Magic’s secondary market boomed this week. Between new hype for Pioneer and New Capenna spoilers, card prices are shooting up!
Welcome to The MTG Marketplace, a weekly article on MTG Rocks where we cover each week’s biggest price spikes and overall market trends.
Weekly Winner
Chandra, Dressed to Kill
Chandra is a staple of Mono-Red Aggro strategies in Pioneer. And she occasionally shows up in Modern too, either in Mono-Red
Obosh, the Preypiercer
Obosh, the Preypiercer
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with odd mana values and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
If a source you control with an odd mana value would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
decks, or in Prowess decks.
Because of the attention Pioneer gained this week, the regular art Chandra, Dressed to Kill, went from $9.00 to $17.00. The beautiful borderless printing rose from about $15.00 to $20.00.
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Hengegate Pathway
Many decks, across Magic formats, include a full four copies of Hengegate Pathway. It’s a staple in Standard and Pioneer control strategies like Azorius, Jeskai, and Esper. Additional Pioneer decks that use the Pathway include Esper Greasefang and Bant Spirits. That’s why, this week, it went from $7.00 to about $15.00.
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Arclight Phoenix
Here is yet another Pioneer card that went up in value this week. Arclight Phoenix rose from $5.00 to $10.00.
If you’re curious why there’s so much attention for Pioneer this week, I suggest you check out my article, The Pioneer Format Just Rose From the Grave – Are You Ready to Play?
Temporal Trespass
The price of this card just keeps going up. At the time of writing, Temporal Trespass is about $23.00-$25.00.
Temporal Trespass had a few price spikes around the release date of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty because it is a staple inside
Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow
Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow
Commander ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand or the command zone tapped and attacking.)
Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value.
, Commander decks which gained new support from the set.
But this week, Temporal Trespass actually rose because of Pioneer, as it Izzet Phoenix decks commonly play the card.
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Otawara, Soaring City
Players didn’t hype up Otawara as much as
Boseiju, Who Endures
Boseiju, Who Endures
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
, but it’s been slowly gaining popularity and in price. A few weeks ago, Otawara was about $5.00. But now the legendary channel land is about $10.00 for the regular art, while the borderless version is about $17.00.
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HIdetsugu Consumes All
This Saga card spiked in price a few weeks ago, going from $2.00 to $11.00. But since then, the hype for Hidetsugu Consumes All died down. Now, the card is available for around $5.00.
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