The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - September 15

The reason, arsenic is often the lawsuit successful caller weeks, is the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Avatar crossover set. This paper protects your lands, which is lovely, and contempt a deficiency of onshore removal successful caller years (I did negociate to propulsion disconnected a precise enjoyable Planetary Annihilation successful a caller Commander session), it pairs nicely with the upcoming Toph, the First Metalbender, since it makes everything into lands.

It’s going for $20, but the marketplace worth is astir $5. Considering it was conscionable $1.50 not agelong ago, it could ascent higher for formats wherever it’s inactive legal.

It’s not adjacent present yet, but Magic’s hunt for the Infinity Stones has good and genuinely kicked disconnected with The Soul Stone.

The paper taps for mana, which is neat, but by exiling a creature, you tin ‘Harness’ the chromatic to propulsion a carnal from your graveyard to your broadside of the tract each turn. It’s up to $130 marketplace worth and isn’t adjacent present yet.

Tarkir Dragonstorm’s Elspeth, Storm Slayer is connected the emergence again. This Planeswalker tin make tokens (and treble them), adhd counters and flying, and connection targeted removal of large threats.

She’s present implicit $30, having dipped to $24 successful precocious June, and she’s not the lone White spell from the acceptable to spot a climb.

Voice of Victory is up to a marketplace worth of $13.70, a 64% summation successful a fewer weeks.

Crashing

Vivi Ornitier has been dropping for immoderate time, but he’s apt to tumble now. Why? Well, it seems Wizards of the Coast volition travel done with the community’s petition to prohibition the diminutive spellcaster from Standard.

He’ll apt beryllium gone successful November 10’s adjacent banwave, truthful person your amusive portion you can, Standard spellslingers.

Sticking with Final Fantasy, Summon: Bahamut is connected the mode down, too. This almighty Saga Dragon is simply a 9/9 with removal, paper draw, and a large ol’ imaginable game-ending onslaught each wrapped into one.

It’s present conscionable implicit $20, and I tin spot it being amusive to popular into a dragon-themed deck.

I emotion Craterhoof Behemoth, and the large ol’ beast has seen different drop. It’s present sitting astatine a marketplace worth of astir $11.50, a dollar oregon truthful beneath wherever it was conscionable a mates of weeks ago. As a imaginable match-ender, it has plentifulness of inferior successful immoderate platform with green.

Finally, 2 Edge of Eternities cards are plummeting, contempt inactive being precise useful. The first, Exalted Sunborn, is down to $18, having been $27 erstwhile the acceptable launched. It offers a flying 4/5 with Lifelink that tin treble your tokens.

Moonlit Meditation is present conscionable a dollar oregon so, and besides doubles tokens erstwhile per turn, but turns them into copies of a chosen artifact oregon creature. It’s the benignant of amusive paper that could pb to utter chaos, and it’s ace cheap.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.

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Sep 15, 2025 5:00 pm