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Lorwyn Eclipsed Dance of the Elements: 10 Cards to Buy and 8.5 to Sell Ahead of the Precon Release
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
19 hours ago7 min read


Lorwyn Blight Curse: 5 Cards to Buy and 10 to Sell Ahead of the Precon Release
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
3 days ago3 min read


Morcant's Blight Top 10: AI Predictions for -1/-1 Staples to Spike with Lorwyn
Recent Edit: This was written (with appropriate caveats) long before the precon release and is massively outdated.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
Dec 14, 20255 min read


Hulk SMASH! What else goes into the Hulk deck with Caltrops?
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
Dec 10, 20254 min read


Unearthing Value: Analyzing the Cards Toph Turns into Price Spikes
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
Dec 3, 20253 min read


The Fire Nation Rises: 9 Cards Exploding in Price Due to Fire Lord Azula
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
Dec 3, 20254 min read


Bending the Magic Secondary Market with Avatar: The Top 15 Cards that Airbending will Inflate in Price
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
Nov 13, 20256 min read


Spider-Man Price Predictions: How Did We Do?
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
Nov 11, 20253 min read


Uncharted Value: Which of Magic's Hidden Treasures will Nathan Drake Unearth?
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 -
Oct 27, 20254 min read


God of War, God of Value: Which card prices could Kratos goad into rising?
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
Oct 27, 20253 min read


Godlike Gains? The Kratos & Atreus Effect on Magic Card Prices
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
Oct 17, 20253 min read
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