![]() This card recovered very nicely and it got me thinking about the future of other big mana cards. Considering this comes down at 6 mana, you already have quite a bit of mana to work with so imagine what you’re doing now that you’re tapping for extra. This buffs creatures, too, but let’s not ignore the fact that this card is primarily included in decks to double your mana from certain sources and let you do dumb, Timmy stuff. Not only did Caged Sun recover, it exceeded its previous price. Want to know what that red arrow indicates? That’s Caged Sun’s reprinting in Commander 2014. And while functional reprints don’t bring prices down, actual reprints don’t even do it, either. Cards that seem too slow, symmetrical or goofy for Standard will always be undervalued. The good thing about mana is that it never goes out of style, functional reprints just let players build redundancy rather than cause obsolescence and it appears durdly enough to spikey players that they give it up for nothing. While meta choices fall in and out of favor based on the changing tastes of players, one thing will never change – EDH players are always going to like big mana and the spells that let them get that big mana. ![]() I’m not here to talk about whammies, though, because I think there is a class of card that’s always going to be an eventual hit. ![]() Sometimes your spec gets reprinted, making it an even longer-term spec (The reprinting of Seance means that one won’t pay off until the coming nuclear apocalypse forces us to use bulk rares as money, luckily I already broke even) but there is always a chance your spec will pay off eventually. A whammy isn’t a spec that will never make you any money, it’s just a spec that is going to take much longer to pay off in the long-term. ![]() I have an entire box full of them – copies of Nivmagus Elemental, Scion of Vhitu-Ghazi and a bunch of Deadbridge Chants I didn’t unload quickly enough. ![]()
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