Why is Marshaling The Troops a $45 Dollar Card?

[Cavius The Great]

I recently went to the Troll & Toad website to check up on the avaliability of Marshaling the Troops and to my surprise it was a $45 dollar card! What decks exactly play this card? I know for a fact that Peach Garden Lich isn't that popular, so why has the price on the card spiked? Any insight on this matter will be appreciated.

[Webster]

I recently went to the Troll & Toad website to check up on the avaliability of Marshaling the Troops and to my surprise it was a $45 dollar card! What decks exactly play this card? I know for a fact that Peach Garden Lich isn't that popular, so why has the price on the card spiked? Any insight on this matter will be appreciated.

It's from portal 3 kingdoms.

That's it. Yes, really.

[zeus-online]

Because it's a p3k rare card?

That's about it for the reasoning, it's pretty damn rare.

/Zeus

[Cavius The Great]

There are P3K rare cards that are better but less valuable than Marshaling the Troops. Riding The Dilu Horse is a million times better rare and it's only $7 bucks. I remember when MTT was $25 dollars like two months ago. There's got to be another reason why this card has spiked in value.

[iamfishman]

Actually, having worked hard to complete a set of P3K I have watched values of all cards pretty regularly.  When I just looked now, many seemingly crappy cards are throught the roof on findmagiccards.com.

I have a strong hypothesis.  Between Grindstone/Painter, then Strategic Planning, and even to some extent Leyline/Helm people have been really speculative recently.

I wonder if someone out there is buying up tons of P3K cards hoping one will be the next strategic planning.