1. First the product comes out and sells out.
2. Second a larger number of potential buyers issue orders to balance what they perceive to be a difficult-to-acquire product.
3. Then the frenzy calms down and the second wave of players interested in the product does not materialize.
4. Then a lot of the product that was ordered in the second wave sits around unsold.
This process for MM could take three or four years..... but at the end of the day no matter how attractive this product currently seems, the reality is that the vast majority of players are casual players with a finite amount of money to spend, and when Theros comes out, well, .....we will likely see re-allocation of money from what could have been a Modern boom back into the cash cow that will always be Standard.
Everyone seems to have forgotten the Fetchlands!!! A new player could have a play set of all of the cards in MM and when they show up to play against someone with a tournament-quality mana base, they will realize that without it the cards they got from MM just aren't as competitive.
In my case, I spent my entire expected allocation for MM on two big lots of Tenth Edition, which is just plain beautiful, and super fun. I have not scanned it yet, but in this lot came a Tenth Edition Royal Assassin.
