Top Selling Magic: The Gathering Cards on TCGplayer: September 2026
By Jason Coles •
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 September 1 and 30, 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 September 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 Mind Stone
Set: Marvel Super Heroes
Average Sale Price: $51.11
The Mind Stone, which is awfully-named given that we have Mind Stone in MTG already, is an excellent mana rock which eventually lets you blink creatures once per turn. While we’d argue that The Soul Stone is actually stronger, this one is newer, and people are clamoring to pick up a copy for themselves.
#2 Rhystic Study
Set: Prophecy
Average Sale Price: $59.20
Rhystic Study was one of the first cards to ask players to pay mana to stop you from getting stronger, and boy has it been impactful. Every single version of this card sells well every month, because it’s a staple in a lot of Commander decks. This time around this one has been selling well, as it’s one of the best-priced.
#3 Gleaming Splendor (Borderless)
Set: The Hobbit
Average Sale Price: $100.93
You’d think that wizards would stop printing enchantments that just spit out treasure tokens, but no. This one not only makes you a treasure token in nearly every turn, but also lets you dole out card draw as you see fit if you’ve got the mana to do so. This is the gorgeous borderless variant too, which looks like it could be a book cover.
#4 Smaug the Magnificent (Showcase)
Set: Avatar: The Hobbit
Average Sale Price: $53.77
All of the Smaug variants have been popular, but this one is arguably the most powerful in the most formats. This dragon can attack as soon as it comes into play, and deals damage to any target equal to the number of treasure tokens you control. It also makes a treasure token in your upkeep. This showcase version is a thing of beauty, but the power of these four-mana dragons with haste is legendary at this point.
#5 Smothering Tithe
Set: Ravnica Allegiance
Average Sale Price: $53.83
Smothering Tithe has always been selling well, because it lets you not only annoy your opponents, but also makes treasure tokens, which are arguably the strongest token in the game. It’s only getting more expensive the further we get from Ravnica Allegiance too, and that’s despite a wealth of reprints and special editions.
Top Selling Magic Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Belladonna Took
Set: The Hobbit
Average Sale Price: $3.24
Belladonna Took is a card which every token-loving player should be scrabbling for. It grants you one life the first time a token under your control enters, then lets you draw a card the second time, and the third time it happens you put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. It’s laughably easy to get three tokens into play at a time, and you can do that on other peoples’ turns a lot in Commander too.
#2 Wizard's Staff
Set: The Hobbit
Average Sale Price: $3.76
Wizard’s Staff has been an obvious choice since it was previewed. It’s cheap, it gives prowess, which is an incredible ability in and of itself, but it also makes any triggered abilities of the equipped creature trigger twice. Not only does that mean prowess is doubled, but it also means that the creature it's equipped to is twice as good too.
Given how many potent abilities we have on creatures with blue on them, including the notorious Vivi Ornitier, it’s easy to see why this is doing so well.
#3 Hare Apparent
Set: Foundations
Average Sale Price: $3.35
There’s something funny about the fact that this rabbit just can’t be taken off of these lists for long. This two-mana white creature makes rabbit tokens as it enters for each other Hare Apparent you control. You can also have as many copies of this in a deck as you’d like. It ends up being a very solid shell for any token Commander strategy, but also rabbits are cute.
#4 Sphinx's Approach
Set: Reality Fracture
Average Sale Price: $1.99
Sphinx’s Approach is the latest in a long line of “A deck can have any number of cards named X.” Heck, you can see it just above here with Hare Apparent. This one is a pretty potent three-mana draw spell though, but also allows you to exile four copies of it from your graveyard to put a Sphinx directly into play. This is popular because it has to be, legally, but also because of the brand new The Ur-Sphinx from the Multiverse Reforged Commander deck.
#5 Cut Down
Set: Dominaria United
Average Sale Price: $1.40
This month we’ve got a bit of old removal back on the menu. This black one-mana instant is a fantastic way to get rid of plenty of smaller creatures, but can also be the finishing blow to anything you’ve been putting -1/-1 counters on as well. It’s just a very good bit of removal.
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!, Pokémon, and One Piece and be sure to list these cards on TCGplayer to unlock value you can reinvest in your business.