A few hours ago we got the full lists of the Secrets of Strixhaven precons. So here's our analysis of which cards (reprints) are most likely to drop in price the most and which cards from outside the precon are likely to go up in price because of new demand from the Lorehold Spirit precon.  First, lets take a look at Quintorius, History Chaser : So, I think the deck will aim to fill the graveyard through all the efficient red draw-discard engines in the deck as well as bits

A few hours ago we got the full lists of the Secrets of Strixhaven precons. So here's our analysis of which cards (reprints) are most likely to drop in price the most and which cards from outside the precon are likely to go up in price because of new demand from the Silverquill Influence precon.  First, lets take a look at Killian Decisive Mentor . Killian's a really interesting commander that offers a lot of political options. I did the analysis for this early because some

Back in early January we took a swing at predicting which cards would climb alongside the release of the new Lorwyn precons. With Curse Blight and Dance of the Elements shaking up demand and counter synergies, there were plenty of angles to attack. Now that a little time has passed, let’s look at what actually happened between us posting our predictions and today. Pleasingly across both articles, no card went down in price . Every call either held steady or moved up, and most

The TMNT precon just dropped so here are our predictions for cards to clear out of before the precons drop in 2 weeks, and cards that you might want to pick-up now because their demand might well rise with the precon releases. The deck is weird from a flavour perspective: merging the heroes and the villains together, so Shredder attacks with Donatello ? But they weirdly didn't give them villain types? But there are lots of rats with the turtles? Seems strange... So what are

The Secrets of Strixhaven precon commanders have dropped and so we've applied our data science algorithms to try to identify which existing cards have a high likelhood of going up in value. As always, the algorithms don't know what will be reprinted, so this comes with oodles of caveats that a reprinted card is unlikely to spike in price. We also hit 100% success (and a 3-10x on every card prediction from the point of prediction to the release of this article) for Blight Curs

Straight from the sterile halls of Vault 33 and into the chaos of the Command Zone, Lucy MacLean brings a "fish out of water" energy to the table that belies her endless potential for EDH politics and shenanigans. Do we think she's going to cause thousands of players to part with their hard earned bottle caps and price spike many cards? Probably not because her secret lair drops within days of Lorwyn releasing and she's kind of niche, but nonetheless, Garruk and I were super

"Got My Boots!" - is not something poor old Ashling will be saying just before she strolls down that Path into Exile. The Lorwyn Eclipsed Precons come out next week. There are a bunch of broadly used commander staples that are normally in the Commander precons and a few of those are missing from Lorwyn, so lets take a look at what isn't in the precons and so might see a slight uptick in value over the next few months (or you might want to grab some of the slightly older preco

The Lorwyn precon lists just dropped so there are some reprints coming that you might want to clear out your copies of (a reprinting almost always drops the price of the existing copies). There are also some cards that fit excellently with the other precon cards that our data science algorithms suggest could be up for a price rise if Dance of the Elements turns out to be popular (and who doesn't love 5-colour elementals?) Check its price on TCGPlayer Here are our list of card

The Lorwyn precon lists just dropped so there are some reprints coming that you might want to clear out your own copies ahead of (a reprinting almost always drops the price of the existing copies). There are also some cards that fit excellently with the other precon cards that our data science algorithms suggest could be good speculation targets. We’ll take a look at the cards impacted by the Blight Curse release. Check its price on TCGPlayer Here are our list of cards to cle

Recent Edit: This was written (with appropriate caveats) long before the precon release and is massively outdated. I suggest totally ignoring it and instead checking out our updated article on the Blight Curse precon impact. You can probably safely ignore the rest of this one. Lorwyn's only a month away and the spoiler season is kicking off! A few days ago we got to see High Perfect Morcant, who offers Golgari elves a -1/-1 AND proliferate engine. Check its price on TCGPlayer

The Magic's Marvel set Spoilers have just begun with everyone from Galactus to Namor and the Fantastic Four included! Reddit in particular has gone a bit wild for a certain cheeky Hulk combo: Check its price on TCGPlayer Check its price on TCGPlayer And the flip side of Hulk is also be puny Banner: Check its price on TCGPlayer But no-one cares about puny Banner... Caltrops has done a mega price spike  since the Hulk release, so we thought we might have a look at what

The release of the Magic: The Gathering Avatar  set has introduced several compelling new Commanders, but one is clearly dominating the conversation: Toph, the First Metalbender. Quickly rose to become one of the most popular commanders. We've utilized a data-science approach to analyze her impact on the secondary market and identify the best remaining opportunities. First off, what does Toph do?  Check its price on TCGPlayer At first look this seems kind of innocuous: "ok, y

With the release of the Magic Avatar set there have been a bunch of new commanders that have hit the scene. Amongst them, Fire Lord Azula has been discussed across the content as a top new commander and is one of the most popular cards of the week. So let’s take a quick data-science-informed look at how its impacting the secondary market prices and what opportunity there is left: First off, what does it do?  Check its price on TCGPlayer It copies any spell you play in combat

We’ve taken a bespoke combo of AI and data science techniques to see what the new Avatar cards might do to bend Magic the Gathering card prices: So lets start with which cards are likely to float up in price because of Airbending? Since Commander dominates the card prices, we'll focus on that. Probably the cards who best represent Airbending for commander are Aang Airbending Master and his glorious pet/companion Appa, Steadfast Guardian Check its price on TCGPlayer Che

Our aim is to find those cards that we think will go up in value over the following months. To do that, we’ve been looking at cards we expect to feature in decks built around some popular new releases. We started a couple of months ago with Spider-Man. Now it’s time to mark our own homework. How did we get on? We looked at five potential commanders (see the original posts over on Bluesky ) . For each of them, we give a quick review of how things look now for the top four pre

Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter is coming to Commander, fresh from the new Uncharted PlayStation Secret Lair Superdrop! We’ve applied our data science algorithms to identify the top cards that will go up in price if lots of people want to play Nathan Drake as their commander. So, first up, what's the Indiana Jones of Playstation games do? He lets you pilfer all your oponents top cards and gives you the mana you need to cast them - perfectly piracy themed. 10. Opposition Agent -

Kratos, God of War is coming to Commander, fresh from the new PlayStation Secret Lair Superdrop! We’ve applied our data science algorithms (particularly an AI one we built) to identify a few cards Kratos might cause price rises in. So, first up: what does Kratos, God of War, do? He gives EVERYONE’S creatures haste (including your opponents)! Then he punishes people for not attacking with their hastey creatures by doing tons of damage to them. It feels a bit like you can eithe

Kratos and Atreus are partnering up for Commander, fresh from the new Secret Lairs! We’ve applied our data science algorithms to identify the top 10 cards that will go up in price if Kratos and Atreus decks become popular. So, what do Kratos and Atreus do? They build your experience through God attacks or deaths, then draw you oodles of cards and distribute +1/+1s for each attack. So, here's our top 10 list of value changers: 10. Casting lots of legendary Gods? Surtr, Fiery