The 100 Most Expensive "Bulk" Magic: The Gathering Cards Right Now
By Peter Day •
If you judge Magic cards just by their rarity, you might miss out on the Uncommon and Common cards that are worth real money on the secondary market. To help you filter out the diamonds from the rough, we’ve put together a downloadable CSV report of the most expensive “bulk” Magic cards currently in Standard.
This report shows the 100 Uncommon, and Common-rarity Magic cards legal in Standard with the highest Market Price as of June 15, 2025. The report only considers Near Mint, standard-printing copies, meaning that foil, borderless, showcase, and extended-art cards were excluded.
Here are the top 10 cards from the report.
#1 Stock Up
Set: Aetherdrift
Market Price: $6.81
Stock Up set a new baseline for the amount of card advantage and selection players should expect from a blue three-mana sorcery when it released in Aetherdrift. It has quickly earned a reputation as a staple of competitive Standard, and even sees play in Pioneer, Modern, and Vintage.
#2 Cid, Timeless Artificer (Multiple Versions)
Set: FINAL FANTASY
Market Price: $6.36
We’re cheating a bit here by condensing all 15 versions of Cid, Timeless Artificer into one item, instead of leaving them separated as they are in the full report.
Cid has the same “A deck can have any number of cards named…” clause that makes other cards like Hare Apparent and Slime Against Humanity so beloved, and valuable. The card incentivizes players to run as many copies of Cid as they can, so anyone who wants to build a Cid-centric deck needs dozens of Cids. This inflates the number of Cids that get sold, making all of them more valuable.
#3 Patchwork Banner
Set: Bloomburrow
Market Price: $4.58
Patchwork Banner became a staple of typal Commander decks the moment it was printed in Bloomburrow, and has yet to be reprinted outside of a promo included in certain Bloomburrow tins.
#4 Into the Flood Maw
Set: Bloomburrow
Market Price: $3.96
One-mana removal that can hit any nonland permanent is well worth giving your opponent a tapped fish, so Into the Flood Maw sees play across many competitive formats, especially alongside Cori-Steel Cutter.
#5 Sheltered by Ghosts
Set: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Market Price: $2.81
Speaking of low-cost removal, Sheltered by Ghosts gives players access to the same effect as cards like Banishing Light for a one-mana discount The only downside is that you need to keep a creature alive in addition to the Enchantment in order to maintain that banishment, but Sheltered by Ghosts more than makes up for this by giving the creature in question Ward 2, for a total package that does more than other cards for less mana.
#6 Kami of Whispered Hopes
Set: March of the Machine
Market Price: $2.66
Commander players love building big boards, and Kami of Whispered Hopes makes those boards even bigger by adding to the number of +1/+1 counters you place on your creatures every time you use such an ability. Only this card’s low rarity has prevented it from becoming as expensive as similar Commander staples like Doubling Season and The Ozolith.
#7 Boltwave
Set: Foundations
Market Price: $2.62
As the latest in a long lineage of one-mana spells that hit for three damage, Boltwave was immediately adopted by every player who still adheres to The Philosophy of Fire in any competitive format. It even works in Commander!
#8 Untimely Malfunction
Set: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Market Price: $2.48
Whether in competitive sideboards or as part of the 99 in Commander decks, Untimely Malfunction works (ironically) as a flexible tool that can fix nearly any situation a red mage might find themselves in.
#9 An Offer You Can't Refuse
Set: Foundations
Market Price: $2.18
Like Sheltered by Ghosts and Into the Flood Maw, An Offer You Can’t Refuse answers way more problems than it should for a card that costs so little mana. Its downside is more meaningful than a Fish, but players don’t care because they’re usually using this card to win the game on the spot (or, stop their opponent from doing so).
The original printing of An Offer You Can’t Refuse from Streets of New Capenna is only slightly less valuable than this one, so keep an eye out for it if you’re ripping packs from that set.
#10 Bolt Bend
Set: Foundations
Market Price: $2.14
Bolt Bend is another undercosted instant-speed card that can completely swing games, though its restriction makes it better suited for Commander than for 60-card competitive formats. Both this version and the original version from War of the Spark cost over $2, so don’t let either of them slip you by.
By knowing which cards are more valuable than their rarity would suggest, you can save time choosing which cards to list as singles. Download the “Bulk” Magic Cards Report to review the 100 most expensive Uncommon and Common cards currently in Standard. Then list those cards on TCGplayer to unlock the full value of your inventory.