While the Magic: The Gathering card is now on the comedown, it's currently sitting at $6.50, still worth 1500% more than the $0.40 it cost on Friday
It'd be just okay if the tokens created by Vren were measly 1/1s, but they scale with the number of rats you control
The Stamped Staff promo has had a similar crash from $94.41 to a current market value of $68.90
While there are lots of cards that do similar exile-then-steal effects nowadays, Etali is still one of the best to ever do it, and is certainly the best monored option for anyone hoping to pull this strategy off
In fact, for the first time, there were serious reasons to mill yourself
A real-world application of this type of analysis could be the foreign exchange market responding to, say, a change in interest rates, but here Ill use the much simpler example of the price of Magic: The Gathering cards after a reprint