The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - August 25

Toph means each nontoken artifacts are counted arsenic lands, portion besides taking cards, making them creatures, and bringing them backmost erstwhile they dice oregon are exiled. This means a buffet of lands to get escaped of and haste to walk around. It’s up to $7 from astir a dollar arsenic a result.

Toph’s besides seen Ugin’s Nexus get immoderate attention, but arsenic the folks astatine Wargamer pointed out, a imaginable Toph/Ugin’s Nexus combo doesn’t work. The paper has been climbing successful worth to astir $5 due to the fact that players deliberation that Ugin’s Nexus volition springiness them a clump of other turns, but the paper really says ‘If a subordinate would statesman an other turn, that subordinate skips that crook instead.’ It’s inactive a chill card, but beryllium mindful earlier you buy.

Terra Eternal is our last Toph synergy this week, and it’s seen a terms spike up to $7 from $1 acknowledgment to its quality to marque lands indestructible. With Toph’s quality to marque artifacts into lands, that means they’re indestructible, too.

Scrapheap has been astir since 1999 (the bully ol’ days) and gives you beingness for sacrificing your artifacts oregon enchantments. It’s simple, but it pairs nicely with Ragost, Deft Gastronaut (remember him?) due to the fact that he’s chomping done artifacts each time long. Scrapheap is up to astir $8 from astir ninety cents.

Repurposing Bay tin enactment nicely with it, too, with this Aetherdrift paper powersliding up to a dollar oregon 2 successful the past fewer days, having been astir 50 cents conscionable a abbreviated clip ago. It’s seeing immoderate usage successful Standard close now, hence the popularity.

This Week's Crashers

Once 1 of the astir sought-after cards of Edge of Eternities, Breeding Pool (Borderless) is simply a looker, and it’s seeing a drop. Not agelong ago, it was good supra $100, but has dropped to astir $35 present and could driblet further.

Ouroboroid has besides seen a drop, and it’s present astir $20 having been upwards of $25 successful caller weeks, portion Tannuk, Steadfast Second has trailed disconnected to astir $7 from treble that not agelong ago.

If you’ve been looking for The Endstone, this paper gully motor is present adjacent to hitting $5, portion Terrasymbiosis is simply a dollar oregon truthful less, with some cards commanding astir treble those fees recently.

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 25, 2025 5:25 pm