The Most Expensive Mystery Booster: Commander Edition Cards

Last week, Wizards of the Coast officially released Mystery Booster: Commander Edition via an incredibly limited Secret Lair drop. With supply selling out in just 20 minutes, many MTG players were left disappointed, but it’s not all bad news.

Thankfully, while it will take some time, Mystery Booster: Commander Edition will return in future Festival in a Box sales. On top of that, we don’t have to wait to enjoy the cards now, since early deliveries are already being made.

Sadly, while the Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards are technically playable, they’re not exactly cheap. With demand being exceptionally high and supply low, many new Commanders are seriously expensive.

Speaking of expensive, whether you’re opening Mystery Booster: Commander Edition yourself or curious about your new favorite Commander, we’ve got the lowdown on prices. Here are all the most expensive MTG cards in Mystery Booster: Commander Edition.

11 | Maular, the Next Evolution

Price: $24

As one of the main selling points of Mystery Booster: Commander Edition, it’s little wonder that many Rulebreaker cards are rather expensive. What is surprising, however, is the fact that Maular, the Next Evolution is one of the most expensive Rulebreaker cards.

Essentially, Maular is the perfect MTG Commander for anyone who loves ramping into big stompy creatures. Typically, these decks are purely mono-green; however, Maular lets you play all the best threats.

For better or worse, this is a rather simple Rulebreaker effect; however, it’s undeniably charming, all the same. Given how much damage this Commander can dish out, too, it should be pretty powerful as well.

Realistically, out of all the Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards on this list, I doubt Maular, the Next Evolution will last here long. There’s a good chance this card is too simple in the long run; however, that remains to be seen.

For now, Maular, the Next Evolution is definitely still expensive, and with packs selling for $21, it’s a great find.

10 | Whtz, the Bibliophile

Price: $24

While Whtz, the Bibliophile isn’t exactly cheap, currently selling for $24, it’s surprisingly not too bad. Given this card finally unlocks Commander’s deck size limits, hype around it has been incredibly high.

Due to this, there was a real chance that Whtz would be one of the most expensive MTG Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards. Thankfully, Whtz is only $24, which isn’t cheap, but you do get what you pay for.

Not only does Whtz, the Bibliophile let you use Battle of Wits Battle of Wits At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game. as a win condition, but its tap ability is seriously strong, too. Drawing a card and gaining a life for free is pretty solid, after all, and fairly easy to exploit.

Ultimately, while Whtz, like all Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards, should fall in price, its long-term resilience is unclear. While this is one of the more exciting new cards, MTG could tire of it quickly.

9 | Tsagan, Raider Warlord

Price: $25

While Mystery Booster: Commander Edition has a new suite of Alchemy cards, one of them is entirely legal. First released in Alchemy: Aetherdrift on MTG Arena, this card was entirely paper-playable, so Wizards is reprinting it now.

As for the card itself, Tsagan, Raider Warlord is pretty solid and works well with a wide board. Provided you can hit Max Speed, going wide can massively buff your board, since Tsagan gives your creatures First Strike.

With this buff, you can potentially buff the power of each of your creatures whenever Tsagan attacks. This can work wonders with multiple attack trigger and combat step cards for obscene amounts of damage.

Notably, as with all the Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards, I wouldn’t expect this popularity to keep Tsagan expensive. As more supply is released throughout 2027, the price of this card, and others, is bound to crash.

8 | Uugguu, the Omniplasm

Price: $25

According to EDHREC, Uugguu, the Omniplasm is the third most popular card in Mystery Booster: Commander Edition. Only falling short to Whtz and Homer, the Hermit Homer, the Hermit Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, any number of target players each mill X cards, where X is twice the number of Crabs, Lobsters, Nautiluses, Starfish, and/or Trilobites you control. , this card clearly has fans.

With this popularity in mind, it’s no wonder that Uugguu, the Omniplasm is one of the set’s most expensive cards. Currently selling for around $25, this card is a great pull, and it’s a fantastic Commander to boot.

Capable of creating two tokens of any Ooze you control upon death, it’s easy to cause shenanigans with this card. Alongside Maskwood Nexus Maskwood Nexus Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.) and strong enters effects, for instance, you can easily spiral out of control.

Thanks to this strength, Uugguu, the Omniplasm has quickly become one of the most popular Ooze Typal Commanders in MTG. Beyond this, however, there are plenty of casual applications for this card, which makes it a real hoot.

7 | Homer, the Hermit

Price: $31

Much like Uuguu, the early popularity of Homer, the Hermit made it inevitable that it would be expensive. Realistically, the only surprise is that it’s not higher up this list, as it’s only $31.

Looking at Homer, the Hermit, it’s easy to see why this card is popular, as its Landfall ability is insane. Fusing Landfall with Mill and Ocean Soup Typal, this new Commander is like three decks in one.

While mashing these archetypes together would already make Homer, the Hermit popular, it’s also rather powerful. If you can go wide and run Maskwood Nexus Maskwood Nexus Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.) to quintuple up on creature types, you can easily Mill out opponents.

Considering how well established Landfall is as an archetype on top of this, it’s no wonder that Homer is expensive. Once again, the only real surprise is that this card isn’t topping the list with how powerful and popular it is.

6 | Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord

Price: $34

Speaking of surprises, the fact that Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord is so expensive is definitely an oddity. That being said, for fans of Food-focused decks, this card definitely has some interesting potential.

Merging Food Typal with an Aristocrats playstyle, Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord can create Food Tokens pretty consistently. Notably, this ability is limited by an “only once each turn” clause, but that’s still four Foods per turn cycle.

Should you keep on top of Food production, it’ll only take two turn cycles to start buffing your board. Realistically, though, with the amount of Food support in MTG, you can easily create an entire buffet.

Beyond just creating Food, Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord also mixes things up by being a Squirrel Typal deck. Thankfully, between Chittersplitter, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Do You Like Squirrels? — Whenever The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl enters or attacks, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
I LOVE Squirrels! — {1}{G}{G}{G}: Create X 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is the number of Squirrels you control. , and Squirrel Mob Squirrel Mob This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Squirrel on the battlefield. , there’s plenty of fantastic support here.

Considering how Squirrel Typal is a beloved fan-favorite archetype, the current $34 price tag is hardly unjustified. That being said, it’s unclear how much staying power this Commander will have, especially once more supply is released.

5 | Seluma, Light of Aysen

Price: $34

As soon as Seluma was revealed as one of the first Rulebreaker cards, MTG players were immediately excited. Effectively, Seluma, Light of Aysen is the new best-in-slot option for Angel Typal decks, and that’s saying something.

With Giada, Font of Hope Giada, Font of Hope Flying, vigilance
Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control.
{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell. and Kaalia of the Vast Kaalia of the Vast Flying
Whenever Kaalia attacks an opponent, you may put an Angel, Demon, or Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that opponent. providing tough competition, standing out amongst this crowd is already impressive. Thanks to being able to include Angels of any color, however, Seluma does a lot more than just stand out.

On top of her Rulebreaker ability, Seluma can fairly easily reanimate your fallen Angels, which is always useful. Thanks to this, it’s no wonder that there’s been a lot of hype around this new Rulebreaker Commander.

In fact, out of all the cards on this list, Seluma, Light of Aysen is arguably the most financially exciting. Even if its price tanks as new supply gets released, the demand for this card could last quite some time.

4 | Selenia, the Cursed Heart

Price: $40

From one Angel to another, Selenia, the Cursed Heart is another incredibly capable Mystery Booster: Commander Edition card. By easily doubling life gain and potentially doubling life loss, too, Selenia can pack a serious punch.

Given these core abilities, Selenia, the Cursed Heart naturally makes for a pretty powerful Lifegain commander. Throw in a Sanguine Blood or Vite, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, and that lifegain really hurts, too.

Playing this fairly, Selenia is arguably one of the best lifegain Commanders around; however, you can push things even further. By copying and sacrificing Selenia for extra copies of Selenia’s Curse, every bit of life loss becomes insanely punishing.

Admittedly, to reap this reward, you will need effects like 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. to keep multiple curses around. Once you overcome this slight hurdle, however, Selenia can pack a serious punch, so it’s no wonder she’s $40 currently.

3 | Arzakon

Price: $42

Even with Rulebreaker cards to literally break the mold, Mystery Booster: Commander Edition is still a modern MTG set. As such, this set has the obligatory five-color Commander that we’ve come to expect.

Thankfully, for anyone who is tired of this trope, Arzakon is a very interesting card that’s well worth building around. Throwing things back to 1993, this new Planeswalker Commander pays homage to three classic MTG cards.

Throughout Arzakon’s different abilities, you get a Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target. , Black Lotus Black Lotus {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. , and Timetwister Timetwister Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.) . Unsurprisingly, each of these is rather powerful, especially the Lotus-creating -3 ability.

Technically, since these abilities are fairly generic, Arzakon has the luxury of being taken in tons of different directions. That said, looking at EDHREC, most lists are Superfriends-focused, being full to the brim with Planeswalkers.

Considering this fan-favorite archetype just got a massive boost from Reality Fracture, Arzakon couldn’t have released at a better time. As such, it’s no wonder this is one of the most expensive Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards.

2 | Ekthi, Contaminator Priest

Price: $47

Selling for $47, Ekthi, Contaminator Priest is the most expensive MTG Commander from Mystery Booster: Commander Edition. As with the other new cards, this price should come down over time; for now, it’s an incredible pull.

To justify this insanely high new price point, Ekthi, Contaminator Priest is a fantastic Equipment-focused Commander. By giving all of your equipment Living Weapon, you can ignore equip costs with Ekthi, which completely flips the script.

Suddenly, cards like Colossus Hammer Colossus Hammer Equipped creature gets +10/+10 and loses flying.
Equip {8} ({8}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.) , Hulkbuster Armor Hulkbuster Armor Equipped creature has base power and toughness 9/9 and has flying.
Equip Hero {3}
Equip {6} , and Wrecking Ball Arm Wrecking Ball Arm Equipped creature has base power and toughness 7/7 and can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Equip legendary creature {3}
Equip {7} with high equip costs become insane yet cheap threats. This makes for a rather aggressive and potent brew; however, there’s more to this Commander than just heavy hitters.

Thanks to the litany of existing equipment support in MTG, Ekthi, Contaminator Priest starts from an absolutely fantastic position. Between being a great add to Voltron 99s and being a fun Commander itself, the demand for Ekthi makes a lot of sense.

Notably, while Ekthi, Contaminator Priest is the most expensive new legend, this isn’t the outright most expensive new card. Instead, there’s one upper echelon of ultra-rare cards that are the real gems of Mystery Booster: Commander Edition.

1 | Alchemy Cards

Price: $135+

Unlike the new Mystery Booster: Commander Edition cards that appear in every pack, Alchemy cards are far, far rarer. Found exclusively in foil in “less than 1%” of packs, if you find one of these cards, you’re in the money.

Notably, while these Acorn-stamped Alchemy cards are incredibly rare, they’re also not legal in Commander. Despite this, many MTG players still choose to collect these cards for fun or to use in Cubes.

Thanks to this source of demand and their rarity, prices for these cards can be absolutely expensive. Right now, the cheapest option is Euru, Acorn Scourger, which will set you back at least $135.

After this cheap option, there are also cards like Oracle of the Alpha Oracle of the Alpha Flying
When Oracle of the Alpha enters the battlefield, conjure the Power Nine into your library, then shuffle.
Whenever Oracle of the Alpha attacks, scry 1. and Overcooked Overcooked Players can't gain life.
Celebration — At the beginning of your end step, create a Food token. If two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn, instead conjure a card named Food Fight onto the battlefield. , which both cost $150. Beyond this, Case of the Lost Witness Case of the Lost Witness When this Case enters, conjure four cards named Fblthp, the Lost into your library, then shuffle. Draw a card.
To solve — You control a legendary Homunculus.
Solved — You may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. steps it up to $178, while Perforator Crocodile Perforator Crocodile When Perforator Crocodile enters, for each creature your opponents control, conjure a card named Stab Wound onto the battlefield attached to that creature.
Cycling {1}{B} is a $250 MTG card.

At the top, the cycle of Collector cards, which make their respective Moxes, are the cream of the crop. Sapphire Collector Sapphire Collector Prowess
When you cast your second noncreature spell in a turn, conjure a card named Mox Sapphire into your hand. This ability triggers only once.
{2}{U}: Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. is the cheapest of the bunch at $250, while Ruby Collector Ruby Collector When you attack with three or more creatures, conjure a card named Mox Ruby into your hand. This ability triggers only once.
{1}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. is a whopping $500.

Notably, given they’re so hard to find, the supply of these cards is incredibly limited right now. In fact, there aren’t any copies of Jet Collector Jet Collector At the beginning of your second main phase, if there are four or more cards in your graveyard, conjure a card named Mox Jet into your hand. This ability triggers only once.
{X}{B}: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery. on the market, so that could end up claiming the top spot.

For better or worse, there is a decent chance that these ultra-high prices will also fall when new supply gets released. Due to just how rare they are, however, it’s unlikely anything else will ever come close to their values.

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