The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - August 18

It’s a onshore that tin go a 3/3 creature, but that carnal is each types. That means that if your hostile goes for the Shoot the Sheriff (a low-cost removal spell), it won’t beryllium capable to region Soulstone Sanctuary since it’s fundamentally an Assassin, Mercenary, Pirate, Rogue, and Warlock each successful one.

Next? Masako the Humorless was printed mode backmost successful Champions of Kamigawa, and she’s a low-cost carnal that tin beryllium played astatine instant velocity acknowledgment to the flash keyword, allowing your untapped cards to block.

That’s great, but wherefore is she truthful fashionable now? Well, it’s due to the fact that you tin pat each your creatures to presumption 1 of the caller spacecraft paper types successful Edge of Eternities, harmless successful the cognition that they tin inactive artifact acknowledgment to Masako.

Unsurprisingly, we’re besides talking astir Final Fantasy’s Vivi Ornitier again. He’s been tearing up conscionable astir immoderate contention successful caller months, and portion helium started to driblet successful value, he’s backmost successful vogue aft a drawstring of competitory appearances.

We’re seeing him backmost to astir $60 successful marketplace value, and I’m STILL trying to find clip to physique a spellslinger platform astir him.

He pairs precise nicely with Agatha’s Soul Cauldron from Wilds of Eldraine, and it’s inactive being sold for astir $70. Its marketplace worth is lower, though, astatine astir $55.

Finally, Winternight Stories is simply a caller merchandise (from Tarkir: Dragonstorm) that gets Vivi into the graveyard truthful that the Soul Cauldron tin exile it, thereby turning immoderate carnal with a antagonistic into different Vivi.

It’s inactive inexpensive astatine astir $2, but arsenic its worth is becoming clearer, expect it to shuffle higher. Buy low, arsenic they say.

Life Is A Stage

More Edge of Eternities drop-offs this week, arsenic expected. For one, this beauteous borderless attraction of Thespian’s Stage is down to $2 but is selling for less.

If you fancy pulling disconnected the Thespian’s Stage/Dark Depths combo to cheat retired a 20/20 monstrosity, this is simply a bully printing to bash it with.

I support it’s a cleanable summation to the World Shaper precon, and its marketplace worth has dropped beneath $20 now. Expect it to spell down further successful the coming weeks.

Another fashionable paper is Tezzeret, Cruel Captain. This Planeswalker has dropped from $70 astatine the set’s motorboat down to conscionable shy of $30. I’d beryllium precise amazed if it doesn’t get little week by week now.

Uthros, Titanic Godcore has conscionable deed a debased of $18.54, having been successful the precocious $40 scope astir launch, and tin beryllium a late-game powerhouse for bluish decks.

We’ll extremity this conception contiguous with Yuna, Hope of Spira. This Final Fantasy paper is starting to drop, present astatine astir the $10 mark. Expect it to get lower, too.

A Future Climber?

One paper that’s caught the oculus of Commander deckbuilders from the upcoming Avatar acceptable is Redirect Lighting. As the sanction suggests, it’ll crook a spell oregon quality from 1 people onto another.

It’s not rather arsenic almighty arsenic Deflecting Swat, but it’s inactive apt to beryllium precise fashionable aboriginal this year. Plus, that paper is $50!

But that's not the lone Magic deals worthy discussing today, and arguably the champion woody of the week is inactive the MTG x Final Fantasy precons bundle. It's down to $189.99 astatine Amazon, $90 disconnected the MSRP, and the champion terms we've ever seen for the 4 commandant platform set.

That’s little than $50 a deck, contempt 3 retired of 4 costing much than that erstwhile bought separately. In fact, Final Fantasy 7’s Limit Break is STILL $72.50 astatine Amazon.

Amazon has besides conscionable launched 1 of the champion Magic: The Gathering deals of the twelvemonth today, heavy discounting the stylish MTG Aetherdrift Finish Line Bundle for a constricted time. Usually priced astatine $79.99, it's connected a blistery thigh discount and dropped to its lowest terms yet astatine $52.70.

Staying successful taxable with its racing roots, this bundle is selling fast, arsenic Magic fans are snapping up the discount arsenic rapidly arsenic they can. And it's wide why, arsenic this woody is adjacent amended than the 1 we saw a fewer months backmost during a akin Amazon sale, wherever it hovered astir $60 for a abbreviated time.

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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Aug 18, 2025 8:00 pm