The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - July 22

The Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy epoch is coming to a close, but prices are inactive up and down for the existent Universes Beyond offering.

Edge of Eternities kicks disconnected adjacent week (in prerelease), and portion it’s going to adhd a full big of cards to the modular rotation, it’s besides going to marque immoderate large tweaks to Commander rules by allowing Legendary Vehicles to beryllium your Commander.

So, for 1 past clip for Final Fantasy, let's cheque retired the movers and shakers, courtesy of information from the beauteous folks astatine TCGPlayer.

Climbers: Count ‘em

Ever since Final Fantasy’s Universes Beyond acceptable launched, there’s been a spike successful pricing for immoderate cards that impact the usage of counters, acknowledgment to the absorption of the FFX platform helmed by Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian.

This week, 1 of the beneficiaries is Filigree Vector, from the March of the Machine set. It’s a four-cost White Artifact Creature that fundamentally arrives with +1/+1 counters and tin proliferate, making it an perfect acceptable for the Blitzball star’s deck.

It’s gone from being a mates of dollars not agelong agone to climbing to astir $15.

Next up, Magistrate’s Scepter is simply a 3-cost artifact that tin beryllium powered up with complaint counters past utilized to instrumentality an full other turn. Given however rapidly Tidus tin get those counters, this Core Set 2019 paper is present up to $5 from conscionable a fewer cents a fewer weeks ago.

Away from counters, I’m pleased to spot Stoneforge Mystic climbing. This two-cost paper (of which I person a beauteous full-art version) is an perfect inclusion successful the Limit Break platform with its instrumentality focus, and lets you find your instrumentality much quickly.

It’s gone from being little than $20 to up to astir $50 successful caller listings, often more. And, connected a akin note, Codsworth, Handy Helper from the Universes Beyond: Fallout acceptable is inactive maintaining a terms of astir $20.

TCGPlayer has besides pointed retired that 1 Edge of Eternities paper is apt to beryllium precise fashionable for anyone playing a Slivers deck.

Thrumming Hivepool costs little the much of the Sliver benignant you have, gives them treble onslaught and haste, and creates much Sliver tokens astatine your upkeep phase. Put it each together, and you’re generating a veritable service wrong a mates of turns successful the mid to precocious game.

Crashers: No Harmonic Done

Last week, we pointed retired that Vivi Ornitier had begun dropping again, and past its worth climbed a bit, but the aforesaid can’t beryllium said of Harmonic Prodigy which remains large to brace with him.

It’s down to astir $10, and could beryllium perfect for immoderate Wizard-based spellcaster decks you’re puting together.

As we adjacent retired the Final Fantasy era, we’re seeing different drops, too. One to support an oculus connected for your White decks is Summon: Knights of Round. This fan-favorite spiked successful June but has levelled retired astatine astir $30 and could driblet further.

Another Summon, Bahamut, is besides connected the mode down having present deed astir $26. It’s inactive dropping, too, and fixed it tin beryllium an perfect ‘big finish’ to a crippled (and has 9/9 for its stats), it’s worthy a look.

Finally, Tifa Lockhart has besides seen a drop. She’s down to astir $5, having been treble that conscionable a fewer weeks ago.

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.