MTG Card Prices & Market Signals

Market Intel

SCG CON Washington DC basically confirmed what yesterday already told us, Azorius Momo is the Standard deck to beat right now, with Jordan Selesnick taking the Regional Championship and Jakob Heckert winning the Standard 5K on Selesnya Aggro, so expect people to spend the week arguing whether they should be jamming Momo, Friendly Flier or just trying to go under it with cheap creatures according to [Star City Games](https://articles.starcitygames.com/news/top-decks-and-winners-from-scg-con-washington-dc-2/). The more structural story is EDHREC’s long look at Secret Lair, where the Goblin Storm drop selling out instantly and Chaos Vault experiments like Flower Power and Two Scoops have people revisiting the whole “print to demand” mythos and asking how much of this scarcity is organic and how much is engineered, according to [EDHREC](https://edhrec.com/articles/a-deep-dive-into-the-concerns-with-secret-lair/). With Marvel previews locked in and Secret Lairs selling out faster than some RCQs, it is getting harder to tell where real demand ends and the product calendar begins.