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Tolarian Winds: The Real Cost Of Double Masters And Premium Priced Magic: The Gathering Sets (Patreon)

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2020-05-25 15:10:54
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Tolarian Winds: The Real Cost Of Double Masters And Premium Priced Magic: The Gathering Sets

Did you miss me playing the Mystery Booster Box game? You can go back and watch that video here: https://youtu.be/N8aPWUY5DPk #mtg #magicthegathering #doublemasters You can help support Tolarian Community College directly over at Patreon, and for the month of March, all new Patrons at the signed card level will get a signed foil Storm Crow as thanks: https://www.patreon.com/tolariancommunitycollege Tolarian Community College is brought to you by Card Kingdom! You can support The Professor just by checking out their store through this link: http://www.cardkingdom.com/TCC TCC Shirts! Playmats! - http://www.tolariancommunitycollege.com/ Music Courtesy Of: "Vintage Education" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Anonymous

Great video. I hope wizards wakes up and listens, because there is a prophet crying out in the desert. If wizards would only let our cardboard go, they could avoid the plagues coming their way.

Anonymous

So far here in Canada, preorders have started at 390$ for a box. It's ridiculous. Realistically the only way I'll be able to even crack a box is for work. I definitely won't be able to afford it and considering it will be north of 20$ per pack, drafting is gonna be expensive as hell. I doubt we'll have people interested at my store for that price. I wish they'd just do what they did with Mystery Boosters. Costed the same as a regular draft box at the start, full of reprints and a hugely fun drafting experience. They could've just printed tonnes more of those boxes and they'd make a fortune. It feels like at this point they're just trying to fleece us as much as they can via price point and saturation of products. There will be well north of 20 products out this year that have been released/will be released and that's only what they've announced in stores. I'm not even adding Secret Lairs to that list as we'll be closing in on 30 to 40 products.

Anonymous

I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit confused by this video. For years the professor has been telling all his viewers to not buy booster packs and instead buy the singles you need. At the end of the day these increasing pack prices will futher incentivize players to go to the secondary market to for thier singles. Premium versions, alternate art versions, and the like are food for the "whales", it lets them chase the "pimp" versions and supress the price of the regular cards for the rest of us, making the game more accessible for most. I understand the impact this has on draft, but they still provide many products at lower prices for drafting, just not masters sets. Not every product needs to be accessible for all players. Let the "whales" have their "super packs" and the community will benefit from all the unwanted cards that will be injected into the secondary market. As an example, a local player wanted the Godzilla cards found as the box toppers in regular boxes, and in the collectors packs in Ikoria. He bought several boxes of collectors boosters, and was trading away all the other cards for peoples box toppers, allowing players to aquire cards that they needed for their decks, for "bling" they couldn't use or didnt want. Secondly, If you watch the secondary market on sets since the inception of the collectors boosters, they have been incredibly stable, with most high demand cards being available in some variation for very reasonable prices, even if the specialty version is a small fortune. Thirdly reprint sets, in any capacity, drive down the price of the reprints almost every time, which improves the availabilty and accessibility of those cards to the players. Lastly, Wizards knows that the market will find its price no matter what. If they print a set and underprice it, people will buy up tge supply and resell it at higher prices anyway, making products just as unaccessable as if Wizards sets the price higher. So is it unfortunare that the prices keep going up on some of these products, of course. But I think the benchmark must be the standard booster pack, when those start climbing in price, that is when the red flags should fly

Anonymous

This video brought me finally here. I followed you for a long time now, but in the last time you seem to speak out of my soul. Keep on going.

Anonymous
>>37525183

I agree with a lot of the things you say, but these are not really comparable to other products for "whales". Boosters are ultimately designed to draft them, that's what cards composed into the set are chosen for. And not a lot of people will be able to afford this draft experience. Ultimate Masters was an incredible experience, but also one that couldn't be repeated by a lot of players because of the price tag that came with it. There is no reason to make this reprint set sell for so much money. At 200 per Box, people would've gone crazy. But 300-400 is just rediculous

Anonymous

Everything in this video is 100% correct. Unfortunately Wizards or Hasbro or whatever they are has finally found a way to maximize profit margins by tapping into the secondary market. I would put smart money on corporate lawyers being hard at work looking for a loophole out of the Reserve List commitment. I say this from experience from employment with entities larger and less scrupulous who have done better at safeguarding customers.

Anonymous

I take issue with a couple of things: The Professor appears to be basing his ideas of price and value on the Cost Theory of Value. This states that price is based on the cost it took to make the product. Say, a car costs $9,500 to make, then the wholesale price that a dealer pays to buy it should by $10,000. Right? The problem is that the Cost Theory of Value has not been taken seriously in decades. If I have a T-shirt Factory, I make plain grey T-shirts, and I make official Manchester United T-shirts, and they both cost me $5 a shirt to make. I sell the plain grey T-shirts for $10 each, and I sell the Manchester United T-shirts for $20 each. How does this make sense? It is because there is a passionate fan-base for Manchester United that are willing to pay $20 for my shirts, because they are loyal to the team and want to display that in their apparel. This is known as the Subjective Theory of Value, and absolutely has to be applied in a collectibles market. In a collectable card game, the object's value is not inherent and is instead worth more to different people based on how much they desire or need the object. The subjective theory of value places value on how scarce and useful an item is, rather than basing the value of the object on how many resources and hours of labor went into creating it. If WOTC had cut the price in half, doubled the print run, and kept all the expensive reprints in the set, there would NOT be a lower price for the set when reselling is allowed. The people who have access to, say, $900 and the ability to buy 3 boxes at $300, would instead buy 6 boxes at $150, because the expected value of the cards inside would be higher, and they would know it. So you would still the product selling out, and a shortage of goods. This would result in the people who managed to get first in line and buy up the supply selling their boxes to other customers at the market price (300-400), and the cost would end up the same. The only difference is that the resellers realize the profits of the situation, not the stores and distributors. The only way to sell masters reprint box at $150 and keep someone from getting screwed out of value, is to reduce the expected value, which then does not accomplish the goal of reprinting expensive cards.