Dont worry i can afford it.

I’d be very surprised if prices drop that low. If so, lots of cards will be great buys though. We’ll see what happens.

Yeah, I guess using words like “drastic” is too bold. I don’t really know what the market will do, only what I’ve read. Maybe the price drop that’s already occurred is correct with just a bit of wiggle room. I’m probably letting my emotional attachment to owning ‘goyfs and Bobs get in the way of reason when I buy into hype like this:

goyf: $100
bob: ~$30
hierarch: ~$20
Clique: ~$30

I can always hope though. I’ll be pretty sad if the prices rebound too soon after the GP’s.

My sympathies go out to you.

If be surprised if the prices drop much more than they already did. You’re right though, they will probably still go down a little more since all the dealers get a limited reorder.

TLDR; all of these cards are worth much less a week from now, even tarmogoyf. The price you already paid on these boxes won’t though.

Nope all bulk 1-2$ rares that i didnt mention. 🙂 no foils except the “bulk rare” foil

Wow. Unless you missed something, that’s definitely the worst box I’ve seen by a large margin. That sucks man. No other reasonable foils?

oh yeah and a foil mirror entity, i guess that adds like 8$. so 120$ total 😛

Never mind i think i need to redo that one cus i didnt look at different versions: 25$ commons, primval 13$ tezzeret 10$, etched champion 3,49 , battlegrace 1$ , puppeteer 3$ , daybreak 15$ , banefire 1$ , blinkmoth nexus 8$, kozilek 33$ = 112. =)=)

25$ in commons and uncommons 1x Primeval titan 15$ tezzeret 15$ etched champion 4$ battlegrace angel 2$(yeah im that desperate to get some value lol) pupeteer clique 5$ Daybreak coronet 25$ banefire 2,5$ blinkmoth nexus 11$ kozilek 45$(really dont think i get that much)

25+15+15+4+2+5+25+2,5+11+45= 149$, but thinking it will get like 30$ for kozilek so 135$ or so id say. but hey even if i do get 45$, 149$ is a pretty bad result no :)?

I would love to see the full breakdown if you have time. Just take your pile of cards worth $5+ and look up the tcg mid of each. I am betting you it’s closer to $200. You might surprise yourself.

thanks for the correction, it’s why I always apologise upfront (Im British so we spell apologise with an S not a Z) 🙂

Fixed. Thank you.

Yes, I think the boxes won’t yield as high results in the long term. The draft format is much better than I originally anticipated though and that does play a huge role the long term value of boxes. In my opinion, the most valuable sealed boxes these days are the ones that have both valuable cards and sweet draft formats. That’s why MMA1 boxes retain their value.

“P.S, you have a typo in the article, misspelling Confidant for Confidant, sorry to be a pedant!” Confidant for Confidant…small mistake in your correction I believe.

I find it interesting how much easier it is to have a generally better value of a box when a person hits Tarmogoyf as opposed to when you don’t. I guess that makes sense with it being the most valuable card in the set though, right? 😀

I think in the end sitting on these boxes probably won’t yield as great results as people may be hoping for. MM1 just had a bit better overall value, and it was distributed better through the rares/uncommons.

That Comet Storm tho!

I would be interested to see how you fare with these cards, will you sell the valuable cards and recoup your investment or hold onto them in the knowledge they may fluctuate in future? I’m a collector as opposed to a trader so I am always interested in seeing how you financiers go about your business, the decisions you make based on the information you have/what the competitive landscape is looking like/how standard and modern are changing etc.

Any follow up article would be of interest to me, not sure I can vouch for the rest of the community however.

P.S, you have a typo in the article, misspelling Confidant for Confidant, sorry to be a pedant!

Thanks for the feedback! I hope everyone found it as helpful as you did and I will most likely be pursuing this topic in further articles. Was there anything else you would have liked to see included in this article or any way it could be improved?