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Four MTG Cards Spiked on Hobbit Treasure Hype. The Headline Prices Are Already Wrong.
Mastermind Plum and Rain of Riches jumped nearly 400% on Smaug hype. What they're actually worth today, and which spike has legs.
The Mystery Booster Commander Edition Cards That Are Legal in Zero Formats
Ten acorn-stamped Alchemy cards are coming to paper, foil only. Last time this happened it produced a $169 uncommon nobody can play.
The Hobbit's Dwarvish Language Cards: Five Mythics Nobody Can Read
Five Collector Booster mythics printed in runes, one of them preordering at 120x its normal price. What Phyrexian cards say about whether that holds.
Your MTG Collection Got Stolen. What Actually Helps You Get It Back.
Card theft is common and recovery is rare. Here's what actually moves the odds, and why most of your binder is untraceable by design.
The Hatsune Miku Secret Lair Commander Deck Drops August 10. Here's What the Reprints Are Worth.
A Miku Sol Ring from 2024 sits at $55. The normal one is a buck and change. That gap is the whole story of this deck.
Are Your MTG Tokens Worth Anything? Mostly No, But Check These
Out of 3,291 token printings, 25 are worth over $20. Here's where the value hides and whether MTG tokens belong in your collection at all.
The Full Hobbit Commander Reprint List Is Out. It's Collector Boosters Only.
37 reprints, 12 new cards, and the only door into the set is a $37.99 pack. Here's what that actually does to your LTR singles.
Mystery Booster: Commander Edition Lands November 13. What It Does to Your Staples.
A Commander-draft Mystery Booster is coming, and one of the two revealed cards breaks deck construction rules. Here's what MB2 actually did to prices.
What an MTG Master Set Actually Costs (and Where the Boundary Is)
A Bloomburrow base set runs about $288. The master set is $5,328, and two cards are most of that. Here's how to draw your own boundary.
A Marvelous Mathoms Superdrop: The Reprint Math on The Hobbit's Secret Lairs
Two of the five Hobbit Secret Lair drops are public. Here's what the reprints are actually worth, and why the token drop might be the best one.