Weekly Winners 2025 - 42

Spider-Man is making some impact, and the Ninja Turtles are claiming their first spike. But our number one winner is because of Legacy!

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 Eumidian Hatchery $4.65 (+474%)

This utility land from Commander: Edge of Eternities has been moving up recently, and it's all because of a surprise Legacy showing at the North American Eternal Weekend. Eumidian Hatchery taps for black mana by paying one life, putting a hatchling counter on it each time. When the land hits the graveyard, you get a 1/1 black Insect token with flying for each counter on it.

A Loam Pox deck finished fourth at Legacy Eternal Weekend running a full playset of Eumidian Hatchery. The deck uses Smallpox to strip resources from both players, but when the time is ripe, you can sacrifice the Hatchery and flood the board with flying Insects. Those tokens become actual threats when the battlefield is empty and your opponent is stripped of resources. But they can also help to pay for convoking Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis. While the card also sees some play in cEDH alongside Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, the spike absolutely is because of Legacy.

Extended art versions are currently the cheaper, but that probably won't last long. Whether Hatchery maintains its price depends entirely on how well the deck performs going forward. Knowing Legacy players, they will at least try to pick up a playset just to have them in case they ever want to play it.

Eumidian Hatchery	CardKingdom $3.49	TCGPlayer $4.65
Eumidian Hatchery (Extended Art)	CardKingdom $3.49	TCGPlayer $1.00
Smallpox	CardKingdom $0.35	TCGPlayer $0.39

#2 Taeko, the Patient Avalanche $19.83 (+200%)

This Turtle Ninja (or Ninja Turtle, if you will) from Foundations Jumpstart has spiked, going from around six dollars to nearly twenty. Whenever another creature you control leaves the battlefield without dying it lets you scry and put a +1/+1 counter on it. It also has an ability that makes attacking creatures unblockable, which plays right into Ninja strategies that care about getting creatures through to deal damage or to activate ninjutsu abilities.

The reason for the spike is pretty obvious if you've been paying attention to the upcoming release schedule: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sets coming out early next year. And while it doesn't seem like Taeko is seeing a lot of play at the moment, with the upcoming Turtles set, players are buying up the card. What we've seen from the TMNT set so far looks promising for Taeko. The set introduces sneak, a new ability that functions like a more flexible ninjutsu, bouncing attacking creatures back to hand and thus triggering Taeko.

Whether Taeko remains relevant once the full set drops is unknown, but for now, the hype is real and the price reflects it.

I'm really excited for the TMNT sets. Pretty sure I'm being fully hit by nostalgia from the cartoons from the '90s, but this is actually a Universes Beyond that I like, considering the past few IPs we've had.

Taeko, the Patient Avalanche

CardKingdom $15.99

TCGPlayer $19.85

#3 Shaman en-Kor $19.85 (+152%)

This old-school creature from Stronghold spiked, and it's because of a card that we also discussed last week. Shaman en-Kor lets you redirect damage that would be dealt to it to another creature you control. It can also redirect damage from any source to itself to save other creatures. And Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer from the Marvel's Spider-Man set wants to be damaged to grow. 

$8.45 $8.49

Any damage dealt to Shaman en-Kor can be redirected to Anti-Venom, growing it while keeping the Shaman alive. The second ability adds another layer by letting you save other creatures and then send all that damage to Anti-Venom. Shaman en-Kor also has strong syngery with other common cards in Anti-Venom decks, like Phyrexian Vindicator and Cho-Manno, Revolutionary, which are also moving up.

Shaman en-Kor only has one printing from 27 years ago, meaning supply is extremely limited and thus the price is easily affected.

Shaman en-Kor	CardKingdom $6.49	TCGPlayer $10.43
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer	CardKingdom $15.99	TCGPlayer $13.27
Phyrexian Vindicator	CardKingdom $8.49	TCGPlayer $8.45

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.

Court of Vantress $4.63 - Moving up!

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

Necroduality (Retro Frame) $4.56 - Moving down

Sword of Light and Shadow $7.36 - Moving down

Court of Vantress	CardKingdom $6.99	TCGPlayer $4.61
Necroduality (Retro Frame)	CardKingdom $7.49	TCGPlayer $4.50
Sword of Light and Shadow	CardKingdom $9.49	TCGPlayer $7.36