Since today is my birthday and my SO prepared a whole programme of surprises, and the fact that I am attending a wedding of good friends today, I only have the time for a short version of the Weekly Winners this week. So, once again, I present you the cards that will be the talk of the town tonight.
Cursecatcher is now a $15+ card. That is crazy. Yes, it is a good card that slows down many decks in both Modern and Legacy, but I would have never guessed this card would even break the $10 limit. That happened last July. But the price increase was so gradual that we did not see it pop up in our interests until last week.
Last tuesday the gradual price increase was over when speculators jumped on the hype train. The card was bought out, and at this time in low stock everywhere.
Interesting detail: Cursecatcher's foil price has stayed stable around $25 up until now.
Knight of the Reliquary was last week's winner, and should have been this week's number #1, if you only take the price increase into account. Same story this week. The card combos with Retreat to Coralhelm from Battle for Zendikar. And many people thought, in reaction to last week's article, that I should have been more optimistic about the power of this combo. You guys are probably right. The price increase on Knight of the Reliquary seems to correspond with that optimism.
Lantern of Insight is again the #3, just like last week. It jumped another 38% in price. But it still is not at its all time high. On June 19th, the card price was $6.72.
Zendikar Expedition
Today, the first prices for Zendikar Expedition became available. This gives us the first insights on how the larger vendors, who expect to open one of each apparently, value these special full art foil lands. The top three is as follows: we see Scalding Tarn at a whopping $440, followed by Polluted Delta at $372 and Flooded Strand at $360. Nothing too unexpected there, since they're all blue fetchlands.
The most expensive shockland is, shockingly enough (huehue), Steam Vents at $187.
I don't know where I see these prices going. I'm assuming, since these are presale prices, that they will come down as product is being opened, but it's hard to say at this point.
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