I doubt it will drop all that much - even looking at price trends, it looks like it dropped a bit but has hit a plateau.

The card is older, was released in a smaller-scale product, and a number of copies likely are not even in circulation as many precons get kept in their original state. So, low supply and high current popularity given recent improvements to its archetype. It also is unlikely to be reprinted, given its niche applicability makes it hard to slot into wide-production products.

It might drop some more if the current popularity of super friends fades, but that likely will take a bit of time and it will be unlikely to drop to anywhere close to its old levels.

Peligrad

I am regularly on the receiving end of threats and death threats for my public-facing work in the real world. I have lost count of the number of people who want to hurt me - to me, it is simply part of my job, and a cost of doing business where I have the ability to help a lot of people. So, I feel very, very comfortable in saying I am neither naive nor hiding from reality. To be perfectly frank, the only person who is clearly naive on this thread is you - it is abundantly clear your lack of empathy comes from not having any real experience with this kind of affair from the receiving end.

You simply cannot know what it is like to be on the receiving end of threats until you have been. The RC has received plenty of hate for years, and likely thought they were pretty steeled against this. But when the tide turned and the viciousness of the cowards you are absolving of responsibility became violent? They hit that wall for the first real time, and many of them were, entirely reasonably, not able to handle it. They were there for fun, they were there for a hobby... and the cruelty of cowards ruined their fun and turned their hobby into a real world liability.

I can understand why they would want to throw in the towel - as can anyone with any empathy. They are absolutely not to blame for what transpired. The only people who are to blame are the vile human beings who engaged in such threats, and trying to shift some of that blame onto the victims betrays the only real naivety displayed on this thread.

I want to end by making this very clear: TappedOut does not condone violence nor will this site tacitly support violence by allowing users to victim blame and thus absolve perpetrators of violence by shifting the blame away from the bad actors and onto innocents.

You are entitled to your opinion, you are not entitled to victim blame. By shifting the responsibility for the doxing and death threats onto “the way it was done” by the RC, you are shifting blame away from the violent members of the community and onto the RC.

Let us be very clear - no one should have to anticipate death threats over their engagement with a hobby. No hobby action one takes within a hobby space is ever justification for death threats. And, no matter what the RC might have done with bans, the responsibility for the death threats ONLY falls on those making the death threats.

Those are basic and obvious moral and legal tenants upon which civilized society exists. You can write them off as an opinion, but TappedOut, as a site, is against violence and any act condoning violence or blaming victims for being on the receiving end of threats.

Peligrad - I think that is important to accurately characterize how the transition to WotC occurred.

“Backlash” is an understatement - the RC members were doxed and received death threats.

Moreover, “mismanaged their authority” seems to be phrasing with little basis in reality and shifting the blame for the death-threat filled backlash on the victim, not the community members who broke the RC’s spirit. In reality, the RC was incredibly conservative in exercising their authority - each of the cards they banned leading up to this controversy was long on the “potential ban” watchlist, and in-line with similar other bans.

The RC telegraphed their move months - and for a few cards years - in advance, and somehow people were shocked by this decision. That is a pretty strong use that the problem was the community, not the long-term evaluations and conservative approach to their authority by the RC.

So, let us all be very clear where the fault lies - it is not the RC “selling out” and more a group of hobbyists decided that their hobby was not worth death threats.