MTG Price Spikes: Sphinx Sovereign Triples, Polymorph Keeps Climbing
Four Magic: The Gathering cards rose in price in this community report: Sphinx Sovereign has roughly tripled, while Polymorph is up for a second straight week. All figures below are reported, not official.
Sphinx Sovereign Price Spike and The Ur-Sphinx
Sphinx Sovereign, a Shards of Alara mythic, sat at around $1 for months. Its market price is now around $3, according to MTGStocks.
Listings for near-mint copies on TCGplayer start well north of $10.
The supply picture explains some of the nerves: there is only one printing, a mythic rare from nearly two decades ago, with no Commander reprint and no bonus sheet printing.
The report blames The Ur-Sphinx, which it says has lifted playable and questionable sphinxes alike for more than a month.
TCGKing's take: a card that triples from $1 on the back of a single commander is following that commander, not its own merits. Asking prices more than three times the market price are a gap worth noticing before you click buy.
Polymorph, Divergent Transformations and Jace, Multiverse Architect
Polymorph has now gone up two weeks running, and the increase has reached several different printings. Current prices for it are not given.
Jace, Multiverse Architect tops the EDHREC charts as the most-built commander of the last month, with over 11,000 new lists. Though it has existed for under a month, it has moved up to roughly #160 among all commanders.
With its −3, you exile a different creature or planeswalker that you control. You then reveal cards from your library until another creature or planeswalker turns up, and that card goes straight onto the battlefield.
Divergent Transformations, also covered the previous week, has kept rising. Two target creatures get exiled, after which every controller reveals cards until they find another creature and drops it onto the battlefield. It has undaunted and costs seven mana before reductions.
Bronzebeak Foragers and Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
Bronzebeak Foragers, a dinosaur from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander, went from under $1 to more than $3. Near-mint copies are listed even higher.
The report ties it to the increasingly strong cEDH results of Dack Fayden, Helping Hand. The same commander drove the Radiant Solar jump two weeks earlier.
Once Foragers enters the battlefield, you may exile up to one nonland permanent controlled by each opponent, and it stays exiled until Foragers leaves the battlefield.
EDHREC lists it in only about 17% of all Dack Fayden decks, though it appears fairly often in cEDH lists.
What it means for players
- Sphinx decks: Sphinx Sovereign has no reprint, and none is mentioned.
- Polymorph and Divergent Transformations are both rising in price.
- cEDH Dack Fayden players: Foragers sits in a minority of all Dack lists, so its price tracks cEDH results.
What is still unknown
- Whether the increases will last.
- Whether Sphinx Sovereign or other sphinxes will be reprinted.
- Exact current market prices for Polymorph and Divergent Transformations.
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