The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - September 8

Why the climb? Well, arsenic TCGPlayer points out, the paper featured successful a mono-red platform that won the Magic Spotlight Series: Planetary Rotation, and it’ll apt support doing good until it’s rotated retired of modular eventually.

That aforesaid platform besides featured our 2nd climber, the Razorkin Needlehead from Duskmourn, House of Horror (a acceptable that doesn’t get capable unrecorded successful my humble opinion).

This creepy lawsuit has archetypal onslaught connected your crook and deals 1 harm erstwhile your hostile draws a card, meaning you’re perpetually pinging them for harm with a paper that costs 2 reddish to cast.

It’s present up to implicit $8, having been little than $3 not agelong ago.

Next up, a spot of an ‘odd couple’. Temur Battlecrier is, arsenic we accidental successful the UK, ‘cheap arsenic chips’. It’s a three-cost paper that lowers the outgo of your spells if you person immoderate large creatures out, but its worth is connected the up acknowledgment to an quality successful an MTGO Standard Challenge.

It pairs with Outcaster Trailblazer, which is apt to spot a spike arsenic a result. This different fractional of the dynamic duo gives you mana erstwhile it enters, triggers the 4 powerfulness request of Temur Battlecrier to marque spells cheaper, and arsenic you bring successful further cards with 4 oregon much power, you get a paper to draw, too.

If you privation to enactment this combo together, Outcast Trailblazer volition outgo you nether a dollar close now, but expect it to climb.

Finally, for our climbers this week, Seize the Spotlight is seeing what could beryllium described arsenic a meteoric rise.

The sorcery, which tin let you to instrumentality power of opponents’ cards oregon gully and make treasure, was $4 not agelong agone but is present astir $9 and could ascent further.

Crashing

As we attack the extremity of Edge of Eternities, cards from this year’s sets are starting to driblet successful value.

The archetypal 1 that’s worthy mentioning is the Mythic rarity Ugin, Eye of the Storms from Tarkir: Dragonstorm.

This almighty colorless Planeswalker has a batch to like, and it’s dropping from implicit $30 to conscionable implicit $20 astatine the clip of writing.

Sticking with dragons, I wanted to constituent retired Atarka, World Render. She’s a 6/4 dragon that was my archetypal ever Commander, but she’s present conscionable 35 cents.

Given there’s ever immoderate amusive to beryllium had with dragons, that’s a debased outgo to springiness them treble strike.

Icetill Explorer from Edge of Eternities is yet dropping, having been implicit $20 successful caller weeks, and you tin drawback it for conscionable $12 close now.

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut was the speech of the municipality not agelong ago, but he’s down to conscionable $5 present if you privation the slick borderless creation version.

Finally, he’s inactive causing carnage successful standard, but astatine slightest Vivi Ornitier is present conscionable nether $35.

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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Sep 8, 2025 5:00 pm