Top Selling Magic: The Gathering Cards on TCGplayer: January 2026
By Peter Day •
The first step to serving customer demand is to understand it. So to help you follow what’s currently popular with players and collectors, we’ve put together a pair of downloadable CSV reports of the top-selling Magic: The Gathering cards of the past month.
These reports show the name and set of the Magic cards with the highest total number of copies sold on the TCGplayer Marketplace between January 1 and 28, 2026. The reports consider cards from different sets to be distinct (even if they have the same name), but do not distinguish copies sold by condition (Near Mint, Lightly Played, etc.) or by printing (Foil, etc.).
The two reports cover cards that had an average sale price in January within two ranges: $50.00 or more, and $1.00 to $49.99.
Here are five highlights from each report.
Top Selling Magic Cards: $50 or More
#1 Badgermole Cub
Set: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Average Sale Price: $53.99
The top Magic cards over $50 barely changed in January. Most notably, Badgermole’s mountain-sized popularity made it the bestselling Magic card over $50 for the third month in a row, by a significant margin.
It all comes down to the card’s power. With no additional support, Badgermole Cub puts 3/3 worth of stats into play and accelerates you one mana—not bad at all. But with any kind of mana dorks (like Llanowar Elves) or lands that sacrifice themselves (like fetch lands), the cub quickly builds an overwhelming mana advantage. It even stacks with itself!
We’ve seen Badgermole Cub burrow its way into Standard, Modern, Commander, and even Legacy. You should expect it to keep popping up in any format where it’s legal for the foreseeable future.
#2 The Soul Stone
Set: Marvel's Spider-Man
Average Sale Price: $57.28
In Commander, The Soul Stone is an efficient, indestructible mana rock that offers recurring value once you harness it—a no-brainer for almost any black deck.
The other Infinity Stones are expected to make their cardboard debuts in later Marvel sets like Marvel Super Heroes, likely along with some payoff for assembling them all, so any players with the means to do so are picking up their copies of The Soul Stone now while it’s relatively inexpensive.
#4 Badgermole Cub (Borderless)
Set: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Average Sale Price: $70.79
Not to be left out, the borderless version of Badgermole Cub has sold well for the same reason as its base version: pure power. Note that the premium for the borderless version isn’t especially high (compared to say, the normal and borderless versions of Fire Lord Azula) since players are after whichever version they can get.
#3 Yuna, Grand Summoner (Borderless)
Set: WPN & Gateway Promos
Average Sale Price: $64.28
This promo with original art was distributed to promote the WPN Holiday Commander Box League in December 2025. Since it was tied to an in-person play event, that distribution was extremely limited, which has made the card popular with the same crowd of collectors and investors who routinely target Reserved List cards.
#5 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian (Borderless)
Set: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Average Sale Price: $74.16
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian almost gives Badgermole Cub a run for its money as the top mythic in Avatar: The Last Airbender. The jealous owl spirit naturally scales in power according to the format—the more searching there is, the better it gets—so players have been eager to test it out in Standard, Modern, and even Vintage.
Top Selling Magic Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Formidable Speaker
Set: Lorwyn Eclipsed
Average Sale Price: $15.76
When Wizards of the Coast lets World Champions design the Magic card that will bear their likeness, those champions tend to come up with pretty busted ideas.
Formidable Speaker is no exception. In some formats, Jean-Emmanuel Depraz’s World Championship card is a one-card game-winning combo. Players have been so eager to break it that it’s become the bestselling card in this price bracket, despite costing twice as much as its closest competition and being in preorders for most of the month.
#2 Nest of Scarabs
Set: Amonkhet
Average Sale Price: $6.30
Nest of Scarabs spiked from $1 to $10 over the course of January as it became clear how prominent -1/-1 tokens would be in Lorwyn Eclipsed. If you own copies of this Amonkhet Uncommon, now’s the time to excavate them.
#3 Generous Patron
Set: Commander: FINAL FANTASY
Average Sale Price: $2.26
Generous Patron had the same price trajectory as Nest of Scarabs, and for the same reason. Commander and Standard players can’t wait to cover their opponents’ creatures in -1/-1 counters.
#4 Obelisk Spider
Set: Hour of Devastation
Average Sale Price: $3.24
Like the two cards above, Obelisk Spider rewards players for blighting their opponents’ creatures. The card’s current Market Price at time of writing ($5.81) shows how eager players are to explore the mechanics in Lorwyn Eclipsed.
#5 Hare Apparent
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $3.63
Cards like Hare Apparent allow (and encourage) players to play way more than the standard four copies in their decks, so anyone who wants to build around it needs tons of copies.
Selling cards that have high “velocity” keeps your cash flow healthy so you can take advantage of new opportunities. Check out our reports on the top-selling cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, and be sure to list these cards on TCGplayer to unlock value you can reinvest in your business.