What Happened to the Price of This MTG Tokens Commander Card?!

Curiosity Crafter is designed to do one thing: draw cards. And it does so remarkably well when in the right deck. If you’re playing a token-themed Commander deck, Crafter will essentially staple a Curiosity Curiosity Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card. onto every one of your tokens, letting you draw a card whenever they deal combat to a player!

The crafty card-drawer was a Commander exclusive card that came out of the Commander 2021 deck, Quantum Quandrix. That product debuted quite a while ago, coinciding with the release of Strixhaven. But recently, Curiosity Crafter has gotten quite a bit of attention, causing its price to shoot to the moon!

Curiosity Crafter

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Curiosity Crafter was about $0.50 when it first came out. It stayed that way for a long time too. But as you can see in the graph below, the card has had a massive price development. At the time of writing, the Bird Wizard is almost $13.00!

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Why Did Curiosity Crafter Spike in Price?

Looking at the price history of Curiosity Crafter, its price fluctuation coincides with the release of the preconstructed Commander deck Spirit Squadron, spiking 1-2 weeks after the deck came out.

This is likely a delayed reaction to players searching for ways to upgrade their preconstructed Commander decks. There were obvious upgrades like Selfless Spirit Selfless Spirit Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. and Skyclave Apparition Skyclave Apparition When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. . And some of these “first wave” upgrades like Drogskol Reaver Drogskol Reaver Flying
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, draw a card. saw similar price spikes around the time of Spirit Squadron‘s release.

But as players scoured MTG’s card pool for more ways to power up their new spirit decks, they stumbled upon Curiosity Crafter and realized how well it synergizes with Millicent, Restless Revenant Millicent, Restless Revenant Affinity for Spirits (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Spirit you control.)
Flying
Whenever Millicent or another nontoken Spirit you control dies or deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. , the face Commander of Spirit Squadron.

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Will Crafter’s New Price Hold?

Curiosity Crafter is something of a niche card, as it only works in blue Commander decks revolved around creature tokens. But it is worth noting that Curiosity Crafter is good outside of Millicent, Restless Revenant Millicent, Restless Revenant Affinity for Spirits (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Spirit you control.)
Flying
Whenever Millicent or another nontoken Spirit you control dies or deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. decks. It’s playable in decks such as Donal, Herald of Wings Donal, Herald of Wings Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell with flying, you may copy it, except the copy is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Do this only once each turn. (The copy becomes a token.) , Adrix and Nev, Twincasters Adrix and Nev, Twincasters Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. , and Minn, Wily Illusionist Minn, Wily Illusionist Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with "This token gets +1/+0 for each other Illusion you control."
Whenever an Illusion you control dies, you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power from your hand onto the battlefield. . This will make it into something of an archetype staple and more or less maintain its price until it sees a reprint.

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