It’s about time I changed things up with my articles, so I thought that for my first article of 2022 I’d talk about some Modern cards. Ones that are also semi-relevant in EDH. Ground-breaking, right?

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Ice-Fang Coatl (OBF)

Price today: $5
Possible price: $15

Ice-Fang has been a relevant card in Modern since its first printing back in Modern Horizons 1, and the current flavour of its inclusion is in the 4/5 colour Yorion Blink decks, many of which are running the full playset of flying snakes. Previous to this Ice-Fang has been played in a variety of different Uro (RIP) decks and Omnath decks, and will continue to see play in these sorts of builds in Modern.

Old-border foils are currently available for around $5 on TCGPlayer, but there aren’t too many copies under $7 or so before the price starts to ramp up. It won’t be long before we see $10 for this card (Europe is there already), and I think it will continue to rise towards $15 within the next 6 months or so. At a little over 4000 on EDHREC it’s not a huge EDH player compared to some of the other MH1 cards, but there will definitely be some demand for OBFs coming from that sector of players, which should help to push prices up a little bit.

Neoform (Foil)

Price in Europe: €4 ($4.50)
Price in US: $12
Possible price: $20

Speaking of two mana cards that cost GU, here’s another one for you. Neoform had its time in the sun back when the Neoform Griselbrand deck was a thing in Modern, but it’s currently seeing some play in an incredibly interesting Craterhoof Affinity deck. Yep, you read that right, Craterhoof Affinity. The deck tries to power out an early Myr Enforcer, Sojourner’s Companion or Thought Monitor which it can then Neoform into your Craterhoof to push through silly amounts of damage with huge Frogmites and Ornithopters.

It may be that this deck is just a flash in the pan, but the point stands that Neoform is a flexible card that will see at least some Modern play for the foreseeable future, on top of it being a very popular EDH card. At over 15,000 decks on EDHREC it’s easy to see why foils of this card are already $12 on TCGPlayer – but never fear, we can get cheaper copies in Europe.

Supply isn’t very deep but if you snag some copies around $5 then they should be great to either hold in Europe or ship over to the US. Even if you can find $10 copies in the US I think that they will be good to hit $20 before we see a foil reprint, as supply just isn’t high enough to keep up with demand.

Turntimber Symbiosis (FEA)

Price today: $10
Possible price: $25

Continuing with some of the more niche Modern decks being played at the moment, I wrote about Goblin Charbelcher a few weeks ago, and I hope that you bought some foils when I suggested to do so, because they’re a lot more expensive now than they were! Charbelcher is still putting up some decent results here and there in Modern, and it’s got me looking at some other cards from the deck.

Turntimber Symbiosis is seeing roughly the same amount of play in Modern as Shatterskull Smashing, and is in close to the same number of EDH decks (11.6k vs 14.7k), and yet the FEAs are half the price. I think that this should be due for a correction before long, and so Turntimber FEAs at $10 seem pretty attractive right now. Any “Oops, All Spells” decks like Charbelcher are always going to be playing four of these, and they’re a strong EDH card that can replace a land in your deck – something that EDH players love. 12 months out or less I can see this hitting $20-25, if not sooner to bring it more in line with Shatterskull Smashing.

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David Sharman (@accidentprune on Twitter) has been playing Magic since 2013, dabbling in almost all formats but with a main focus on Modern, EDH and Pioneer. Based in the UK, he’s an active MTG finance speculator specialising in cross-border arbitrage.

We’ve come to the end of another year, and instead of looking back on what we’ve been buying in 2021, I want to look forward to 2022. The past year has been a decent one for buying cardboard and a bad one for most everything else, but thankfully I’m here to talk about the former and not the latter. Today’s picks are going to be aimed at a one year trajectory, so we’ll check back in with them at the end of 2022 and see where we landed!

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Kaldra Compleat (Showcase Foil)

Price today: $10
Possible price: $30

For a deck full of pretty bad cards, Hammer Time is still tearing up the Modern format every week, with a few different iterations and variations being played around with but the core remaining pretty much the same. One of the ‘fun-ofs’, a sometimes food for the deck, is Kaldra Compleat – it doesn’t quite pack the same +10/+10 punch as the Hammer itself, but has a whole slew of keywords that can help to push damage through where the Hammer fails.

You’ll find it here and there in Hammer lists and is also a relatively popular EDH card, found in around 5000 decks listed on EDHREC. I like the look of its supply levels and price ramp on TCGPlayer at the moment, partially because the Showcase foils are actually cheaper than the regular foils right now by a few bucks. Showcase foils are starting at $10 whereas regular foils are up at $14, and I think that’s due for a correction. I think the Showcase versions look pretty good, and don’t deserve to be lower than the version that has more supply.

There are a decent number of $10 around at the moment, but it’s not long before it jumps to $15 and then $20, and given a year I think that this MH2 mythic will see a nice jump once supply really dries up. We won’t be seeing this Showcase version again for a while, and so picking these up now seems like a good move for an easy double or triple up.

Katilda, Dawnheart Prime

Price in Europe: €0.20 ($0.25)
Price in US: $0.50
Possible price: $1

Onto something a little less exciting for my next pick, Katilda, Dawnheart Prime (not to be confused with Katilda, Dawnheart Martyr from Crimson Vow, because those names in subsequent sets were obviously a great idea) is the fifth most popular commander from Midnight Hunt and a reasonably popular card in the 99 as well. The protection from Werewolves ability probably isn’t what you’re playing this card for, but turning all your Humans into mana dorks is pretty great and having an anthem effect on top of that is even better.

I don’t think that this will make its way into Modern Humans anytime soon (not that that’s much of a force in the format at the moment anyway), but should be a fairly popular EDH and casual card for a while. Playing it as a two mana commander that can help ramp you into bigger spells quite quickly is strong, and the third ability keeps it relevant into the late-game as well, especially if you’re playing around with +1/+1 counter synergies.

It’s close to bulk prices at the moment, especially if you’re shopping in Europe, and I think that it’s going to be a good buylist target a little way down the road. 12 months out I expect to see this buylisting for $0.80 – $1; CardKingdom will often pay close to retail for strong casual cards in non-foil and so that’s where I’ll be looking.

Damn (Old-Border Foil)

Price today: $4
Possible price: $10

Jumping back to Modern Horizons 2 for my last pick today, I think that Damn is underpriced at the moment. It’s the 3rd most popular card from the set in terms of percentage inclusion, and I don’t see a good reason that it shouldn’t be in almost every black-white EDH deck that you build. Strong spot removal with an option to board-wipe attached is fantastic flexibility in one card, and at two and four mana, spells really don’t get much better than that.

In terms of different versions, the retro foils and FEAs are the ones to look at here, and although it’s currently the cheaper version, I think that the retro foil is the one to focus on. In my opinion you can’t really beat the look of the old frames and the foils just look excellent, so at $4 I think they’re a steal. At $7 the FEAs aren’t too bad either and it might be worth grabbing a couple of those too because they’ll likely be following a similar trajectory, but my pick for today is the OBFs.

They’re actually more expensive in Europe at the moment so no luck with arbitrage there, but the $4 copies on TCGPlayer are definitely good enough to pick a stack up. A year down the road I can see these cruising to $10 and maybe higher, especially if it starts to see play in Modern (which is highly possible given the power level of the card).

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That’s all from me today, and I’ll see you in the new year with more pieces of cardboard to spend your money on. Happy holidays!

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David Sharman (@accidentprune on Twitter) has been playing Magic since 2013, dabbling in almost all formats but with a main focus on Modern, EDH and Pioneer. Based in the UK, he’s an active MTG finance speculator specialising in cross-border arbitrage.

I’ve spent the past few weeks talking about various things that aren’t the Modern format, and so I think I need to correct that in this week’s article. Today I’m taking a look at some of the decks a little lower down the tier lists that are still competitive and can put up strong results, but might not be the main focus of attention when people are talking about Modern.

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Goblin Charbelcher (EMA Foil)

Price today: $5
Possible price: $20+

Goblin Charbelcher has been a Legacy deck for a long time now, but the lack of as many free mana sources like Elvish Spirit Guide and Land Grant have meant that the deck hasn’t really been viable in Modern before. However, with the MDFCs from Zendikar Rising the deck has seen a little bit of Modern play over the past few months, and more recently it’s been putting up some strong results in Modern leagues and challenges.

The MDFCs mean that you don’t need to play any ‘real’ lands at all, and unless your opponent is playing Counterspells or Thoughtseize then it’s actually a relatively difficult deck to interact with, pre-sideboarding at least. Being able to go off on turn 1 with a Pact of the Titan into Infernal Plunge is pretty silly, and your opponent will be dead before they know what hit them.

This deck isn’t by any means the top tier strategy in Modern at the moment, but it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on, and foil Charbelchers are few and far between. The only two foil printings are the original Mirrodin – which are close to non-existent on the market now – and the Eternal Masters reprint, which still have a few hanging around at reasonable prices. There are a few EMA foils on TCGPlayer around $5 and some more in Europe even cheaper than that, but not many before you’re paying $10+ for them. Anyone picking these foils up for Modern is going to be grabbing them four at a time, so I’d expect to see supply drain pretty quickly once people start looking that way.

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (Old Border)

Price today: $25
Possible price: $50

From one combo deck to another, the Yawgmoth combo has been around in Modern pretty much since the card’s release, using the deck’s namesake with Blood Artist and Undying creatures to drain your opponent out. I wrote a little while ago about the deck having picked up Grist, the Hunger Tide as an additional piece of utility, and although again this deck may not always be at the top of the tables, it puts up strong results and helps to drive prices.

It’s also of note that Yawgmoth is a very popular EDH card, with over 2300 decks on EDHREC using him as the commander and a further 20,000 listing him as part of the 99. With just the original MH1 printing and the old border reprint, supply isn’t exactly on the high side and old border foils are already $170. I think that the old border non-foils are a good opportunity here; with some copies as low as $25 they’re actually a little cheaper than the original MH1 non-foils.

I don’t think we’ll see this card printed again very soon, especially in the old border, and people wanting a premium version that can’t splash close to $200 on the OBF are going to be looking to the non-foils as an alternative. I think that they’ll go from $25 to $35 in the blink of an eye, and cruise on towards $40-50 without much trouble in the next 12 months.

Obosh, the Preypiercer (FEA)

Price today: $9
Possible Price: $20

Rounding off today’s picks with a card I’ve written about once before, Obosh, the Preypiercer is one of the few companions that sees Modern play for which you can still get FEA copies for under $10 – but it’s not going to stay that way for much longer. Obosh shows up here and there as a companion for various red aggro/burn decks, and is a reasonably popular EDH card alongside that.

It’s not too difficult to satisfy Obosh’s companion requirements, as is evident by some of the decks it’s being included in. You can stock your deck full of one- and three-mana spells and then cheat on mana by playing cards like Bonecrusher Giant to round out your curve, and Obosh can provide a very powerful late-game boost to damage if, heaven forbid, your aggro deck ends up going past turn five.

FEAs for Obosh are still available around $9 on TCGPlayer, but I predict that those are going to dry up in the next few months. Back in August I called Kaheera, the Orphanguard from $15 (or $6 if you got them in Europe) up to $30 and it’s already surpassed that at $35, and I think that Obosh will see similar gains up to and over $20. Supply isn’t very deep either in the US or Europe, and it won’t take a lot to move this needle.

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David Sharman (@accidentprune on Twitter) has been playing Magic since 2013, dabbling in almost all formats but with a main focus on Modern, EDH and Pioneer. Based in the UK and a new writer for MTGPrice in 2020, he’s an active MTG finance speculator specialising in cross-border arbitrage.

Last week I wrote about some Mystical Archive cards from back when Strixhaven was released earlier this year, and it got me taking a look at some cards from the main set as well. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that the time to spec has passed on a good number of these cards, but I think I’ve found some good picks from the set that still have potential – let me know if you agree!

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Storm-Kiln Artist

Price in Europe: €0.10-0.20 ($0.11-0.23)
Price in US: $1.75

The time has indeed passed to be picking up this uncommon on the US side of the pond, but over in Europe they’re much cheaper and offer a great opportunity for some arbitrage. Storm-Kiln Artist has proved to be the most popular EDH card from Strixhaven; at over 21,000 inclusions on EDHREC the only other cards from the set that come close to it are Archmage Emeritus and Wandering Archaic at around 17-18k. Storm-Kiln’s first ability is fine and all, but isn’t really what makes this a great card – creating Treasures whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell is a very quick way to generate a huge amount of mana and chain off a bunch of spells, especially if you’ve got a decent draw engine or spells to work with. It can pretty easily go infinite with spell cost reducers too, and has become a staple in those kinds of spell-slinging EDH decks.

Prices on this are still super cheap in Europe – as is often the case on EDH-only cards – and you can grab a bunch for shipping over to the US. CardKingdom buylist is already paying $0.80 cash on these so there’s great immediate value there, and if you’re minded to do so you can probably ride these up even further in a couple of months or so. I would be cautious of holding these too long because it could easily be something we’d see reprinted in a Commander product or similar, so getting out while the going’s good could be the play here.

Culling Ritual (FEA)

Price today: $12
Possible price: $25

I honestly think that Culling Ritual should be in the vast majority of green-black EDH decks that aren’t specifically focused around maintaining a board of tokens or other low mana value cards. The ability to wipe out early mana rocks, troublesome creatures and/or enchantments is powerful enough in its own right, and getting a temporary mana boost whilst doing so is even better. Enough people on EDHREC seem to agree with me too; this is the second most popular multicoloured card from the set and has been put into nearly 12,000 decks listed there.

I think that this will continue to be a very popular form of removal for EDH decks in the future too, and the FEAs have been draining to the point where there’s quite a steep ladder forming on TCGPlayer. There are only 27 listings and very few of those are under $15, and I don’t think it will be long at all before this is a $20-25 card.

Prices in Europe are a little cheaper at the moment, around €7-8, so if you can grab copies there then I would. Stock is similarly low across the board though, so if you’re wanting to pick up any personal or spec copies then I wouldn’t hang around on these.

Reconstruct History (Foil)

Price today: $0.25
Possible price: $1

Another uncommon to finish things off for today, I think that Reconstruct History is currently a little underrated in EDH and deserves more love than it’s getting. Red and especially white aren’t known for their graveyard recursion abilities, at least compared to the other colours – green has infinite Regrowth effects, black reanimates without any trouble and blue has enough Archaeomancer effects to stock a whole deck.

Red and white historically lack those kinds of cards, and so Reconstruct History being able to potentially bring back as many as five different cards for just four mana is pretty huge. At around 5500 EDHREC inclusions it’s clear this is a fairly popular card, and I think it’ll prove to be a popular choice in a lot of red-white EDH decks that need to be able to grind some sort of recursion out of their cards.

Foils are currently around $0.25 and relatively plentiful for the time being, but I think that you could pick up a stack of these and wait for a nice buylist option a year or two down the line. The foils will steadily drain and I wouldn’t be surprised to see buylists get up to $0.50 or $1 given time.

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David Sharman (@accidentprune on Twitter) has been playing Magic since 2013, dabbling in almost all formats but with a main focus on Modern, EDH and Pioneer. Based in the UK and a new writer for MTGPrice in 2020, he’s an active MTG finance speculator specialising in cross-border arbitrage.