Interests of 2016: Top lists

I remember that in 2014 I started doing this list depicting the 250 top interests of the year after I received some requests to do something like this. For some reason, in 2015, I failed to provide such a list, but this year, I figured I should do it again (and also... I remembered to do it). I must admit, that I prepared these numbers one day too early. Meaning that if anything huge happens on December 31st, it's not accounted for, so bare with me.

Before I present you with the numbers, and the (way too large) tables, I will tell a little bit about how this data was deducted. I first checked, for every card, the price on January 1st 2016. If for some reason this price did not exist (for example cards that simply weren't printed yet), I took the first known price. So, if for example, the first known price is in September, I used that one. Then I looked at the price of December 30th. If this price did not exist, I took the last price known in December. If that price is below $2.00, the card is too cheap to even consider.

From these differences, I created the following top 250 tables. However, I left out all sets that are excluded from the daily interests lists by default. Also I manually removed a few outliers, like basic lands.

The tables with the top risers and decliners of 2016 can be found here.

Enjoy!