Hank McCoy posted a thread about the Marvel Legends set:

http://www.vsrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50517

The noted difference is the amount of rares... twice as many as previous sets (110 vs 55).

It creates a higher scarcity of all the rares overall, but the rares still have to be playable in order to retain some value.

There must be some reason why UDE is doing this (if the set info is correct)... what do you guys think?

Easy answer: to sell more packs.

This could be a reprint set...if that's the case, reprint away on the rares!

I hope this isn't coming out any time soon. I trying to get married Daym you UDE.

I don't see this helping the secondary market either way. You will have 4-5 cards that fetch decent prices. After that everything hits the $1-$2 range. The only way I see it helping is if 20% or more of the rares are playable.

Well the fact that's it's EXACTLY twice as much makes me think there's something we're not getting here.

Such as it's actually just some sort of parallel rare set, or something. The "1/2 of rares are simply reprints" concept is sounding more plausible based on what we know.

Clearly the sole reason behind this is to sell more product. Any fool can see that. The more rares in a set, the more packs you have to buy.

The better question is why did they not just double the set size like wow instead? Wouldn't that sell more product as well without irking the public?

What if the took all those great common and Uncommon cards from MOR and made them rares.:cool: :cool: :cool:

Theoretically, it's a good idea. That way, all rares become more scarce and people have to buy more packs. On the other hand, that means people will buy less packs and buy more singles just to not take the chance on pack probabilities. However, maybe I'm the only one who thinks that way. This should bring the Secondary Market up a bit but, the best remedy I see is simple, print better rares! Big Leagues, Mobilize, Empire State University, Gift Wrapped, Creation Of a Herald, Enemy Of My Enemy, all good-great rares, all above the norm for money value. Printing cards like "Drink This!" is not going to help the Secondary Market average.


~ Josh

Well... there are theories that making rares more scarce increases the value of the secondary market... I think Locke mentioned this in my other thread.

Assuming the numbers are right, which I don't believe they are, I would actually buy fewer packs. If anything would drive me to buying singles over packs, it would be making it even harder to complete a playset through packs (not to mention the ungodly numbers of repeat commons/uncommons that would be taking up space). Someone suggested the possibility of more than 1 rare per pack, which would alleviate a lot of these concerns, but I doubt this is what's being done.

Anyway, assuming the numbers are right and the number of rares per pack stays the same, I would buy less VS.

Everything is to sell more product. The design on the front of the pack is there to sell more product.

That doesn't mean that there isn't something we're missing here. The fact (assuming the numbers are even correct) that they exactly doubled the amount of rares makes me think there's something more to this than them just "adding more rares".

If you and everyone else buys more singles though, that, in effect, raises the value of the secondary market. Vendors would realize that more people are buying singles so, they better start opening more boxes and they can sell rares at a higher price. Sounds good for the game to me.


Coolexplosion (gotta mix it up ^.^)

Then I would buy the commons and play them :). Theoretically more rares in a set should boost the secondary market. Those rares have to be good enough to sell though.

This will hurt the collectors though

This doesn't just hurt them. This destroys them and their children.

This is going to make me not even want to ever crack a pack if these numbers are true. Trying to get playsets of rares for decks is hard enough or otherwise impossible unless its a trash, lots of print rare. (Our group has 8 Drink This and 2 4 drop Spiderman combined in our 4+ boxes of MTU. How many Drink This do you have??) As a player of decks built not half-assed, I will even be more inclined to never buy a pack and just use my money on singles.