box not more than 15 feet away from me. List shows Mythics/Rares > $1.5 and Uncommons/Commons > $0.75. That also seems crazy to me. Come on. Are common and uncommon playsets worth the money? Buying 50k cards for $150 and tripling your money is a great feeling. Of course I’m talking about Infect, which has been a Modern mainstay pretty much since Modern was a thing. It’s good in Death and Taxes, it’s good in Merfolk, it’s good at looping Cryptic Commands and Eternal Witnesses, and making your opponent question their life choices. I would even love to think that the fact that Infect is a popular Legacy deck contributes to the card’s high price tag—you know, twice as many formats playing the card—but Might of Old Krosa isn’t even played in the Legacy version! I found several RtR ones on ebay being sold for around $30 and you get 4 of all common and uncommon cards. Archived. $30 is not a lot of money, really it isn't. 50% Upvoted. Yet here we are, with Cursecatcher, that fits into exactly 1 archetype, hitting the $11 mark! Are common and uncommon playsets worth the money? The second card is Counterbalance, which is only ahead of Mishra’s Bauble in price by a hair. The hard part is getting all the rares, but you never want to end up in that awkward situation where you buy a dollar worth of farseeks, pay 2 bucks in shipping, then wait 2 weeks for your crappy commons to get to you. This one makes a little more sense, as you can find Cursecatcher in both the Modern and Legacy versions of Merfolk, but again, that’s about it. Another crazy thing. That still seems crazy to me. And to this I would have to give a pretty profound yes to again. Shiny box = foil Okay, I’ll stop sugar coating it: Eternal Witness is just better. That’s how much the lot is worth. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Well that's ok, you can store those babies for when they make a come back. Multiply that number by 0.001. It’s also sick in my Bird tribal deck, but you guys don’t know anything about that. Then in like 2 weeks the meta changes and your mighty noob hammer of justice is out of date? There are a ton of filters, so you can hone in the results to exactly what you're looking for, then save/bookmark your filters to check in on only the auctions you care about. As far as $20 uncommons go, as far as $20 cards in general go, this one if fairly underwhelming, but you can thank the popularity of the Modern format and the rarity of cards from Coldsnap for that one I suppose. Mishra’s Bauble. With even just a few friends you should have access to whatever commons you need. No. “…”. Take a look! In cents. 2014 Daniel Laufer. You can pick up any annomalies for a few bucks. Powered by. Man, how do Magic finances work? Infect in Modern seems solely responsible for causing a playset of Might of Old Krosa to cost around $44. Really, for $30, that is not a bad thing at all. Posted by 7 years ago. Look at Inquistion of Kozolik. A diverse community of players devoted to Magic: the Gathering, a trading card game ("TCG") produced by Wizards of the Coast and originally designed by Richard Garfield. Why $30 then? In terms of convenience and peace of mind, most definitely. So if we do ourselves so fancy little math 20 bucks is about right. You pay it and you are good forever (as long as the set is in rotation). Draw a card during the next upkeep like you do if you’re a weird Ice Age card? share. Now the question you are really asking: would you actually get $30 bucks of use out of it? MTG is a living meta that changes all the time; having a play set of everything is always a good thing so you can always make whatever changes you want whenever you want. Thundermaw hellkites may come and go, but a whole set of cards is only bad when it rotates out. A guide to the entire process of buying and selling Collectible Card Games (CCGs), especially on eBay. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings or by visiting aboutads.info. Done using boros charms and skull crack because esper control becomes super strong? Just ask Tom Ross. So here you have Dryad Arbor, a card you only need one of in some very specific decks, commanding a higher price tag than something like Cursecatcher, which is a 4-of in its respective deck. Cookies help us deliver our Services. MTG Scavenger finds cards ending soon on eBay, trims out all the fat and shows only cards that are under valued / under priced. So you’re thinking, “man, Dryad Arbor is in a ton of decks, like Infect, Bogles, Elves, Zoo, anything with Natural Order—no wonder it’s $14!” But in every one of those decks, it’s basically a 1-of. FYI: This doesn't include Alpha, Beta, Unlimited. Try to say that title five times fast. 6 comments. The first is Aether Vial. For Mishra’s Bauble, that archetype is Death’s Shadow Aggro in Modern (with some appearances in Abzan alongside Grim Flayer). For Counterbalance, that archetype is Miracles in Legacy. If you’re anything like me, you might sometimes lose track of the price of certain cards, especially if those cards are infrequently played, and the next thing you know, MOTHER OF GOD, WHY IS HORIZON CANOPY $90?! On the surface this is an extremely weird card. New comments cannot be posted and votes … That’s it, on the surface. There are tons of resources out there to help you learn, and knowing what to … Ever find a deck you like then go out and buy ALL the singles to win ALL the FNM's to crack ALL the packs? Is it worth it? “Okay. Spend your money on a couple of singles instead. Knowing that you have a playset of every common and uncommon from a particular expansion is a wonderful thing.