The gap between two copies of Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph is $76.99 today. One’s the regular card, the other’s surge foil, and a Warhammer 40K reprint means something different for each. I’d want to know which one was in my binder before reacting to the headline.
On October 8, Wizards confirmed to IGN that it had completed a small reprint of the Commander decks, with stock reaching distributors and stores soon. Availability will vary by region. Star City Games reports that the regular versions are returning; a Collector’s Edition reprint hasn’t been announced.
I’ve got some correcting to do. In July’s look at the valuable 40K singles, I leaned too hard on the idea that their supply was effectively fixed. I also speculated about licensing being an obstacle. Whatever the contractual details actually are, Wizards has now demonstrated that it can put more of these decks into distribution. My old explanation needs that qualification attached to it.
The Warhammer 40K reprint has a size problem
The confirmed information fits into a short paragraph. There’s a small reprint. Stores and distributors will receive stock soon. Availability depends on region. The announcement gives us no numerical print run, firm worldwide arrival date, or new retail price. IGN explicitly notes that Collector’s Editions haven’t been confirmed.
I don’t actually know whether “small” means enough for every interested local shop to get a case, or enough for the largest distributors to spend an afternoon disappointing people. That’s an important missing number if you’re trying to forecast a price floor.
The four products are Tyranid Swarm, Necron Dynasties, Forces of the Imperium, and The Ruinous Powers. Wizards’ original decklist page identifies their contents and explains that the Collector’s Editions contain surge-foil cards and tokens. The new report describes a reprint of the decks. I’d use those lists to identify the cards exposed to fresh supply, while waiting for stores to confirm the precise products they’ve been allocated.
Sealed regular decks have the most direct competition. Someone who wants a complete Necron deck can buy an older sealed copy or fresh stock of the same product. A seller asking a scarcity premium will have to contend with whatever the shop down the road charges, assuming that shop gets any.
That last bit is doing a lot of work. A store having an order form and a store having confirmed stock at a stated price are different stages of the process. If you’re buying, ask about the delivered price, allocation, expected arrival, and cancellation terms. A preorder with an uncertain delivery date is still money you can’t spend elsewhere.
I’d wait for those details before paying a big sealed-deck premium. Although I can argue myself out of waiting if the deck is for a birthday next weekend. A vague restock won’t turn up in time to be a present, and there’s a perfectly reasonable point where paying extra buys you a finished errand. For my own shelf, I can wait.
Four singles I’d put on the watch list
These are Scryfall’s USD reference prices checked October 9, 2026. Each row compares the regular 40K printing with its separate surge-foil printing. They aren’t buylist offers or a promise that your played copy sells at the displayed number; the distinction between market prices and actual listings gets especially annoying when supply is moving.
| Card | Regular 40K | Surge foil 40K |
|---|---|---|
| Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph | $33.29 | $110.28 |
| Sceptre of Eternal Glory | $20.11 | $48.68 |
| Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch | $20.44 | $37.95 |
| Blood for the Blood God! | $8.41 | $18.04 |
Ghyrson comes from Tyranid Swarm. Sceptre comes from Necron Dynasties. Exalted Flamer and Blood for the Blood God! come from The Ruinous Powers. Those concentrations are useful: someone opening a Chaos deck for one card can make several other singles available if they sell the pieces they don’t need.
I like Sceptre as a test case because its appeal reaches beyond people collecting Warhammer characters. It costs four mana and can tap for three mana of one color once you control at least three lands with the same name. That makes it attractive in decks with plenty of same-named basics, while limiting how freely a multicolor deck can use the bigger ability. The people buying it have a specific job for it.
Fresh Necron decks create more Sceptres. The eventual price also depends on how many decks people open, how many copies get listed, and how many players have been waiting for a cheaper one. Existing demand can absorb a modest restock. A larger or repeated restock would be a different situation, and we haven’t been given evidence for either scale yet.
I’m reluctant to put percentages on this. Saying “a twenty-dollar card will lose half its value” sounds satisfyingly concrete, but I’d be making up the half. The usual reprint pressure applies: buyers get alternatives, sellers compete, and prices can soften. The announcement alone doesn’t tell us how far.
And if you already own the copy sleeved into your deck, there’s a cost to getting too clever. Sell it, pay fees, wait, buy it again, pay shipping. A small paper saving can disappear between those steps. I’d reserve that exercise for spare copies I already intended to move.
The surge-foil column needs its own record
Ghyrson’s surge foil is roughly 3.3 times the regular price. Sceptre’s is about 2.4 times. Those premiums are visible in the current card data; keeping them after the restock will depend on buyers continuing to want those treatments.
The direct supply case is different because a Collector’s Edition reprint hasn’t been confirmed. More regular cards can still influence the foil market. A player choosing between treatments might settle for a cheaper regular copy, while someone collecting a complete surge-foil deck may continue searching for that exact finish. I wouldn’t assume those two buyers respond identically.
So, wait. Check the actual card. The shiny one? Which shiny one? The regular decks also had foil face commanders, so “it came from a normal box” doesn’t settle everything. Pull up the printing. Tilt it under a lamp. Then decide whether that price alert belongs to your copy.
I once put a regular Necron card back in a Collector’s Edition deckbox after borrowing a friend’s deck for an evening. Spent the next week wondering why one card looked so flat. The deckbox was apparently doing all the authentication in my head, which is a fairly stupid way to catalog anything.
Scryfall separates the surge versions here with a star in the collector number: Ghyrson’s regular copy is 124 and the surge foil is 124★. Sceptre uses 166 and 166★. Use the actual treatment and number when checking a scan result. Selecting a generic foil setting against the wrong printing can leave you comparing an empty price field with a three-figure card.
For a small 40K holding, I’d make two inventory groups: regular cards exposed to the announced restock, and Collector’s Edition surge foils awaiting clearer news. Record quantities, condition, and today’s reference price alongside the printing. In Eldwyn, check the matched card details as you scan; keep a separate dated note or export for the baseline you want to compare later.
A sealed deck deserves its own entry outside the singles total. Counting its unopened contents as available singles and also recording the sealed product value would count the same cardboard twice. If the deck’s already opened, work from the cards actually present, especially if you’ve upgraded it or lent pieces to another deck.
My next check would be when a local shop can confirm its allocation and price. After that, I’d compare singles again once fresh decks are physically arriving. An October 9 quote and an arrival-week quote give you something useful to work with. A collection total that silently changes every morning leaves you trying to remember whether the missing twenty dollars was Ghyrson or something you traded away on Tuesday.