Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 02/24/2026
By 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 past 30 days.
(Note: This report only considers Near Mint copies of cards with at least ten sales between January 24, 2026 and February 22, 2026.)
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 Lutri, the Spellchaser (Foil Etched)
- Set: March of the Machine: Multiverse Legends
- Increase: +$19.97
- Current Market Price: $21.99
Nearly all the cards highlighted in this month’s article share one thing in common: the February 9 changes to Commander’s banned and restricted list.
In Lutri’s case, the connection is obvious. On Feb 9, the Commander Format Panel officially unbanned Lutri in all cases except as a companion. Players can use Lutri as a Commander, or run it in their 99, but they can’t declare Lutri as a companion and get a free extra card in hand just for building a legal Commander deck in the right colors.
The news immediately sent players rushing to pick up copies of the magical otter. The versions of Lutri from the Multiverse Legends bonus sheet had the fewest listings, so they were the most vulnerable to this sudden spike in demand.
#4 Lutri, the Spellchaser (Halo Foil)
- Set: March of the Machine: Multiverse Legends
- Increase: +$25.52
- Current Market Price: $32.49
The same applied to the Halo Foil version of Lutri with alternate art.
#3 Biorhythm
- Set: Onslaught
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$31.12
- Current Market Price: $38.75
Biorhythm was the other card unbanned in Commander on February 9. The eight-mana sorcery has been banned since the formation of the EDH Rules Committee in April 2005, so this will be the first time most Commander players ever interact with the card.
Biorhythm has only been printed twice. This first printing from Onslaught was hovering under $10 before the announcement, but spiked immediately to almost $50. Note that at time of writing there are listings of Onslaught Biorhythm for under $30, so it may correct down before stabilizing.
- Set: Innistrad Remastered
- Printing: Foil
- Increase: +$32.00
- Current Market Price: $40.61
Griselbrand was not touched by February 9th’s Commander changes, or even mentioned in WotC’s accompanying article. But that didn’t stop speculators from deciding that if Biorhythm and Lutri could come off the Commander ban list, Griselbrand might too some day, and they might as well be prepared. In a little self-fulfilling prophecy, their certainty that Griselbrand would spike one day caused Griselbrand to spike immediately.
#1 Biorhythm
- Set: 9th Edition
- Increase: +$32.22
- Current Market Price: $38.63
Biorhythm’s second printing spiked for the same reason as its first.
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 The One Ring (Borderless Poster)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Printing: Foil
- Increase: +$58.61
- Current Market Price: $1,010.11
Unrelated to the Commander banlist announcement, foil copies of the Borderless Poster version of The One Ring continued their long, uninterrupted march to a higher price that began at the start of 2025. This month they finally broke the $1,000 barrier, a tremendous climb for a card that debuted at around $200 less than three years ago.
#4 Mox Diamond
- Set: From the Vault: Relics
- Increase: +$59.71
- Current Market Price: $1,041.57
Mox Diamond also reached four figures this month after a shorter, but just as consistent climb up from $840 in August.
Both cards reached their new prices thanks to a small volume of sales overpowering an even smaller volume of listings. There simply aren’t many copies of these cards in circulation anymore.
- Set: Commander Masters
- Printing: Foil
- Increase: +$66.80
- Current Market Price: $180.06
Sales of Jeweled Lotus rose sharply in the lead-up to the February 9th Commander banlist announcement as speculators hoped that Commander Format Panel would unban the card.
Jeweled Lotus was initially banned by the Commander Rules Committee in September 2024, prompting a community backlash so intense that the RC was disbanded and management of Commander’s banlist was handed over to Wizards of the Coast. Given that background, and the changes that WotC has made to Commander since (like the creation of the bracket system and Game Changers list), it doesn’t seem unlikely that WotC would decide to roll back the RC’s most controversial move. So far though, they haven’t.
- Set: Commander Masters
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$75.80
- Current Market Price: $141.77
The non-foil printing of Jeweled Lotus spiked in sales and price at the same time as the foil printing, and for the same reason.
#1 Jeweled Lotus (Textured Foil)
- Set: Commander Masters
- Increase: +$90.62
- Current Market Price: $451.85
Ditto for the textured foil version of the card.
Notably, none of these cards have dipped back down since it was revealed that they wouldn’t be unbanned on February 9th. Speculators appear to be holding out hope that next time will be the charm.
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