Weekly Winners 2025 - 08
Commander is driving prices, and not just the cards people can play, but also the ones people can't play (yet)!
Like every week, just in time for FNM, I'll tell you about the Magic: the Gathering cards that'll be the talk of the town tonight! Come discuss this week's price movements with us on Discord.
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Articles
Check out our other great content from this week.
The New Game Changers in Commander by Harvey McGuinness
Commander Staples in Aetherdrift by Steve Heisler
Cards Heating Up in Modern Right Now by Steve Heisler
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Onto the Weekly Winners!
#1 Electrosiphon $5.00 (+762%)
That's quite the rise. But beware that percentages can be deceiving sometimes, since that card was only about $0.50 before the spike. That said, we can't deny the spike here, so lets dive into our first Winner.
The most logical explanation would be that it had something to do with the
Seems like this card was just a sleeper for a little while until it was noticed to be a great upgrade to the deck.
| Electrosiphon | ||
| Electrosiphon (Extended Art) | ||
| Electrosiphon (Surge Foil) |
#2 Hullbreacher $10.73 (+179%)
This spike seems to be a continuation from what we discussed last week. Back then Wizards of the Coast unveiled their "Commander Brackets," a new beta matchmaking system for Commander that divides decks into five distinct power brackets and introduces a 40-card Game Changers list.
There was a lot of information in the accompying article, but what stuck out for a lot of readers was that the word "unban" appeared eight times in it. Last week we discussed the notorious three cards that entered the ban list last only a few month ago when people were hoping for them to be unbanned again.
Since then people seem to have moved on from cards like
And while we're on the subject, some people have apparently put more of the banned cards on their shopping list.
| Hullbreacher | ||
| Hullbreacher (Extended Art) | ||
| Hullbreacher | ||
| Hullbreacher (Extended Art) | ||
| Primeval Titan |
#3 Currency Converter $18.70 (+62%)
This artifact could be bought for around $2 at its low point in October 2023, but has been climbing since then and shooting to new heights. For just you get an engine online that lets you loot a card and potentially turn these cards into value later in the game. Keep in mind that you don't have to discard a card to
But now when we read about exiling cards, one particular God immediately springs to mind.
| Currency Converter | ||
| Currency Converter (Extended Art) | ||
| Ketramose, the New Dawn |
Cheap Pickups
Please note: for our 'record low' we consider the price of the card over the past seven years. Many cards were even cheaper (a) decade(s) ago. Also note: some cards are still going down, and might be even cheaper pickups next week.
Loot, Exuberant Explorer $3.99 - Moving up!
Elder Gargaroth $4.04 - Moving down
Omniscience $4.25 - Stabilizing
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| Elder Gargaroth | ||
| Omniscience |
Arjen
Arjen has been playing Magic since the Ice Age set released. He primarily plays Legacy format and founded MTGStocks over a decade ago when he and his friends wanted to track card prices to purchase singles at optimal times.