Competitive MTG Finance #2 - Pricey Commons
In my previous article I featured some Pauper cards, and I’d like to continue that discussion today.
I enjoy looking at daily Pauper tournament results, if there are any. I check the MTGO results on the Wizards site every day, and I’ll often check MTG Top 8 and MTG Decks.
Here are a couple of commons that have been relatively pricey for many months.
Winding Way
The Market Foil price is just above $7!
If you have foil copies, I’d get rid of them now. Card Kingdom is buying foils for $5.50 cash and $7.15 in store credit.
I sold my playset. And if you didn’t know, a playset is usually played in winning decks. Take a look at this list for example.
Kuldotha Rebirth
Market Foils are sitting at just over $16 and starting to trend downwards. And just like Winding Way, Kuldotha Rebirth only has one printing, but it was in
This is another common that’s usually played as a four-of in winning decks in Pauper, and in some less common Modern decks. And just like Winding Way, I also sold my playset of Kuldotha Rebirths. Check out these two decks as examples.
Creature (16) 4 Goblin Blast-Runner $0.19 4 Monastery Swiftspear $0.40 4 Voldaren Epicure $0.23 4 Goblin Bushwhacker $1.77 Instant (10) 1 Lava Dart $0.35 1 Fireblast $0.25 4 Lightning Bolt $0.50 4 Galvanic Blast $1.01 Sorcery (8) 4 Reckless Impulse $1.51 4 Kuldotha Rebirth $1.42 Artifact (12) 4 Experimental Synthesizer $0.43 4 Implement of Combustion $0.30 4 Great Furnace $1.50 Land (14) 14 Mountain $0.10 Sideboard (15) 1 Gorilla Shaman $0.26 1 Flaring Pain $1.40 2 Smash to Smithereens $0.35 3 Pyroblast $4.36 2 End the Festivities $0.74 3 Smash to Dust $0.25 3 Relic of Progenitus $4.99
And there you have some of the reasons why Kuldotha Rebirth is a $16 foil common.
Experimental Synthesizer
This is a relatively newer card, released in
Card Kingdom doesn’t have very many foil copies in stock. And when they do, they sell out pretty quickly after they restock. Foil playsets on TCG Player start at just under $5 for each copy if you want to buy a playset as one order.
Implement of Combustion
This is another artifact that’s usually played as a four-of in winning decks. It’s less commonly played than Experimental Synthesizer, but it’s an even more expensive and tougher-to-buy foil common from Card Kingdom. And there are little to no foil playsets on TCG Player.
I’d be a little more careful with picking up foil playsets of Implement of Combustion over Experimental Synthesizer though, because it also only has one printing, back in
Summary
Sell
Foil Winding Way
Foil Kuldotha Rebirth
Buy
Foil Experimental Synthesizer (if you can find cheap copies)
Foil Implement of Combustion (caution)
As always, I hope you found this content useful. And feel free to connect with me on social media.
Respectfully,
Edward Eng [Eddie]
Check out these other articles:
Cards in Eriette Decks That I Like by Jason Alt
New Horizons - Wilds of Eldraine by Matt Grzechnik
The Big Things - The Secret Lair Effect by Harvey McGuinness
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