Filter Changes
Hey Guys,
I wanted to do a post on this as there were many questions regarding the changes coming!
First, I want to say I think this is an amazing change for casuals. They can complete SBC’s easier by separating rares/non rares and also looking for informs etc. It was a change the community was asking for.
Second, I’m pretty impartial to it for trading! I think it has some negative impacts like on lazy selling. I know some of you LOVE overpriced selling and I’ve seen tons of sales of people selling RTTF/UCL/Shapeshifters towards TOTS prices (Rontsen I’m talking to you)! This will be much harder in the future as people can separate by card type. You will see less lazy buyers if it’s easier to sort.
You can still get people to pay more by adding fitness, contracts, etc, but selling at a random price or even a different version will be more difficult.
One benefit this has is that it makes 59th minute trading more feasible. I’ve made quite a few posts on this over the year, but the 59th minute method is all about getting to cards that were just listed to look for deals. This year, it has almost exclusively been used with Icons, but in the future I see it more viable.
For example, let’s see you search a tab called “Headliners” in the future. You set the minimum buy now to 100K and scroll to the 59th minute. Here, you would see all Headliners worth more than 100K and look to get your deals in! It would be a less aggressive approach to the method as it should in theory require less memorization!
Overall, those are the big changes I see coming from it and the only slight impact it has is day trading. It will also likely be harder for deals to slip on special cards, but it may still work particularly well on informs. Informs will likely have their own bundled category and not distinct separation by first, second or third inform. There will still be deals that way :)
Don’t worry about it too much as a trader and look forward to a better experience for new promos, SBC’s, finding cards, etc!
Much love!
Jake