I enjoy digging into numbers and looking for trends. Most of the time it's very frustrating, but sometimes it can be very rewarding when you can find some trend or something that starts to makes sense. If nothing else you can look for recurring patterns to gives you a signal to take a particular action.

Right now since I just got done reviewing the SteemMonster market I only have one data point, but thought I would share this data since it took a few hours to put together and dig through. It's a lot of information so if you have an idea how to look at something differently let me know and I'll try and get your answer either in another post or in the comments below.

A Look at Commons

For the charts below, it is all pricing and numbers for common non-foil alpha and beta cards.

Sorted from Least to Most by # of Remaining Alpha Cards

If you're a collector/speculator and looking at the rarity of cards one thing that you need to remember is that all Alpha cards were "reprinted" as Beta cards. I don't know how or if that will affect the pricing long term. I understand the artwork is different, but from a playability standpoint, the cards are identical. From a collector standpoint usually 1st editions always do best and it seems the Alpha commons are rarer than the Beta, so they will carry some premium, but it will be hard to tell how much.

Sorted from Highest to Lowest by Cost of Alpha Card

Neutral cards were first released with the Beta packs making them rarer than the other elemental cards which are somewhat reflected in the pricing (except for the poor Grumpy Dwarf).

Source

The Flesh Golem seems to be carrying a significant mark-up currently so if you have some Flesh Golem's that are lying around not being used, now may be a good time to sell one or two as I don't see any reason for the price to be that high.

Sorted by Least to Most by Total # of Cards for Sale

I'd be interested to hear what the higher level SteemMonster players, high diamond or champion, think of the Crustacean King and Pirate Captain cards. I would think most people are holding on to these cards and not selling them because they think they're stronger cards for the blue deck, but I could be completely wrong. Same would go with Rexxie, is Rexxie that weak of a card, or is no one buying him for some other reason?

A simple rule of thumb for most Gold Common Cards is 10x the price of the regular card. The Gold Card that carries the most premium is surprise surprise the Elven Cutthroat. I want to find out what it will cost to get a max rank card, but need to find some information on how many cards are required to obtain a max rank card.

Sorted by Highest to Lowest for Beta Gold Price

I'm going to break this up so it doesn't become too long, but as I said before if there is anything, in particular, you'd like to see about price, # of cards for sale, or total cards let me know in the comments below. I have the information for all the cards that are currently released, including reward and prime cards.

I plan to make future posts about other editions as well as rare, epic, and legendary cards so be sure to stay tuned for that. I'm hoping to make this as a weekly or at the very least monthly update on information that others find valuable.