Without being mean or anything, can anyone explain in plain English what exactly Mastercoin does? It's worth a lot (~$26 a coin) but I can't get the idea behind it. I'm wondering how it's worth so much?
That's the problem with Mastercoin: The functionality that it introduces is too advanced for the average joe who has no use for it, unless it is dumbed down to practical applications.
Privacy/Anonymity however is something that can be used by anyone (and be easily appreciated for its benefits).
Coin price is highly related to the number of coins issued.
Master coin only has like 500k coins which is 7.6 times less than DRKs. If Master coin was dilluted 7.6 times to reach the same number of coins with DRK (4.3mn), it would cost 28.5 7.6 = 3.75$, which is not far from our price level at 3$.
On the other hand, people do not really understand how overpriced DOGE and LTC are compared to DRK (or how undervalued DRK is compared to DOGE and LTC).
If one reduced the number of DOGEs to the number of DRKs (something like a reverse stock split in which for every 18000 current DOGEs you'd get one new DOGE that would equal the prior 18.000 DOGEs), DOGEs would cost something like 8$ per DOGE... and then you have to ask:
8$...for what? 
If we do that with LTC, where only 4.3mn LTCs would exist, LTC goes something like 70$ per coin... and again the question is "for what?".