Accurate printing & pricing

Not sure if this is covered or not, but i'll throw it out there...

Deckbox is my main inventory system, but I often use it to gauge the EV of a set based on its top-end cards, as well as the current standing of value on what I already have.  However, that can sometimes be misleading here for a number of reasons. The first is that the value of the card seems like an average of the prices that are being sold here, and not a market value from a much larger marketplace.  And the second, and maybe more importantly, if you get reprints in the set, the price can be WAY off, because its defaulting to a certain copy of the print.

Case in point, if you looked at the Multiverse Legends page under Editions (https://deckbox.org/editions/760-multiv … =p&o=d), base copy of Atraxa is listed currently at $55.82.  But if you click into the link to look at the page for that copy (https://deckbox.org/mtg/Atraxa%2C%20Pra … ting=78077), the inventory price (non-foil) shows $12.80.   If you took a different route, and used the Card Database option (https://deckbox.org/games/mtg/cards?f=5 … =i&o=d) and selected MUL, you'd get an even different price of $64.88.

I guess i'm wondering if, at the very least, when you bring up an Edition or Card Database page on a set, the price that's shown could be reflective of that specific copy of the card from that set, which in this case would be $12.80 each time, rather than a more broadly averaged price across all copies.  It would give a more accurate view of the cards in the context of what you're looking at, rather than a (possibly) over-inflated value.

Last edited by Zieglaan (2023-06-20 17:58:56)