Weekly Winners 2022 - 14

08 Apr
by Arjen

A somewhat concise Weekly Winners this week because of my holiday. Spoiler season has now officially started for Streets Of New Capenna and we expect to see some prices fluctuate because of that. This week it still seems pretty quiet on that front, but this is likely to change. We will see spikes because of Commander and Pioneer.

Like every week, just in time for FNM, I'll now tell you about the cards that will be the talk of the town tonight!

Come discuss this week's price movements with us on Reddit.

 

#1 Timely Ward $4.45 (+127%)

Timely Ward

 

Seeing the text on the card it will not come as a surprise that the reason for the spike is commander driven. We see the card show up a bunch in new decks around Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice and Norika Yamazaki, the Poet. But you can imagine it works well in a lot of decks that can use white. Giving a creature indestructible is pretty valuable, but especially if you can do it at instant speed, it can really be a blow out.

The card itself can be found in the Commander Legends: Arm for Battle deck.

 

#2 Hengegate Pathway $15.70 (+86%)

Hengegate Pathway

 

It is not that often that we see a land, and especially that is not a fetchland or shockland, enter the Interests. But this week we see Hengegate Pathway moving up quickly. It belongs in Standard manabases from Azorius Control and Jeskai decks, but Pioneer is becoming popular quickly! We see this card there in popular decks like Bant, Azorius Spirits, Azoruis Control and Greasefang, Okiba Boss decks.

It obviously also sees play in Commander in a deck that can support both colors.

Esper Greasefang by KarnageKardsENT

 

#3 Arclight Phoenix $15.00 (+67%)

Arclight Phoenix

 

Again another card going up because of Pioneer. The Izzet Phoenix deck is doing well in the format at the moment. Pioneer is not the first format where this card is showing up. We have seen it show up in Modern in the past, where it doesn't seem to be positioned well at the moment, but it does occasionally show up in Legacy.

This Phoenix is a creature that you will not see being hardcasted often. The idea of the deck is to get it into your graveyard with cards like Faithless Looting (Historic), Consider (Pioneer), or Buried Alive (Legacy). Then the chaining of spells begins! You will try to cast three instant or sorcery spells and get that flying 3/2 out of the graveyard for some hasty attacks.

Buried Phoenix by Bobovic

Creature(10)
1
$0.20
Artifact(3)
3
$14.50
Sorcery(13)
4
$5.78
4
$1.50
2
$0.75
2
$8.50
Instant(19)
4
$0.91
4
$0.99
4
$0.99
3
$46.98
Land(15)
1
$335.87
1
$0.02
4
$17.80
2
$699.95
3
$575.00
Sideboard(15)
1
$22.00
1
$7.48
2
$3.23

 

Cheap Pickups

Please note: for our 'record low' we consider the price of the card over the past 7 years. Many cards have been even cheaper (a) decade(s) ago. Also note: some cards are still going down, and might be even cheaper pickups next week.

 

Reanimate $9.47 - Stable
Reanimate

 

Kaya, Ghost Assassin $4.99 - Slowly trending down
Kaya, Ghost Assassin

 

Lithoform Engine $9.50 - Stable
Lithoform Engine

 

Reanimate
Lithoform Engine
Kaya, Ghost Assassin
Arjen
Arjen

Arjen has been playing Magic since Ice Age and has mostly played the Legacy format. Ten years ago he founded MTGStocks because he and his friends wanted to buy Magic singles at the right time to play with.


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