The current Star City Games retail price for Hogaak is just $0.75, meaning that the card is now worth just a tiny fraction of what it was worth in June. Unlike Oko, Hogaak did not go up in price after it was banned. By the time Hogaak wasįinally banned, his retail price was just $6 – an 80% loss in value before the Had to sit around and wait for Hogaak to get the axe. WotC tried to banĪround Hogaak at first, and after it was clear that they’d failed, we all just Quickly became clear that the card was not long for Modern. Hogaak peaked close to $30 shortly after Modern Horizons was released, but it Let’s talk about Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis – another Factor #2:Įverybody “Knows” That Cards Drop in Price After Being Banned Of an Oko ban was (correctly) valued into his price tag. It would have been $50 at least, if not $60. November as more people draft the set and the overall market supply increases.īut if there was no ban risk with Oko, his price tag certainly would have been Fall set staples almost always lose value during the month of Granted, not all that lost value was due to theī&R talk. By the time WotC posted their Banned and RestrictedĪnnouncement, Oko was worth just $35 – something of a bargain, considering how Week of October, the planeswalker lost roughly 50% of its value over theĮnsuing weeks. I talked to in the weeks leading up to the Oko ban saw the writing on the wall, September, I was pretty sure they were going to go for the jugular. Playability, but after the Hogaak debacle this summer and the Golos banning in Try to ban around Oko in order to preserve their marquee planeswalker’s I figured there was a very small chance they might Factor #1: TheĮverybody knew that Oko, Thief of Crowns was going Oko a unique case, or is this indicative of some larger trend in the It was banned? And what does that tell us about Oko’s future price tag, as wellĪs the proper action to take next time a crucial card is banned in Standard? Was So why did Oko start to surge in price right after In your dreams and wanted to play something else in protest. Your Standard deck, it was probably because you were sick of seeing Elk tokens If you weren’t running four copies of Oko in Up until that point, it was the most-played mythic rare Last Monday, Wizards of the Coast banned Oko, Thief
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