The Price Of Magic: The Gathering Cards Is A Lie

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[eegles]

Wow, people accused you of general incompetence? At its worst, this channel is guilty of second lieutenant incompetence.

[LeonaDX]

It will always be funny watching an English professor try to tell people in the nicest way possible to get better at reading comprehension

[yaarman]

"There are a lot of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

[matheusfmmmartins]

People talk trash about you and you lecture them for 20 minutes to protect them, mostly, from themselves. Never change, Prof!

[thetrinketmage]

Unless you find some hidden gem nobody else realized was good. Pre-sale prices are basically like throwing money away

[antoniocinotti]

"NO"
"NO!"
"HOW LOW?!"
"WOAH"
"GOTTA GO!"
"OH!"
"HELLO"
prof exercising his doctorate to the max lol

[jaredwonnacott]

That last point of, "You may not agree, but you should at least stop and consider why someone else believes that" is the most teacher thing you've ever said. It also might be the most valuable piece of advice you've ever given.

[RazgrizAce]

Alternate video title: Explaining supply and demand to plebs 101

[stephleobisson]

I remember correcting a University Prof as a 1st year student due to a single study. Was told, "we'll see" and by my 3rd year, multiple studies came proving my Prof right and I wrong. He'd just smile every time he saw me and the only "I told you so" he did was "It's experience." I feel the same with you <3

[KarimJovian]

I love these type of videos where you go deep into prices and the oddities of it. It’s a pleasure

[thePrinceofFrogs]

No real turtle would eat a Chicago "pizza" TURTLES EAT NEW YORK PIZZA!!!

[TheAndOnlyGoldenboy]

Ever since "FOMO" became a term in the public consciousness, I've marked nearly all pre-sales for singles as such. Their pricing is strictly based around the fear of missing out, both in terms of a product potentially having limited quantity and the possibility of the card's price rising even higher because of some unforeseen circumstance.

The reality is that such circumstances rarely come about. For every One Ring, Fallout Mana Vault, or Phyrexian Mental Misstep... you have hundreds (or even thousands) of cards that tank in price after being out in the wild for less than a week.

[francescocastelli]

It always baffled me on EDH changed pricing. Ten years ago, I played legacy and the expensive cards were cards were tournament staples (e.g. Tarmogoyf, Snapcaster mage) and that always made sense to me: you want to play competitively, and the cards you need are more expensive, if you want to play just for fun, your experience will be cheaper. That's what draw me to commander, as it was a fun new format that was really cheap, but that also allowed you to create strong decks. I remember buying a Cyclonic Rift for $6 back then, or a Chrome Mox for $10, as both were not competitive cards. Now instead value is merely dicated by supply and demand, which is interesting because there are no incentives to play with real cards. Sorry if I said that, but it is true: if you play for fun with your friends, why spending thousands of dollars? If you go to a tournament, you are instead forced to play cards.

[Tedisabear]

I sold that foil ponder for a $100 credit at magic Con Chicago. I am so happy.

[onimcm]

Ever since Jace, the Mindsculpter was on presale for $40 and jumped to $100, the retailers decided they were going to get the money upfront.

[Azeria]

The way I see it, Hasbro shouldn’t be allowed to have it both ways:

Not re-printing cards in order to ‘maintain reprint equity’; AND not re-printing cards, therefore reducing the value of every product they make.

However, if people buy these products instead of singles or proxies… they won’t stop.

This game just isn’t the stock market, and trying to evaluate it like one is more often than not just going to leave you confused, if not out a lot of money.

Buy the cards you want to play with and can afford, proxy the ones you want to play with and can’t. If you _have_ to invest in Magic, buy sealed products instead of individual cards.

[ethanglaeser]

I can’t help but think of Thor:
“All prices are made up”

[papaflowers]

If youre working on expensive secret lairs, heres some fun stuff:
The Evil Dead secret lair shot up crazy to 190 being the lowest on tcg player sealed.
In addition to the wild fanbase, the Evil Dead secret lair drop was NOT INCLUDED in ANY BUNDLES. People just clicked to buy the bundle not realizing that it wasnt in there and got the worst case of FORCED fomo EVER.

[zachshowalter-castorena]

Somewhere in England Spice8Rack is screaming into his monitor "you were close. you were THIS close to interrogating the underlying flaws of Capitalism"

[zombiepainter]

10:27 this is the ebay mentality that 99.99% of collectors have.. “well it sold for $____ that means it’s worth!that much”…no, some goober paid that much, once..