Expensive Commander Reprint PLUMMETS in Price, Others on the Rise

Double Masters 2022 spoiler season is well on its way, and over the weekend, MTG players were reeling at another major reprint announcement! Unlike some other Commander reprints for the set, this particular card shows early signs of an absolute nosedive on the secondary market. Thrumming Stone Thrumming Stone Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) is causing a massive stir for MTG finance.

Thrumming Stone

Persistent Petitioners Persistent Petitioners {1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards.
A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners. scream, and Relentless Rats Relentless Rats This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.
A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats. fans rejoice; we’re getting a Thrumming Stone reprint. This is an example of an absolute slam dunk reprint from Double Masters 2022. Thrumming Stone Thrumming Stone Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) is only getting reprinted at a rare, which is exciting considering its current price of about $50 on the secondary market. However, this reprint’s expense comes from a lack of supply versus an insane amount of demand. Thrumming Stone is only suitable in one format, and only one type of deck wants them.

Since Thrumming Stone gives your spells Ripple four, you generally only want it in decks that can run an unlimited amount of the same cards. As mentioned above, Persistent Petitioners Persistent Petitioners {1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards.
A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners. and Relentless Rats Relentless Rats This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.
A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats. are two examples of cards with no limit. Other decks won’t have much use for Thrumming Stone Thrumming Stone Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) .

For reference, Ripple four allows you to reveal the top four cards of your library and cast any cards with the same from among them for free. Anything else goes to the bottom of your library.

A small note is that since Thrumming Stone is legendary, it is rather difficult to make copies of it that stick around. You can use Mirror Box Mirror Box The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1.
Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with the same name as that creature. alongside some copy effects, but this is rather extensive to set up. Generally, decks that want Thrumming Stone Thrumming Stone Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) will have better game plans than this.

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Why is it Going to Plummet?

Even though TCGPlayer’s median market price is around $50, all of the sales for non-foil Thrumming Stones have been around $38-40. Unlike some of the other expensive reprints being featured in Double Masters 2022, this staple was expensive because of how few copies of them existed. Before this, Thrumming Stone only saw one reprint on The List for an older set. Its original printing is from Coldsnap, which is an older set of MTG. Everyone playing the Shadowborn Apostle Shadowborn Apostle A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.
{B}, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. -esque archetype of playing a ton of copies of one card wants Thrumming Stone Thrumming Stone Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) badly. This archetype isn’t incredibly common (but not uncommon either) and only sees play in MTG’s casual singleton format, meaning players only need one copy of it.

The point here is that the demand was a much smaller driving point for Thrumming Stone’s price when compared to a reprint like Cavern of Souls Cavern of Souls As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered. . Many Modern and Legacy players want to own four copies of the expensive tribal land. To make matters worse, Cavern of Souls is also popular in Commander. Unlike this land, Double Masters 2022 stands to meet the demand for Thrumming Stone Thrumming Stone Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) s appropriately, drastically reducing the price.

This is What Reprints Aspire to be

MTG is a costly game. Good reprints should result in a drastic drop in price for cards on the secondary market. Looking back on the Streets of New Capenna List is an excellent example. Almost all the chase cards being reprinted saw a drastic drop in price because of how frequently they were being opened. The only exception to these were cards with an absurd amount of demand, like Sensei’s Divining Top Sensei’s Divining Top {1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library. or Vampiric Tutor Vampiric Tutor Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life. . All of the cards that didn’t have a ton of demand but a supply issue, like Sakashima’s Student Sakashima’s Student Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types. , saw extremely healthy drops in price. Praise Wizards for stuff like this and make sure they hear it. If they do, it might become a more regular practice.

Due to demand, there will always be cards to chase after on the secondary market. We should, at least, try to save money where we can. That’s why we need these reprints.

Thrumming Stone’s Ripple Effect

While Thrumming Stone may be seeing a healthy decline, the card is having a ripple effect on the secondary market. As one may expect, sales for cards that synergize well with the stone are seeing upticks in price across the board. While these price increases are small (generally averaging around a dollar), these spikes have a habit of stacking up. A one-dollar increase isn’t too bad for a card you only want one of, but a very different story when you want 40 of them. Suddenly, you’re paying $40 extra for cards that were already $3-5 each. Since these cards are not being reprinted, demand may start outweighing supply, driving the price up. Even if the price charts don’t yet reflect it, the sales definitely do. Thrumming Stone is currently available for preorder on TCGPlayer for $40.