Johnny Narwhal the MTG Whale

Let me start this off by saying this is not financial advice. This is simply an explanation of how I buy cards and an article to explain some of the terms that I use. As someone who likes to buy expensive cardboard I have to be careful to not buy a card right before it tanks in value of I'm buying it to squirrel it away. What causes a cards value to tank like this? It happens when a cards depend falls below its supply, this is something I have nicknamed the Tarmogoyf effect.  I call it the Tarmogoyf effect simply because this is one of the most famous cards that highlights supply and demand from both the Meta side of things and the supply side of things. Tarmogoyf was a card that saw wide play in the Meta of several formats which made is a sought after card. WotC then began printing it often starting in 2015. Between 2015 and 2021 it ending up seeing 5 full reprints, inclusion on the List and a premium reprint. It also saw less play at tournaments as well which means it

Sorry for taking so long to update the MTG Whale blog, I know you've missed me! OK well, maybe not but a guy can wish right? So it's a new year, 2022! Right now we are seeing a return to more in person events so the team and I have been planning on decks and travel. I have finished up most of the sorting of cards  as I posted about before, almost everything is scanned in, I have to redo Gold and Lands, and I have decided what decks I am actually going to build! All of them! Well not all of them exactly but I am building five different decks and buying the missing cards for several other archetypes so I can do quick swap outs.  The first decks I worked on was bringing the two decks I had built to modern standards. Mainly that was just swapping in a few cards here and there. We are still debating on what to do with Mono G Tron. We moved some of the sideboard cards into the main deck and visa versa, the big question is if we should add in Baby Karn or not. This is hone