Author Archives: Alex Kriby

Hello hello hello and welcome to Friday Finance here on Constructed Criticism. This week we will be discussing a topic that can be view as a point of contention among players and traders. I have attempted to discuss the topic without using passionate or emotive language and hope that no one is offended if they still disagree by the end. After that there will of course be this weeks Promising Pickups.

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Hello all. Apoligies for the delay in this Friday Finance. The article required the purchase of Aether Revolt product which was not available till friday. Hope you all enjoy regardless…

The crinkle and rip of opening a pack of Magic cards seems to be a universally enjoyed phenomenon within the MTG community. I dread to think about the amount of money spent by players on single boosters to just crack for that rush. The feeling of hope that you might pull the chase mythic, or now in the current climate a Masterpiece. However, like all forms of gambling loosing will always be more often than winning. The house always has the edge. This week on Friday Finance we will be discussing whether buying a box of boosters and cracking them is just further buying into the gambling lifestyle, or whether it can be a profitable endeavour.

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Hello and welcome to the newest part of the Constructed Criticsm Network, Friday Finance, a weekly article about Magic Finance where we hope to save you and maybe even make you some money on this hobby we all share.

This week I want to talk about Banned and Restricted list updates and how the most recent has effected the MTG Finance world. As you may of heard 5 cards were banned in this January’s update and for the first time since June 2011 cards were banned in Standard. The offending parties were Gitaxian Probe and Golgari Grave-Troll in Modern and Reflector Mage, Smuggler’s Copter and Emrakul, the Promised End. Now obviously with a banning comes a price drop for the card in question, the limiting of where it can be played will do that in it’s own right, but the fact that panicking players will flood the market as they try to get out of copies they own is the moment that money can be made. Continue reading →