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 Second
If 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 Architect
Whenever 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.
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The deck uses Tameshi to play multiple
Lotus Bloom
Lotus Bloom
Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.
s, and ramp into
Finale of Devastation
Finale of Devastation
Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.
to put a massive, hasty Cultivator Colossus into play and swing for the win.
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Hellcarver Demon
When
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies
Vigilance, haste
{T}: Target opponent whose turn it is puts target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield under their control. It gains haste. Goad it. At the beginning of the next end step, exile it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
, 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
Temporal Trespass
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.
and
Arclight Phoenix
Arclight Phoenix
Flying, 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
Luxior, Giada’s Gift
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each counter on it.
Equipped permanent isn't a planeswalker and is a creature in addition to its other types. (Loyalty abilities can still be activated.)
Equip planeswalker {1}
Equip {3}
, 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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