Top Selling Magic: The Gathering Cards on TCGplayer: November 2024
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 November 1 and November 25. 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 November 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 The One Ring
Set:Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Average Sale Price: $60.51
The One Ring’s price has plummeted from the $110 it held in September, even though it remains the most-played card in Modern. It’s hard to say whether that’s due to players sensing that the card might not survive another Modern B+R announcement, WotC’s confirmation that they can reprint the card as much as they want, or the most recent competitive season shifting to Standard and Foundations Limited. Whatever the reason, enough players still want The One Ring in their decks that they’re willing to buy into this drop.
#2 Counterspell (0002)
Set: Secret Lair Drop Series
Average Sale Price: $73.33
The much-maligned Marvel Secret Lair released many valuable cards into the world, but none have sold as well as the Doctor Strange Counterspell (and only Rainbow Foil Abundant Groot is more expensive). We can probably chalk this up to crossover appeal: Magic fans who weren’t interested in playing with any of the Marvel-specific commanders could still inject a little Marvel flavor into their decks by running this Counterspell, and The Sorcerer Supreme fits better with Magic IP than the rest of the Marvel lineup.
#3 Bloodthirsty Conqueror (Showcase)
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $63.84
In Duskmourn: House of Horror, Wizards of the Coast introduced a new kind of collectible alternate-art cards called Japanese Showcase cards. These cards had art by well-known Japanese artists in a style (and minimal card frame) that you tend to see in Japanese TCGs like One Piece and Cardfight!! Vanguard.
TCG fans love high-rarity cards, anime-style illustrations, and fewer graphical elements coming between them and the pretty art, so the Japanese Showcase cards in Duskmourn were very popular, and WotC brought them back for Foundations.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror got one of those treatments. The base version of this card is nearly $30 thanks to its insane power in Commander, so this fancy version by RAITA KAZAMA is similarly popular.
#4 Llanowar Elves (Showcase)
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $90.43
Another Japanese Showcase card, Llanowar Elves has been part of Magic since Alpha but has never had a normal-release printing this rare or exciting.
#5 Twinflame Tyrant (Showcase)
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $62.65
Twinflame Tyrant is another automatic Commander staple from Foundations like Bloodthirsty Conquerer that got a Japanese Showcase version. Players are happy to get any version of this card, which costs a minimum of $17, but especially happy to get a version illustrated by Mikio Masuda.
Top Selling Magic Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Hare Apparent
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $4.39
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. On November 15, when Foundations released, players bought an average of 13.1 copies each, and that sales volume pushed Hare Apparent far into the lead in terms of total copies sold.
#2 Boltwave
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $2.99
Boltwave’s simple text has never appeared on a one-cost card before (compare it to Sizzle from 8th Edition). Its sheer damage efficiency, especially in multiplayer games, has made it an instant staple in Standard, Pioneer, and Commander.
#3 Slime Against Humanity
Set: Murders at Karlov Manor
Average Sale Price: $2.09
Slime Against Humanity gets to be the only non-Foundations card on this part of the list, thanks to the same “any number of cards” clause that helped Hare Apparent reach the #1 spot.
#4 Authority of the Consuls
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $3.14
Originally printed in Kaladesh, Authority of the Consuls sees tons of play in Commander (especially cEDH) where it trips up infinite combos and gains tons of life each round. The Kaladesh printing has bounced between $10 and $15 all year, so players are happily picking up this new affordable reprint.
#5 Blasphemous Edict
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $6.61
As its name implies, Blasphemous Edict gives black a Blasphemous Act-style boardwipe that gets around protection effects by forcing players to sacrifice their own creatures, a la Cruel Edict. This card was obviously designed to become a staple in Commander, and players have taken the hint.
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