Summary
Magic: The Gatheringannounced a wave of unbans for its popular Commander format yesterday, and the secondary market is already reacting strongly to the cards allowed back into your decks.
Some cards have exploded in price, being worth over 20 times more now than they were merely a few days before the unbanning. If you’ve been sat on a pile of Gifts Ungiven, you could have a little gold mine on your hands.
Yesterday saw Gifts Ungiven, Sway of the Stars, Coalition Victory, Panoptic Mirror, and Braids, Cabal Minionunbanned in Commander, with the latter being barred from the format since 2009. Within hours of the reveals, prices for each card on TCGPlayer’s marketplace started climbing up.
Gifts Ungiven Is The Gift That Keeps Giving
At the time of writing,Gifts Ungivenis by far the biggest winner, with an average increase across all of its versions of 1702 percent. In particular, the Double Masters 2022 printing saw the biggest spike, going from 67 cents earlier this week to a current high of $10.07, with a 2621 percent increase.
Gifts Ungiven has largely been considered the strongest card in the unbans, with it enabling combo decks with startling reliability.
Braids, Cabal Minionhas also enjoyed a similarly huge bump, with an average increase of 1692.56 percent. The raw dollar value isn’t as high, though, with the most expensive coming in at just under eight dollars. Still, for a card that was under a dollar in its Modern Horizons 2 printing.
Coalition Victory,Sway of the Stars, andPanoptic Mirrorhave each had slightly smaller bumps of 463, 495, and 359 percent respectively. However, Panoptik Mirror has seen a big boost inEuropean marketsof up to 925 percent, selling for just under £15 for a near mint copy.
Will It Last?
Of course, the big question is whether these spikes will hold as people actually play with the cards and as people start unloading their bulk boxes for them. It could be that, as more games are played with them, we find these cards just aren’t as good as their formally banned status suggests, and the price drops back down as a result. Alternatively, they could follow a similar pattern to other formatGame Changersand hold a respectable secondary price.
Regardless, if you were hoping to add any of these to your decks, you may have missed the train for the moment.
