Over the past couple weeks, a handful of cards that synergize with the new Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commanders have significantly risen in price. MacCready, Lamplight Mayor ballooned in price as a powerful option to add to both the Abzan and Mardu Precons. Meanwhile, Ripples of Undeath spiked thanks to its ability to help enable both Sultai Commanders.
Ripples of Undeath is hardly the only potential upgrade that pairs perfectly with the self-mill theme of the Sultai Precon, though. Today, we’re going to focus on another graveyard engine whose price has risen dramatically.
Six
The card we’re discussing is none other than Six. Six provides a ton of value for three mana, assuming you can keep turning it sideways. When you attack, you get to mill three cards and return a land from among those cards to your hand. This only makes the final Retrace ability even better, as you’ll often have excess lands to discard.
Six is an excellent card for the Sultai Tarkir: Dragonstorm Precon, regardless of whether you decide to play with Teval, the Balanced Scale or Kotis, Sibsig Champion at the helm. With Teval, the Balanced Scale in play, attacking with Six and returning a land to your hand will net you a 2/2 Zombie Druid. Any nonland permanent you cast from your graveyard via Retrace will trigger Teval as well.
Teval’s attack trigger only makes it more likely you’ll have the mana necessary to start casting spells from your graveyard, too. The more lands you have in play, the more you’ll want to convert the lands in your hand into impactful spells.
In the case of Kotis, Sibsig Champion, Six gives you a continuous source of self-mill turn after turn. That way, you’ll be able to maximize Kotis’ creature-casting ability each turn.
Six even lets you cast additional creatures from your graveyard each turn cycle via Retrace. This lets you get around Kotis’ “once during each of your turns” clause and potentially add +1/+1 counters to Kotis multiple times per turn cycle. Soon enough, Kotis will be an enormous threat you can start attacking with.
Six Spike
Given these potent synergies, it’s not too surprising that Six has continued to climb in price. After all, Teval is the most popular of the new Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander legends according to EDHREC.
According to TCGplayer market price history, Six’s lowest price point in recent months came on March 21. At that point, non-foil copies of Six held a market value of $4.08.
Conveniently, this was right around when the Sultai Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Precon would be revealed in its entirety. Since that point, Six has steadily increased in price for the most part.
By April 11, Six had managed to cross the $7 threshold. Notably, this was the release date for Tarkir: Dragonstorm. By itself, this isn’t a huge jump, but the rate at which Six’s price increased would only grow once players were able to get their hands on the Commander decks. At the time of writing this article, the market price for non-foil copies of Six sits at $14.35.
This represents roughly a 252% price spike since the Sultai Commander Precon was revealed and showcases nearly a doubling in price in the last two weeks. Six is clearly in high demand. In fact, in the last week alone, over 200 separate sales were made for traditional copies of Six alone. The card’s price growth has shown no signs of slowing down, either.
Other Variants
It is worth noting that some other variants of Six haven’t spiked quite as hard as the traditional version. For example, retro frame copies of Six currently hold a market value of $10.37. This is still a step up from the $5.36 mark Six held at the beginning of the month, but it’s not quite as drastic a leap.
At the same time, the market price for borderless copies of Six sits at $16.17. Considering that players could get their hands on borderless copies of Six for $10 at the beginning of April, this isn’t a particularly huge gap.
Still, all variants of Six have seen a notable uptick in price over the past few days. Borderless copies of Six saw their biggest spike this week. Foil-etched versions of Six, despite holding a market price of $8.72 at this time, have current price listings for near mint copies starting at just over $18.
Six’s demand and price continue to trend upward in all forms. As such, it’s unlikely that Six will see a big decrease in price anytime soon. That being said, Six’s demand is mostly tied to its role in Commander and the hype associated with the Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Sultai legends.
With Final Fantasy releasing in June, there’s a good chance Six will start to go down in value as players begin to focus their attention more on the new set. That is, of course, unless another elite graveyard/self-mill Precon comes to fruition. For now, we’ll just have to wait.
Make sure to check your Modern Horizons 3 collection to see if you have any variants of Six lying around.