Weekly Winners 2025 - 48

This week's price winners have achieved perfect balance: They're ALL from the Avatar set. Looks like these cards have mastered the art of wallet-bending!

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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Affordable Doubling Effects in Commander by Jason Cominetto

The Financial Aspects of Amulet Titan by Bill Bingham

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Onto the Weekly Winners!

#1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman $12.54 (+1341%)

This upside-down legendary Human from Avatar: The Last Airbender: Eternal-Legal has experienced an absolutely insane spike over the past week, going from below a dollar to almost $15. Longshot, Rebel Bowman costs four mana for a 3/3 with reach that reduces your noncreature spells by one and deals two damage to each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell. That combination of cost reduction and mass damage is powerful, especially since it cares about all noncreature spells rather than just instants and sorceries.

The spike happened after DeckedOutEDH released a YouTube short praising the card's power level in regular Commander and cEDH. Before that, Longshot had flown under the radar. Players either missed it completely or didn't think it was impressive, which happens. And frankly, I love these break-out cards that people may have missed. Cost reduction and mass-ping effects generally are very popular in Commander, with cards like Goblin Electromancer and Guttersnipe seeing tons of play according to EDHREC, while these just offer one of these effects. Longshot combines both into a single four-mana creature, making it a potential red staple for Spellslinger strategies.

Since this card doesn't appear in Play Boosters, but only in Collector Boosters and Jumpstart Booster Packs, it's more rare than you'd think.

Longshot, Rebel Bowman	CardKingdom $9.99	TCGPlayer $12.54
Goblin Electromancer	CardKingdom $0.39	TCGPlayer $0.30
Guttersnipe	CardKingdom $0.79	TCGPlayer $0.28

#2 Ashling, Flame Dancer $19.99 (+208%)

When I saw Ashling appear on the Interests, I was excited to see a card spike from one of my favorite sets, Lorwyn. But then I looked closer and noticed it was a different Ashling. Ashling, Flame Dancer from Modern Horizons 3 went up, and it's all thanks to Fire Lord Azula from the Avatar set. Ashling costs four mana for a 4/4 that lets you keep unspent red mana as steps and phases end, and has a magecraft trigger when you cast or copy instants or sorceries. The first part of the trigger lets you discard and then draw a card. If you trigger it a second time in a turn, it deals two damage to each opponent and their creatures. Then the third trigger in a turn adds four red mana. While Ashling has never been really popular as a commander, she does sees play in the 99 of decks with copy engines.

$0.62 $0.79

Fire Lord Azula is a perfect home for Ashling. Azula can copy any spell while attacking, making it easy to get value from her and even enabling infinite combos. Ashling becomes an auto-include since you get to rummage, damage opponents, and generate extra mana when playing Azula. But on top of that, Ashling's mana retention ability lets the firebending mana stick around until end of turn, which is huge for maximizing value. Fire Lord Zuko also benefits from Ashling since his firebending ability generates high amounts of mana that may otherwise be lost.

And even without using her other abilities, a 4/4 for four mana isn't that bad.

While we're talking about copying and Azula, let's also highlight Twinning Staff that became a $22 card this week up 134%. This artifact is great for Azula since it can give you an additional copy of your spells. Ths means that every spell you cast during the attack step can be tripled. This makes every instant cantrip, burn spell, or recursion spell in your hand a lot better.

Ashling, Flame Dancer	CardKingdom $7.99	TCGPlayer $19.99
Fire Lord Zuko	CardKingdom $0.79	TCGPlayer $0.62
Fire Lord Azula	CardKingdom $2.99	TCGPlayer $4.11
Twinning Staff	CardKingdom $11.99	TCGPlayer $22.15
Twinning Staff	CardKingdom $10.99	TCGPlayer $19.85

#3 Sea Gate Loremaster $12.08 (+122%)

Seventeen weeks ago, when the first Avatar previews came in, we talked about Sea Gate Loremaster. Back then we mentioned it alongside Jwari Shapeshifter as one of the forgotten Ally creatures that Hellion Eruption was about to bring back into the spotlight. At the time, Loremaster spiked from one dollar to about five. Fast forward to today, and the card has spiked a lot more.

$0.63 $0.69

$10.46 $7.99

The reason is straightforward: Avatar heavily supports Ally typal, and Sea Gate Loremaster is one of the absolute best ways to draw a bunch of cards. It taps to draw a card for each Ally you control, which means even a modest board of four or five Allies turns it into a repeatable ability that draws you quite a lot of cards. Particularly with Katara, the Fearless, Sokka, Tenacious Tactician, and Aang and Katara (Borderless). Each of these commanders turns Loremaster into an absolute card draw engine by flooding the board with Allies.

Katara, the Fearless is a strong commander that wants to find other Allies which she can double the triggered abilities of. Sea Gate Loremaster can help her find them. Sokka, Tenacious Tactician creates a 1/1 white Ally token whenever you cast a noncreature spell, which builds the board state and makes Loremaster draw more, and since Sokka wants to play spells, he needs more cards. And finally, Aang and Katara (Borderless) may be the most explosive option, creating Ally tokens equal to your tapped artifacts and creatures whenever it enters or attacks. A single combat can generate several tokens, and Loremaster immediately converts that into a card draw.

Sea Gate Loremaster	CardKingdom $7.49	TCGPlayer $11.31
Katara, the Fearless	CardKingdom $0.99	TCGPlayer $0.92
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician	CardKingdom $0.69	TCGPlayer $0.63
Aang and Katara (Borderless)	CardKingdom $7.99	TCGPlayer $10.46

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.

Scavenger Grounds (0082) (Borderless) $3.46 - Moving up!

Scavenger Grounds (0082) (Borderless) has been identified by the MTGStocks Premium Penny Stocks feature as a card that has reached its bottom and is starting a consistent uptrend.

Dracogenesis $6.75 - Moving down

Pollywog Prodigy $6.15 - Moving down

Scavenger Grounds (0082) (Borderless)	CardKingdom $4.49	TCGPlayer $3.48
Dracogenesis	CardKingdom $8.49	TCGPlayer $6.73
Pollywog Prodigy	CardKingdom $8.49	TCGPlayer $6.06