The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - January 22, 2026

Kicking disconnected with a paper from the (at the clip of writing) existent set, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Badgermole Cub was ever destined for large things.

It was 1 of the astir sought-after cards from previews onward, and earthbends portion besides helping you summation bonus mana erstwhile tapping a carnal to cast. Very handy, and present climbing successful terms again to astir $55 marketplace value.

Icetill Explorer is simply a paper I’m inactive waiting to find a bully terms connected for my Edge of Eternities World Shaper precon, and it’s present up to $22. It lets you play further lands, and play them from your graveyard.

Aetherdrift won’t unrecorded agelong successful the memory, but Lumbering Worldwagon conscionable might. This conveyance is climbing successful worth to astir $3 from nether a dollar a fewer weeks ago, and grows successful powerfulness arsenic you play much lands.

Next up, our promised detour to Stranger Things. Series prima Eleven, the Mage is present astir $20, and lets you person eleven cards successful your hand. You tin besides play instants and sorceries for escaped if you onslaught with her, and she tin beryllium 1 of 2 Commanders.

Will the Wise has the aforesaid ‘Friends forever’ keyword, and triggers an probe from each subordinate (or they wage life) and past lets you investigate, too. It’s a chill motion to the show’s archetypal season, and volition acceptable you backmost astir $12 - but that is climbing.

Crashers

The archetypal 2 Crashers connected our database are a small antithetic due to the fact that they’re not retired yet. Necroskitter and Cream of the Crop look successful the caller Commander Decks for the Lorwyn Eclipsed set, and haven’t been reprinted successful years.

That means arsenic soon arsenic these decks arrive, some cards volition plummet successful value. If you person either, it mightiness already beryllium excessively precocious to sell.

Aang, astatine the Crossroads has dropped to conscionable implicit a dollar, having been considerably much than that during Avatar preview season, and gives you a classical infinitesimal from the amusement arsenic good arsenic the transformed mentation connected the back.

Even cooler, Aang, Swift Savior is borderless and is present nether $20 and dropping. Pay 8 mana to alteration him into Aang and La, Ocean's Fury, powering up attacking creatures portion besides giving you a 5/5 with scope and trample.

Finally, a selfish prime arsenic idiosyncratic who has watched The Ur-Dragon from afar for a while. This 10/10, five-color Dragon is costly mana-wise, but is dropping financially. It’s present astir $26, and it lowers the outgo of your Dragon spells adjacent erstwhile it’s successful the Command Zone.

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.