Strap in, because Grand Prix New Jersey starts Friday and chances are that Legacy prices will be more active this weekend than they have been all year. With over 3,500 players gathering to play there will undoubtedly be some breakouts and price corrections across the board. James Chillcot will be on site providing live coverage throughout the weekend, offering advice from the floor and exclusive dealer interviews. Stay tuned to MTGPrice.com for all the udpates! Weekly Review of MTG Finance News Strap in, because Grand Prix New Jersey starts Friday and chances are that Legacy prices will be more active this weekend than they have been all year. With over 3,500 players gathering to play there will undoubtedly be some breakouts and price corrections across the board. James Chillcot will be on site providing live coverage throughout the weekend, offering advice from the floor and exclusive dealer interviews. Stay tuned to MTGPrice.com for all the udpates!

and chances are that Legacy prices will be more active this weekend than they have been all year. With over 3,500 players gathering to play there will undoubtedly be some breakouts and price corrections across the board. James Chillcot will be on site providing live coverage throughout the weekend, offering advice from the floor and exclusive dealer interviews. Stay tuned to MTGPrice.com for all the udpates! Want an example of a card that may rise? Ok, how about City of Traitors? This is one of the two playable two-mana producing lands in the format. It's the most played land on the reserve list that isn't a dual land. Gaea's Cradle, a land with similar demographics, is worth $170. City of Traitors may not be a $170 card, but the current price tag of $80 seems awfully low all things considered.

The PreTQ schedule has been released through February. Distribution of format changes per region, but at least in the US 82% of all PreTQs are Standard. Many players are understandably frustrated with this, as it's a big step backwards for Modern. Expect less demand for Modern singles through February.

Standard continues to churn, with what feels like a new deck each week. Two weeks ago it was Ascendancy Heroic. This past week it was UW auras. The format is still ripe for exploration, although Abzan is holding strong as the best color combo in the format. Don't expect that to change.

Fetchlands continue to sink, along with Khans as a whole. The non-blue lands are all available under $10 at this point. If you were waiting to get your sets, it's probably safe to start acquiring. There shouldn't be too much further for them to fall.

REMINDER: We will have regular coverage of GP: New Jersey all weekend on blog.mtgprice.com! Price Surprises Cliff Daigle : I’ve been playing Magic on and off since 1994. I’d sold out and walked away, came back, repeated the process. I spent a couple of years only playing MTGO, but paper is where I’m happiest. Every so often, I have had double-takes and spit-takes when I see what a card has gotten up to. I think that the biggest one for me was when I got rid of more than 100 Hymn to Tourach, which were buylisting for $1 at a GP. Fallen Empires cards that were worth something?! ... Hunting for Commander Foils By: Guo Heng Chin Welcome back readers! This is the second part of the Hunting for Commander Foils series where we evaluate foil Commander staples to see if they hold any financial potential. You can find the first part here. Today we shall continue where last week’s article left off, shiny artifacts. Taking into account the comments I have received for the first article in the series, I am going to slightly alter the format of the discussion. The first article was written in a pseudo-set review style in an attempt to cover as many cards as possible by working down the list used to rank the popularity of the cards. While I eschewed foils that are too expensive (no point harping about a $118 foil Sensei’s Divining Top if the majority of readers would not be willing to spend that much for it) or are stagnant price-wise, I covered foil staples that are already relatively expensive like Solemn Simulacrum. Preparing for Grand Prix New Jersey Jared Yost: There are going to be twenty vendors at the event – twenty vendors! – which means there are going to be many different opportunities for buylisting and arbitrage during the weekend. Buylisting almost becomes an art rather than a science during a GP. Of course, the best time to visit the vendors is early Friday morning if you want the best deals and most opportunities to sell to them. At the beginning of the event the vendors will be looking to stock up not only for the weekend but to increase their general inventory. However, as the weekend goes on, fewer and fewer vendors are prone to offer high buylist prices on staples...

