This consistency is important for a couple of reasons. Back in 2015 Theros / Khans Standard, the top 10 decks ranged from $89 Mono-Red to $477 Bant Megamorph, while a year ago in Khans / BFZ Standard, decks ranged from $255 Mono-White Humans to $581 Bant Company. In our currant Standard, the range of deck prices is incredibly small-the cheapest top 10 deck (GB Energy) is $229, while the most expensive (Mardu Vehicles) is $341. Looking back at past Standards, some have had a lower average price thanks to one really cheap deck that is essentially an outlier (a good example of this is the $85 Mono-Red deck back in 2015 Standard, which helped hide some really expensive decks in the same format and make the format look cheaper than it actually was).
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More important to the long term, it seems that this decrease in prices is sustainable. It's also worth nothing that back in November, we talked about the price of Standard and were thrilled with the average price of $319, which itself was a meaningful decrease, but prices have dropped another 14% since then, in just six months' time. To put our current Standard into perspective, let's take a look back at the last few years of Standards at about the same point in time.Īs you can see in the chart above, our current Standard is the cheapest we've had in at least the past four years, and we've seen a massive 29% decrease in the average price of a top 10 Standard deck in just one year, which is pretty impressive. While we can debate the wisdom of these moves from a meta perspective, if our only concern is the prices of cards and decks in Standard, there's little doubt that these changes are already paying off.
#Mtg goldfish standard prices series
The cost of playing Magic has been one of the biggest concerns in the community over the past couple of years, and Wizards has responded by taking actions like creating the Masterpiece series and changing back to a once-a-year rotation schedule. All things considered, the average unweighted price of the top 10 decks in Standard is just $275. While we don't have a tier $100 deck, there are a ton of options in the $220 to $280 range, with seven of the top 10 most played decks residing here.
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If you look at the 10 most played decks in the format, only three top the $300 mark (and just barely, coming in at between $318 and $341), and one of these three is Mono-Black Zombies, which was a Budget Magic deck a couple of weeks ago before the Pro Tour doubled the price of just about every card in the deck (with this in mind, it's likely that Zombies will fall out of the $300 club in the not-too-distant future). It wasn't that Aetherworks Marvel is annoyingly high in variance, or that Zombies was finally a real deck in Standard, or that Mardu Vehicles was slowly but surly slipping down the page-it was that Standard was abnormally cheap.
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So I changed gears and headed over to the metagame page to take a peak at the post-Pro Tour Amonkhet meta, and something struck me. Is it really worth it to write about preparing for rotation when only a handful of cards have any meaningful amount of value? In fact, out of the entire set, there's exactly one card that's worth more than $10 ( Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet) and only five more that are worth more than $5.
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That's when I realized that most of the cards in the set are already cheap-super cheap, especially considering how many of the Eldrazi are played in Modern. My initial plan for today's article was to do the next installment in the Preparing for Rotation series and talk about Oath of the Gatewatch, so I opened up the Oath of the Gatewatch set page and started to look over the cards.