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Originally Posted by Toddzilla
Yeah, Taiga, Underground River, those. From the 3rd edition (Unlimited?)
So you say they're as popular as they're gonna get?
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THird edition is referred to as Revised. If you have 2nd Edition Unlimited versions, they are even more expensive. For example, if your Plateau looks like this instead, then you have Unlimited:
Now the Plateau is worth a ton of money becuase of the chagnge in art to Revised. But other unlimited cards are also worth more. For example, Taiga in Unlimited pants?
$120 from the same store for a nm version. Obviously prices drop from there based on condition.
The major question about dual lands and other Legacy stapse is the huge popularity of Modern. About 2 years ago, WOTC stopped supporting an unpopular format called Extended and began to support a new one, called Modern, that reaches back to Mirrodin, when they changed the card border.
This format has been hugely popular. It was addressed in part to alleviate the financial problems of Legacy, which uses all cards from all sets ,but with a banned list for terribly troublesome stuff.
Legacy has gotten to the point where stapes were worth a ton of cash. IN about two years, the price of dual lands has risen from tens of dollars to a lot more. Then after Modern was introduced, it became the hot commodity. It was the new stuff..
And Modern cards did what Legacy had done too. You think what happened to dual lands is just that one cycle?
Fetch lands from Zendikar, a set released just three or four years ago, are worth $30 for the low end and up to $60 for the high end lands from that 5 card cycle. That means some Zendikar fetches are worth more than the low end dual lands from the early days. But there are a ton more fetches out there, so how can that be?
The demand is so high. Meanwhile, the most recent set, Khans of Tarkir, includes reprints of a similarly powered fetch land cycle that are worth, right now, for a set in print, $17 for one, and $20-21 for the other four.
So what's the point. The Zendikar fetches gained that money off the back of Modern, and Legacy as well. But it was really Modern that drove the prices. Other cards that are powerful in Modern but not commonly played in Legacy have swollen price tags as well.
Modern is the thing right now.
And Legacy singles have plateaued, and sometimes dipped a bit.
For example, Force of Will used to be $120. Now it's $100. Wasteland is back under $100 for the first time in a while.
Now, none of these cards are tanking permanently barring a reprinting. (Wasteland, as an uncommon, could be in te next set, it was never on the Reserve List).
Plus, Magic is getting more and more popular. Why would the best set of lands in the game, of all time, not continue to rise long term?
So the money is on a long term hold for these lands. But I don't think you'll see a lot of short-term movement on them. I think Legacy might take off again in popularity, and when it does, these cards are going to sing in value.
So, what do you want? Do you want to wait and find out? Or do you just want to cash out now and get the big money, since hte prices are unliekly to move much in the next bit.