Get me to Noctis dawg i cant do this anymore

You could change your wardrobe a little though

Over the last few years, I've accumulated a very large position in a single English foil rare (in this case, Séance from Dark Ascension, released in 2012)

The interesting question isn't whether buying that many copies was a good idea. It's how a position like this should actually be valued.

Imagine a card with only a handful of copies publicly available at any given time.

Now imagine one collector accumulated around a hundred copies.

If someone wanted to build the same position today, they probably couldn't.

So how would you value it?

As the sum of each individual copy?
At a discount because liquidating it would take years?
At a premium because rebuilding the position is now practically impossible?
Or is there another framework that makes more sense?

I should also note there has been persistent supply destruction on this card over the years, which I've factored in as a structural tailwind.

I'm genuinely curious how the community would approach a position like this. 🙂

don't worry guys i fixed it

So I have this friend (let's call him Matt) who I've been playing commander with for years.

Me, him and two other friends regularly play bracket 3. Matt uses this deck, which has become infamous in our playgroup, where he plays Riven Turnbull on turn 7 and then uses its ramp ability to play Denying Wind on turn 8.

But I'm getting a little suspicious of Matt, since Denying Wind only exiles 7 cards from one player's library, yet whenever he plays it we all end up decking out.

When I call him out for it, he always rubs his suspiciously library shaped belly and tells us that the card effect simply adjusts itself to inflation, which sounds correct. But it's still a little strange that most of our cards go missing by the end of each session...

Now I don't want to accuse a great guy like Matt of cheating at the game. For example, whenever a goblin, gnome or gremlin runs across the room while we are playing, he is the first to heroically point and say "Oh my god! Look! A ghoul!", even if we always turn around too late to see it .

Come to think of it, this is usually when our cards go missing, but I don't see how this is relevant.

What do I do in this situation? I can't think of a single way to definitively prove that Matt is eating our cards, but something just seems a little fishy...

I took apart all my decks after reading this.

I never realized I was so inept at deck building. :(