Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 7/11/24
Peter Day
We want you to have the best information available when you price cards on the TCGplayer Marketplace. So to help you get the most from your inventory, we’ve put together a downloadable CSV report of Magic: The Gathering cards that have dramatically increased in Market Price in the second half of June 2024.
(Note: This report only considers Near Mint copies of cards with at least five sales between June 13 and July 8, 2024.)
Here are ten highlights from that report. First, we have the five cards that gained the most value in the second half of June 2024 after starting with a Market Price of $5 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—MTG Cards $5 or Less
- Set: The List Reprints
- Increase: +$10.38
- Current Market Price: $13.67
Herald of Hoofbeats makes Knights virtually unblockable, so it was always destined to spike in price as soon as we got a new Knight typal commander with blue in its color identity. We haven’t gotten one of those recently, but we did get Omo, Queen of Vesuva in Modern Horizons 3 this month. Omo puts “everything counters” on creatures so they become every creature type, including Knight, allowing them to benefit from the horsemanship offered by Herald of Hoofbeats.
- Set: The List Reprints
- Increase: +$10.38
- Current Market Price: $13.67
Tortured Existence has only been printed twice: once in Stronghold in 1998, and once in The List. Copies from The List are much easier to find in Near Mint, so they’ve been the go-to cards for Commander players who want to make use of its combo with Disa the Restless, a new commander from Modern Horizons 3.
With Disa in play, Tortured Existence essentially lets you play Lhurgoyf creature cards from your hand for one mana while also returning a different creature card to your hand. Ideally you’ll fish out another Lhurgoyf and keep the chain going.
- Set: Battlebond
- Increase: +$11.44
- Current Market Price: $16.05
Battlebond, the Two-Headed Giant-focused set, was not opened in great quantities when it released in 2018. So cards from the set are hard to come by, and always at risk of spiking when they suddenly become hot in Commander. That’s what happened this month to Virtus the Veiled, which is one of the best Assassins that players can copy using Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a new commander from Universes Beyond: Assassin’s Creed.
#2 Maze’s End
- Set: The List Reprints
- Increase: +$12.83
- Current Market Price: $16.96
Getting 10 Gates into play to win a Commander game with Maze’s End got a lot easier in June with the release of Omo, Queen of Vesuva in Modern Horizons 3. Along with putting “everything counters” on creatures, Omo puts them on lands too, granting them every land type including Gate.
Note that this version of Maze’s End is currently the most expensive—other printings like the original version from Dragon’s Maze, the Prerelease version, and the Ravnica Remastered Retro Frame version are all under $10. This either indicates that players really prefer the List version, or more likely, the prices of the other versions are behind the market right now.
- Set: Murders at Karlov Manor
- Increase: +$13.48
- Current Market Price: $17.39
Elegant Parlor started June as the cheapest of the Surveil lands from Murders at Karlov Manor. Now it’s become the most expensive card of the cycle, as Modern Horizons 3 has given the card at least two new homes in Modern: Jeskai Control lists, where Elegant Parlor helps players pay the Escape cost for Phlage, Titan of Fire’s Fury, and Ruby Storm lists, where it stocks the graveyard for Past in Flames.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the second half of June 2024 after starting with a Market Price over $5.
Top 5 Price Increases—MTG Cards Over $5
#5 The One Ring (Showcase Scrolls)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Increase: +$36.79
- Current Market Price: $190.74
Supply for Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth has started to dry up, but The One Ring is still one of the most-played and powerful cards in Modern or Commander, so demand hasn’t flagged. As a result, every version of The One Ring is trending up right now.
#4 The One Ring (Extended Art)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Increase: +$38.54
- Current Market Price: $137.21
Speaking of The One Ring, here it is again! It’s not clear if Wizards of the Coast will ever reprint The One Ring, especially once its LOTR license agreement expires in 2025. If they don’t, there’s a risk the card will become a permanent target of speculation.
#3 Soul Spike
- Set: Coldsnap
- Increase: +$40.80
- Current Market Price: $46.81
“Spike” indeed. This card grew nearly 700%, thanks to being a crucial component of the new Modern deck built around Necrodominance from Modern Horizons 3. Necrodominance turns life into card draw, while Soul Spike turns cards into lifegain at a slightly better rate, so they combo together perfectly.
Soul Spike has only been printed once, and that was as a rare in a Magic set from 2006, so it’s likely to remain valuable until Wizards of the Coast either reprints it or bans Necrodominance in Modern.
- Set: Coldsnap
- Increase: +$44.63
- Current Market Price: $84.91
Sylvan Paradise’s Market Price has continued to climb due to its interaction with Nadu, Winged Wisdom in Commander. Sylvan Paradise lets you target all of your creatures at once for a single mana (without harming any of them), for a boatload of card draw and/or ramp.
Even if Nadu, Winged Wisdom is eventually banned in Modern (as players hope and expect after its dominant performance at Pro Tour Modern Horizons 3), Sylvan Paradise will likely remain expensive until either it gets reprinted or Nadu gets banned in Commander too.
- Set: Urza’s Saga
- Increase: +$46.70
- Current Market Price: $798.62
Even small shifts in the Market Price of Gaea’s Cradle register as huge gains or losses thanks to its sky-high value. It sells faster than other similarly expensive cards on the Reserved List because its splashy effect bridges the gap between high-power casual Commander players and cEDH players.
By selling these cards online, you can reach a broad audience of customers who are willing to pay what these cards are truly worth. Download the July 2024 Price Trends Report to review every Magic card that went up in value this month. Then list those cards on TCGplayer so your inventory can do more for your business.
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