Weekly Winners 2025 - 40
This week we're discussing Commander, Premodern, and Modern - a fun mix of formats. And we're also talking about Spider-Man.
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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Onto the Weekly Winners!
#1 Mortuary $14.98 (+89%)
Whenever a card that was printed over 27 years ago spikes out of nowhere, it usually means something's up. After some investigating, I've found a reason why Mortuary is moving up all of the sudden. But, to be frank, it's pretty niche. A new combo has surfaced that includes
After Gwenom has attacked, she lets you cast spells from the top of your library and pay life instead of paying the mana cost. To let this combo work, you only need three other cards. Yes, that's a four-card combo. If you have
I'm so glad we've finally found a way to make
Combos with
The black enchantment hasn't been reprinted since
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#2 Goryo's Vengeance $18.99 (+99%)
This iconic reanimation spell from
The reason for the spike is the emergence of Esper Goryo's as a tier-one Modern deck at the Pro Tour. The deck uses
Players are also using
With Esper Goryo's becoming one of the most popular decks at the Pro Tour, and graveyard hate not being heavily represented in the current metagame, this spike makes a lot of sense. The card has been reprinted once since its original Kamigawa printing (not counting a Secret Lair), but demand is clearly outpacing supply right now. Whether this deck continues to dominate or gets hated out remains to be seen, but
Did you know that I once Top 8'd a Legacy tournament at GP Utrecht in 2013 with a deck playing Goryo's Vengeance?
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#3 Circular Logic $4.62 (+62%)
Our last Winner of today can still be bought for $0.25, unless you're a true Premodern player. In that case you're not interested in the fancy new frames that the young kids are playing with. You want old-fashioned frames, like in the good ol' days. This card can soft-counter a spell for three mana mana, but you can also cast it by discarding it and paying its madness cost of .
The card seems to be doing fairly well in Premodern, where it sees play in a variety of archetypes that care about discarding cards. The most prominent of those are UG Madness, WUBG Tireless Tribe, and Zombie Infestation Control. We actually discussed this last archetype three weeks ago.
It's very interesting to see that we talk about Premodern more and more in the Weekly Winners. The format seems like a lot of fun, and players are picking up on that. Perhaps it's also the fatigue of new product being churned out the past few years, and players reminiscing about a "simpler" time in Magic.
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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.
Mount Doom $2.05 - Moving up!
Dockside Extortionist $11.78 - Stabilizing
Sothera, the Supervoid $5.02 - Moving down
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| Dockside Extortionist | ||
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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.