Weekly Winners 2025 - 43
While the market is cooling down a bit, anticipating the release of the next set, the upcoming PlayStation Secret Lair drop is stirring prices a bit.
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 Rashel, Fist of Torm $17.43 (+57%)
This card is a tricky one - at least, the name is. Because if you look closely at the bottom border of the card, you'll see "=SLD 1237," which means that she should be considered the same as
But for deckbuilding purposes these cards are to be treated the same as their Universes Beyond counterparts, meaning that in a Commander deck you can't play both Xenk and Rashel together.
With that out of the way, let's talk about the card and why it spiked. Xenk is a Human Knight creature with double strike that gives Auras you control exalted. The main reason I can see right now is because of the upcoming card
Jin Sakai incentivizes players to let creatures attack alone, because when they're the only creature attacking a player, it either gains double strike or can't be blocked. The difference being that Jin Sakai will let you attack multiple players with a single creature to trigger and exalted only triggers when you attack with just one overall. Nevertheless, the synergy is here as they're both cards that want creatures to attack alone.
Interestingly, it seems like only the Rashel print has been moving up and Xenk hasn't changed. This likely has to do with her being far cheaper than Xenk and is merely catching up. That said, Xenk may still move if Jin Sakai turns out to be a popular commander.
| Rashel, Fist of Torm | ||
| Xenk, Paladin Unbroken | ||
| Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima |
#2 False Cure $7.03 (+44%)
Our next winner recently turned 23 years old.
I feel the more likely reason for the recent uptick is because of a new commander printed in
When life totals are exchanged, each player gains or loses the amount of life necessary to equal the other player's life total. For example, if one player has 10 life and the other has 17 life, the first player gains 7 life and the other one loses 7 life. Replacement effects may modify these gains and losses, and triggered abilities may trigger on them
This means when you exchange life, you actually gain or lose life in the process. This also means that if we exchange life with an opponent who's at a lower life total than we are, we get to draw cards because of
| False Cure | ||
| Mister Negative |
#3 Ghostly Pilferer $2.30 (+93%)
Interesting card moving up, and the reason for it seems like people speculating. If I ask Commander players what the best card draw engine is in a Commander pod, most of them would probably say
Last Tuesday Wizards released their Commander Brackets Update where they get into the brackets and what they mean. They also made changes to the cards on the Game Changers list, removing several of them from it, but also discussed cards that they kept on it. One of the cards that will stay on that list is
With the ban-hammer potentially looming above the card, people are speculating on what card could replace it in their decks. And you guessed it, one of the more commonly referenced cards is
Other cards being mentioned as replacement are
| Ghostly Pilferer | ||
| Rhystic Study | ||
| Mystic Remora | ||
| Insight |
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.
Tidal Barracuda $4.63 - Moving up!
Mutavault (CLB) $3.99 - Moving down
Tannuk, Steadfast Second $4.44 - Moving down
| Tidal Barracuda | ||
| Mutavault (CLB) | ||
| Mutavault | ||
| Tannuk, Steadfast Second |
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.