Rarity: Rare
Starting Price: $5
Current Price: $6
Future Price – Low: $1.50
Future Price – High: $7
Thoughts: I think Anguished Unmaking is a fine card, significantly better than but comparable to Utter End. Utter End started preselling for $6 and quickly plummeted to below $2 after release. I expect to see a very similar pattern with Anguished Unmaking.
Rarity: Mythic
Starting Price: $5
Current Price: $5
Future Price – Low: $3
Future Price – High: $5
Thought: You can’t really go wrong with a six-mana mass removal spell that nets you a 4/4 Angel. It’s a solid card that I can see staying between $3 and $5 for a long time to come. If WoTC continues to be stingy with non-selective mass removal, this card could find itself in a control deck of sorts, but even then I don’t think it will be good enough to go much over the $5 mark.
Rarity: Mythic
Starting Price: $20
Current Price: $20
Future Price – Low: $10
Future Price – High: $20
Thoughts: Planeswalkers generally have a pretty high floor. Unless they’re really bad, they tend to stay around $10 while they’re in Standard. I don’t think Nahiri, the Harbinger falls into the “really bad” category by any means, but she isn’t synergistic with herself. She is an outlet for madness, which can potentially make her awesome, but as a R/W planeswalker, she isn’t really doing what I want at four mana. I could see her being great in a Super Friends deck if provided enough support, but these days, planewalkers just feel too easy to kill.
Rarity: Mythic
Starting Price: $6
Current Price: $6
Future Price – Low: $3
Future Price – High: $6
Thoughts: From a strictly financial perspective, this is easily my favorite card spoiled today. This card will get opened and ignored all during its time being drafted. It might stay around $3 – $5 during its time in Standard, but in a few years, we’re going to wake up and this card will be $10. It has everything a casual player wants in a mill card and those are the same folks that brought you $30 Glimpse the Unthinkable. If this card ever hits the $2 – $3 mark, which is totally realistic, I would not stop buying them. It is a long-term investment, but I firmly believe it will pay off big time.
Rarity: Mythic
Starting Price: $5
Current Price: $5
Future Price – Low: $2
Future Price – High: $5
Thoughts: I feel like this card sounds awesome in theory. It’s a 5/5 for five mana that can turn all of your nonland draws into removal spells! I do like the fact that it’s a madness outlet. Depending on what spells are in the set, that might become more relevant. It doesn’t play particularly well with Incorrigible Youths, since you can’t take advantage of it having haste. That, coupled with no evasion, makes me believe it’ll be a sub-$2 mythic soon after release.
While today’s spoilers are only the beginning, for a day with a planeswalker and a notable removal spell it isn’t an exceedingly jawdropping spoiler day. That said, I still have a lot of hope for Shadows over Innistrad to be an awesome set. There are a lot of cards currently spoiled that need a little something else to make them playable and I’m sure that R&D won’t let us down.
Until tomorrow!