Weekly Winners 2025 - 15

This week's article could have just been a Deadpool special, but Modern is also stirring up some prices.

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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Hidden Gems for Teval, the Balanced Scale by Adam Berg

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Onto the Weekly Winners!

#1 Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink $11.89 (+323%)

Orthion, who was printed in March of the Machine, has gotten some attention from the casual crowd. If there's anything that he's good at, it's creating copies of other creatures that you have to sacrifice at the next end step. Depending on the amount of mana you pump into it, you can make either one or five copies at a time.

$19.99 $19.99

Last week we also talked about a card that makes "copies." The Master, Multiplied went up because of the surprise Secret Lair drop of Deadpool, Trading Card. And Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink has been spiking for the same reason. Whenever you make a copy of Deadpool, you get to replace a text box. Sure, you're bound by the legend rule, but being able to neuter one creature at a time still does some work. But if you do want to get the full potential out of it you can try to work around the legend rule with, for example, the aformentioned The Master, Multiplied or cards like Mirror Box.

And while going over the Interests we also see Mirage Phalanx. When you Souldbound it with Deadpool when either enters it enables you to make a copy of Deadpool at the start of each of your combat phases. It seems like people are trying to get every card that may work well with Deadpool; the top of the Interests list has several cards moving up because of it. Cards like Determined Iteration, Mirror Gallery and Xantcha, Sleeper Agent are all spiking.

Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink	CardKingdom $5.99	TCGPlayer $12.01
Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink (Extended Art)	CardKingdom $6.99	TCGPlayer $19.99
Deadpool, Trading Card	CardKingdom	TCGPlayer $20.82
The Master, Multiplied	CardKingdom $19.99	TCGPlayer $19.99

#2 Kethis, the Hidden Hand $17.89 (+181%)

Veterans among us probably know that Kethis, the Hidden Hand is stronger than he looks and has some amazing combo potential. After the Modern bans of March 31st, Underworld Breach was banned from Modern since it was simply too strong with Mox Opal.

Now that Breach is gone, people still want to play a similar combo, and Kethis fills that void. Kethis plays very well with the legendary Moxen like Mox Opal and Mox Amber. With cards like Jace, the Perfected Mind and Emry, Lurker of the Loch you can fill up your graveyard and use Kethis to repetitively exile legendary cards from it to mill both players out as early as turn two. And while you can only achieve that with the perfect hand and no interaction from your opponent, the deck can pretty consistently win around turn three or four.

It's worth noting that Kethis, the Hidden Hand was printed at mythic in Core Set 2020 and hasn't had a reprint since. This means the supply is relatively low, and if this deck starts to put up more results and becomes more popular, the price may also follow that trend. 

Kethis, the Hidden Hand

CardKingdom $7.99

TCGPlayer $17.30

#3 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield $17.47 (+150%)

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield, a Legendary artifact from Commander: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth has gotten some new attention. It gives you card draw and 0/3 walls whenever you cast your second spell each turn. It also grants exalted to creatures you control with defender that can buff a creature when it attacks alone.

The reason for the spike seems to come from a new commander that was printed in Commander: Tarkir: Dragonstorm. And it's a card that we've talked about before. Felothar the Steadfast lets you assign combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power, and it also lets creatures with defender attack. You can probably see why this works well with Rammas Echor. Card advantage and virtually giving you 3/3 tokens that you can potentially sacrifice to Felothar for more cards.

This card is a great upgrade to the Abzan Armor precon deck of which Felothar is the commander. But also new decks around it definitely want to play Rammas Echor.

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield	CardKingdom $8.49	TCGPlayer $19.99
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (Borderless) (Surge Foil)	CardKingdom	TCGPlayer $34.97

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.

Rodolf Duskbringer $4.80 - Moving up!

Rodolf Duskbringer has been identified by the MTGStocks Premium Penny Stocks feature as a card that has reached its bottom and is starting a consistent uptrend.

Vial Smasher the Fierce $2.99 - Stabilizing

Fiend Artisan $4.25 - Moving down

Rodolf Duskbringer	CardKingdom $5.49	TCGPlayer $4.80
Fiend Artisan	CardKingdom $5.49	TCGPlayer $4.25
Vial Smasher the Fierce	CardKingdom $3.99	TCGPlayer $2.99