Unsurprisingly, the Final Fantasy MTG set has had a major impact on the MTG financial markets. Things might have been slow to start, with few major spikes to speak of, but many cards have been steadily climbing. This is definitely the case for Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe, who has quietly surged over 400% in price over the past month.
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
Like many other recently spiked MTG cards, Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe works wonders alongside the new Final Fantasy Summons. Specifically, Sigurd is great alongside any Saga in MTG, but Summons certainly fall under that umbrella.
Unlike cards like Narci, Fable Singer, who cares about Sagas being sacrificed, Sigurd helps keep them in play. This is thanks to their Boast ability, which allows you to remove or add a Lore Counter to a Saga. While adding counters can be useful in a pinch to get to spicier abilities, removing them is the real boon here.
Even before Summons were a thing, this ability was useful to get extended value from your high-powered Sagas. With Sigurd, you could easily make tons of 8/8 Krakens using Kiora Bests the Sea God, for example. As if this ability weren’t strong enough, it gets even better with Summons, since they all come with bodies attached.
On top of keeping Summons around for longer, Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe is also easily able to buff them with his final ability. While putting counters on Summons is admittedly somewhat risky, due to their temporary nature, you’ll always have a viable target, at least. Thankfully, unlike Sigurd’s earlier ability, this buff isn’t limited by a once-per-turn clause, so it scales rather nicely.
Ultimately, the only downside of Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe, in Commander is their color identity. While it’s entirely possible to have them helming your deck, you’d only get three colors of mana. For this reason, Tom Bombadil is still likely going to be the go-to Commander choice. Sigurd, however, should definitely still have a place within the 99 of Saga-based decks.
The Spike
As mentioned, over the course of the past month, Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe has spiked over 400% in price. Thankfully, Sigurd isn’t hugely expensive still, but this is nonetheless a notable rise driven by a huge number of sales. As you can see above, back on May 10th, over 350 copies of Sigurd were sold in one day.
Unsurprisingly, this immense volume of sales put a hefty dent in the card’s available supply. Even after that, however, there are still a lot of copies of Sigurd floating around. Currently, on TCGplayer, there are 277 available listings, 192 of which are in near-mint condition. Notably, these listings actually start a fair bit below the card’s current market price.
At the moment, the market price for near-mint copies of Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe sits at $1.37. While hardly the most expensive MTG card in existence, Sigurd has still come a long way from its $0.27 starting price. That said, there are still a fair few listings priced at $0.66, and worse condition copies are even cheaper.
Due to this discrepancy between the market price and available listings, it appears that TCGplayer Direct has played a role here. This would mean that the market price is somewhat inflated, compared to the card’s true demand-based value. Recent sales for as much as $3.49 back up this theory, as players are happy to spend a little more for convenience.
If you are in the market to spend a little bit more, Sigurd does deliver. For those interested, there are Foil Etched versions of Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe, which sell for $2.64 on average. Curiously, the Showcase variant of Sigurd is only slightly more expensive than the base printing, as its market price sits at $1.59.
The Future
This is the first time that Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe has spiked since being released in 2024’s Assassin’s Creed set. Due to this, it’s somewhat unclear what the future will look like for Sigurd. Potentially, this price will settle before too long, as price spikes typically do, however, Sigurd is somewhat special.
Like most Universes Beyond cards, reprinting Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe is a little bit troublesome. While we have already seen Universes Within reprints, both with new names and art, Wizards has been slow to print these. As such, there’s no telling when, or if, Sigurd will be reprinted.
If Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe does take a long time to get reprinted, this current price spike may end up sticking. That said, plenty of copies of Sigurd are still available, so it wouldn’t be surprising for prices to dip. Ultimately, as always, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens, since we can’t predict the future.
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