MTG · Format-defining set · Serialized + fetch lands · about a year
MTG Modern Horizons 3 Collector Booster is a Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering product, one of 70 sealed items scored in the box ROI tool. It's filed as a rip rather than a hold, which means the case for it depends on demand at or near release rather than on sealed supply drying up years from now.
Appreciation 88 with liquidity 82 is the combination worth looking for: room left to run, and a market deep enough that you could act on a change of mind. It's also the combination that attracts the most competition, which is usually why accessibility is the score that suffers.
Accessibility of 25 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 25 you are paying up. A box with real upside bought at double MSRP is a worse purchase than an ordinary one bought at retail.
Set against the 7 Magic: The Gathering sealed products scored here, its appreciation of 88 ranks 2nd of 7, liquidity 82 ranks 1st, accessibility 25 ranks 5th, and risk 20 is the 3rd-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is MTG Final Fantasy Collector Booster, which scores 82 and 80 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
A one-year horizon means you're betting on a single body of work — one season, essentially. That's a much narrower bet than a career, and it should be sized like one.
Risk is scored 20, toward the low end of anything in the tool. Low risk in trading cards is still not low risk in any sense your bank would recognise — it means the identifiable ways for this to go wrong are fewer, not that they're absent.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: which sealed boxes return more than they cost.
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