Today's unbannings were Mind's Desire in #Legacy, and Preordain in #Modern.
I have a few copies of Mind's Desire in my store which were available at $0.99-$1.49. None sold in the hour after the unbanning was announced.
I had several dozen copies of Preordain at available at $0.99-$4.59. They nearly sold out within the hour (currently have 2 copies remaining).
Yes, Preordain is a good card, but it has been printed WAY MORE than Mind's Desire.
It's interesting that #Modern seems to be the single-biggest driver of the MTG secondary market. Changes in meta and legality in Legacy/Standard almost never have any effect on card prices, but changes in Modern are very often met with HUGE swings.
It's making more sense why LOTR was direct-to-Modern, and also why it will likely become the best-selling set ever (usurping Modern Horizons II; a fact which caught me completely off-guard).
It's interesting that WotC takes the approach of only banning cards which create unfair advantages at the hyper-competitive level, rather than cards which make the game less fun overall.
What is even the point of asking "Did you have fun?" after games on MTGA which had competitively-unbalanced cards? If they're not going to use that information to make changes, it's cruel to even tease us with the notion that our opinions matter.
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Edward D.
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