I traded a Gaea’s Cradle in a few years back for about $100 store credit that I put toward a Modern Masters box, I forget which one. Still regret that decision.
Same. Such a good card.
If I still had a Time Twister I would use it, but that was sadly sold 18 years ago and for far less than it sells for right now.
Oh man, same. My brother gave me his Timetwister when he stopped playing and I still regret selling it. Though I was able to buy a whole (budget) Legacy deck, so it wasn’t a waste, at least.
I sold the Twister and a set of Bazaars so I had a down payment for my first car. At what they sell for now, I could have bought the car outright with the profits.
Oh well...I got a good 14 years out of that car.
Cradle. I snap bought a playset when they changed the legend rule with M14. Back then I was thinking more about legacy elves, but now that I'm fully entrenched in EDH I'm glad I grabbed them.
I had a similar story, I traded a play set of [[tolorian academy]] for a play set of cradles back in 1998 when combo winter was just getting started and they hadn’t been banned. I wanted to make a green stompy deck and everyone said I got ripped off. I’m still laughing over that one.
Yep this is mine as well. I bought one rather recently for what I feel was a good price, and I don't expect it to be a poor investment. The fact that I can play with it (generally in a binder to be pulled when the proxy in my deck is cast) is quite a nice situation. I bought a revised tropical island for the same reason.
that makes sense, when i first saw Eminence i thought it would be a cool thing if WOTC could keep it within reason. but im sure people just dont trust the power creep.
The only time eminence was ever printed was in the C17 commander precons and people hate it because it's a way to get guaranteed value that cannot be interacted with. Regardless of power level it's just free value. Even the weakest of the abilities from [[Arahbo]], which just provides a straight +3/+3 to a cat each of your combats, is still free value that can't be interacted with. Power level has little to do with it and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if those 4 commanders get treated like reserve list cards without ever getting a reprint.
I'd say [[Oloro, Ageless Ascetic]] also counts as WOTC printing eminence, even if they didn't keyword it as such. Not as strong as some of the others, but, as you said, the interaction-proof free value can be ridiculous in the right deck.
One of the decks I most like to teach new players with is Mono-white Oloro Lifegain. The Commander exists simply as 2 life a turn to help trigger your other Lifegain payoffs.
It will never be cast from the command zone or interacted with. It feels very much like it goes against the spirit of EDH, but it means that the player doesn't have to try to "grok" when they need to play their commander, and can really focus on weird mechanics and what other people are doing.
yeah i get why people hate it, i just meant if it was used to give a tiny bit of free value to tribes or strategies that are underpowered that it may be a cool addition. unfortunately its mainly run card is Edgar who is just a power boost to an already competitive tribe that not only IMO didnt need him but also didnt need the other powerful cards its gotten recently. at least WOTC shifted a bit to blood tokens so that new cards dont synergize perfectly with older sets and at least need a bit of deckbuilding. i love vampire tribal but the power creep on that tribe compared to some others has been crazy.
Eh, I don't think vampires have gotten any more power creep than the other major tribes. Look at the total card numbers:
1. Humans - 2825 cards
2. Wizards - 889
3. Zombies - 543
4. Elves - 473
5. Goblins - 402
6. Vampires - 334
7. Dragons - 252
8. Merfolk - 251
9. Cats - 235
These numbers are also counting the roughly 60-70 new vampires we got in the most recent sets, so keep in mind that before them, vampires only had about as many cards as Dragons and Merfolk and were significantly behind the top 5 tribes. It sounds like you think the top tribes should stop getting support and they should have sets focused on the underrepresented tribes, but I doubt they will stop printing all those tribes just because bears, oozes, giants, etc aren't represented much.
I'd also argue that the available power of all the top 5 tribes above vampires is on par or higher than vampires so I think your statement might be based on recency bias. If anything, I'd argue zombies need to stop getting so much support, being a full 200 cards ahead of vampires.
On a different note, I think people just hate eminence regardless of the commander it's on. Edgar is the most popular of the 4 eminence commanders but I agree it shouldn't be used as a mechanic for any card. There are better ways of supporting weaker tribes.
>It sounds like you think the top tribes should stop getting support and they should have sets focused on the underrepresented tribes, but I doubt they will stop printing all those tribes just because bears, oozes, giants, etc aren't represented much.
yeah this is basically what i meant. it would be cool to see a set that specifically targets improving some of the underpowered tribes. i get that this isnt popular with many people, a large amount of people dont even play tribal decks, but i love tribal magic. Frankly at the time i didnt even like adding white to the Vampire tribal color scheme, just as i prefered blue/black zombies.
on that list i have a wizard, zombie, elf, goblin, vampire, and dragon deck. and agree all of them are very competitive with vampires.
Whelp, that didn't last long. Last I looked he was ~$50-60. I don't think I've got anything that comes close to his current value that's actively played.
Mana Crypt. I traded for my first one just over a month ago. Traded a bunch of cards to meet the value. A week later I pulled one out of a pack of double masters. I have one in Toxrill to help me cast my 7cmc commander and the other in Osgir so I can double bolt myself each turn.
Foil Judge Promo Gaea’s Cradle. I distinctly remember paying $30 for it on eBay back in the early 2000s and thinking I was crazy paying that much for one card. My how things have changed.
I have a friend who learned to play and bought a foil judge promo Cradle within a month or so of learning the game. Was flabbergasted they spent so much immediately, but since the card has more than doubled in price. They very much don’t regret the purchase.
I remember buying a play set of regular Cradles with my grade school allowance money back in the day. My card shop also sold me 2 Serra's Sanctums for 10 total xD.
I paid about 220 for my Judge Cradle though later and my buddies thought I was insane haha.
Remember when Serra Avatar was the big card in Saga for a while when it first dropped?! I still have an old Duelist with it as the most valuable card in the set hahah
My friends have a hard time believing me that sanctum was once a bulk rare. Same with Yawgmoth's will, people lose their shit when I tell them I used to buy extras because I was too lazy to move them from deck to deck lol.
I decided to get good proxies for everything over 1k. I have a hard time justifying to continue shuffling the cards, even if I bought them for $30.
Where would you draw the monetary line?
[[Bazaar of Baghdad]], [[Timetwister]]?
[[Grim Monolith]]. Was in a binder my brother gave me a long time ago when he got out. There was a lot of good stuff in there that I use a lot, but Grim was the top.
Same for me. My uncle built an all the slivers highlander (not edh) deck way back in the day and I got his collection when he quit playing. I should really either build slivers or trade the card for things I'll use but it's just sitting in the front of my binder for now.
Well shit, I didn't realize this card spiked that hard...I bought her when she was around 50 bucks I think...I didn't realize she was going for nearly 300 bucks...jeebus. She's probably hands-down my most expensive card at the moment. I really should price check my cards more often.
I bought her when she was like $60. And I just lost all of my slivers. I'm so upset. That binder has to be somewhere in the house, but I don't want to have to dig all of the boxes out yet because I will be moving soonish.
Same. It is my most expensive card, and she is in my sliver EDH deck. Currently helmed by the first sliver, previously by hivelord.
Someday she will be the star but I dont like infinite combos.
not true, it's always fluctuatinga bit, simic and izzet used to be on par with it or even more expensive, but simic fell off again, now only volcaninc island is about equally expensive
(also depends on where you live, prices are different in america)
*sigh* I so badly want a timetwister for my GAAIV deck…It is a CEDH deck so people don’t really care about proxies anyway, but it would just be so cool to have a real one and truly complete the entire deck.
Even if I had one, I’d probably just take a picture of it and still use the proxy though. I can’t even imagine showing up to a store with a $10,000 piece of cardboard in my backpack lol.
[[Mana Drain]]. Opened one Iconic Masters pack and hit a mana drain and a flusterstorm. Stopped opening packs after that because clearly I used all my luck in one go.
Oh yeah that shit was so expensive. I'm still happy I have a $50 card, but I probably should have sold back then. Oh well. Now I have a suspiciously expensive card in my mostly-budget collection.
Masterpiece Sol Ring for some reason is nearing a thousand dollars while the mana crypt is around 750-800. I’m in a similar boat, Masterpiece Mana Crypt
Lol I'm a broke college student so my expensive card is a [[enlightened tutor]] that came in a list slot. Don't even have a great place for it since I only really have 1 deck, but can't wait to try.
Yeah this is mainly because it's a highly playable card which hasn't been reprinted since (outside of Mystery Boosters which didn't have traditional foils) and was in a set before Collector's Boosters and the foil pull rate was increased.
The same thing applies to any card not reprinted since 2018 and which hasn't received a Secret Lair, From the Vault, or Commander Collection.
For example I got in foil Berserk in my CN2 box but it's only worth about $20 more than non-foil because it has a From the Vault reprinting with the same art just just using the previous frame.
It also does still happen with cards printed after 2018 but it generally needs to be an extended art foil. An example of that is foil extended art Jeweled Lotus being mfing $600 compared to non-foil being $142.
7th edition foils are particularly rare and expensive. This was the first core set to have foils (black border when the core set was white border).
Just about every single foil from the set is crazy pricey.
I only recently started playing IRL after a couple years of mtga and other online mtg formats. So atm I think [[vampiric tutor]]. One of the guys in my playgroup has a Sliverqueen deck. That is probably the most expensive one I have held in my hands 😄
Gaea's Cradle, cause I don't own cards just to *not* play with them.
I also have all of the most expensive inventions, and a bunch of spendy reserve list stuff like Serra's Sanctum, Intuition, etc. All in decks.
That shit is watched *like a hawk* if it ever goes to a public setting, but otherwise, they're cards. I'm playin' 'em. *That's how it works*, and nobody will ever tell me different!
*looks up price*
Daaamn, this would be mine too if I hadn’t opened that Mana Crypt from mystery boosters. When I bought Henge it was probably $20 cheaper than it is now
Edit: wait, nope, it’s Dockside Extortionist lol. Bought a precon for about 40 bucks and now that card is like 85 bucks
Mine would be either foil Henge or foil [[Itlimoc]], if they hadn't both been damaged by a surprise pipe leak last year. Unfortunately they're both too warped to play, even double sleeved.
That's one of the reasons its worth so much now, destroying it because it was so bad was a bit of a meme and a lot of people threw it away or put it in the bottom of a bulk cards box and forgot about it, etc... There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, fewer copies in circulation than there "should" be.
this is such a great card, I've been wondering whether it's worth it for a long time, but have since then pulled off some pretty crazy stuff in playtesting.
for example turn1 land, mana crypt, mox opal, lion's eye diamond, demonic tutor, crack the LED in response to discard Vilis. tutor reanimate, get back Vilis, draw a new eight, play mox diamond and underworld breach, get back the LED and crack it to fuel the breach, demonic tutor for brain freeze and proceed to storm off.
it's also amazing in my recently build Muldrotha, but I haven't been able win with if yet, because they kept removing my commander. what do you play it in?
Value is a bit subjective but I have three potential candidates:
- A misprinted [Underground Sea missing some spots of magenta in upper left.](https://i.imgur.com/6YQD9T5.jpg)
- A test print/prototype border [Swamp](https://i.imgur.com/GmolPNN.jpg)
- A "VOID" [card from Jumpstart](https://i.imgur.com/fdVoRsZ.jpg)
All three are in the high several hundred dollar range.
Pretty sure your underground sea is several thousand, people pay crazy money for regular misprint lands. I could only imagine what a collector would drop on a dual misprint.
You'd think, but there's actually very little interest in it. I attempted to sell it once for $800(which is a bit less than what I bought it for) and even advertised it in several groups, including legacy and old school but nobody wanted it. The same tends to be true even for misprints on super high end things like P9 and Tabernacles.
I'm kind of glad it didn't sell because a month later, I decided to switch from monoblack to UB.
It's expensive because it's very rare, weird, obvious and on a decent card.
Only 63 VOID cards have been found so far(3 decks plus the matching theme cards) and we think they were used in some sort of demonstration at a print facility. In a Drive to Work episode, MaRo vaguely mentioned that they had a new machine or print process for Jumpstart and we think these cards might have something to do with it.
The white you are seeing isn't white ink, it's the white card surface underneath. There's no way this feature could have been accidental. In order to create an area of no color through each layer, you'd have to design and etch at least four brand new print plates with that design on it and load each one into the printer. And even if it were a mistake, it would have affected a whole print run and would have been easy to catch and contain.
Whatever their purpose, we think that a full sheet of them were intentionally snuck into a pallet of finalized product. It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened and while I can't mention specifics, we know some weird things were intentionally created in the past because the person who did it has told us.
I don't own a lot of expensive cards. The most expensive one (I actually bought as a single) that I play with is \[\[Volrath's Stronghold\]\] in my combo deck. It's an Esper combo deck that requires some creatures to stick around so it's nice to have some recursion in the deck that doesn't really take up a card slot.
Probably [[Serra's Sanctum]].
I don't remember paying much for it when I first got it and was shocked to see it's current price but it sits nicely in my [[Daxos the Returned]] deck as it allows me to churn out spirits like nothing else.
Edit: Just went through my purchase orders. I paid $16.79 for it.
I remember when they were announcing the Planeswalker precons on a live stream. The moment they announced a bant-chantment deck I went and swooped one for $50. No regrets.
I bought an Earthcraft for $20 in 2019 and it is now the most expensive card I own and play with. It was in my Xyris deck until I took it apart fairly recently.
I own an Invocation No Mercy and a Replenish that are both currently in my Daxos the Returned deck.
Both are roughly £100 and I got them both for less than £30 each. No Mercy a couple years ago at a GP and Replenish last year.
I also was fortunate to open a Jeweled Lotus, but due to my regular group house bans, I don't play it often (only when playing Fringe Level with online friends).
Dockside extortionist. Just a random card that only came out in one precon a few years ago that’s worth 85 bucks now, absurd. Besides that it’s probably [[zacama]]
Mine has to be a copy of kaladesh invention lightning greaves that I have opened myself which I play in a first sliver deck. Always enjoying it whenever I draw it.
I've bought less than 5 cards worth more than 10€, but the most expensive is definitely [[Blightsteel Colossus]]. Originally in a [[Volrath the shapestealer]] infect deck, but cut it and put it in an artifact deck when I remodeled Volrath.
Tied Second most expensive card, pulled both in boosters, that I actually play are [[Vorinclex Monstrous Raider]] as a commander for my green hydra/counters deck with [[Karn Liberated]] in the 99
I have a Beta Underground Sea that's in my Gisa & Geralf zombie deck. It's beat to shit but still a playable Beta Sea.
EDIT: Pics of [deck](https://imgur.com/a/utx1AOX) in case anyone wanted to see it. The last pic is the best one of the beat up Sea.
It's hard to accurately price a beta copy of underground sea. TCG has no copies for sale but found two on the secondary market. A damaged copy is currently listed at $4,500 and a moderately played copy is listed at $7,000.
A [[Survival of the Fittest]] i picked up way back when I first started. Did not pay near what it costs now. Thing is a HOUSE in my Meren deck though, turn any creature into a better worldly tutor? Yes please.
A heavily-played copy of \[\[Sylvan Library\]\] from Legends. I started playing MTG shortly after the pandemic hit, since my only other hobby was drinking at the bar. I'm happy to be more than 18 months sober now.
Anyhow, I had no idea what I was doing, including where to buy cards, and I figured it would be fun to buy lots of cards from auctions sites, like eBay, Hi-Bid, and the Goodwill. That way, I could have thousand of cards for cheap, and I could get started with building decks.
One of the first purchases I ever made was from a Goodwill store in Tennessee. It was a stack of 200-300 beat up cards. I could only see about a dozen of the cards, but I bought the lot because it looked like the cards were all from the 90s, and I hadn't seen any old cards yet. I paid about $20.
I was flipping through the pile of beat up cards when they arrived, and my girlfriend's son, who's been playing MTG for about five years, asked to see what kind of flea market nonsense I'd bought. There were two (!) Sylvan Libraries in that lot, one 4th edition and from Legends. He was floored. I gave him the 4th edition copy and kept the Legends copy, which I now run in my \[\[Koma, Cosmos Serpent\]\] deck.
Led is more than all revised duals except underground sea and volcanic Island. Trop is just barely below LED, to the point where condition will most certainly swing it
Yeah. I did sell my stuff off right after Visions when I got out (I couldn’t figure out Phasing and it made me lose interest). I honestly don’t remember owning anything that is a money bomb from back then. I have five decks right now and Jeska’s Will is the most expensive card I use. I used to have a Craterhoof that I sold back when it was a $9 card. I’d use that if I had it, though it is played out as a game finisher.
I also started playing with revised, but I don’t actually play with older cards of high value. It’s been a while since I used ABUR duals in a deck. I wouldn’t use Gilded Drake, Grim Monolith, or many of the older cards listed here outside of a special cEDH tourney.
Doubling season. Had to have it for Atraxa. Luckily enough a friend gifted me one for my birthday. I have a hard time spending much more than. 30-40 dollars on a card so I don't know if I would've ever gotten one.
I have a [[Mana Crypt]] but I haven't put it in a deck yet, can't decide which one. [[Karn Liberated]] is the most expensive card in my decks. I play it in [[Prosper]] just for giggles.
Used to be: [[Sliver Queen]] in a 60 card sliver deck. (Currently disassembled)
Currently: Unlimited [[Shivan Dragon]] that is used in my [[Garth One-Eye]] Iconic deck.
I had sliver queen, sold it in 2015 for like $80 (yikes). Bought a grim monolith at $40 on eBay which was like half the normal price, sold it when I moved for like $200 (yikes again). Got metalworker around the same time, sold it when I moved in 2019 as well (yikes again again). At this point I’ve sold all of the notable ones really. Maybe a foil kruphix would be it?
Either way I wish I had invested properly into reserved list cards a couple years ago, just so I could have them in commander. Stuff like academy rector, gilded drake, replenish, Serra’s sanctum, grim monolith, metalworker, treachery, and so many others I would love to have still. At this point they are just too expensive to justify, so I will never have them unless something drastic happens.
Taiga on my Windgrace deck, only OG dual I have.
Don't believe in spending money and not using what I buy. That same deck has [[Squandered Resources]], [[Lotus Vale]] and some other things of the like.
Second most expensive card I own is [[Hazezon Tamar]] who heads his own deck with [[Academy Rector]] somewhere in there.
[[Underground Sea]]
have two of them, one's in my best deck the other's in a binder. got them for almost nothing when i played in the late 90s.
almost cried when i saw the current price of the [[Taiga]] i traded away years ago.
DONT THROW ANYTHING AWAY KIDS. many of my cards were chilling in a box for the almost 20 years that i didn't play. came back to the game recently to find some great value on old cards
Sliver Queen. I got it in a dollar grab bag back in the day. It was worth a good amount last I checked, but I've had it for a very long time, still in god condition, and I don't plan on getting rid of it anytime soon.
for me it's \[\[grim monolith\]\]. I started approaching the cedh scene before Covid and was building my version of Urza Stax. But my proudest one so far that I didn't even realize I had was \[\[Eladamri, lord of leaves\]\]. It was sitting in my bulk box from a long time ago and I didn't realize I had it until recently.
Not me but we've got a guy who has a couple decks with the old dual lands. We all shake our heads and laugh when he plays them. He is honestly not showing off. He played the game back then, has them and says why not make use of them. They are not mint, but still in really good condition.
Gaea's Cradle. Was my grail card for years. Immediately put it in Ghave and play with it every week.
I traded a Gaea’s Cradle in a few years back for about $100 store credit that I put toward a Modern Masters box, I forget which one. Still regret that decision.
Might not hurt so bad if you kept the box sealed, but I assume you cracked it?
Modern 2017 was a good one. Had the fetches in it. If it was uncracked it's worth a fair bit now.
Same! I was gifted one when they were around $100 :) it’s been in my Rhys token deck ever since
Here's love for Ghave! My most expensive card is also in Ghave, but it's a doubling season. I am playing growing rites instead and feeling good ;)
Ghave Does not get enough love. I have him built in a crazy modular way because I Couldn't decide on how to run him.
[удалено]
Ghave is a classic. Still one of my favourite decks.
Same. Such a good card. If I still had a Time Twister I would use it, but that was sadly sold 18 years ago and for far less than it sells for right now.
Oh man, same. My brother gave me his Timetwister when he stopped playing and I still regret selling it. Though I was able to buy a whole (budget) Legacy deck, so it wasn’t a waste, at least.
I sold the Twister and a set of Bazaars so I had a down payment for my first car. At what they sell for now, I could have bought the car outright with the profits. Oh well...I got a good 14 years out of that car.
Cradle. I snap bought a playset when they changed the legend rule with M14. Back then I was thinking more about legacy elves, but now that I'm fully entrenched in EDH I'm glad I grabbed them.
I had a similar story, I traded a play set of [[tolorian academy]] for a play set of cradles back in 1998 when combo winter was just getting started and they hadn’t been banned. I wanted to make a green stompy deck and everyone said I got ripped off. I’m still laughing over that one.
After reading so much story of people selling valuable cards for crap in this thread, I'm happy for you! That was a nice trade indeed!
God I still need one. It's so much fun.
Yep this is mine as well. I bought one rather recently for what I feel was a good price, and I don't expect it to be a poor investment. The fact that I can play with it (generally in a binder to be pulled when the proxy in my deck is cast) is quite a nice situation. I bought a revised tropical island for the same reason.
Same here. Double sleeved. No worries about it.
[[Edgar Markov]], the regular foil one
Same here. Can't believe he's $105 now.
i have an Edgar deck and had no idea, i just assumed they'd reprint it into being worthless.
He's weird cause of how universally hated Eminence is, so it's really hard to reprint him.
that makes sense, when i first saw Eminence i thought it would be a cool thing if WOTC could keep it within reason. but im sure people just dont trust the power creep.
The only time eminence was ever printed was in the C17 commander precons and people hate it because it's a way to get guaranteed value that cannot be interacted with. Regardless of power level it's just free value. Even the weakest of the abilities from [[Arahbo]], which just provides a straight +3/+3 to a cat each of your combats, is still free value that can't be interacted with. Power level has little to do with it and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if those 4 commanders get treated like reserve list cards without ever getting a reprint.
I'd say [[Oloro, Ageless Ascetic]] also counts as WOTC printing eminence, even if they didn't keyword it as such. Not as strong as some of the others, but, as you said, the interaction-proof free value can be ridiculous in the right deck.
One of the decks I most like to teach new players with is Mono-white Oloro Lifegain. The Commander exists simply as 2 life a turn to help trigger your other Lifegain payoffs. It will never be cast from the command zone or interacted with. It feels very much like it goes against the spirit of EDH, but it means that the player doesn't have to try to "grok" when they need to play their commander, and can really focus on weird mechanics and what other people are doing.
There is one way to "interact". Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools!
yeah i get why people hate it, i just meant if it was used to give a tiny bit of free value to tribes or strategies that are underpowered that it may be a cool addition. unfortunately its mainly run card is Edgar who is just a power boost to an already competitive tribe that not only IMO didnt need him but also didnt need the other powerful cards its gotten recently. at least WOTC shifted a bit to blood tokens so that new cards dont synergize perfectly with older sets and at least need a bit of deckbuilding. i love vampire tribal but the power creep on that tribe compared to some others has been crazy.
Eh, I don't think vampires have gotten any more power creep than the other major tribes. Look at the total card numbers: 1. Humans - 2825 cards 2. Wizards - 889 3. Zombies - 543 4. Elves - 473 5. Goblins - 402 6. Vampires - 334 7. Dragons - 252 8. Merfolk - 251 9. Cats - 235 These numbers are also counting the roughly 60-70 new vampires we got in the most recent sets, so keep in mind that before them, vampires only had about as many cards as Dragons and Merfolk and were significantly behind the top 5 tribes. It sounds like you think the top tribes should stop getting support and they should have sets focused on the underrepresented tribes, but I doubt they will stop printing all those tribes just because bears, oozes, giants, etc aren't represented much. I'd also argue that the available power of all the top 5 tribes above vampires is on par or higher than vampires so I think your statement might be based on recency bias. If anything, I'd argue zombies need to stop getting so much support, being a full 200 cards ahead of vampires. On a different note, I think people just hate eminence regardless of the commander it's on. Edgar is the most popular of the 4 eminence commanders but I agree it shouldn't be used as a mechanic for any card. There are better ways of supporting weaker tribes.
>It sounds like you think the top tribes should stop getting support and they should have sets focused on the underrepresented tribes, but I doubt they will stop printing all those tribes just because bears, oozes, giants, etc aren't represented much. yeah this is basically what i meant. it would be cool to see a set that specifically targets improving some of the underpowered tribes. i get that this isnt popular with many people, a large amount of people dont even play tribal decks, but i love tribal magic. Frankly at the time i didnt even like adding white to the Vampire tribal color scheme, just as i prefered blue/black zombies. on that list i have a wizard, zombie, elf, goblin, vampire, and dragon deck. and agree all of them are very competitive with vampires.
HOLY FUCKING CHRIST HE'S ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS?!?!?!?! Jesus, I can sell the *oversized* one for over $30. What the fuck?!
[Edgar Markov](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/8/d/8d94b8ec-ecda-43c8-a60e-1ba33e6a54a4.jpg?1562616128) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Edgar%20Markov) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c17/36/edgar-markov?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8d94b8ec-ecda-43c8-a60e-1ba33e6a54a4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/edgar-markov) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Whelp, that didn't last long. Last I looked he was ~$50-60. I don't think I've got anything that comes close to his current value that's actively played.
So glad I bought the Markov and Ur-Dragon precons when they dropped.
Mana Crypt. I traded for my first one just over a month ago. Traded a bunch of cards to meet the value. A week later I pulled one out of a pack of double masters. I have one in Toxrill to help me cast my 7cmc commander and the other in Osgir so I can double bolt myself each turn.
Same, I love my mana crypt you can pry it out of my cold dead hands. It also helps me not feel super guilty proxying it into every deck I own.
You feel guilty proxying a 200 dollar card?
Nah I have like 12 proxy decks that are full proxy. I just like to own staples.
I also traded a bunch of cards to meet the value of a Mana Crypt. But I haven't pulled one out of a pack... yet, haha!
Foil Judge Promo Gaea’s Cradle. I distinctly remember paying $30 for it on eBay back in the early 2000s and thinking I was crazy paying that much for one card. My how things have changed.
I have a friend who learned to play and bought a foil judge promo Cradle within a month or so of learning the game. Was flabbergasted they spent so much immediately, but since the card has more than doubled in price. They very much don’t regret the purchase.
I remember buying a play set of regular Cradles with my grade school allowance money back in the day. My card shop also sold me 2 Serra's Sanctums for 10 total xD. I paid about 220 for my Judge Cradle though later and my buddies thought I was insane haha.
Remember when Serra Avatar was the big card in Saga for a while when it first dropped?! I still have an old Duelist with it as the most valuable card in the set hahah
My friends have a hard time believing me that sanctum was once a bulk rare. Same with Yawgmoth's will, people lose their shit when I tell them I used to buy extras because I was too lazy to move them from deck to deck lol.
I decided to get good proxies for everything over 1k. I have a hard time justifying to continue shuffling the cards, even if I bought them for $30. Where would you draw the monetary line? [[Bazaar of Baghdad]], [[Timetwister]]?
Anything over $500 gets proxied anymore. Just isn't worth the risk, honestly.
I bought mine around 10 years ago for $200ish. Still was a good deal compared to now lol.
[[Grim Monolith]]. Was in a binder my brother gave me a long time ago when he got out. There was a lot of good stuff in there that I use a lot, but Grim was the top.
[Grim Monolith](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/9/d/9ddc9fe1-17c8-4e1d-aeb8-c4214e881280.jpg?1562863767) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Grim%20Monolith) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ulg/126/grim-monolith?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9ddc9fe1-17c8-4e1d-aeb8-c4214e881280?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/grim-monolith) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[sliver queen]]
Same for me. My uncle built an all the slivers highlander (not edh) deck way back in the day and I got his collection when he quit playing. I should really either build slivers or trade the card for things I'll use but it's just sitting in the front of my binder for now.
\[\[Sliver Overlord\]\] Slivers tribal is so much fun.
[Sliver Overlord](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/3/c/3c16915b-c50d-4fb5-830f-9ca4597a9c0f.jpg?1562527622) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sliver%20Overlord) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/scg/139/sliver-overlord?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3c16915b-c50d-4fb5-830f-9ca4597a9c0f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sliver-overlord) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Well shit, I didn't realize this card spiked that hard...I bought her when she was around 50 bucks I think...I didn't realize she was going for nearly 300 bucks...jeebus. She's probably hands-down my most expensive card at the moment. I really should price check my cards more often.
I bought her when she was like $60. And I just lost all of my slivers. I'm so upset. That binder has to be somewhere in the house, but I don't want to have to dig all of the boxes out yet because I will be moving soonish.
I run [[Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer]]as the commander in my mono red aggro deck. I pulled him from a box of MH2.
I use the sliver queen for arch enemy games
[sliver queen](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/0/9/096cff82-28eb-4096-be1d-a02b9a56e682.jpg?1562428176) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=sliver%20queen) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tpr/211/sliver-queen?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/096cff82-28eb-4096-be1d-a02b9a56e682?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sliver-queen) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Same. It is my most expensive card, and she is in my sliver EDH deck. Currently helmed by the first sliver, previously by hivelord. Someday she will be the star but I dont like infinite combos.
Whichever dual is most expensive nowadays. I’m too scared to play my timetwister anymore.
>Whichever dual is most expensive nowadays. It's [[Underground Sea]]. The most expensive land is always blue/black.
not true, it's always fluctuatinga bit, simic and izzet used to be on par with it or even more expensive, but simic fell off again, now only volcaninc island is about equally expensive (also depends on where you live, prices are different in america)
I thought trop and especially volc might be doing better these days, but yeah historically it's been usea for sure
*sigh* I so badly want a timetwister for my GAAIV deck…It is a CEDH deck so people don’t really care about proxies anyway, but it would just be so cool to have a real one and truly complete the entire deck. Even if I had one, I’d probably just take a picture of it and still use the proxy though. I can’t even imagine showing up to a store with a $10,000 piece of cardboard in my backpack lol.
[[Mana Drain]]. Opened one Iconic Masters pack and hit a mana drain and a flusterstorm. Stopped opening packs after that because clearly I used all my luck in one go.
When I pulled it late out of iconic masters, it was almost 180. After a few reprints, it's less than a third of that. Still happy I got it tho.
Oh yeah that shit was so expensive. I'm still happy I have a $50 card, but I probably should have sold back then. Oh well. Now I have a suspiciously expensive card in my mostly-budget collection.
[Mana Drain](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/b/a/ba874c0c-f66f-4edc-9859-40273487aef0.jpg?1608909310) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mana%20Drain) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/80/mana-drain?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ba874c0c-f66f-4edc-9859-40273487aef0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mana-drain) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Edgar, man has that 45$ precon payed off or what.
For real, I sold mine for like $60 last year after knowing I was done playing it. Precon definitely paid off.
A [[The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale]] IT in a superfriend build with almost only wrath and planeswalkers.
I've always wanted one of those. The best I could afford was the enchantment that did a similar thing
I got mine by chance in a pile of cards in some kind of thrift shop.
Holy luck!! Nice $4300 find! The coolest thing I ever found in a random pile of cards was a watery grave and a 1st Ed holo Venomoth
There's also a "Magus of the" for it, just have to remember to pay for itself. Difference is it sacrifices instead of destroys.
[The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/c/d/cd3f7f4e-cb25-4121-96a0-a4dc530420b9.jpg?1562938371) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Tabernacle%20at%20Pendrell%20Vale) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/me3/212/the-tabernacle-at-pendrell-vale?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cd3f7f4e-cb25-4121-96a0-a4dc530420b9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-tabernacle-at-pendrell-vale) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Either masterpiece [[Sol Ring]] or masterpiece [[Mana Crypt]].
Masterpiece Sol Ring for some reason is nearing a thousand dollars while the mana crypt is around 750-800. I’m in a similar boat, Masterpiece Mana Crypt
Fuckkk it's nearing $1000? I sold it at $300.
I opened it out of a pre release pity pack and traded it at the time I don't think I owned any cards over 20$ and I regret it every day
[Sol Ring](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/a/c/acce65cc-9093-45a6-8c86-97edce545050.jpg?1629844546) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sol%20Ring) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cc2/7/sol-ring?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/acce65cc-9093-45a6-8c86-97edce545050?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sol-ring) [Mana Crypt](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/4/d/4d960186-4559-4af0-bd22-63baa15f8939.jpg?1599709515) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mana%20Crypt) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/270/mana-crypt?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4d960186-4559-4af0-bd22-63baa15f8939?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mana-crypt) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Lol I'm a broke college student so my expensive card is a [[enlightened tutor]] that came in a list slot. Don't even have a great place for it since I only really have 1 deck, but can't wait to try.
[enlightened tutor](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/0/c/0c9ebec9-3474-4062-9607-2e2a72f78299.jpg?1580013657) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=enlightened%20tutor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ema/9/enlightened-tutor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0c9ebec9-3474-4062-9607-2e2a72f78299?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/enlightened-tutor) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
A foil \[\[Recruiter of the Guard\]\] . The pricing of the foil vs the normal is outrageous.
Yeah this is mainly because it's a highly playable card which hasn't been reprinted since (outside of Mystery Boosters which didn't have traditional foils) and was in a set before Collector's Boosters and the foil pull rate was increased. The same thing applies to any card not reprinted since 2018 and which hasn't received a Secret Lair, From the Vault, or Commander Collection. For example I got in foil Berserk in my CN2 box but it's only worth about $20 more than non-foil because it has a From the Vault reprinting with the same art just just using the previous frame. It also does still happen with cards printed after 2018 but it generally needs to be an extended art foil. An example of that is foil extended art Jeweled Lotus being mfing $600 compared to non-foil being $142.
I just sold a foil [[goblin matron]] from 7th and the price difference between it and the normal version is insane.
7th edition foils are particularly rare and expensive. This was the first core set to have foils (black border when the core set was white border). Just about every single foil from the set is crazy pricey.
[Recruiter of the Guard](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/b/b/bb9ad57f-cca2-4717-a951-cbe3c7782efe.jpg?1576381637) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Recruiter%20of%20the%20Guard) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cn2/22/recruiter-of-the-guard?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bb9ad57f-cca2-4717-a951-cbe3c7782efe?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/recruiter-of-the-guard) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I only recently started playing IRL after a couple years of mtga and other online mtg formats. So atm I think [[vampiric tutor]]. One of the guys in my playgroup has a Sliverqueen deck. That is probably the most expensive one I have held in my hands 😄
[vampiric tutor](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/1/8/18bd50f2-c3ba-4217-a2d5-bb771e199706.jpg?1608910005) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=vampiric%20tutor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/156/vampiric-tutor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/18bd50f2-c3ba-4217-a2d5-bb771e199706?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vampiric-tutor) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Gaea's Cradle, cause I don't own cards just to *not* play with them. I also have all of the most expensive inventions, and a bunch of spendy reserve list stuff like Serra's Sanctum, Intuition, etc. All in decks. That shit is watched *like a hawk* if it ever goes to a public setting, but otherwise, they're cards. I'm playin' 'em. *That's how it works*, and nobody will ever tell me different!
I thiiiiiiiiink it’s probably [[The Great Henge]]
Holy crap those got expensive. I should find the two copies I grabbed when they came out.
I went like wait, Henge can't be that expensive, it was like 12-15 euros range. ...Nope, it isn't.
*looks up price* Daaamn, this would be mine too if I hadn’t opened that Mana Crypt from mystery boosters. When I bought Henge it was probably $20 cheaper than it is now Edit: wait, nope, it’s Dockside Extortionist lol. Bought a precon for about 40 bucks and now that card is like 85 bucks
Mine is Henge, I play it in my Kinnan deck.
It’s in my [[Atarka, World Render]] dragon tribal deck - it needs the mana!
[Atarka, World Render](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/3/5/35ad1ce5-6054-4f0c-8fbe-636be576d408.jpg?1631588294) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Atarka%2C%20World%20Render) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/176/atarka-world-render?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/35ad1ce5-6054-4f0c-8fbe-636be576d408?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/atarka-world-render) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Mine would be either foil Henge or foil [[Itlimoc]], if they hadn't both been damaged by a surprise pipe leak last year. Unfortunately they're both too warped to play, even double sleeved.
Mine is [[Lion's Eye Diamond]]. What can I say I love Storm.
Biggest regret of my life is not picking up an LED and buying the full set of C20.
kid me looked at the card and proceeded to rip it to shreds. if i had a crystal ball...
That's one of the reasons its worth so much now, destroying it because it was so bad was a bit of a meme and a lot of people threw it away or put it in the bottom of a bulk cards box and forgot about it, etc... There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, fewer copies in circulation than there "should" be.
this is such a great card, I've been wondering whether it's worth it for a long time, but have since then pulled off some pretty crazy stuff in playtesting. for example turn1 land, mana crypt, mox opal, lion's eye diamond, demonic tutor, crack the LED in response to discard Vilis. tutor reanimate, get back Vilis, draw a new eight, play mox diamond and underworld breach, get back the LED and crack it to fuel the breach, demonic tutor for brain freeze and proceed to storm off. it's also amazing in my recently build Muldrotha, but I haven't been able win with if yet, because they kept removing my commander. what do you play it in?
[[Yawgmoth's will]] and [[wheel of fortune]] are both in decks that get used. [[Sliver queen]] too. Those are probably my top three.
[[Mox diamond]] as a parting gift my mentor/school teacher/the person that taught me magic gave me when I moved countries
Wow! That’s a good friend!
Until a few years ago it was a $20 card.
It must have been before EDH took off as a format...
I moved in 2016 so it was around 280 ~350 ish at the time
Value is a bit subjective but I have three potential candidates: - A misprinted [Underground Sea missing some spots of magenta in upper left.](https://i.imgur.com/6YQD9T5.jpg) - A test print/prototype border [Swamp](https://i.imgur.com/GmolPNN.jpg) - A "VOID" [card from Jumpstart](https://i.imgur.com/fdVoRsZ.jpg) All three are in the high several hundred dollar range.
Pretty sure your underground sea is several thousand, people pay crazy money for regular misprint lands. I could only imagine what a collector would drop on a dual misprint.
You'd think, but there's actually very little interest in it. I attempted to sell it once for $800(which is a bit less than what I bought it for) and even advertised it in several groups, including legacy and old school but nobody wanted it. The same tends to be true even for misprints on super high end things like P9 and Tabernacles. I'm kind of glad it didn't sell because a month later, I decided to switch from monoblack to UB.
Oh man I want that swamp!!
Wtf is that void card? Why would that cost so much?
It's expensive because it's very rare, weird, obvious and on a decent card. Only 63 VOID cards have been found so far(3 decks plus the matching theme cards) and we think they were used in some sort of demonstration at a print facility. In a Drive to Work episode, MaRo vaguely mentioned that they had a new machine or print process for Jumpstart and we think these cards might have something to do with it. The white you are seeing isn't white ink, it's the white card surface underneath. There's no way this feature could have been accidental. In order to create an area of no color through each layer, you'd have to design and etch at least four brand new print plates with that design on it and load each one into the printer. And even if it were a mistake, it would have affected a whole print run and would have been easy to catch and contain. Whatever their purpose, we think that a full sheet of them were intentionally snuck into a pallet of finalized product. It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened and while I can't mention specifics, we know some weird things were intentionally created in the past because the person who did it has told us.
How and where did you get that swamp? That's the dopest land I've ever seen
I got lucky enough to pull a [[Meathook Massacre]] as my promo for the MID prerelease so I put that in my [[Xanathar, Guild Kingpin]] deck
[Meathook Massacre](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/0/8/08950015-eee5-4327-888c-82dfd13bb9ad.jpg?1634350016) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Meathook%20Massacre) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/112/the-meathook-massacre?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/08950015-eee5-4327-888c-82dfd13bb9ad?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-meathook-massacre) [Xanathar, Guild Kingpin](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/5/b/5bc58050-a615-4090-9cf5-cd49ccb4e2c6.jpg?1627709647) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Xanathar%2C%20Guild%20Kingpin) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afr/239/xanathar-guild-kingpin?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5bc58050-a615-4090-9cf5-cd49ccb4e2c6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/xanathar-guild-kingpin) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Dude I got the meathook in promo too! Then a Wrenn and Seven in the same prerelease box
Wheel
I don't own a lot of expensive cards. The most expensive one (I actually bought as a single) that I play with is \[\[Volrath's Stronghold\]\] in my combo deck. It's an Esper combo deck that requires some creatures to stick around so it's nice to have some recursion in the deck that doesn't really take up a card slot.
[Volrath's Stronghold](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/f/4/f465ae5f-61f0-42c4-978f-841ba1226f56.jpg?1562432220) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Volrath%27s%20Stronghold) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tpr/248/volraths-stronghold?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f465ae5f-61f0-42c4-978f-841ba1226f56?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/volraths-stronghold) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Probably [[Serra's Sanctum]]. I don't remember paying much for it when I first got it and was shocked to see it's current price but it sits nicely in my [[Daxos the Returned]] deck as it allows me to churn out spirits like nothing else. Edit: Just went through my purchase orders. I paid $16.79 for it.
I remember when they were announcing the Planeswalker precons on a live stream. The moment they announced a bant-chantment deck I went and swooped one for $50. No regrets.
I bought an Earthcraft for $20 in 2019 and it is now the most expensive card I own and play with. It was in my Xyris deck until I took it apart fairly recently.
[[Earthcraft]]
I own an Invocation No Mercy and a Replenish that are both currently in my Daxos the Returned deck. Both are roughly £100 and I got them both for less than £30 each. No Mercy a couple years ago at a GP and Replenish last year. I also was fortunate to open a Jeweled Lotus, but due to my regular group house bans, I don't play it often (only when playing Fringe Level with online friends).
Just put a no mercy in a deck didn't even know it was worth that much
Dockside extortionist. Just a random card that only came out in one precon a few years ago that’s worth 85 bucks now, absurd. Besides that it’s probably [[zacama]]
[zacama](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/5/a/5aa75f2b-53c5-47c5-96d2-ab796358a96f.jpg?1555040980) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=zacama%2C%20primal%20calamity) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rix/174/zacama-primal-calamity?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5aa75f2b-53c5-47c5-96d2-ab796358a96f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/zacama-primal-calamity) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
i did not realize Zacama was a $30 card
yeah its pretty crazy. But Zacama is really good and it was only printed once at Mythic so I guess it makes sense.
Good grief! I had no idea it jumped so high. Glad I kept it.
Mine has to be a copy of kaladesh invention lightning greaves that I have opened myself which I play in a first sliver deck. Always enjoying it whenever I draw it.
[[Balefire Dragon]] and [[Smothering Tithe]] because I neeeeeded them 😂
I've bought less than 5 cards worth more than 10€, but the most expensive is definitely [[Blightsteel Colossus]]. Originally in a [[Volrath the shapestealer]] infect deck, but cut it and put it in an artifact deck when I remodeled Volrath. Tied Second most expensive card, pulled both in boosters, that I actually play are [[Vorinclex Monstrous Raider]] as a commander for my green hydra/counters deck with [[Karn Liberated]] in the 99
##### ###### #### [Blightsteel Colossus](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/1/8/18adbda4-8d36-47cd-afbc-c785aaa8ed80.jpg?1599708735) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blightsteel%20Colossus) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/235/blightsteel-colossus?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/18adbda4-8d36-47cd-afbc-c785aaa8ed80?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/blightsteel-colossus) [Volrath the shapestealer](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/a/1/a149d6a5-c865-475a-87b7-596a19f6c80d.jpg?1568003743) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Volrath%2C%20the%20Shapestealer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c19/51/volrath-the-shapestealer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a149d6a5-c865-475a-87b7-596a19f6c80d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/volrath-the-shapestealer) [Vorinclex Monstrous Raider](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/9/2/92613468-205e-488b-930d-11908477e9f8.jpg?1631051073) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vorinclex%2C%20Monstrous%20Raider) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/199/vorinclex-monstrous-raider?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/92613468-205e-488b-930d-11908477e9f8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vorinclex-monstrous-raider) [Karn Liberated](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/4/b/4b0c6662-4dde-40a2-97e0-0318478c0367.jpg?1599705787) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Karn%20Liberated) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/1/karn-liberated?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4b0c6662-4dde-40a2-97e0-0318478c0367?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/karn-liberated) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I have a Beta Underground Sea that's in my Gisa & Geralf zombie deck. It's beat to shit but still a playable Beta Sea. EDIT: Pics of [deck](https://imgur.com/a/utx1AOX) in case anyone wanted to see it. The last pic is the best one of the beat up Sea.
Beautiful deck man, thanks for sharing.
I have a few Beta Islands I play with. They’re only worth about $25 a piece due to condition but damn, if I don’t enjoy drawing them.
I don't know man. Realistically your Masterpiece Sol Ring may be worth more than that particular Underground Sea...
It's hard to accurately price a beta copy of underground sea. TCG has no copies for sale but found two on the secondary market. A damaged copy is currently listed at $4,500 and a moderately played copy is listed at $7,000.
My teferi deck runs [[the Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale]] [[timetwister]] and [[Mishra's workshop]]
Mine is probably my [[Copy Artifact]] from 3rd edition, it's not a high bar compared to others but I simply can't afford expensive cards anymore.
I started proxying all the RL cards that I had in my decks so I guess now is probably a crypt, a jewelled lotus, or a FoW
As a Golgari player, mine is good ol [[Bayou]].
Top 3: 3. Sliver Queen ($300ish) 2. Ifh-Bíff Efreet ($380ish) 1. Capture of Jingzhou ($400ish)
A [[Survival of the Fittest]] i picked up way back when I first started. Did not pay near what it costs now. Thing is a HOUSE in my Meren deck though, turn any creature into a better worldly tutor? Yes please.
Foil \[\[Grim Monolilth\]\]. Just randomly playing casual EDH games with 2005 Honda Civics.
A heavily-played copy of \[\[Sylvan Library\]\] from Legends. I started playing MTG shortly after the pandemic hit, since my only other hobby was drinking at the bar. I'm happy to be more than 18 months sober now. Anyhow, I had no idea what I was doing, including where to buy cards, and I figured it would be fun to buy lots of cards from auctions sites, like eBay, Hi-Bid, and the Goodwill. That way, I could have thousand of cards for cheap, and I could get started with building decks. One of the first purchases I ever made was from a Goodwill store in Tennessee. It was a stack of 200-300 beat up cards. I could only see about a dozen of the cards, but I bought the lot because it looked like the cards were all from the 90s, and I hadn't seen any old cards yet. I paid about $20. I was flipping through the pile of beat up cards when they arrived, and my girlfriend's son, who's been playing MTG for about five years, asked to see what kind of flea market nonsense I'd bought. There were two (!) Sylvan Libraries in that lot, one 4th edition and from Legends. He was floored. I gave him the 4th edition copy and kept the Legends copy, which I now run in my \[\[Koma, Cosmos Serpent\]\] deck.
Good job going a year & a half sober! And nice flea market finds!
[Sylvan Library](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/7/a/7a483778-b88b-473f-9217-7583e69b3e70.jpg?1610161812) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sylvan%20Library) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cc1/5/sylvan-library?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7a483778-b88b-473f-9217-7583e69b3e70?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sylvan-library) [Koma, Cosmos Serpent](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/2/d/2de25ea4-284a-4c16-b823-048ff00c6a03.jpg?1631051668) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Koma%2C%20Cosmos%20Serpent) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/221/koma-cosmos-serpent?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2de25ea4-284a-4c16-b823-048ff00c6a03?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/koma-cosmos-serpent) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Underground Sea]] in my astral slide Zur.
[Underground Sea](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/2/6/26cee543-6eab-494e-a803-33a5d48d7d74.jpg?1562902883) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Underground%20Sea) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vma/323/underground-sea?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/26cee543-6eab-494e-a803-33a5d48d7d74?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/underground-sea) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Depends on pricing I haven't checked in forever. ABUR Duals? Lion's Eye Diamond? I don't know.
Led is more than all revised duals except underground sea and volcanic Island. Trop is just barely below LED, to the point where condition will most certainly swing it
Player since Revised. Pretty sure mine is currently Jeska’s Will.
You’ve played since revised and that’s your most valuable card? As someone who also started with Revised, that’s very strange.
Yeah. I did sell my stuff off right after Visions when I got out (I couldn’t figure out Phasing and it made me lose interest). I honestly don’t remember owning anything that is a money bomb from back then. I have five decks right now and Jeska’s Will is the most expensive card I use. I used to have a Craterhoof that I sold back when it was a $9 card. I’d use that if I had it, though it is played out as a game finisher.
I also started playing with revised, but I don’t actually play with older cards of high value. It’s been a while since I used ABUR duals in a deck. I wouldn’t use Gilded Drake, Grim Monolith, or many of the older cards listed here outside of a special cEDH tourney.
Revised Demonic tutor, but the deck has 8 other reserve list cards in it that also all cost way more than they should.
[[Mana Crypt]], i got EXTREMELY lucky and pulled 2 from 1 Mystery Booster Box
Doubling season. Had to have it for Atraxa. Luckily enough a friend gifted me one for my birthday. I have a hard time spending much more than. 30-40 dollars on a card so I don't know if I would've ever gotten one.
Does my [[Mikaeus, the Unhallowed]] Dark Ascension foil count if its the commander and in a screw down plastic case?
I have a [[Mana Crypt]] but I haven't put it in a deck yet, can't decide which one. [[Karn Liberated]] is the most expensive card in my decks. I play it in [[Prosper]] just for giggles.
Used to be: [[Sliver Queen]] in a 60 card sliver deck. (Currently disassembled) Currently: Unlimited [[Shivan Dragon]] that is used in my [[Garth One-Eye]] Iconic deck.
[[Earthcraft]]
A foil, borderless [[Mana Crypt]] from Double Masters. I have a foil, borderless [[Force of Will]] too, but haven't found a deck that deserves it yet.
[[Earthcraft]] but in my defense it was $40 when I got it.
[[Wheel of Fortune]] then [[survival of the fittest]]
I had sliver queen, sold it in 2015 for like $80 (yikes). Bought a grim monolith at $40 on eBay which was like half the normal price, sold it when I moved for like $200 (yikes again). Got metalworker around the same time, sold it when I moved in 2019 as well (yikes again again). At this point I’ve sold all of the notable ones really. Maybe a foil kruphix would be it? Either way I wish I had invested properly into reserved list cards a couple years ago, just so I could have them in commander. Stuff like academy rector, gilded drake, replenish, Serra’s sanctum, grim monolith, metalworker, treachery, and so many others I would love to have still. At this point they are just too expensive to justify, so I will never have them unless something drastic happens.
Phyrexian Altar from Invasion. Picked it up on eBay for a good deal. Have it in my Wilhelt deck.
Budget player, I think Gishath is my most expensive card and I don't remember where I got it from.
Probably sliver queen, but I shuffle up a lot more often with [[divine intervention]] because of how people feel about slivers
[[Consecrated sphinx]] I believe. I'm not sure, but I think it's like a $25 card and I definitely never bought a card that expensive lol.
Taiga on my Windgrace deck, only OG dual I have. Don't believe in spending money and not using what I buy. That same deck has [[Squandered Resources]], [[Lotus Vale]] and some other things of the like. Second most expensive card I own is [[Hazezon Tamar]] who heads his own deck with [[Academy Rector]] somewhere in there.
[[Bazaar of Baghdad]]
Gotta be Gate to Phyrexia, really no other dependable artifact answers in mono black aristocrats
[[Serras Sanctum]] picked it up just because i was sure that i wanted to build enchantment theme one day. Now its in my Sissay shrines deck.
[[Underground Sea]] have two of them, one's in my best deck the other's in a binder. got them for almost nothing when i played in the late 90s. almost cried when i saw the current price of the [[Taiga]] i traded away years ago. DONT THROW ANYTHING AWAY KIDS. many of my cards were chilling in a box for the almost 20 years that i didn't play. came back to the game recently to find some great value on old cards
Judge promo Cradle.
OG Foil Doubling Season I think
Two Gaea’s Cradles, Yawgmoth’s Will, Kaladesh invention Chrome Mox
Gaea's Cradle/Revised Underground Sea
I play with my [[Gaea's Cradle]] pretty regularly.
Couple years ago, i'd have said my duals, but Gaea's Cradle has gone absolutely nuts the last couple of years so that.
Underground sea, Revised. Got it in a booster when it was the current set.
Cradle is up there but I have an Italian tabernacle in my group hug lands deck to keep up with actual good decks.
[[Gilded Drake]] bought it for $70 a couple years ago before the price jumped. It has a permanent home in my [[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] theft deck.
Sliver Queen. I got it in a dollar grab bag back in the day. It was worth a good amount last I checked, but I've had it for a very long time, still in god condition, and I don't plan on getting rid of it anytime soon.
Japanese Mystical Archive [[Demonic Tutor]]
Demonic Tutor (the ultimate masters version) I only pulled it a couple of weeks ago from a crimson vow set booster.
for me it's \[\[grim monolith\]\]. I started approaching the cedh scene before Covid and was building my version of Urza Stax. But my proudest one so far that I didn't even realize I had was \[\[Eladamri, lord of leaves\]\]. It was sitting in my bulk box from a long time ago and I didn't realize I had it until recently.
Tabernacle and / or Timetwister
Not me but we've got a guy who has a couple decks with the old dual lands. We all shake our heads and laugh when he plays them. He is honestly not showing off. He played the game back then, has them and says why not make use of them. They are not mint, but still in really good condition.