This was yet another busy week for Magic’s secondary market. Between Streets of New Capenna spoilers and the ongoing hype for Pioneer, a TON of cards spiked in price this week.
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
Rin and Seri, Inseparable
New Capenna is packed with Cat support. There’s a little Dog support too in the form of Jinnie Fay, Jetmir’s Second
Jinnie Fay, Jetmir’s SecondIf you would create one or more tokens, you may instead create that many 2/2 green Cat creature tokens with haste or that many 3/1 green Dog creature tokens with vigilance.. All the new cards caused the OG Cat-Dog Duo, Rin and Seri, to rise from $18.00 to $30.00 this week.
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Wargate
Wargate rose from $6.00 to $18.00 due to a new Modern combo deck featuring Tameshi, Reality Architect
Tameshi, Reality ArchitectWhenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{X}{W}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery..
The deck uses Tameshi to play multiple Lotus Blooms, and ramp into Finale of Devastation to put a massive, hasty Cultivator Colossus into play and swing for the win.
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Hellcarver Demon
When The Beamtown Bullies, a new legendary creature from the Riveteers Rampage Commander deck, was spoiled this week, a spotlight was cast on the relatively unknown MTG card, Hellcarver Demon. Consequently, Hellcarver went from $1.00 to $18.00 at the beginning of the week. But since then, it settled back down to about $11.00.
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Thing in the Ice
If you ready my newsletter this week, you might have anticipated this spike. As predicted, Thing in the Ice rose from $10.00 to $15.00, following the recent price increases for Temporal Trespass and Arclight Phoenix
Arclight PhoenixFlying, haste
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast three or more instant and sorcery spells this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield..
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Devoted Druid
There’s a new combo everyone’s talking about from New Capenna. The equipment, Luxior, Giada’s Gift, when equipped to Devoted Druid, results in an infinite mana combo.
When player’s discovered this, Devoted Druid rose from $3.00 to $8.00-$10.00.
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