#RAGAVAN NIMBLE PILFERER MODERN DECK FULL#

(If valuable cards were evenly distributed throughout all 74 sets, the average set would have less than one card worth $25 or more.) If we expand the sample size out to include cards worth $10 or more, it's even worse. This might not sound like a lot, but when you consider that 74 sets are legal in Modern, having just two sets account for 14% of the most expensive cards in the format is a staggeringly high number. Nine of these cards are either from Modern Horizons or Modern Horizons 2. Currently, 63 Modern-legal cards cost more than $25 (going by their cheapest printings). While I would argue that these sets have been a huge boon in terms of gameplay, they come with a high cost, literally. The biggest change to Modern since we last checked in on the price of the format in 2018 was the addition of Modern Horizons sets to the format. This is because the current issue with Modern's prices isn't the lack of reprints (although again, the more reprints, the better)-it's the cost of new cards. Yet, Modern is still more expensive than ever before.

#RAGAVAN NIMBLE PILFERER MODERN DECK FULL#

While some of these products are fairly low supply and shouldn't be counted as a full reprinting, even if we exclude things like The List and the Mystery Booster foil slot, we're getting more reprints today than ever before. We now get more than 10 Commander precons a year a bunch of Secret Lair drops usually multiple non-Standard supplemental sets like Commander Legends, Double Masters, or Modern Horizons along with things like Mystery Boosters and The List. While some are more effective than others, every little bit of new supply helps. We've also gotten a ton of new reprint spots in the past year or two. A Scalding Tarn that was $100 just a few months ago is around $40 today, and some of the less desirable fetches are near $20, which is quite cheap for a fetch land, even if it isn't really cheap in an absolute sense. Fetch lands are a good example: Wizards just reprinted the enemy fetch lands in Modern Horizons 2, and we got a pseudo-reprinting in Zendikar Rising with the new Expeditions, and they lost more than half of their value as a result (although the ally fetch lands have been on the rise, undoing some of these gains). While older cards could always be cheaper, we've had a ton of cost-reducing reprints lately. In the past, when we've discussed the cost of Modern, we've mostly focused on one thing: the need for more reprints. Regardless, one thing is clear: Modern is more expensive than it has been in years, and it very likely is more expensive than it has ever been. If something like Scapeshift took its place in our sample, the average would rise to $1,131. Izzet Blitz snuck into the last spot, and it also happens to be the cheapest deck list in the top 12 by a pretty wide margin. And this extremely high average cost is actually a conservative number because there's a four-way tie for 12th most played deck, with Izzet Blitz, Urza's Kitchen, Scapeshift, and Amulet Titan all coming in at 1.8% of the meta. The average cost of buying one of the 12 most played decks in the Modern format is currently the highest it has ever been (at least, back to 2015), coming in at a staggering $1,070.

At the time, the news was bad, with deck prices increasing 26% between 20, putting the average cost of buying one of the top 12 most played decks in the format at $984, which was the highest point since 2015, when the average top-12 deck came in at $1,015. Back in August 2018, almost exactly three years ago, I published an article about the cost of building top-tier Modern decks.

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