After a very slow few years, Standard is well and truly back in the spotlight right now. MTG Foundations has laid the groundwork for the format’s next five years, and Wizards isn’t stopping there. In 2025, Standard is getting six sets and three Regional Qualifier Championship seasons. It’s safe to say that Standard is very much back in vogue.
With so many sets and tournaments lining the MTG release calendar, players have been flocking to Standard recently. There’s been significant interest in the format’s best decks, and any new archetype that’s potentially capable of taking them down. Thanks to this, it’s little wonder that Temur Prowess’ impressive recent results have garnered much interest.
Unsurprisingly, the increased interest in Temur Prowess we’ve been seeing recently has caused a fair few price spikes already. Just last week we saw Pawpatch Formation spike thanks to its role as an excellent sideboard card in Standard and beyond. This week, it seems it’s the turn of Stormchaser’s Talent, as it has experienced a 417% price spike already.
Stormchaser’s Talent
- Mana Value: U
- Rarity: Rare
- Card Type: Enchantment – Class
- Card Text: (Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When Stormchaser’s Talent enters, create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess.
3U: Level 2 | When this Class becomes level 2, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
5U: Level 3 | Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess.
Despite its fairly normal name, Temur Prowess is really a weird and wonderful combo deck. Built around Valley Floodcaller and Enduring Vitality, this deck can play an obscene amount of spells in a turn. From here, the namesake Prowess mechanic can carry the deck to victory, however, there is one weird twist… Most Temur Prowess decks don’t actually have any creatures with Prowess.
Instead of playing a gaggle of Monastery Swiftspears or Elusive Otters, Temur Prowess uses Stormchaser’s Talent. At worst, this Class card gives you an adorable 1/1 Otter with Prowess. Should you get the deck’s combo engine online, this may well be enough to end the game on its own. If you need some extra oomph, however, Stormchaser’s Talent can do that too.
Since it’s a Class, Stormchaser’s Talent isn’t a one-trick pony like Monastery Swiftspear. Provided you have the mana, this card can bring something back from the ‘yard, or create an entire army. Both of these abilities are admittedly expensive, but they’re nonetheless core to the deck’s overall game plan.
Beyond providing utility at worst, Stormchaser’s Talent can also create an infinite combo. Provided you have enough mana, you can loop Stormchaser’s with This Town Ain’t Big Enough. For this combo, you cast Stormchaser’s Talent, then bounce it back to your hand, and then re-cast it once again. From here, you level up Stormchaser’s to bring back This Town Ain’t Big Enough, which you can then recast to begin the loop anew. Unless stopped, this combo nets you an infinite number of infinitely big Otters.
While this combo-focused strategy may be a little strange, it is seriously effective. In recent weeks, Temur Prowess has been putting up strong results, winning many MTGO Leagues and Challenges. Even without any new upgrades from MTG Foundations, this deck is a serious contender in the Standard metagame right now.
The Spike
Unsurprisingly, the more wins that Temur Prowess decks have picked up, the more interest we’ve seen from MTG players. As the handy graph shows above, sales volume over the past month has been on the up and up. If you want to play Temur Prowess, there’s no question that you need Stormchaser’s Talent, so it’s no wonder it’s getting expensive.
Around the start of November, you could pick up a copy of Stormchaser’s Talent for as little as $2.15 if you were lucky. Now, however, the market price for this card sits at a rather remarkable $11.12. Thankfully, you don’t necessarily have to spend this much, however, since copies are available for around $10 and slightly below.
With this divide in mind, it once again seems that TCGplayer Direct sales have been pushing the price of Stormchaser’s Talent up somewhat. Shockingly, some players have even spent upwards of $17.95 on this card through this convenience-focused program. While these sales have helped push up the market price on TCGplayer, each copy of Stormchaser’s Talent isn’t at this peak price.
That being said, it may not be long before the price of this card soars to a new extreme. Currently, on TCGplayer there are only 38 listings available for purchase. Once these final few copies are snapped up, demand is bound to cause any supply to become significantly more valuable. It’s entirely possible that $17 will become the honest-to-goodness price before long.
Right now, a price spike of this magnitude may seem somewhat unlikely, but Stormchaster’s wouldn’t be the only expensive Talent. Currently, Innkeeper’s Talent sells for around $17 thanks to seeing steady play in Standard, Pioneer, and Commander. Even if Stormchaster’s isn’t as good in multiple formats, this card obviously has legs.