Weekly Winners 2023 - 25
This may surprise you, but it's actually quite a slow week. The Lord of the Rings sets have been released and now the Interests are cluttered with these cards finding their value, but until then you'll see it fluctuate a bunch.
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.
Articles
The past few months we've been focusing on putting out more quality content, and I'd love to share the next few articles with you, since they're worth a read:
- Harvey talks about the currently overvalued and undervalued cards in his article Over and Underhill - Tales of Middle-earth.
- In Dodgy Little Hobbitses: The Two Towers Jason discusses the cards you should pick up for upgrading the new
Commander: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth decks. - In New Horizons - Lord of the Rings, Matt talks about, you guessed it, Lord of the Rings!
- And in History, Restapled - Walkers This Way Steve gives us a bit of counter-programming, looking at planeswalkers from
Phyrexia: All Will Be One .
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Onto the Weekly Winners!
#1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow $5.05 (+121%)
We actually mentioned this card two weeks ago. Back then it was because of
What I find interesting is that even two weeks ago, when we observed the
| Ishkanah, Grafwidow | ||
| Shelob, Child of Ungoliant | ||
| Shelob, Dread Weaver |
#2 The One Ring $58.94 (+84%)
This week a lot of cards from the
Because of this we see the Interests being flooded with these cards, because cards either go up quickly or drop very fast, and it takes a little bit of time for them to find their ultimate price. For this reason I opted to skip as many cards from these sets in this week's Weekly Winners. However, I do feel that
People have been talking about the card, and saying that the card draw obviously is nice but it will slowly kill you. However, you should not skip over the part where it says you have protection from everything until your next turn. When timed properly this can save you a bunch of damage, mitigating the life you will lose from The Ring. Also, since the artifact is Legendary, you can reset it by playing another copy (unless you play Commander). The card has proven so powerful that people are actually testing it in Modern, Legacy, and Vintage. For example we're seeing it show up in Modern Mono-G Tron decks.
| The One Ring | ||
| The One Ring (Extended Art) | ||
| The One Ring (Borderless) |
#3 Academy Manufactor $6.69 (+96%)
Here is a card that has spiked not too long ago, around the release of
In the new
| Academy Manufactor | ||
| Academy Manufactor |
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.
Lyra Dawnbringer $3.97 - Moving up!
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury $5.49 - Slowly moving down
Hexdrinker $5.15 - Slowly moving down
| Lyra Dawnbringer | ||
| Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury | ||
| Hexdrinker |
That's it for this week. Make sure to check back next week for more Weekly Winners!
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.