Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 06/10/2025
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 five sales between May 10, 2025 and June 8, 2025.)
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 $5 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—MTG Cards $5 or Less
#5 Arwen, Mortal Queen (Extended Art)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Increase: +$9.09
- Current Market Price: $12.38
This month’s big winners all gained value by synergizing with the new FINAL FANTASY cards.
Every version of Arwen, Mortal Queen spiked in May in anticipation of the Counter Blitz Commander Deck, which focuses on proliferating counters and moving them around. Since Arwen is the lowest-mana-value way to create indestructible counters in that deck’s colors, it has become one of the first recommendations experts make for upgrading that preconstructed deck.
As with all Universes Beyond cards, nobody’s sure when or if Wizards of the Coast will ever reprint Arwen, Mortal Queen (with or without its original name and flavor), so it’s especially sensitive to this kind of spike in demand.
- Set: Invasion
- Increase: +$9.36
- Current Market Price: $11.24
Vile Consumption has a similar story. This 25-year-old rare only has a single printing, but it was still only $1.25 until players started picking it up to help draw more cards with Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed, the face of the Scions & Spellcraft preconstructed Commander deck.
#3 Ophidian Eye
- Set: The List Reprints
- Increase: +$10.44
- Current Market Price: $14.29
Ophidian Eye has only been printed twice including its debut in the 2006 set Time Spiral, so it’s also sensitive to spikes in demand. Fans are buying this one to combine with Vivi Ornitier, the new Mythic-rarity spellslinger commander whose base version is just shy of $50.
- Set: Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Increase: +$12.12
- Current Market Price: $13.82
Blazing Shoal also combos with Vivi by dramatically increasing the amount of mana you can generate with Vivi’s first ability, and has only been printed twice including its debut in 2005.
- Set: Mirrodin
- Increase: +$16.73
- Current Market Price: $17.17
Quicksilver Elemental can copy Vivi’s mana-generating ability for one mana and immediately refund the player with three mana, making it a sort of free mana battery once per turn. Quicksilver Elemental debuted in the 2003 set Mirrodin and has never been reprinted.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $5.
Top 5 Price Increases—MTG Cards Over $5
#5 Sauron, the Dark Lord (Borderless Poster)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Increase: +$36.12
- Current Market Price: $353.65
The Market Prices of the borderless poster cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth continue to creep closer toward an accurate assessment of these cards’ values. These cards don’t sell often, but when they do, they almost invariably go for more than however much the market thought they were worth, so Market Price is always playing catchup to reality.
Given the way licensing difficulties make Universes Beyond act like a new version of the Reserved List, we might reasonably expect these cards to keep trending up indefinitely.
#4 The One Ring (Showcase Scrolls)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Increase: +$37.69
- Current Market Price: $247.07
Some version of The One Ring appears on this list basically every month as The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth recedes further into the mythic past of 2023. This time, it’s the Showcase Scrolls version, which spiked in part because of a small buyout on May 1 when the average number of copies per buyer jumped to 6.0.
- Set: Urza's Legacy
- Increase: +$55.52
- Current Market Price: $391.18
As a Commander-playable member of the Reserved List, Grim Monolith doesn’t need a reason to go up another 16%. Swinging in price a few percentage points (and tens of actual dollars) is its default state of being.
- Set: Urza's Saga
- Increase: +$60.44
- Current Market Price: $911.66
Like Grim Monolith, Gaea’s Cradle needs no excuse to add another $60 to its Market Price.
#1 Tom Bombadil (Borderless Poster)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Increase: +$78.51
- Current Market Price: $169.47
Finally, Tom Bombadil combines the trend of LOTR Borderless Poster cards rising over time with the trend of cards spiking because of how they go together with FINAL FANTASY cards. Tom Bombadil rewards players for running lots of Saga cards, in FINAL FANTASY the franchise’s summoned monsters have been translated as Sagas that are also creatures. These help give any oops-all-Sagas Tom Bombadil deck an actual win condition, and they also mean that Tom Bombadil is the best commander for anyone who wants to play all of the FF summons in a single deck.
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