Caitlyn's Price Guide for Shadow Era Physical Cards

[NaharPT]

Nice guide, thx for the effort. So Bad Santa is the most expensive and Aeon the second one? Just out of curiosity, can I ask why? I thought Aeon was going to be the most expensive.

I'm assuming that is because BS is a card needed to ALL decks. Aeon will be to ALL human decks...

[Caitlyn0]

@B0HATER and Nahar the occurrence of Bad Santa is very low even compared to an epic like Aeon (strange as that is, a lot of the epics were more common than the rares). and this is from a lot of people who opened booster boxes, not just me plus the demand has been higher from what i have seen so far. and its almost a staple in all decks where Aeon is only in human decks and in less numbers per deck.

and oops, missed that typo. and no, it should be 0.60 (ill fix that now) and yes, its in US dollars.

[Keaven]

I looked at it like ratios. It seems the prices stem from a base value of rarity factoring popularity, class and faction restrictions, and typical number required. The fact that some cards are not usually used x 4 (such as Aeon or Ogloth being unique and unusable prior to T6) seems perfectly accounted for.

[AA1 Lekkerding]

Yeah i really like to see the cards prices going up like crazy now that i got my compleet set of 4x all the cards plus lots of foils.

And also like to see a cards that if you sac it, you gain 2 resources ( something like black lotus in magic ) that cards will be epic epic

Caitlyn is always working hard for us.
Thanks cait.

I'm the lazy guy playing to much diablo now.
But i'll be playing more again now that i've scared some people with my digital foils

[snow_man]

Think card prices are already on the rise, no need to wait for them to hit stores. 2 weeks ago, you could sneak a booster off of ebay for 40.00+8.00SH. Now I can't seem to catch one closing for less than 65 + 8 SH. The current calculation on Bad Santa still seems a bit low. Granted 8.50 is a bit much to pay for a game that hasn't proven itself, but alot of the pre-order's are already looking to scoop them up. I would say this card value has already gone over $10.00. Realistically, at this point the ones that were going to get scooped up in the early confusion of cheap prices are gone. Now it's a rush to try and get the next cheap one for most people. Seeing as that has created a demand that can't be supplied at the moment, I would say 10+ would be fair on a card like this. The question can't be based off a random pre-made chart though, it has to be based off of where sellers and buyers are willing to come together. I know personally, I won't let any of my Bad Santa's go at the moment, and if your willing to sell your's for $8.50, i encourage you to post yours for sale here and see how fast they get scooped up =)

Also, I think you mistyped Blake Windrunner. The purple bubble error makes the card worth more, not less. Perfect example would be a MTG card I had that had the background color misprinted in bulk. Standard correct version on todays market .25, the misprint version 10.00...

[Junk Style]

Very arbitrary.

if you add all that up and multiply it by 4, does it even come out to more than 300 bucks? Serious question, cause i'm not spending the time to do it.

The real value of all any of these cards is what someone is willing to pay for it. If you want to access the actual indesputable value of these cards, 99.999999...% of the population will tell you its worth is about 10 cents worth of recyclable cardboard.

Point being, this kind of list really only serves sellers and not buyers at this point, and i have no doubt that if this game gets seriously picked up by shops that sell cards... they won't know how much a single like BS is actually worth. I appreciate that you qualified your post by saying none of this is set in stone, but for my two cents, i feel like people are speculating on this game the same way people do with stock futures.... the constant thought people have of "oh man, i wish i knew how big MTG was going to be, i would have bought boxes of alpha".

Buying and selling the cards is perfectly good, but the market will decide the prices, not a guild.

Edit: Why the misprint card is worth less than the normal print is beyond me as far as value goes. misprints always add value.

[Orange Hat Guy]

Misprints absolutely do not always add value. They are never more valuable than the correct printing unless they are less common, and even then they are sometimes less desirable. In the case of the Blake, the misprint is ugly and distracts from the art of the card. I'll eat my hat if an ugly and extremely common misprint ever becomes significantly valuable.

[Junk Style]

Misprints absolutely do not always add value. They are never more valuable than the correct printing unless they are less common, and even then they are sometimes less desirable. In the case of the Blake, the misprint is ugly and distracts from the art of the card. I'll eat my hat if an ugly and extremely common misprint ever becomes significantly valuable.

Any MTG alpha beta arabian knights antiquity or dark misprint is worth more than the accurately printed card, regardless of which card it is (and no i can't cite this for every card, but I will try to find some examples i have seen in the past) While it may not be worth more now, this set is basicly the equivalent of MTG alpha. And this just speaks to the speculative nature of prices cards this early. Also, the fact that many of these blakes have the same blotch actually add to the value, as they can be identified easily, similarly to the MTG fallen empires cards printed with wyrvn backs... granted that one is particularly egregious.
This dude here "themisprintguy"... is way into misprints: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Bdg...feature=relmfu


back on track however, i think the best way to determine the prices is to ask buyers and sellers to report the actually prices they paid/sold

[Bluejet24]

I have foil Bad Santas for sale. Price: $10

Let me know.

[Warr Byrd]

Misprints absolutely do not always add value. They are never more valuable than the correct printing unless they are less common, and even then they are sometimes less desirable. In the case of the Blake, the misprint is ugly and distracts from the art of the card. I'll eat my hat if an ugly and extremely common misprint ever becomes significantly valuable.

Ugly, yes. Common, well that depends on when it gets fixed. If the mistake was caught early enough and only the preorder booster packs were affected, then there's not going to be that many on the market once SE starts hitting stores. We already know that all the starter packs are fine, which means that there are roughly the same number of each (misprint and non-misprint) in existence so far.