I find this thread very interesting.
You're saying the market is flattening definitely, yet list individual cards to prove your point.
If the stock market is down, does that mean each individual stock is down?
Conversely, if the stock market is up, is each individual stock up?
The answer to both questions is no.
Saying the card market is down, then using a few individual cards that are down, isn't an accurate assessment of the entire market. I'm not sure there's an accurate way to assess the entire market yet, at least across multiple landscapes. If you break it down into value categories ($50k-100k cards, $100k-200k, etc.), you can get somewhat of a more accurate assessment. But even then, it doesn't factor in what others have previously mentioned: if a significant bidder wins the card, they and their money are taken out of the market.
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