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Early Prices and Movers for Tarkir: Dragonstorm

The new set is out and it is a doozy, with a new negative-space showcase for clan cards, a very cool halo foil treatment, and all sorts of odes to out winged overlords, may their scales never stop shining. 

With the buying frenzy now unlocked for everyone, not just presellers on TCGPlayer, let’s take a look at what’s gone down, what’s gone up, and where some of these are going to go from here. 

One thing I want to make clear: EDHREC is not a useful stat this first week, it’s more about enthusiasm than anything else but the cards aren’t always added in time. I like having the EDHREC number, it’s a useful piece of data, but the people building decks there are hardcore, eager to be first. So while I often have EDHREC numbers for something like this, today, that’s not a piece of data that I’m using for assessing where we’re at and where we might be going. 

I’ve also updated prices to Saturday (4/12) morning. 

Mox Jasper Serialized – This has a lot of unique things going for it. I am a big fan of using special art for the serialized cards, instead of just slapping the number on something that looks pretty much the same. The art is done by the Mox Man himself, Dan Frazier, adding to the collectors who would be after this. It also sings to Dragon players, even if the card is only good after your first Dragon is in play. (Changelings are a spicy thing to do though!)

There were some early sales on eBay at $5,000, but it is now available under $3,000. In terms of quantities, ten sold so far, 22 left on the site ranging from $2700 to $6k.There’s a premium available if you’ve gotten it graded, but that’s always been the case. Edgar Markov is available for $2500-$3000 and I would expect this to settle in that range. 

Dragonscale Fetches – Gorgeous in hand, these are still trending downwards as I wrote about last week. That trend won’t last forever, though, more like one to three weeks before the prices start trending upwards. I won’t rehash it all here, but this is the pattern and the added bonus of the other five lands eventually showing up might turn these from personal use to serious spec. 

Halo foils – Even though these are twice as rare as dragonscale lands, they are all trending downwards. Ugin is flying very high indeed as people want the sweet copy for their colorless decks, and well they should. Ugin’s static ability whenever you play a colorless spell (read:artifact or Eldrazi) is ridiculous on just about every board state. We know artifacts are popular, we know people love their colorless tentacle beasts, so Ugin’s price will likely stay high for a while, even as the premium versions drift lower. 

The other Halo foils are trending down, though Elspeth might not go too much lower. Having the Anointed Procession as a built-in ability is powerful as hell, and Magic players do love having redundant copies in their lists. She’s currently at $300, and that’s within the realm of expected, when compared to raised/textured foils from older sets and the fracture foils. 

Dragon’s Eye Foil Lands – Expect these to hit an expensive point later on. I would wait a little longer before buying but these are popular as hell. Let the people who must have them get them, and you can move in later. They are currently riding a wave of interest, but once people have a chance to slow down, and we’re past the folks who instantly need a draft set of these lands, we’re off. They range from $7 to $10 right now for the foils and I’ll be surprised if they end up going below $5 for the foils.

I have to admit, I am very tempted by the nonfoils. There are Cubes and drafters and Commander players who’ll all want this art and once the price bottoms out on nonfoils, might be a great time to sock a bunch away and wait.

There’s only two cards that have gained hard early on, but they have REALLY gained. Cori-Steel Cutter is the first, up to $12, gaining nearly $10! It’s easy to imagine a control deck that wants to cast a draw spell and a removal spell and get a blocker, or just an aggressive deck casting this card, some other cheap spell, now you have a 2/2 trample haste coming in. It’s pretty amazing in multiples too, so people are going wild on this and if you have any copies, I’d be selling. Very few rares stay over $10 unless they are cross-format stars or staples, so whatever this hype is, you want to be feeding it, not holding and hoping. 

The other big gainer so far is Voice of Victory, up to $9 from its early price of $2. I can’t believe how cheap this is at only two mana, and it forces your opponent to react immediately or forever hold their peace. This is something all players want, the sure and certain knowledge that no one is going to mess with their creatures, spells, or plans. It’s got the right cost and aggression to be good in a range of formats, so while I don’t know if it’ll hold this $9 right now, this is something I’m thinking about as a spec down the line. 

Cliff (@WordOfCommander at Twitter and BlueSky) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the co-host of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.

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Dragons, Scales, Fractures, Fetches and Timing

We have gotten a lot of cards in the last few sets that have a combination of very low drop rates and very high demand, either due to art or being a staple in more than one format.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm takes that trend and cranks it up another notch, with the Dragonscale foil fetchlands being the perfect storm of people needing them, people wanting them, and having a low drop rate. 

I’ve been asked by folks on and offline some version of this question: “When should I buy the Dragonscale foils I want so much?” and today, I’m here to give you the best answer I can. 

Full disclaimer: I am going to be purchasing a set of these lands for myself. Let’s get that out of the way. I’m a well-known Dragon aficionado, and while I wish there was a complete set of these lands, I still want these gorgeous five. I tried to fight the urge, but I am who I am.

Last week, we established that Dragonscale foils have a drop rate of 1%, which means you should get one every 100 Collector Boosters you open of this set. Statistics are funny things: Some people will open 200 and get none, others will open 50 and get three. It’s probability, not a guarantee. 

Since there’s five fetches, the odds of you getting a specific one is 1 in 500 packs. That’s a boatload of product, but that’s also about three times the drop rate for a Fracture Foil Twinflame Tyrant in English, which was about 1 in 1500 packs. We have gotten some very rare treatments in recent sets, so let’s take a moment and look at what we’ve been given lately, including the # of packs needed to open a specific card in that treatment:

Treatment/FrameSetApprox. # of packs needed 
Halo Foil GhostfireTarkir: Dragonstorm1000
Fracture Foil in EnglishAetherdrift1515
Fracture Foil in EnglishFoundations1515
Showcase or Borderless MythicInnistrad Remastered118
Fracture Foil in EnglishDuskmourn1428
Raised Anime FoilBloomburrow574
Textured Foil MythicOutlaws of Thunder Junction: Off The Presses1500
Enchanting Tales Anime Confetti Mythic Wilds of Eldraine882

Innistrad Remastered sticks out like a sore thumb here, but that was a product with higher prices than the others on this list. Probably a lower print run, too, though we lack that specific data. I included Wilds of Eldraine because some of those confetti foils have really popped off, and are worth looking at on a long-term scale. 

Each of these sets has cards in a very rare treatment, though the aesthetic is markedly different. The current prices reflect a difference in play pattern, yes, but demand is hard to measure outside of price. We can look at each of these treatments, though, and see which cards are the most expensive.

Treatment/FrameSetCard NameCurrent priceEDHREC # of decks
Halo Foil GhostfireTarkir: DragonstormUgin, Eye of the Storms$400N/A
Fracture Foil in EnglishAetherdriftRadiant Lotus$3006100 decks
Fracture Foil in EnglishFoundationsLlanowar Elves$700549k decks
Showcase or Borderless Foil MythicInnistrad RemasteredEdgar Markov$35 (not a typo)29k as Commander (#3 in last two years)
Fracture Foil in EnglishDuskmournEnduring Vitality$21078k decks
Raised Anime FoilBloomburrowMs. Bumbleflower$61512k decks as Commander
Textured Foil MythicOutlaws of Thunder Junction: Off The PressesMana Drain$170412k decks
Enchanting Tales Anime Confetti Mythic Wilds of EldraineRhystic Study$700739k decks

Some of these prices I had to go back and double-check, especially Edgar. His Showcase foil frame version is easy to find under $40, which is pretty amazing given where his price was. He’d never been in a booster pack before, though. 
We know that the greater the demand for the card, the more expensive it will be, but it’s not a direct correlation. Ms. Bumbleflower is not a top card but her raised foil version is rare enough, and she’s popular enough, to keep her price sky-high. Llanowar Elves has recently sold out of every copy under $700, so while it had a dip at one point, the trend is clear and it’s not like anyone is mass-cracking Foundations at this point.

Mana Drain is really the outlier here. Yes, it has multiple premium printings, in that there was a borderless, an extended art, and even a judge foil, but this version is both the most expensive and (subjective opinion) it’s the most ugly. Wizards has tried a lot of art styles over the years, but this OTP frame has low prices for basically everything but this and Mindbreak Trap. The art also makes a big difference. Doubling Season is a 1/882 as a Confetti foil as well as being a 1/1500 for a Fracture Foil, and the Fracture version is about three times as expensive. It’s got cute anime kittens on it, and we know how much Magic players love a cute kitty.

Treatment/FrameSetCard NameCurrent priceEDHREC # of decks
Halo Foil GhostfireTarkir: DragonstormUgin, Eye of the Storms$400N/A
Fracture Foil in EnglishAetherdriftRadiant Lotus$3006100 decks
Fracture Foil in EnglishFoundationsLlanowar Elves$700549k decks
Showcase or Borderless Foil MythicInnistrad RemasteredEdgar Markov$35 (not a typo)29k as Commander (#3 in last two years)
Fracture Foil in EnglishDuskmournEnduring Vitality$21078k decks
Raised Anime FoilBloomburrowMs. Bumbleflower$61512k decks as Commander
Textured Foil MythicOutlaws of Thunder Junction: Off The PressesMana Drain$170412k decks
Enchanting Tales Anime Confetti Mythic Wilds of EldraineRhystic Study$700739k decks

Let’s look at these as TCGPlayer graphs over the last year. No point with Ugin, but we’ll look at these in order, most recent first.

Radiant Lotus:

Llanowar Elves:

Enduring Vitality:

Ms. Bumbleflower:

Mana Drain:

And Rhystic Study, but the card is more than a year since release, so keep that in mind:

For almost all of these, we can see that the price starts out high, and then takes a dip, and then rises into the stratosphere. Mana Drain remains the odd duck, but again, I think that’s depressed by the art. It’s not as obviously pretty/visually unique with fracture foils or confetti or something obvious and sparkly and shiny to say how rare it is. I have several raised foils in Commander decks, and they are hard to identify visually as being raised, even with a different frame than regular OTP. 

Bringing this all back: when should you buy your Dragonscale foils? (or, if you prefer, when do I plan to get mine?) I think the trend here is quite clear, even if the drop rate is relatively high at 1 in 500 for your specific fetchland. If you buy anytime the first week, that’s too early. Six weeks should see the beginning of the rise in these lands, and where they will stop I couldn’t say. So I’m aiming for about one month after the set is released. These are tough pulls, they go in a lot of decks, and Commander players like their shiny things, myself included. They won’t drop for long, if at all, and waiting just looks like it’ll cost us more.

There’s an additional layer here: We’re only getting five of the ten fetches in this treatment, currently. If the next set, or some other in the future, has the five allied fetches in this treatment, then we’re going to see these first five really take off as people build their set. I would love to know for sure that the other five are coming (I want a matched set!) but if the other five are ever announced one of the first effects will be that these five all jump in price. 

Hope this helps, and I really hope you open the one you need.

Cliff (@WordOfCommander at Twitter and BlueSky) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the co-host of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.

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The Mana Math of Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Welcome to the latest in the ongoing saga to take one set of numbers, spread out over many pages, and create easy-to-understand numbers. I do the work and the calculations To figure out the things we all want most: What am I likely to get when I open a Collector Booster?

My data is all taken from the Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm article and from the numbers of cards available in the set. Let’s get into it!

There’s three sets of numbers we need to look at today. This is information that ever since the Lord of the Rings sets, Wizards tries to obfuscate. They don’t want us to know how many of each card is printed, and that’s information we perfectly had in both LTR sets because they gave us the drop rate for those serialized cards. 

Since then, they don’t tell us exact information, just enough to avoid lawsuits. They also move around the information they are required to tell us, to make it difficult, but I’ve got the measure of their current methods, and while they might get more obscure later, right now, we can get lots of information. 

Today, we’re going to focus on the last three cards in a Collector Booster. The other slots have lands, commons and uncommons, and the Commander reprints, and those are much more prevalent than the cards put into these last slots. They are also generally worth less money, and so we don’t need to focus on them. If you really want to know about foil Dragon’s Eye lands (some badass lands, respectable) then you’ll get one about every 13 packs. If you want a specific land, multiply that by five for 65 packs, or just about two and a half boxes.

Our first table is going to address the two special nonfoil slots in a Collector Booster. 

This is relatively straightforward. Nothing is crazy rare, especially because you’re getting two slots. The odds per pack are in bold, because you get a second bite at the apple. Should some of the mythics in a Draconic frame become tournament staples, it’ll be good to know how often they were pulled from packs as people build nonfoil playsets. I especially want to call out the lands, at roughly 1 in 34 packs. These lands have a lot of potential, especially the blue one if control decks get out of hand (or in the mirror!) and we might need to know how many of those were running around. 

Also note that rare clan frame cards with the solid black text box are going to be the pull half the time per slot. Just over 25% of Collector Boosters are going to have two of those, back to back. These Boosters have always been swingy, but barring some awesome rares, those are going to sting pretty badly.

Now, let’s get to the spicy things. The last slot in a Collector Booster is where all the juicy foils can be found. Here’s the complete breakdown. 

The mythics are pretty darn rare, but numbers in the range of 250 are pretty standard by now. We’re used to that, and while it’s not common…it’s not going to be mega-difficult either, for the Draconic, Clan, or Reversible cards. That sort of drop rate tracks with the ‘premium but not top-tier’ level of rarity we’ve been seeing in Standard sets for a while, so that distribution hasn’t been changed much.

There is a change past that, though. The Special Guests for TDM are about a third more likely to show up than they were in Aetherdrift and twice as likely as in Duskmourn Collector Boosters. No one’s going to be complaining about extra fetchlands, though, so while we might get to spec on them I’ll be paying closer attention to the Ultimatums. 

Rarest of all will be the Dragonscale fetches and in a tier beyond that, the Halo Foil Ghostfire cards. We don’t have any Fracture Foils showing up at 1 in 1500 or anything wild like previous sets had. Instead, the Dragonscale fetches are twice as likely to show up in a pack as a Halo Foil Ghostfire Dracogenesis. Each category is 1%, yes, but because there’s five fetches and ten Halo Foil Ghostfire cards, we’ll end up with twice the quantity of Dragonscale lands. (Which is good. I need a set.)

I’m surprised they went away from the Fracture Foil model, considering how successful that treatment has been, but there’s unique art to the Ghostfire cards and that helps. Still, it’s important to know that for every two Fracture Foils of a card, there’s three Halo Foil Ghostfire of a card. (For English language, anyway. Japanese-language Fracture Foils are criminally underrated and overlooked, as I’ve written about and as we’ve covered on MTG Fast Finance)

Finally, let’s talk about the serialized Mox Jasper. Wizards no longer gives us precise information about the drop rate as they did early on, instead relying on the vague “less than 1%” but we can make some estimations. We know roughly how much profit Wizards makes from a Standard set’s Collector Boosters, and we can also surmise that because LOTR was a premium set, there’s more Standard printed. 

From there, it’s math:

Our estimates indicate that the print run for Collector Boosters is something like 4 million packs, or about 167,000 boxes of product. This is based on the print run of the two LOTR sets, the distributor pricing, and the relative profit gained. This is not locked in the way we were in Lord of the Rings, and if I could give you such certainty I would. If Wizards released the right data, I’d update this chart. With this model, it should take around 8,000 Collector Booster packs to open a serialized Mox Jasper. Or your odds are 0.013%, if that number is easier for you to think of.

I’ve also included a breakdown of what those numbers mean for the cards that will be the most widely used, the Dragonscale fetches. At our estimate, there’s 40,000 total, or eight thousand of each land. That means each Dragonscale land will have roughly 16 copies in circulation for each serialized Mox Jasper.

I understand that there will be greater demand for the special fetches, and so the ratio isn’t as important as the play pattern, but useful data remains useful data.  

If you have questions about my methods or the outcomes, please stop by my social media pages, leave a comment, or join the ProTrader Discord for lots more insights. Good luck cracking your packs!

Cliff (@WordOfCommander at Twitter and BlueSky) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the co-host of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.

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Are We Buying The ‘Our Boss Is On Vacation’ Superdrop?

We’ve gone from this being a Spongebob-only drop to a whole six-pack of extra drops coming along for the ride. Some of these are glorious, others thoroughly mid, and we need to look at the use cases and competition for these cards.

For each drop, I’m pulling the EDHREC data, which does have a caveat about prioritizing the most invested players and there’s a lot of ‘precon plus upgrade’ lists on the site. It’s good data to have, but it is not perfect data.

They Grow Up So Fast

Dragonlord Atarka

EDHREC: 300 as Commander/9k as card

Special Printings: 30th Play Promo Retro Foil ($15)

Dragonlord Ojutai

EDHREC: 1300 as Commander/15k as card

Special Printings: Borderless Foil (30th Countdown) ($9)

Dragonlord Silumgar

EDHREC: 300 as Commander/15k as card

Special Printings: Foil-Etched ($7), Secret Lair Showdown ($14/$265 foil)

Dragonlord Dromoka

EDHREC: 500 as Commander/35k as card

Special Printings: Borderless Foil ($18) and Foil-Etched ($18)

Dragonlord Kolaghan

EDHREC: 100 as Commander/10k as card

Special Printings: Secret Lair Foil ($14)

It’s hard to argue with five solid cards, although the inclusion rates could be higher. As a Dragon enthusiast, I can tell you that it is hard to be one of the 40 best Dragons of all time. You get a choice of arts here, as a 2 for 1, and you get the chance to play a matched set of Dragons too. All it takes for the average value to be $10 and this will end up a positive, and that is entirely dependent on how long they go before printing these again. I’m not confident of that–there’s been special printings within the last two years for most of these, and given the rate of new Dragons, I won’t be in a hurry to get these versions.

That said, I think this is the one most likely to sell out first, and if it goes even before Spongebob sells out (different quantities printed) then the FOMO could have this be a very profitable quick flip. My long-term expectations for these five are quite mediocre, though, and it’s hard to imagine these dragons being more than $15-$20 for the top two or three. 

Garden Buds

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

EDHREC: 2100 as Commander/86k as card

Special Printings: FEA ($18)

Elvish Reclaimer

EDHREC: 43k

Special Printings: MYB2 Future Frame ($4/$120 foil)

Harrow

EDHREC: 237k

Special Printings:40K Surge Foil ($6), Textless MPR nonfoil ($7)

World Shaper

EDHREC: 78k

Special Printings: None

Horn of Greed

EDHREC: 38k decks

Special Printings: None

The art style here is polarizing, since it’s just as much about the font and layout than the actual art. I’ve got to love the numbers here, from solid to staple, and there’s not a lot of fighting over special printings. I have a special place in my heart for all MPR cards, as someone who was able to get a lot of them during the heyday of the program, so I love this Harrow more than I should.

This is my favorite drop of the set from a finance perspective. The cards all have enough demand and there’s almost no other sweet versions competing for eyeballs and dollars. I will be getting a couple of these. 

Tragic Romance

Kaalia of the Vast

EDHREC: 23,400 as Commander (#8 in last 2 years), 3900 as card

Special Printings: 2X2 Borderless ($40), MH3 Borderless ($38/$97), MH3 Profile ($13/$19) , MH3 Foil-Etched ($7)

Skithryx, the Blight Dragon

EDHREC:1943 as Commander, 37k as card

Special Printings: MUL Foil-Etched ($15), Halo Foil ($55), Serialized ($450+)

Angel of Despair

EDHREC: 18k decks

Special Printings: Full Art Foil Store Championships ($2.50)

Master of Cruelties

EDHREC: 32k decks

Special Printings: 2X2 Foil Etched ($14), RVR Retro Foil ($3), Serialized ($160)

Kaalia was one of the original legends in Commander 2011, and has maintained her popularity due to the wide variety of decks that can be built around her. The Master of Cruelties combo isn’t as consistent as you might hope, but if you attack with Kaalia, drop the Master, they do need to have a blocker or they are indeed dead. Angel of Despair is an original include with Kaalia too, and good ol’ Skittles is a combo unto himself.

We’ve had a lot of ‘Commander plus staples of that Commander’s deck’ drops and mostly those have languished. Astarion and Karlach are more the exception than the rule, we’ve got examples such as Zaxara, Tovolar, and Animar who have seen their drops stay in their original price ranges, rather than zoom to the moon. Kaalia is a bold choice, one of the most popular yet, but Animar is #25 and that drop can be bought for a mere $30. There is room for this to be expensive, but most of the history indicates that if it does go up, it’ll take a long time to get there. 

Twisted Toons

Fatal Push

EDHREC: 22k decks

Special Printings: Secret Lair Showdown ($150), Secret Lair ($20), 2XM Borderless ($25/$16)

Silence

EDHREC: 159k decks

Special Printings: TSR Retro ($12/$86) Secret Lair ($30/$36)

Winds of Abandon

EDHREC: 49k decks

Special Printings: none

Culling the Weak

EDHREC: 105k decks

Special Printings: 2021 JPN Comic Promo ($24), MYB2 White Border ($6 nonfoil)

Young Wolf

EDHREC: 10k decks

Special Printings: INR Borderless (50¢ foil)

Wolf and Push have some decent play numbers outside of Commander, and it’s always nice to pick a card people need several of for Modern, instead of just one for Commander. Winds is a useful Commander card, and this being the first printing outside the regular frame is a nice bonus. I didn’t know Culling the Weak was such a popular card either!

It’s an interesting choice to go cartoony in the same Drop as your big Spongebob release, but that’s where we are. I think this drop has potential, since it’s got a great mix of EDH cards and cards that see Constructed play, but I’m not eager for this drop. 

Pick ‘em and Stick ‘em

Thalia, Heretic Cathar

EDHREC: 234 as Commander, 65k as card

Special Printings: 30th countdown Borderless ($5/$9), INR borderless ($1) and Retro (50¢) foils

Clever Impersonator

EDHREC: 64k decks

Special Printings: none

Hedron Crab

EDHREC: 32k decks

Special Printings: none

Pitiless Plunderer

EDHREC: 215k

Special Printings: Fallout Surge Foil ($24), SPG ($16/$24)

It’s always amused me that Hedron Crab is an $8 card because it lets you target yourself, and Ruin Crab is $1 because it’s opponents only. I think the sticker gimmick is exactly that, something that most people won’t bother with, and a potential nightmare for vendors. Having two first-time special cards, with good art, plus the staple of Plunderer, is enough to make this drop acceptable to me, but my expectations are low for the growth pattern. I think it’ll get there, but it’s going to take a longer time than I want. 

Secret Lair High: Class of ‘87

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

EDHREC: 11241 as Commander, 75k as card

Special Printings: none

Anje Falkenrath

EDHREC: 4843 as Commander, 6700 as card

Special Printings: none

Chulane, Teller of Tales

EDHREC: 7636 as Commander, 31k as card

Special Printings: none

Radha, Heart of Keld

EDHREC: 837 decks as Commander, 16k as card

Special Printings: FEA ($1.50)

We’ve had some unusual frames for cards, but it is an incredible choice to go all the way to the 1987 aesthetic for this. These aren’t super-popular cards, though Aesi is $10 due to Simic being always-busted. Under other circumstances, in the old SL model, this would have been my pick for ‘no one buys it, so it gets expensive.’ However, Wizards’ new model is to leave things on the SL site forever, as we wee with Halloween-theme cards like Chucky and Ghostbusters still freely available after nearly six months. This drop will languish on the site forever, and I want no part of it if I can help it.

They have announced that you’ll get a Deadeye Navigator for every $150 spent, and it’s a combotastic card that should fetch around $10, a fun bonus but nothing to get worked up about like the Seedborn Muse was. Bonus is bonus, though, and I appreciate having a little something extra. 

The bundles, if we’re lucky, will be somewhere in the 10% to 15% off range, going by previous drops. I’m not really interested in a mega-bundle of the entre drop, as there’s too many mediocre-to-bad drops for my taste here. This is my ranking:

  1. Spongebob Legends
  2. Spongebob Memes
  3. Spongebob Lands (Somehow in my article last week I missed that you get two of each land!)
  4. Garden Buds
  5. They Grow Up So Fast
  6. Tragic Romance
  7. Pick ‘em and Stick ‘em
  8. Twisted Toons
  9. Class of ‘87

Personally, I might get one all-foil drop and then focus on Spongebob. This summer is going to be an expensive time, with Final Fantasy being something I buy a LOT of, and having extras of these other lairs just doesn’t sing to me. I’m really hoping there is a Spongebob bundle, and then I can get individual Lairs, allowing me to get 10x of the foil memes and legends. I wouldn’t mind 5x of each of the nonfoils, but the legends and memes are the drops I’m maximizing for this Monday.

Cliff (@WordOfCommander at Twitter and BlueSky) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the co-host of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.

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