All in all, this week was fairly quiet in the realm of finance as the community focused on Shadows over Innistrad spoilers. As such, instead of talking about the price movement of individual cards, let's take this opportunity to talk about Shadows over Innistrad from a meta perspective.

First off, the mythics from Shadows over Innistrad are priced amazingly highly. Right now, the average price of a Mythic is over $13, meaning the mythics alone would add nearly $60 in expected value (EV) to a box. This feels very unsustainable. Over the past few years, Fate Reforged had the highest average Mythic value during presales at almost $10, but that set was devoid of value at lower rarities, which is not the case with Shadows over Innistrad.

Speaking of the rares from Shadows over Innistrad, they currently have an average value of $2.82, which is also significantly above average, especially for a set without a rare dual lands cycle (so far at least; it's possible a partial cycle gets spoiled this week). At this price, the rares would add another $89 to the value of the box, which would put the EV at over $150 as things currently stand.

Of course this will change as the rest of the set is spoiled, we still have a handful of mythics and nearly half the rares yet to be revealed. So either we are going to be getting a lot of low-value cards over the rest of spoiler season, or the value of Shadows over Innistrad is going to be off the charts when the set releases. Of course, I'll update everyone with a full EV article after the entire set is spoiled, but for now this means two thing:

1. Buying boxes to open them early is looking like a really good plan. Even if the rest of the spoilers are average or below average, you should be able to open more than enough value in cards to cover the price of your box (if you sell immediately).
2. Prices from Shadows over Innistrad will drop faster and harder than most other sets once the set is released. This means that preordering singles is very likely a losing proposition. On average, the price of rares and mythics from the set will have to drop around 50% to get the EV under the price of a box.

The five most viewed cards on MTGGoldfish this past week were:

1. Drana, Liberator of Malakir (Battle for Zendikar)
2. Legion Loyalist (Gatecrash)
3. Jace, Vryn's Prodigy (Magic Origins)
4. Kalitas Traitor of Ghet (Oath of the Gatewatch)
5. Arlinn Kord (Shadows over Innistrad)