Based on Twitter postings from Friday, there was a rumor that the buyout was coordinated. The majority of the copies that will exist for the next Standard are already out there. This is not the case for Xenagos, the Reveler because we’ve been opening Theros for an entire year.
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The hype from Pro Tour Theros was mainly driven by a lack of supply. Mono-Blue Devotion turned out to be one of the most dominating decks and yet the prices still went since that time last year. However, in the long run their prices dropped considerably because more Theros was opened and people were able to pick them up much easier once more copies were in the market. Yes, you could have made money on them if you had prestocked your cart on TCGPlayer and then executed the purchase as soon as they saw decent screen time from the live coverage.
Master of Waves and Thassa, God of the Sea were bought out last year during Pro Tour Theros due to the breakout of the Mono-Blue Devotion deck. Usually, when a Standard card is bought out at this particular time in the season there is a good reason. Xenagos was close to $7-$8 for a long time in Standard – for the past six months you could have gotten your copies fairly cheap if you picked them up slowly over time. When I identify passive pickups in my set reviews, I recommend that you pick them up when you have extra cards to trade or when the price becomes low enough that even if they don’t pan out in Standard they will still stabilize in price to due to casual or other demand. I commented on this version of Xengos in my Theros review back in September last year as a passive pickup, which meant that I recognized his power level but realized that it would take a paradigm shift in Standard in order for his abilities to really shine. By the time this article is published, I predict that it will be hard to find Xenagos, the Reveler for less than $15.
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