Price Trends: Magic: The Gathering Cards Climbing in Price - 12/02/2025
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 November 1, 2025 and November 30, 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
Honorable Mention: Tidal Barracuda
- Set: Commander 2020
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$15.66
- Current Market Price: $21.14
This month, the Top 5 cards in this price bracket are all variants of the same two cards. So for a little variety, we’re going to highlight one extra card from lower in the list.
Tidal Barracuda has only been printed once, back in Commander 2020 (the official name for the five Commander preconstructed decks released alongside and featuring cards from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths) in the Enhanced Evolution deck that also introduced Deadly Rollick. That lack of reprints became an acute problem late in November as players searched for copies to run in Commander decks led by Fire Lord Azula, the most popular new commander from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Azula can copy anything you’re able to play at instant speed during combat, and Tidal Barracuda gives all your cards pseudo-flash (while also protecting Azula from combat tricks).
Spoilers, but this won’t be the last card that spiked because of Azula.
- Set: Modern Horizons 3
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$16.70
- Current Market Price: $20.23
Ashling, Flame Dancer’s first line of text prevents red mana from being lost between steps and phases. That’s music to the ears of anyone trying to build a deck around the new firebending mechanic, which generates red mana that (normally) only lasts until the end of combat. Commander decks led by Fire Lord Azula desperately want this card, but so do decks featuring other popular commanders from ATLA like Avatar Aang, Iroh, Grand Lotus, and Fire Lord Zuko.
Modern Horizons 3 featured a whopping five different versions of Ashling, Flame Dancer (counting the prerelease promo). All of them have spiked massively with the release of Avatar: The Last Airbender in late November.
- Set: Modern Horizons 3
- Printing: Foil
- Increase: +$18.48
- Current Market Price: $21.95
(That includes foil printings of the card’s standard version.)
- Set: Commander: Streets of New Capenna
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$21.29
- Current Market Price: $27.05
Like Tidal Barracuda, Twinning Staff also debuted in Commander 2020 (in Arcane Maelstrom). It was reprinted once in the Streets of New Capenna Commander subset, but it remains in low supply, which became a problem in November when Fire Lord Azula gave players another way to copy all their spells.
- Set: Commander 2020
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$21.87
- Current Market Price: $27.36
As you’d expect, the first printing of Twinning Staff spiked for the same reason as its twin.
#1 Ashling, Flame Dancer (Borderless)
- Set: Modern Horizons 3
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$23.73
- Current Market Price: $30.45
Also as you’d expect, the fancy version of this card with Ashling in profile has spiked for the same reason as all the other versions.
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 Badgermole Cub (Borderless)
- Set: Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$32.29
- Current Market Price: $89.29
We typically see cards dip in price during the first few weeks after they release. The market corrects down from the optimistic prices set during prerelease season, when hype is highest and supply is lowest. Badgermole Cub has upended this trend, and the borderless version of the card is now selling for almost 30% more than its prerelease high.
The card’s just absurdly powerful across a wide range of formats, from Standard to Legacy to Commander. It supercharges mana dorks and turns fetch lands into honest-to-goodness ramp. This is the #1 chase mythic in the set, ahead of even Wan Shi Tong, Librarian.
- Set: Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Printing: Normal
- Increase: +$34.43
- Current Market Price: $66.79
The non-borderless version of Badgermole Cub ranks just slightly behind the borderless version in price, since they’re both equally playable.
#3 Rhystic Study (Anime Borderless) (Confetti Foil)
- Set: Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Increase: +$40.31
- Current Market Price: $796.54
This is the most valuable version of Commander staple Rhystic Study on the market, so a $40 bump doesn’t represent much of an increase in percentage terms. The card has trended upward since May with just a handful of sales each month, as lower-priced listings become more and more scarce.
#2 The One Ring (Borderless Poster)
- Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Printing: Foil
- Increase: +$55.94
- Current Market Price: $908.99
Another Commander staple, The One Ring has also continued to rise slowly and steadily on the back of just a handful of sales each month. At time of writing, there’s only one listing left for a foil The One Ring (Borderless Poster) under $1000.
In theory, Wizards of the Coast has a window of opportunity to reprint The One Ring (with its LOTR theming) in the upcoming Hobbit set releasing in August of next year. If they don’t take it, expect copies of The One Ring to skyrocket again.
#1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods (Borderless) (Raised Foil)
- Set: Bloomburrow
- Increase: +$70.28
- Current Market Price: $522.49
Lumra’s back for a second month as the #1 gainer in Magic. While the $950+ sale on October 15 appears to have been a fluke, the card’s still well above the $300 it was selling for at the start of August.
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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