Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26997653-20151116034013/@comment-24.22.100.60-20160507083751

Hey guess what, it doesn't matter how you cut it, FFG ain't selling card packs. You don't like that Palpatine and the Advanced title comes in the Raider pack only? Then don't run Palp aces with Vader, plain and simple. There are other lists you can run, you don't HAVE to buy the hundred dollar ship.

The secondary market for X-Wing cards is nothing like CCG cards because just like with any LCG (which X-Wing resembles more than Magic) the upper limit for "rare" cards has a fixed price ceiling that will never change. Time used to be that a Black Lotus cost you $300, nowadays it can go for four figures easy. Meanwhile Emperor Palpatine even at his most sought after is never going to go for, at the most, more than a hundred bucks and probably far less, because if you ask for $300 for a Palpatine card people are going to laugh at you and buy a Raider off Coolstuffinc for like $75. Effectively no real secondary market exists outside of extremely informal stuff because there's no speculation, no reason for prices to go up, no real rarity because all card assortments are fixed.

Is FFG milking people who want the latest meta hotness? Absolutely. Do you NEED to buy hundred dollar ships to remain competitive? No.