Top Selling Magic: The Gathering Sets Right Now – 02/12/2025
By Peter Day •
Deciding how much capital to invest in each new TCG set is one of the hardest decisions that comes with running a game store. We want to make that decision easier, so we’ve compiled a report of the bestselling Magic: The Gathering sets this month. This report will show you which Magic sets are still in high demand months or years after their release, so you can better anticipate what the demand will be for upcoming sets.
The report lists the top 100 Magic: The Gathering sets, ranked by the total GMV of all sales (sealed and singles) on the TCGplayer Marketplace between January 11 and February 9, 2025. As a quick preview, here are the ten sets at the very top of the list:
Top 10 Bestselling Magic: The Gathering Sets
#10 Commander: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Released: June 20, 2023.
The Commander subset of Tales of Middle-earth has almost as much staying power as the main set thanks to its flavorful reskins of Commander staples like Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Ancient Tomb.
#9 Bloomburrow
Released: August 2, 2024.
Bloomburrow didn’t just enchant new and returning players with its theme, it also gave everyone a pile of new Commander staples that are still selling well today like Tree Tree City and Patchwork Banner (a $5 uncommon!), and even multi-format all-stars like Stormchaser’s Talent.
#8 Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Released: June 23, 2023.
Last year’s biggest set continues to rank highly, though it’s fallen a bit since last quarter. We might attribute that drop to The One Ring being banned in Modern in December, which meant the card would no longer be mandatory for players hoping to break into that format. It’s still legal (and busted) in Commander however, and Orcish Bowmasters remains a Modern staple, so the LOTR set is retaining its status as one of Magic’s best-selling sets even as it approaches its 2-year anniversary.
Released: August 4, 2023.
Commander Masters has ranked well once again thanks to the enduring popularity of the Commander format. The set contains reprints of over 400 format staples, and most of those reprints are now the cheapest printings of their respective cards. If Wizards of the Coast ever reprints those cards again, we can expect the current interest in Commander Masters to transfer to the new set.
Released: September 27, 2024.
Like Bloomburrow before it, Duskmourn delivered vibes and must-plays in equal measure. The big news right now is Overlord of the Balemurk, which quickly spiked from $12 to over $30 after Joel Doolittle made Top 8 at the SCG Con Portland Regional Championship with a (mostly) fair-looking Orzhov Ephemerate deck. Balemurk is tearing up Pioneer and Standard too, cementing its position as a new multi-format all-star alongside other Duskmourn cards like Abhorrent Oculus and Screaming Nemesis.
#5 Foundations
Released: November 15, 2024.
Sales remain strong for the Magic’s new super-core-set thanks to its new Commander staples like Bloodthirsty Conqueror, Sire of Seven Deaths, and Hare Apparent (a $3 Common!).
Released: June 14, 2024.
Modern Horizons 3 completely redefined the format when it released last June. Nadu’s ban just opened up room for the rest of the set’s cards to spawn more archetypes like Energy, Mono-Blue Charbelcher, and Orzhov Ephemerate that have swept the old guard away and required anyone who wants to play Modern to buy into MH3.
This is the first quarter when Modern Horizons 2 hasn’t made the list of the top 10 bestselling Magic sets. If that pattern continues, we should expect MH3 to hold its spot here until early 2028, after the release of (the purely hypothetical) Modern Horizons 4 in 2027.
Released: December 2, 2019 - Present.
The list of Secret Lair cards grows longer with each passing year, so we can expect at least some of them to sell well every month.
Right now, the top-selling Secret Lair card is the Rainbow Foil version of Encore Electromancer, a Hatsune Miku-flavored reprint of Snapcaster Mage that appears to have been distributed through a small, random percentage of Hatsune Miku Secret Lair drops. As a fancy version of a $15 dollar card that was only available through limited-time products—and only sometimes—this card is absurdly rare, and its Market Price reflects that. Many dedicated collectors are choosing to stomach that price instead of trying their luck ripping hundred-dollar bundles.
#2 Aetherdrift
Released: February 14, 2025.
Aetherdrift will release later this week, and while the set’s themes and the power level of its cards don’t quite measure up to what we got from Duskmourn, it’s still a new release for the biggest TCG on the market. Presales for Play Booster Displays have outpaced those for Collector Booster Displays, which might suggest that collectors and less-enfranchised Magic fans who only play Commander haven’t been convinced that Aetherdrift is for them.
Released: January 24, 2025.
Innistrad Remastered took the top spot this month, as expected from a set whose release fell squarely in the center of the time period this report considers. Top-selling cards from this reprint set include fancy versions of Commander staples like Edgar Markov, Avacyn, Angel of Hope, and Emrakul, the Promised End.
By keeping track of how old Magic sets have performed over time, you can build your intuition for how popular upcoming Magic sets are likely to be. Download the February 2025 MTG Set Report to review the top 100 Magic sets in February 2025, then list sealed products and singles from those sets on TCGplayer to unlock the value in your inventory.