Weekly Winners 2026 - 06

The Pro Tour has been affecting prices. People are trying to put their favorite deck from the top 8 together!

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 Sunderflock $8.00 (+751%)

When Lorwyn Eclipsed previews first dropped, plenty of players glossed right over Sunderflock. While a potential two-mana 5/5 flyer that bounces all non-Elementals looks powerful on paper, it does require an Elemental typal deck to function. Typal strategies are very popular in Commander, but not necessarily in Standard. But in the Pro Tour of last week we saw an Izzet Elementel deck in the top 8 playing four copies of Sunderflock.

Cards like Flamebraider and Ashling, Rekindled provide ramp, letting you deploy massive Elementals like Vibrance or Wistfulness as early as turn three. Follow that up with Deceit on turn four, and suddenly Sunderflock costs just three mana. A three-mana 5/5 flyer that bounces your opponent's entire board is the kind of tempo that ends games on the spot.

The market has noticed. Where copies were sitting around fifty cents just over a week ago, they've now shot up as players want to get their copies. Over 700 near-mint copies moved in just a few days. The Showcase variant is following a similar trajectory, climbing from around $2.50. Beyond Standard, Commander players building Elemental strategies, and specially those upgrading the Dance of the Elements precon, are adding to the demand. Whether this price holds long-term depends entirely on how Izzet Elementals performs going forward.

Sunderflock	CardKingdom $7.99	TCGPlayer $8.00
Sunderflock (Showcase)	CardKingdom $9.99	TCGPlayer $9.23

#2 Nurgle's Rot $9.88 (+397%)

Nurgle's Rot from the Warhammer 40,000 Ruinous Powers precon shot up this week as players eye synergies with Killian, Decisive Mentor from the upcoming Secrets of Strixhaven set. This one-mana black enchantment lets you curse an opponent's creature, and when that creature dies, you get the Aura back in hand plus a 1/3 Demon token as a bonus.

The card has always been a bit niche. Auras that enchant opposing creatures require specific deck construction to really shine, and Nurgle's Rot typically shows up in enchantment-matters strategies like Eriette of the Charmed Apple. What makes Killian interesting is how the combo works. You can tap and goad whatever you enchant, guaranteeing Killian's attack trigger fires. That turns Nurgle's Rot into a repeatable black cantrip that generates tokens on the side. Since the enchantment bounces back to your hand when the creature dies, you're getting value over and over.

The spike is happening now, months before the set even releases, because supply has always been low. With only the Warhammer precon printing available and around 14,000 decks running it on EDHREC, there weren't many copies around to begin with. The Surge Foil variant is particularly scarce and expensive. The big question mark is whether Nurgle's Rot gets reprinted in the Silverquill Influence precon itself. If it does, prices will drop hard. However, since it's a card from Warhammer with a reference to a Warhammer character, it's generally harder to reprint.

Nurgle's Rot	CardKingdom $4.99	TCGPlayer $9.88
Nurgle's Rot (Surge Foil)	CardKingdom	TCGPlayer $25.00

#3 Harvester of Misery $18.95 (+350%)

Standard seems to be in a good place, and Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed showcased just how diverse the format is. Multiple archetypes showed up to compete, but it was Dimir Excruciator piloted by Christoffer Larsen that took down the event. The deck's success has sent players scrambling for the cards, and Harvester of Misery from Outlaws of Thunder Junction: The Big Score is one of them.

A 5/4 with menace that gives creatures -2/-2 when it enters, or a cycled removal spell for two mana, does not seem like much. In Commander it works against go-wide strategies, but may be too narrow for most decks. The current Standard metagame changed all that. With Badgermole Cub, Llanowar Elves, and various Elemental mana dorks running around, plus key cards like Gran-Gran sitting at two toughness or less, Harvester of Misery became a good metagame call. Dimir Excruciator was built to exploit this, pairing the Spirit with the Doomsday Excruciator and Superior Spider-Man combo, then backing it up with new tools like Deceit. Spider-Man also shows up in this week's interests.

Where copies were selling for around three dollars before Lorwyn Eclipsed, they've now shot up. Part of what's driving the price is scarcity. The Big Score cards only appear in 15% of Play Boosters. That limited print run means there simply aren't many copies available. If the format shifts or the upcoming February 9th ban announcement changes things, this Spirit could easily fall back to being just another Commander card.

Harvester of Misery	CardKingdom $17.99	TCGPlayer $18.95
Harvester of Misery (Extended Art)	CardKingdom $17.99	TCGPlayer $31.89
Harvester of Misery (Showcase)	CardKingdom	TCGPlayer $39.50
Superior Spider-Man	CardKingdom $3.99	TCGPlayer $5.29
Superior Spider-Man (Extended Art)	CardKingdom $5.49	TCGPlayer $16.49

#4 Pre-B&R Hype

On Monday, February 9th Wizards will do their scheduled B&R Announcement in which cards get the ban-hammer or get unbanned. And this this can mean only one thing: Pre-Ban Hype!

Primeval Titan is showing up on the Interests. Banned because it tutors any two lands repeatedly, creating inevitable mana advantages and enabling two-card combos. However, power creep in Commander means faster, more efficient threats exist now. An unban could be justified as the format has evolved beyond Titan's impact level, though it would still be a staple in green ramp decks. People are speculating it may come off the Banned list and be turned into a Game Changer.

We see a very similar reaction in Prophet of Kruphix that is currently banned in Commander for untapping all your permanents on every opponent's turn, effectively multiplying your available mana and creatures by the number of opponents.

Primeval Titan	CardKingdom $5.99	TCGPlayer $17.01
Astral Tiran - Primeval Titan (Showcase)	CardKingdom $5.99	TCGPlayer $13.41
Primeval Titan	CardKingdom $6.49	TCGPlayer $11.01
Prophet of Kruphix	CardKingdom $0.99	TCGPlayer $4.02

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.

Evolution Sage $2.25 - Moving up!

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

Abundant Countryside (Extended Art) $5.41 - Moving down

Sothera, the Supervoid $3.52 - Stabilizing

Evolution Sage	CardKingdom $2.99	TCGPlayer $2.21
Abundant Countryside (Extended Art)	CardKingdom $11.99	TCGPlayer $5.69
Sothera, the Supervoid	CardKingdom $4.49	TCGPlayer $3.51