Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 01/28/2026

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 past 30 days.

(Note: This report only considers Near Mint copies of cards with at least ten sales between December 27, 2025 and January 25, 2026.)

(Note: This week we included Near Mint Foil cards, which have been excluded from earlier Magic Price Trends reports. Let us know whether this change affects the value of this report for your business.)

Here are ten highlights from that report. First, we have the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price of $10 or less.

Top 5 Price Increases—MTG Cards $10 or Less

#5 Alela, Cunning Conqueror

• Set: Commander: Wilds of Eldraine
• Increase: +$23.13
• Current Market Price: $30.36

All the creature types that were the focus of the original Lorwyn block have received new support in Lorwyn Eclipsed, including Faeries. That made older cards of those types more valuable across the board, but Alela had one of the biggest climbs in the run-up to the set’s release.

That’s largely due to Alela’s synergy with Maralen, Fae Ascendant, the most popular new commander from the set. The two cards trigger each other, with Alela creating Faeries when you cast spells, and Maralen letting you cast bigger spells the more Faeries you create. Since Alela’s never been reprinted, there wasn’t much supply on the market to absorb the growth in the demand over the past few weeks.

#4 Life Finds a Way (Borderless)

• Set: Universes Beyond: Jurassic World Collection
• Increase: +$24.83
• Current Market Price: $29.64

Life Finds a Ways was released in the Jurassic World Collection mini-set within the 2023 set The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and has spent most of the last two years hovering between $4 and $7. Now the card has almost quintupled in value over a month due to its synergy with Ashling, the Limitless, the “face” commander of the Dance of the Elements Commander precon.

Ashling lets you cheat massive Elementals into play with evoke, and rewards you for doing so by creating token copies of them. Life Finds a Way triggers with each evoked Elemental and rewards you again by duplicating your biggest token. It’s a conga line of value, which Commander players love, and like most Universes Beyond cards there’s no telling when (or if) Life Finds a Way will ever be reprinted.

#3 Animar, Soul of Elements

• Set: Masters 25
• Increase: +$27.95
• Current Market Price: $37.21

While many powerful Elemental typal cards were reprinted in Dance of the Elements, like Risen Reef and Omnath, Locus of the Roil, Animar, Soul of Elements was not. Once the decklist was revealed on January 6, players rushed to grab the cards they’d need to upgrade the deck, with Animar near the top of the list. Animar hasn’t been reprinted outside of a Secret Lair since 2022, and all those printings were at Mythic rarity, so the low-cost listings went quickly.

#2 Maha, Its Feathers Night

• Set: Promo Pack: Bloomburrow
• Increase: +$31.50
• Current Market Price: $39.81

Maha also saw a big spike in sales on January 6 when the Commander precon decklists were revealed. Besides playing well with all the Elemental support in Dance of the Elements, Maha also turns all the -1/-1 tokens in the Blight Curse precon into a death sentence for opposing creatures by shrinking their toughness to 1. Maha has never been reprinted since its debut in Bloomburrow, so it’s similarly vulnerable to sudden shifts in demand.

#1 Crumbling Ashes

• Set: Eventide
• Increase: +$39.67
• Current Market Price: $48.84

Like Maha, Crumbling Ashes makes each -1/-1 counter potentially lethal. This card has only been printed once, back in 2008’s Eventide, so Near Mint copies of this Uncommon are extremely scarce.

Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $10.

Top 5 Price Increases—MTG Cards Over $10

#5 Gaea's Cradle

• Set: Urza's Saga
• Increase: +$60.31
• Current Market Price: $1,069.36

Gaea’s Cradle is fighting its way back toward its all-time high of $1,136, the price it briefly held in July 2021 after a massive buyout. This time, speculators aren’t being quite so brazen—no more than two copies sold each day in January. While there’s no clear reason for this card’s recent rise, the fact that it passed the psychologically important barrier of $1000 in December may have given buyers confidence in its future.

#4 Ms. Bumbleflower (Borderless) (Raised Foil)

• Set: Commander: Bloomburrow
• Increase: +$66.07
• Current Market Price: $838.81

Ms. Bumbleflower has been gradually trending upward (with just a few lulls) since it released in 2024. It feels rare to see a non-Reserved List, non-Universes Beyond card show such remarkable growth based on collector interest alone, but Ms. Bumbleflower’s not the only recent example.

#3 Hazel of the Rootbloom (Borderless) (Raised Foil)

• Set: Commander: Bloomburrow
• Increase: +$67.76
• Current Market Price: $325.65

Unlike Ms. Bumbleflower, Hazel spiked high soon after its release and quickly crashed back down. It’s spent the last year-and-change below the high it set during that initial spike, but in the past month it has surpassed that high and kept climbing.

The other Raised Foil cards from Commander: Bloomburrow have all shown similar growth in the past few months, so keep an eye on all of them going forward.

#2 Tifa Lockhart (Borderless)

• Set: MagicFest Cards
• Printing: Normal
• Increase: +$76.76
• Current Market Price: $1,171.59

This promo (the non-foil version) was a participation prize at the Pro Tour Qualifier events held at MagicCon: Las Vegas, which naturally limited how many copies have entered circulation. The market’s been trying to decide how much these are worth since August, and the last number has always been too low.

At time of writing, there’s exactly one copy listed at Market Price on the marketplace. The rest are $200 above that or more.

#1 Mox Diamond

• Set: Stronghold
• Increase: +$84.13
• Current Market Price: $826.93

Finally, Mox Diamond has blown past the all-time high Market Price it set back in August 2022, when it was just shy of $700. Recent buying behaviour hasn’t been noteworthy, so it’s unclear why this and other Reserved List cards like Yawgmoth’s Will have been growing recently, aside from the obvious reason.

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