Potentially Problematic Reserved List ‘Meme’ Spikes Over 900%!

MTG finance is a funny thing. Sometimes price movement is driven by logical factors, such as a card’s popularity or scarcity. Other times, a card’s price jumps on account of it being a ‘meme,’ much like the now-infamous Gamestop incident of 2021. This week, it would seem that the latter has occurred. Reparations, a forgotten MTG rare from Mirage, has seen a serious price spike. Alongside memes pushing the prices of classic cards, eternal formats are driving other, more reasonable spikes, too. New combo pieces from Modern Horizons 3 are sparking buyouts of older cards which make ideal enablers in Commander and Pauper. Standard isn’t slacking off either, with cards from Thunder Junction still having their true value discovered. Read More: MH3 is Chock Full of Low-Cost Limited Bombs! The MTG Reparations Spike The big story of the financial moment in MTG is, of course, the Reparations price spike. Until a week ago, Reparations was just another obscure Reserved List rare. It sat at around $3, which isn’t nothing, but isn’t very exciting for a card so old, either. All of that changed this week, however, when popular streamer PaymoneyWubby shone a spotlight on the card on Twitch. The streamer...