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Magic: The Gathering saw a nice, precise invited shake-up this week with the uncover of caller bans - and the property of Vivi Ornitier is implicit arsenic a result.
That’s meant the troublesome mage has dropped successful value, but determination are PlayStation synergies abound for Secret Lair and more. Here’s this week’s Crashers and Climbers.
Climbing
Dockside Extortionist is getting different notation this clip around. It’s getting a reprint successful the Avatar Bonus Sheet, and portion it’s not unbanned arsenic yet, that could ever change. The non-Universes Beyond mentation is climbing to astir $24 close now, having been $20 oregon truthful conscionable a week oregon 2 ago.
Dockside Extortionist
Next up, those clever folks astatine Wargamer person spotted different climber with Dystopia. A paper that dates backmost to 1996 (good lord), and it’s connected the up, having been $4 precocious and present reaching adjacent to $20.
Dystopia
Thanks to immoderate synergy with the PlayStation Secret Lair Nathan Drake card, Thieving Varmint is climbing to astir $10 and gives you mana to play connected spells that aren’t yours - perfect for Drake’s thievery.
Thieving Varmint
Case of the Uneaten Feast, from Murders astatine Karlov Manor, is climbing, too. For a azygous mana you get beingness per carnal entering the battlefield, and past you tin bring cards backmost from your graveyard. It was 30 cents, but it’s up to 50 cents and climbing.
Case of the Uneaten Feast
Crashing
Look, it had to hap eventually. Vivi Ornitier, which has been a symptom successful the rear extremity for some, portion wholly homogenizing the meta for others, is crashing aft the prohibition announcement.
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER/Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
Sticking to Final Fantasy, Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER is present nether $30 for the archetypal clip successful a portion and flips implicit to crook into the One-Winged Angel variant, portion Tifa, Martial Artist, is present nether a dollar having been 1 of the much absorbing paper designs successful the Commander decks from the set.
Tifa, Martial Artist
Starting Town, which taps for colorless oregon immoderate colour astatine the outgo of 1 life, and acts arsenic a cleanable aboriginal crippled ramp, is down to nether $10.
Starting Town
Finally, I picked up much of the Warhammer Commander Decks, and was amazed to find that the header Commander of the Necron Dynasties Deck, Szarekh, the Silent King, is good nether a dollar - neat!
Szarekh, the Silent King
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.
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Nov 17, 2025 9:00 pm
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