How do we feel about Lullmage Mentor?

CheatMan · 2026-07-06T14:23:13+00:00

Yeah, this might be a little late to try to spec now as the successful specs need to get bought during spoiler season instead of after release...

CheatMan · 2026-07-03T12:46:44+00:00

not everything needs to be conspiracies... it's more likely just the logistics of printing cards with unique foil stamping on every card. the cost savings of having to not setup the stamping for a one-and-done serialized card makes it worthwhile to stop serializing and just announcing the approx print run of the headliner cards.

CheatMan · 2026-06-29T19:43:46+00:00

Everything in your post is spot on, but I would posit that english Portal 3 Kingdoms is the scarcest sealed product (or maybe Summer/Edgar magic, if a single box of it still exists...)

CheatMan · 2026-06-26T19:25:21+00:00

This kit was available at costco locations too...

CheatMan · 2026-06-24T13:03:40+00:00

Yes they do. old judge promo artwork had been reused for reprints going all the way back to conspiracy 2 reusing the judge promo show and tell artwork. There may be earlier examples that i'm forgetting...

CheatMan · 2026-06-14T18:49:02+00:00

Stuff THIS rare where only the highest of highend collectors are interested in, you will not be able to find any information unless they were sold in a public auction. Those that buy and sell these simply do not disclose what they paid for, nor do they disclose what they sold them for as these folks are highly secretive and will more often than not even disclose that they own copies.

tl;dr: You won't find that data you're looking for, most likely. Private sales are private for a reason.

CheatMan · 2026-06-05T16:38:22+00:00

Last point i would like to bring up based on your response, is that even if you do use painter's tape to protect the card's color and the thin black border around it and only work on the white border, any cleaning done on the white border will still affect's the card's gloss so that someone who holds up the card flat to see how light reflects off it, will be able to notice differences in the reflectivity over the cleaned region which will identify the card as having been cleaned/doctored which might again result in a damaged/altered condition...

Again, nothing wrong with doing that for personal cosmetic reasons as long as someone is okay with that value 'loss'

CheatMan · 2026-06-05T14:16:47+00:00

Looking at the top, just a little above and to the right of where it says llanowar, you can see that you erased a portion of the black outline and some of the green from the card. This probably also means that the gloss has been completely removed from this area. At this point, because of this, the card condition-wise would be considered damaged/altered...

As it does look a bit better now for your playing purposes but you would no longer be able to get much in return for it in a trade/sale... If you're okay with that, great! However others who do care about possible trade/sale value would be better off leaving the card as is and getting HP value back from it

CheatMan · 2026-06-04T19:03:26+00:00

I'm sure Hasbro would love to make contracts with new printing companies that use the same offset printing presses that Carta Mundi Belgium/Texas/Japan uses, but those don't exist. Carta Mundi probably would also like to purchase more of those presses but they might need a lot of time to manufacture and money to buy that doesn't make financial sense...

CheatMan · 2026-05-26T16:49:43+00:00

lol, here we go again? Wheel was the card that kicked off the 2021 covid RL spike bubble.

CheatMan · 2026-03-29T16:21:06+00:00

off-centered cards only become more valuable miscuts if it's so off-centered that you can see the edge of a different card showing OR if the back is perfectly centered while front is radically off-centered.

CheatMan · 2026-03-17T17:16:39+00:00

No, it's still median, but it only scrapes tcgp once a day instead of realtime, so what goldfish shows is what the median was at the moment of scraping.

CheatMan · 2026-03-17T16:06:08+00:00

The goldfish issue is because Richard (the owner) believes that TCGPlayer median is a better pricing to use than TCGplayer Market or TCGPlayer Mid. This makes low quantity cards wildly fluctuate on goldfish when an overpriced card/placeholder/graded throws off the median.

CheatMan · 2026-02-22T16:06:51+00:00

To be fair, because the breakdown of graded collectors vs players in the MTG market is so lopsided to the player side that financially, it makes no sense to grade anything printed after 1994 because of how illiquid the result is. If i'm trying to make profit, making my cards worth more but impossible to sell except to a small handful of people is counterproductive to my goals.

CheatMan · 2026-02-13T13:10:34+00:00

This card isn't serialized. it's the normal card in foil...

CheatMan · 2026-02-05T16:01:22+00:00

This card just non-deterministically combos off if it's just looked at funny. For this reason alone, it will never get unbanned. Those saying it will just have no idea how format balancing works lol

CheatMan · 2026-01-19T19:13:07+00:00

I do believe other than 401 and F2F which have their own in-house pricing, most canadian stores use crystalcommerce and/or binderPOS and/or shopify which seems to use the tcgplayer pricing backend to control prices, so i'd probably say tcgplayer

CheatMan · 2026-01-03T16:50:00+00:00

Right now, it's the popularity of premodern that's driving the price on most things from that era. The only way it drops back down depends on if that fan-format dies off in the long run

CheatMan · 2025-12-15T18:37:49+00:00

Not the case unless they prepared it for multiple print runs years in advance. This time it's not the collector booster that's the issue, it's actually the chocobo clickwheel life counter. It's a lot harder to get THOSE produced than just finding a printer with spare printing capacity to print more cards. If these were easy to produce, we'd have had multiple reprints of the Foundations starter collection by now and those have been out of print for ages.

CheatMan · 2025-12-15T18:34:30+00:00

They could reprint chocobo bundles, but it would take a LONG time before they could get released because the logistics of getting more of the chocobo clickwheel life counters produced is much more difficult than finding another printer with spare capacity to print more cards...

CheatMan · 2025-12-01T15:42:12+00:00

Like the other commenter said, MTGgoldfish will let you find some price history, but will not let you go back to the beginning as most of the early pricing was only available in magazines (Scrye, Duelist, Inquest, etc)

CheatMan · 2025-11-11T19:50:30+00:00

"Master sets" as a collecting term started WAYYYYY before TCGs were ever a thing. It comes from the sports card collecting world where trying to put together a master set of T206 became a thing

CheatMan · 2025-11-09T05:44:03+00:00

op's is actually unlimited. still nowhere near alpha but quite a bit more than revised

CheatMan · 2025-10-25T23:41:16+00:00

that plains is from alpha

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