Top Selling Magic: The Gathering Cards on TCGplayer: October 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 October 1 and October 31. 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 October 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 (Borderless) (LTR Bundle)
Set: Unique and Miscellaneous Promos
Average Sale Price: $62.36
The One Ring continues to be the most-played card in Modern, and this remains the most affordable copy of the card available. It’s even more affordable than it used to be—all versions of The One Ring are down in price significantly from the heights they reached when The One Ring dodged the Modern ban that took down Nadu, Winged Wisdom and Grief. Exactly why is hard to say. Speculators might have been spooked by Mark Rosewater’s confirmation that WotC can reprint The One Ring if necessary, or players may be so fed up with The One Ring’s dominance in Modern that they don’t expect it to survive the next ban. Either way, demand remains high, even as prices plummet.
#2 The One Ring
Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Average Sale Price: $79.24
Like the Borderless version above, this version of The One Ring has dropped in price as demand has remained steady (or even increased) over the past month.
#3 Orcish Bowmasters (Borderless)
Set: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Average Sale Price: $51.33
Orcish Bowmasters is following the same downward price trajectory as The One Ring, but sales have also fallen off this week after a month of strong demand. It’s possible the last month of sales wasn’t driven by Modern players at all, and was instead a reaction to the popular new commander Winter, Misanthropic Guide, which has natural synergy with Orcish Bowmasters.
#4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Set: Dominaria United
Average Sale Price: $79.75
Sheoldred is everywhere in Magic these days. Playing Standard? She’s in all the midrange decks. Pioneer? Same as Standard. Modern? She’s in Necrodominance. Commander? Expect her in Winter and both versions of Valgavoth. Wherever she appears, opponents have to answer her (or lose), so players are keen to be on the right side of that equation.
#5 Jeweled Lotus
Set: Commander Legends
Average Sale Price: $60.84
Jeweled Lotus took a nosedive in September when the Commander Rules Committee hit the Lotus and some other fast mana cards with a surprise ban. The price rebounded and plummeted again as the ensuing community backlash and takeover of Commander by WotC left players unsure whether the ban would stick.
WotC has given no indication that they intend to roll back these bans, or make any other changes to the format in the immediate future, so I think you should consider these sales of Jeweled Lotus as speculation rather than organic demand from folks who expect to play it anytime soon.
Top Selling Magic Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Sol Ring
Set: Commander: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Average Sale Price: $1.09
The release of Duskmourn briefly made the most recent printing of Sol Ring the least expensive on the Marketplace, so budget-conscious players bought it in droves. Sol Ring always ranks as one of the top-selling Magic cards, up there with Basic Lands, but normally those sales are split more evenly among the dozens of versions that have been printed.
#2 Sheltered by Ghosts
Set: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Average Sale Price: $2.26
Duskmourn absolutely dripped with flavor, but it didn’t neglect competitive players either. The set introduced several multi-format all-stars, including Sheltered by Ghosts, an Oblivion Ring effect that costs less mana and also gives a creature lifelink. Four years ago, the idea that white was the color of removal was considered laughable. Nobody’s laughing anymore.
#3 Untimely Malfunction
Set: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Average Sale Price: $1.78
Untimely Malfunction is another busted uncommon for every format. By giving players a choice of three modes, some broadly useful and others more powerful but narrow, Untimely Malfunction gets the best of all worlds. And it barely costs more than you’d expect for a spell that only had one of those modes. Commander players love cards that are this dense with useful effects.
#4 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
Set: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Average Sale Price: $4.08
Unholy Annex does everything Phyrexian Arena does, only with way more potential upside. As long as you control a Demon (which you can get by unlocking Ritual Chamber), you drain your opponents of the life you would have lost as payment for drawing an extra card. Cards, life—why choose when you can have it all? No surprise that it now sees play in Standard, Pioneer, and Commander.
#5 Slime Against Humanity
Set: Murders at Karlov Manor
Average Sale Price: $1.95
Slime Against Humanity is meant to be played at way more than four copies per deck, so when players buy it, they buy in bulk. That naturally helps it rank highly on lists like this, even when the number of players buying the card is relatively low.
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.