Real example : When a new deck archetype wins a major regional tournament, every card in that deck list sees immediate price increases
Okay, so heres how the deck ended up: Creatures (12) 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Nicol Bolas 1 Thrummingbird 1 Disciple of Bolas 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer 1 The Locust God 1 Wasp of the Bitter End 1 The Scarab God 1 Flux Channeler 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion 1 God-Eternal Kefnet 1 Soul Diviner Planeswalkers (7) 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker 1 Teferi, Temporal Archmage 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh 1 Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver 1 Ashiok, Dream Render 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God 1 Narset, Parter of Veils Lands (39) 1 Reflecting Pool 6 Swamp 4 Mountain 4 Island 1 Watery Grave 1 Steam Vents 1 Blood Crypt 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1 Crumbling Necropolis 1 Grixis Panorama 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Dragonskull Summit 1 Drowned Catacomb 1 Creeping Tar Pit 1 Lavaclaw Reaches 1 Command Tower 1 Sulfur Falls 1 Thespian's Stage 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Wandering Fumarole 1 Fetid Pools 1 Canyon Slough 1 Crypt of the Eternals 1 Path of Ancestry 1 Luxury Suite 1 Morphic Pool 1 Interplanar Beacon 1 Karn's Bastion Spells (41) 1 Nevinyrral's Disk 1 Force of Will 1 Scroll Rack 1 Sol Ring 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Terminate 1 Phyrexian Arena 1 Arcane Denial 1 Slaughter 1 Shattering Pulse 1 Black Market 1 Phyrexian Reclamation 1 Izzet Signet 1 Damnation 1 Cruel Ultimatum 1 Countersquall 1 Slave of Bolas 1 Elixir of Immortality 1 Go for the Throat 1 Fuel for the Cause 1 Tragic Slip 1 Gem of Becoming 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Vandalblast 1 Swan Song 1 Toxic Deluge 1 Imprisoned in the Moon 1 Aetherflux Reservoir 1 Dark Intimations 1 Visage of Bolas 1 Hour of Devastation 1 In Bolas's Clutches 1 The Eldest Reborn 1 Patient Rebuilding 1 Bedevil 1 Font of Agonies 1 No Escape 1 Dreadhorde Invasion 1 Bolas's Citadel 1 The Elderspell 1 Deliver Unto Evil What do you think
It shapes how these decks are built and makes both legends the clear leaders for their strategies
Unfortunately, because human-driven factory error cards are almost always the same across the board for a given set (save for a couple of small exceptions), these cards hardly ever drive a premium
Regarding +1/+1 counters , there's tons of cards that specifically hinge on that mechanic, represented in all 5 mana colors
24 Master's Scroll ($35,200) In early 2021, a GEM-MT 10 copy of the Japanese Master's Scroll card was sold on eBay for more than $35,000
