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Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 08/06/2025

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 July 5, 2025 and August 3, 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 Harabaz Druid

  • Set: Worldwake
  • Increase: +$9.95
  • Current Market Price: $12.24

Both of the cards that have been previewed so far for Avatar: The Last Airbender have had the Ally creature type. These two reveals—Avatar Aang on June 20 and Yue, the Moon Spirit on July 26—prompted huge runs on old Ally synergy cards from previous Zendikar sets, including Harabaz Druid.

This Rare is particularly vulnerable to the surge in demand because it has only been printed once (not counting an appearance on The List). I’d also keep a close eye on Sea Gate Loremaster and General Tazi, which are in similar positions.

#4 The Gaffer

  • Set: Commander: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
  • Increase: +$10.38
  • Current Market Price: $12.27

In retrospect, $2 was probably low for a three-cost commander who can draw four cards every turn cycle, especially one printed in the new pseudo-Reserved List that is Universes Beyond.

As far as we can tell, the card that finally tipped The Gaffer over the edge was Ragost, Deft Gastronaut, the most popular commander in Edge of Eternities. Ragost also asks players to gain life every turn, and makes doing so easier by turning all Artifacts you control into Food.

#3 Filigree Vector (Extended Art)

  • Set: Commander: March of the Machine
  • Increase: +$13.38
  • Current Market Price: $15.43

Our own Jason Coles called out Filigree Vector as a prime upgrade to the Edge of Eternities Counter Intelligence Commander deck. The card has only been printed in the Growing Threat Commander Deck (plus this borderless version, available in MOM Collector Boosters), so it’s fairly obscure and sensitive to this explosion of demand.

#2 Lord Windgrace (Borderless)

  • Set: Special Guests
  • Increase: +$15.40
  • Current Market Price: $19.64

The other Edge of Eternities Commander deck, World Shaper, had an obvious upgrade in Lord Windgrace, who led an earlier Commander deck with the same theme in the same colors. Both this Special Guests version from Lost Caverns of Ixalan and the original version spiked on July 9th after most of the deck was revealed.

#1 Filigree Vector

  • Set: Commander: March of the Machine
  • Increase: +$18.69
  • Current Market Price: $15.45

Just like the borderless version, the normal version of Filigree Vector spiked on July 10th after most of Counter Intelligence was revealed.

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 Sliver Queen

  • Set: Stronghold
  • Increase: +$34.88
  • Current Market Price: $298.84

A card as old, expensive, and Reserved as Sliver Queen doesn’t need a special reason to rise in price 13%. But it got one anyway in the form of Thrumming Hivepool, a one-off Rare from Edge of Eternities in a set with no other Sliver support.

#4 Tombstone Stairwell

  • Set: Mirage
  • Increase: +$36.46
  • Current Market Price: $60.37

The Reserved List card Tombstone Stairwell appears to have spiked after players started considering it in Commander decks led by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The Stairwell creates hoards of Zombies with haste all around the table every upkeep, which will likely die, helping Sephiroth flip and triggering his pings once he’s in One-Winged Angel mode.

#3 Sol Ring - Elven (0408)

  • Set: Commander: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
  • Increase: +$37.41
  • Current Market Price: $1,047.95

Only two copies of this Sol Ring sold in July, but those sales were enough to raise its Market Price by another $35+. At time of writing, the least expensive Near Mint listing on TCGplayer is $1,221.00, so we should expect this card to keep climbing.

#2 Squandered Resources

  • Set: Visions
  • Increase: +$39.69
  • Current Market Price: $71.45

Another Reserved List card, Squandered Resources can fit into Hearthhull, the Worldseed decks as a way to ditch all your lands at once so you can (hopefully) drain all of your opponents to death with Hearthhull’s last ability. It’s not the best thing you can do in Hearthhull, but any excuse to sleeve up a Reserved List card is enough to send that card’s price rocketing to space.

#1 Mox Diamond

  • Set: Stronghold
  • Increase: +$70.05
  • Current Market Price: $642.18

Our final Reserved List card, Mox Diamond, picked up a few percentage points in value which translated to over $70 more per copy. As far as we can tell, this isn’t in reaction to anything—it’s just an expensive card bobbing in the waters of the market.

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 August 2025 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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