The Cube You Can't Afford

[Thomas David Baker]

I was going to proxy up "The Cube You Can't Afford" ... the 360 most expensive cards to acquire in any tournament-legal form in Magic.

But it turns out it would be rubbish to play with as it's basically just a load of ABU, Arabian Nights and Portal: Three Kingdoms rares.

For interest's sake here's a visual spoiler of the 358 of the 360 approximately most expensive cards in Magic in ascending price order:

http://magic.bluebones.net/expensive-cube.html

(Prices, order and everything else fairly approximate and woolly - appearance of <a class="card">Divinity of Pride</a> will remain unexplained.)

 

[Daniel Royde]

Could you have that as a theme, rather than a rule? So "the 360 most expensive cards that you want in the cube", and take out all of the odd promos, and casual cards and so on?

[Thomas David Baker]

Believe it or not there aren't really enough expensive yet also playable Magic cards!

Perhaps these 164 cards that cost a fiver or more is something of a start:

http://magic.bluebones.net/fiver.html

But going down as low as a fiver even to get half the cards seems a bit rubbish.

(And I've actually come up with a couple of better ideas for cubes so I will probably abandon this idea.)

[Ben Titmarsh]

There was an idea a while back to do $10 cube where every card closest to $10 is put in. Still reckon that would make for some good drafting.

[Michael Duke]

I was actually gona put together a cube like this for fun... but i'm just too damn lazy.

[Thomas David Baker]

The ten dollar cube looks approximately like this:

http://magic.bluebones.net/ten-dollar.html

I'm not convinced by any cube that contains Purelace and Yellow Scarves General, though :)

[Kieran Symington]

Are you sure this is right? There's some very strange stuff in there. I had no idea Daru Mender was worth $10. Also, I'm pretty sure that Knight Errant is worth about 2p. What's going on?

Thomas David Baker said:

The ten dollar cube looks approximately like this:

http://magic.bluebones.net/ten-dollar.html

I'm not convinced by any cube that contains Purelace and Yellow Scarves General, though :)

[Charlie Grover]

Somewhere along the line Tom did it very, very wrong. NICE BEARS. And legions commons..

[Thomas David Baker]

Heh. Blame magictraders.com ... Their stats for Daru Mender sales:

Daru Mender, 29.99, 0.00, 29.99, 29.99, 29.99, 0.00, 1

Averaged out with Mike's price of 25p gives a price pretty close to $10.

Their stats are not perfect (as you can see) but I don't really have anything better and they are really easy to parse unlike every other source of cards prices in the world. I have Mike's prices from quite a long time ago and a version using his prices only looks like this:

http://magic.bluebones.net/ten-dollar-mike.html

But that excludes anything ZEN or later (I think) and is based on old prices.

Mike - any chance of an export of your price db, just card name + current price?