MTG · Will NEVER be reprinted · Hard supply cap · five years or longer
Reserved List Cards is one of 75 card types scored in The Card Investor, filed under Magic: The Gathering cards.
Both of the upside numbers are strong here — appreciation 96, liquidity 78. That pairing is rare enough to be the reason this entry exists, and rare enough that the price normally reflects it.
Accessibility of 12 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 12 you are paying up. A card with real upside bought at double MSRP is a worse purchase than an ordinary one bought at retail.
Set against the 5 Magic: The Gathering card types scored here, its appreciation of 96 ranks 2nd of 5, liquidity 78 ranks 2nd, accessibility 12 ranks 3rd, and risk 8 is the 2nd-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Power 9 / Alpha/Beta Rares, which scores 97 and 50 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
Five years or more is a patience bet. Over that span the specific reasoning below matters less than whether the underlying thing stays desirable, and the honest position is that nobody knows what the hobby looks like in 2031. Size it accordingly.
At 8, this is one of the calmer entries in here. Read that as relative: the floor under any card is whatever the next person will pay, and that number can move a long way in a month.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: what Kabooms, Downtowns and Color Blasts are worth.
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