Vampire trade value?

Yeah, i am trying to get my hands on Ur-Shulgi for ages now, but whenever i come across an odd one, people like want 5 parity shifts for it ...

It is only Assamite i do not own

Ezmerelda is the only one of the fn 11 caps that should be that expensive, because she is the most playable. all the others should be lower in price, so while they sell for $20 and up, they are realistically not "worth" that much in trade value. Matthias is more playable than most of them, as is convert, so there is no reason why they should be that pricey, other than how old the set is.

i don't know very much about bl or fn as far as vamp distribution, but i've heard from a player who bought alot of bloodlines that its rares were distributed weird. were both of these sets not printed in huge quantities, or did they just disappear quickly?

Neither Ezmerelda nor Augustus Giovanni has appeared in a TWD. Sutekh has appeared in 2 (though only 1 copy of him was in each crypt).

Ur-Shulgi has been in 1 TWD and he was the star!

The four 11-cap independents were R1s in FN.
All of the vampires from Scarce Bloodlines were also rares.

That's why they are so hard to find.

Almost all of the Final Nights rares were R2. The R1s were especially hard to get. I think the only R1s were the four vampires, Mythic Form and Lupine Assault.

that explains their "value" compared to the rest of the set (and why mythic from is nearly unplayable but goes for around $5). does anyone know how long it was before either set was no longer readily available? i didn't play back then, i'm just trying to get an idea on how much was printed. did it all fly off the shelves within a year of release or did it just sit there until Cam edition came out?

Mythic Form, Lupine Assault, Abomination, and Week of Nightmares were all R1s.