Weekly Winners 2020 - 47

Another week where Commander Legends seems to be the driving factor behind price increases, showing once again that EDH is a strong driver for the market.

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

 

#1 Jeska's Will $3.99 (+181%)

 

Commander Legends has been released and we have seen some boosterbox cracks on YouTube and this also means the cards can actually been traded and sold. This week we saw Jeska's Will go up with 181% which makes it $3.99. The most notable about this card is that it is an upgrade to Act on Impulse which sees play in Legacy Ruby Storm and used to see play Legacy Doomsday decks. These decks will certainly want to upgrade their copies.

The ritual mode will probably be too inconsistent to be good, but we should not ignore that it becomes a ramping possibility. It could be an extra path to a victory, and especially in eternal formats like Legacy, that could really be a game changer for these decks. We may very well see slightly more Ruby Storm or even Through the Breach decks in Legacy.

But I can also see Jeska's Will be an include in a lot of commander decks that play red. Card that give you the possibility to either ramp or give card advantage is nothing to sneeze at. Both of them are really important in commander games.

 

Through the Breach	CardKingdom $3.49	TCGPlayer $4.00
Doomsday	CardKingdom $15.99	TCGPlayer $11.55
Jeska's Will	CardKingdom $4.99	TCGPlayer $3.99

 

#2 Eladamri's Vineyard $5.99 (+64%)

 

Lets discuss this card together with Overabundance ($8.00, +45%), since they both seem to go up because of Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. As the boomers among us will remember, we used to have something in Magic called mana burn. It is now an obsolete concept and existed until the Comprehensive Rules update to Magic 2010. Mana burn meant that if you had any mana in your mana pool at the end of a phase that player will lose 1 life for each mana lost this way. Does this sound familiar?

I still remember one of the regular casual players I used to play with had Spectral Searchlight in his deck. It would either ramp him, or he would give you a mana in your end step so you would lose 1 life. Fun times! Yurlok of Scorch Thrash basically returns mana burn to the table when it is on the battlefield. When we look at Eladamri's Vineyard and Overabundance we see it benefits everyone but can also lead to quite some damage. Especially when paired with cards that force players to tap their lands for mana like Citadel of Pain.

 

 

Citadel of Pain	CardKingdom $3.49	TCGPlayer $3.91
Overabundance	CardKingdom $3.99	TCGPlayer $8.00
Eladamri's Vineyard	CardKingdom $5.49	TCGPlayer $5.99
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash	CardKingdom $2.99	TCGPlayer $1.40

 

#3 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds $53.07 (+8.31%)

 

We discussed Oboro, Palace in the Clouds a few weeks back in the Weekly Winners as well. That time we attributed its spike to Hedron Crab and Tatyova, Benthic Druid. But now in Commander Legends we have another commander that works nicely with Oboro: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait.

Land strategies are always popular in commander and Oboro together with Aesi makes sure you can always make a land drop and thus also always draw an extra card.

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.

 

Grim Tutor $12.98 - Record low, bottoming out

 

Azusa, Lost but Seeking $7.50 - Record low, bottoming out

 

Luminous Broodmoth $8.74 - Record low, bottoming out

 

Vendilion Clique $10.03 - Record low, bottoming out

 

Azusa, Lost but Seeking	CardKingdom $8.49	TCGPlayer $7.50
Luminous Broodmoth	CardKingdom $11.99	TCGPlayer $8.74
Vendilion Clique	CardKingdom $9.99	TCGPlayer $10.03