Magic Market Watch: Lorwyn Eclipsed Has Caused Elemental Cards to Rapidly Spike in Value

It besides puts non-Elementals backmost successful their owners’ hands, and is simply a 5/5 with Flying for bully measure. It’s selling for astir $10, having gone for (according to TCGplayer data) a azygous cent successful caller months.

Next up, Eddymurk Crab. Another Elemental (Crab), this 1 has Flash and costs little to formed for instants and sorceries successful your graveyard. It besides taps people creatures and is simply a 5/5 successful its ain right. It’s sitting astatine nether a dollar close now, but has spiked from being worthy adjacent to thing not agelong ago.

Moving from Blue to Black, and Elementals to thing a small much demonic, Doomsday Excruciator is simply a paper that’s “spiked” to astir 2 dollars. Not a lot, sure, but this six-cost, 6/6 with Flying was fractional of that past week. It exiles each but six of everyone’s cards, and dares you to decorativeness a lucifer much rapidly by giving you an other draw.

Pairing nicely with that is Insatiable Avarice, which forces a subordinate to suffer beingness and gully 3 cards. This 1 is up to astir $15 astatine the clip of writing, but was $2 conscionable a mates of weeks ago.

Harvester of Misery jumped from $3 to astir $18 (with immoderate sellers shipping it for overmuch more). This 5/4 with Menace dishes retired -2/-2 to different creatures, and that mightiness beryllium capable to trigger a large with the Blight Curse precon.

Crashers

Now that Lorwyn has been released, we’ve got a fewer Crashers from the latest acceptable that are worthy a pickup.

Everyone went huffy for Hexing Squelcher, with the Goblin Sorcerer preventing counters and dishing retired Ward. It’s not astir $18, down from $50 earlier launch.

Another large driblet is the 6/6 dragon, Spinerock Tyrant. It deals harm arsenic -1/-1 (making it a Blighter’s dream), and doubles up spells. Now, it’s nether $3, having been adjacent to $30 astatine pre-launch prices.

Sticking with large numbers, Curious Colossus is simply a 7/7 that makes everyone else’s carnal a 1/1. If you tin brace that with a Massacre Wurm oregon thing similar, you tin committee hitch an full array successful the precocious game. It’s present nether $3.

Finally, Ashling, Rekindled is simply a 1/3 that transforms into Ashling, Rimebound to make much mana. It’s a inexpensive paper successful presumption of mana cost, but it’s present conscionable $2 - down from $15.

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