Uncharted Value: Which of Magic's Hidden Treasures will Nathan Drake Unearth?
- Jace
- Oct 27
- 4 min read
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 - stealing your opponents tutors feels filthy and its hard to see Nathan not being joined by this rogue-ish chum. But Opposition Agent is already at a pretty high price point so its hard to see it going up too much more before it gets an extra printing.
9. Don Andres, the Renegade — Rewards you for casting other players’ spells by giving Nathan plenty more treasure to spend and with just the one printing his current price looks like daylight robbery. The real limiter though for his price change is the sheer number of copies available and the need to be firmly in a Grixis piracy strategy for him to be useful - which probably limits his reprintability but also demand for him outside of these Uncharted themes?
8. Prosper, Tome‑Bound — again lets Nathan collect more Treasure whenever you steal your opponents cards. Prosper is a rakdos staple with very few printings (AFC and MB2), so seems a solid bet to grow your own personal treasure.
7. Ian Malcolm, Chaotician : Nathan's deck is going to lean into playing cards off other players decks and Jeff Goldblum is ideal for helping with this and (from a Magic finance perspectic) is almost impossible to reprint, with supply rapidly dwindling.
6. From another Universe Beyond (this time a much grimmer darker one): The Ruinous Powers also supports Nathan in his liberal use of other players cards and is from the ever evaporating Warhammer 40k precons (although this one looks a little more reprintable than some of the other 40k bits).
5.Tinybones Bauble Burglar requires a bit more of a discard leaning but already popular in commander decks (e.g. its EDHrec rank is 354), it has the single recent printing and dwindling supply.
4. Shadow of the Goblin: Famously, the Spidey set has been a flop, but its got a few hidden gems that are currently at bargain bucket prices. Shadow of the Goblin is one of these. It's one of the best selling cards at the moment on TCGPlayer and CardMarket but still priced as though its a bulk rare.
3. Vaan Street Thief: Social media is abuzz with the fact that Final Fantasty cards have 'bottomed' (hit the low part of the price curve slope before the gradual rise). So, it's perhaps the opportune time to pick up Vaan (or Locke, Treasure Hunter for that matter), who also won't be seeing a reprint any time soon (although FF was so popular, its hard to see hasbro not having another go at it). For Nathan, Vaan is the perfect partner in crime getting bigger with every card Nathan lets you cast and with Nathan giving Vaan the manafiltering he needs.
2. The AI loves Rev, Tithe Extractor as an option (one printing, high demand), but already at such a high price, maybe its hard to see it climbing that much more? I'm struggling to put myself on the same page as the AI here. But, from a gameplay perspective, Rev gives you treasures and plenty more cards for Nathan to filter colours for.
1. So, while you're having a blast playing all your opponents best spells, how will you close out the game? Well, Keeper of Secrets is an increasingly widely played difficult to reprint (its from the 40k precons) way to finish the game with all your opponents spell casts. The gradient of its price data looks excellent, and with no extra supply in sight it likely can keep going.
There were so many honorable mentions here (more Tinybones, Xanathar Guild Kingpin, Flint, Admiral Brass......) - it wasn't hard to chart Nathan's course to a deck full of treasure. But: from a financial perspective, the issue is that there are a lot of cards that already do what Nathan does (and sometimes do it better - e.g. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar). So with the exception of the top slot here, there's nothing as interesting as the top 5 from our article for Kratos and Atreus.
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