Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 10/28/25
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 September 27, 2025 and October 26, 2025.)
(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 Taeko, the Patient Avalanche (Anime)
- Set: Foundations Jumpstart
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$7.74
- Current Market Price: $12.54
Taeko spiked when Wizards of the Coast revealed at New York Comic-Con that the March 2026 Universes Beyond set would be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Taeko was always a thinly veiled allusion to TMNT—it’s right there in the “Turtle Ninja” creature type—so the upcoming crossover has prompted some fans to buy Taeko in case we get more cards that care about Ninjas and/or Turtles, like Heroes in a Half Shell.
Notably, while the recent spike coincided with organic-looking demand for Taeko during the weekend of October 8 (NYCC), there were two sales spikes before that weekend that look like buyouts. Taeko’s biggest sales day this year was July 24, when the average number of copies per buyer rose to 67.0, up from 1.0 the day before. Another spike on September 19 pushed the average copies per buyer up to 4.8. Either speculators got lucky with wild bets, or someone had advance notice that we’d be getting more Ninja Turtles next year.
- Set: Ultimate Masters
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$8.35
- Current Market Price: $17.07
Reanimator decks featuring Goryo’s Vengeance have picked up in popularity since June, possibly thanks to new cards like Quantum Riddler that fit nicely with the Ephemerate plan and can be pitched to Force of Negation. This popularity finally caught up with Goryo’s Vengeance in October. While this Ultimate Masters reprint has been flat all year, it finally started creeping upward in the last few weeks as all the sub-$10 listings have dried up.
#3 Entangler
- Set: Prophecy
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$8.75
- Current Market Price: $10.04
This forgotten Uncommon from 2000 was suddenly thrust into the limelight by the release of Marvel’s Spider-Man and the popular new commander Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer. Anti-Venom gets stronger the more damage it takes, so with Entangler on it, it can block an unlimited number of creatures and turn all that damage into +1/+1 counters.
Entangler is not part of the Reserved List, so WotC could reprint it at any time with no problems. For now though, this 25-year-old card has just a single printing, so it’s particularly vulnerable to this kind of increase in demand.
- Set: Chronicles
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$18.24
- Current Market Price: $19.15
This appears to be a random, unmotivated buyout. Arena of the Ancients rarely sells, but On September 9, somebody bought 11 copies at once. Then on October 8, an even bigger shopping spree raised the average number of copies per buyer to 4.4.
Arena of the Ancients obviously has potential in Commander, where it can tap down opposing commanders. But since the effect is symmetrical and most players enjoy using their own commanders, it’s never been especially popular there. It also isn’t part of the Reserved List, so in the event that narrow stax pieces like this ever catch on, Wizards of the Coast would be in the clear to reprint it.
Given all that, why did speculators target this card this month? We’re honestly not sure. Maybe Arena of the Ancients being a 30-year-old card that cares about legendary creatures was enough to catch their attention.
#1 Mortuary
- Set: Stronghold
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$30.12
- Current Market Price: $36.69
Mortuary on the other hand had a crystal-clear reason to spike in October. This 26-year-old card has only been printed once, and it forms a neat little infinite combo with Death Cultist and the new commander Gwenom, Remorseless. Attack with Gwenom, and you can loop the Cultist’s effect endlessly with Mortuary to drain every other player of all their life.
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 Chatterfang, Squirrel General (Borderless) (Raised Foil)
- Set: Commander: Bloomburrow
- Increase: +$40.83
- Current Market Price: $436.82
Around 3.66% of Bloomburrow Collector Boosters contain one of 21 different alternate-art cards illustrated by legendary Japanese artists like Mitsuhiro Arita and featuring a raised foil treatment. This is one of them.
No new trends or releases have made Chatterfang more desirable in October than it was in September. Even so, Bloomburrow has passed its one-year anniversary, and the supply on these raised foil cards seems to be drying up. Practically all the raised foil cards are up year-over-year, though many of the less-popular ones sank this month as their value flowed into cards like Chatterfang.
#4 Mox Diamond
- Set: Stronghold
- Increase: +$46.14
- Current Market Price: $719.33
$46 isn’t chump change, but it only represents a 7% increase in Mox Diamond’s value. October was just another month for this Reserved List card and Game Changer.
#3 Ms. Bumbleflower (Borderless) (Raised Foil)
- Set: Commander: Bloomburrow
- Increase: +$66.33
- Current Market Price: $692.28
This is another raised foil card (like Chatterfang) that has been rising while the less-popular raised foil cards have been sinking.
- Set: Revised Edition
- Increase: +$87.25
- Current Market Price: $882.44
Somebody got an unusually nice deal on a Revised Edition Underground Sea in late September ($421), so the card spent October returning to its regular Market Price.
#1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods (Borderless) (Raised Foil)
- Set: Bloomburrow
- Increase: +$101.25
- Current Market Price: $452.21
Lumra’s Market Price actually lags behind its most recent sales. At time of writing, copies of this card have sold for $950+, and only a single Near Mint listing for less than $900 remains.
The shopping behavior around this card doesn’t look particularly suspicious, so most likely, Lumra’s rapid ascent in value can be chalked up to collectors realizing that it was illustrated by the same person responsible for Base Set Charizard.
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