Magic Top 10 Most expensive: The Gathering cards
EDIT Unfortunately, I made a mistake when indicating that Beta is rarer than Alpha Twitter first comments, I did some research and found this article by Chase Andres explains how rare is that Alpha Beta Apologies I've updated the article with similar cards instead of Alpha Beta when I could find an Alpha version, which is worth more than Beta classified that I had found.
I decided to write an article this week on the premise What is the most absurdly expensive platform that I could play a game of magic and still be competitive with the answer that you certainly will shock Like I done the research for this article, it amazed me how many rare and difficult species to find maps exist in the magical world many people know exists and Black Lotus is rare, but did you know that there was an impression of revision which was released earlier and reminded destroy did you know that some of it was not destroyed and still exists today instead These cards exist, and it is known as the summer magic cards prices this game will absolutely floor and I will later.
Before diving into the platform, I think the first question we all ask is what playmat could be used for a worthy platform for King Midas I suggest it According to the seller, it is rarer world play mat, which seems specific to a platform that would be really rare bridge in the world.
Although 350 is chump change compared to what the bridge, I will outline cost you.
The format of the platform will be vintage, not only for the power 9, but also for several other cards that are hard to find and can be played in Vintage I'll go with Sna control, a platform used by Jacob Dunn a recent event GP Melbourne Side because it contains most of the cards P9 we can all agree are the most sought after collectible cards in the game, in addition to Jace, the mind sculptor and other stupidly expensive cards this platform perfectly present how expensive a magical platform can get if you want to have, ostentatious platform the more impressive as you can imagine.
In addition, all I would acquire Alpha or Beta I will try to prefer the Alpha Beta version Beta Alpha version because collectors all agree that less Beta Alpha cards were more important than those maps Beta Alpha You will also notice a large number of foreign cards in this platform the reason why it must be because foreign cards for some languages were printed in far less quantities than their counterparts in other languages specifically Korean, Russian and Japanese are considered the most collectible sets especially in terms of leaves Note that the first Korean appeared in M12 with some also in Saga Urza, Visions, Storm, and 4th Ed, Russian appeared in the 9th and Japanese appeared in 4th edition, I'll try to stay with this order of selection throughout the platform.
OK, now's go through the list and how do all as expensive as possible.
4x Tarn Scalding Russian FOIL Zendikar Estimated 3,600.
I was not able to find a single Russian film Scalding Tarn sale online on eBay or other sites that I looked I found this ad ended March 10 for a set of game not Tarns -feuille Russian Burning 450 which is about 50 112 each based on the current ratio of non-leaf price sheet prices for scalding Tarn in English 106 40 non-sheet 247 60 I believe that a Russia sheet scalding Tarn sell for a minimum of 80 261 on the basis of the report 0 42 which I will refer now as a multiplier of the English price.
But with rare collectibles like this, regular multipliers go out the window Japanese leaves are comparable rarity in Russia, and Scalding sheet Tarns Japanese retails for about 600 on eBay Japanese nonleaf Scalding Tarns sell about 75 to from this playset complete announcement multiplier 0125 instead of 0 to 42 English foil and non-foil based on the multiplier copies, if I had a Russian paper Scalding Tarn and wanted to sell I would be in comfortable selling it for 900 112 50 for non -foil divided by 0125 multiplier Because we try to do the most expensive bridge, the four Scalding Tarns be a Russian sheet so that the final total comes to 3,600.
3x Tundra Revised SUMMER MAGIC 24,000.
Now I will tell the story of the summer magic According MTGSalvation was magical refers to printing the revised edition which had to be destroyed because of many errors in printing Some cards survived and were released, and booster packs of this edition are extremely rare.
To give you an idea of how rare the extract mentions that only about 40 Product boxes were never released to the public in terms of packages, which means that only 1,440 packets of this product never existed Apart tests printing and other rare oddities that are occasionally out of Wizards of the Coast, what are some of the rarest cards you can buy I am not even sure if three Tundra even any product However, the number pack I'm pretty confident they existed at one time assuming they still exist and you can find them, I based my price I found this ad on ABUGames whose prices a 8000 If you look at the picture, you can say that it is different from a revised generic underground sea because art is much darker and has a copyright date displayed.
I personally like the darker art because it gives the map a sharper appearance Even if the card is white edged with the usual brand of a valuable bridge is that all the cards are, I think Black Bordered, we can make an exception in this strange case, we are already 27600 and we only bought seven cards to date.
Before continuing, it usually noted among collectors as the Blue hurricane magic all summer is considered the rarest misprint exists These are currently about 16,000 on eBay Even though the hurricane is not in the game, it doesn t mean you can t make a casual platform which is still crazy expensive.
3x Delta Japanese FOIL Polluted Onslaught 5835 is about.
Since the Russian maps did not exist before 9th edition, will refer to the acquisition of Japanese foil Polluted Deltas Since I am not sure what the best offer is that sold Japanese foil Polluted Delta I have to base my calculations on the multiplier I discovered with Scalding Tarn Japanese paper prices playset This non-paper sold in February to 598 as playset so individually, they are worth about 50 149 Using the multiplier 0125, I would be comfortable the sale of a Japanese leaf Polluted Delta in 1196 for three of them, as 3588 comes to a list that I found on a Japanese leaf Polluted Delta Delta is indicated for 199000 which is about 1945 USD for three of them that comes to my 5835 total multiplier is inaccurate for Polluted Delta because of its age and premium players Legacy Vintage placed on it based on feedback Twitter.
2x volcanic island Revised estimated SUMMER MAGIC 12000.
As underground sea, of course, we want our land to be both magical According ABUGames been a magical summer volcanic island will cost you 6000 Two of them comes to 12,000.
Wow, we really can buy really expensive basic lands for this bridge Be honest, how many of you thought I'd put a sheet and foil Unhinged Unhinged Island Swamp in this platform You are wrong, there are grounds basic rarer than this article Starcity covers the lot on the different types of rare land base in magic and mentions that guru lands are the rarest of all Although there was magic, all based guru who is misprinted goes over value a magic base summer.
Based on the eBay listings, a Unhinged islands leaf sell about 60 and a sheet Unhinged Wetlands sell on average 45 However, eBay listings for the Guru islands are about 220 eBay listings for Guru Wetlands around 112, but Drowning Man Gurus which have missing symbols are rare collectors pay a lot more additional value on the land of Guru that sheet Unhinged land for the curious, Mountain Gurus sell about 110, Plains will sell about 110, and forests are selling about 115 as for the typo, the seller tried to sell an island.
2,100 so I will estimate that both the marsh and each island worth in 2000.
Tolarian Academy of foreign copies are worth the same as their English counterparts and there is no foil or other editions of the card outside to find a curly version, or having the modified Tolarian Academy for a card art in its own right by the original artist, we must go by the value Saga Tolarian Academy of Urza market commentator informed me below the Saga Urza exists in the Academy Saga Tolarian Korean Korean Urza sold in January for about 110 or 152 USD We absolutely need to have this on all versions in English.
1x BGS-May 8 Alexandria Library Arabian Nights 50,227 Estimated.
No other editions of the Library exist outside the Arabian Nights, so here we are looking for the most senior copy that we can find the eBay listing sold for 50 227 which is the only library where I ranked could find a sale price.
Oh my god, I bought only the base of the earth at that time and we're already 14 43766 Let's continue with the creatures.
4x Dark Confidant Ravnica FOIL Russian City of Guilds Estimated 2880.
Scalding Tarn like, I could easily find a Russian paper Confident Ravnica on eBay or other sites Therefore, I will use my 0125 multiplier to estimate the Russian non-leaf price Ravnica Dark Confidant sells 90 therefore using the multiplier, we can estimate that Ravnica black confidant Russian sheet would sell 720 Thus, a play set would cost you in 2880.
2x Snapcaster Mage FOIL Korean Innistrad 935 Estimated.
Innistrad was released shortly after M12, so we want Korean Snapcasters to thwart this platform Based on these 425 items sold for a sale and another for 510 average would be 50 467 Two of them made 935.
1x FOIL Battlesphere Myr Scars of Mirrodin Russian estimated 15.
Again, even if they exist in Russian, I can not find a single website that offers for sale Basing off Japanese prices, leaf Japanese Battlespheres sold for 10 to 20 dollars I appreciate Russia although we will use 15 average in this case.
4x Force of German alliances estimated 412 updates by Twitter comment.
Force of Will was only an impression, so the only possibility would be foreign to be worth more non-English copies of the ell to the same as English into German sale for a little more than English The usual price is 95 on eBay, they average 103 German so we'll go with those of this platform unless the German forces 1 Terese Nielsen modified or find crimped 2 or 3 copies finding Forces miscut that a source indicating the price they were sold, it's the price we'll use the German copies NM.
3x Lightning revised estimated SUMMER MAGIC 3000.
Lightning Bolt was revised and thus was printed in the same Magic Summer Unlike Tundra and the volcanic island, there is a good chance that we can actually find three of these cards because they are common in all though , Lightning is a popular card, then the price won t be good ABUGames market appears to be the authority on magic was the price to 999 lists each purchase of three adds up to 3000 for those who doubt that summer is the highest, even a graduated Beta Bolts sells for only 70.
2x Spell Pierce FOIL Russian Zendikar 120 Estimated.
I could not find any listed or sold Russian sheet Spell Pierce, so I'll base the price of the non-sheet counterparty with the multiplier nonleaf Pierce Russian fate has sold about 7 50 each on eBay so using the multiplier I Russian Magic value Pierce sheet 60 each two of which leads 120.
Although Legends was a non-English version Italian collectors prices generally English versions that non-English because the Italian versions are more widespread We want our platform to contain the English versions for maximum effect Richie Rich These are 221 65 each, so that both would be 443 30.
2x mental Misstep FOIL New Phyrexia Russian Estimated 80.
Again, through my web scouring, I could not find a sheet of these for sale If someone has a resource they use to find Russian maps sheets please let me know in comments I found this listing on eBay for a non-leaf Russian playset 20 so that is 5 per copy using the multiplier that comes to 40 by Russian copy sheet if 80 for two.
Will Korean Signed Saga Urza 205 1x Yawgmoth.
Unlike Tolarian Academy Yawgmoth Will had another impression as Foil judge collectors consider more valuable than the French, and in English non-English regular Urza's Saga judge films on average sell 45 on eBay so is the price that we'll go here, however, since the Saga Urza are in Korean, a premium is placed on the foreign version of this website up this price to 149 or about 205 We certainly want the version on any English or copies leaf.
1x Tinker Japanese FOIL Urza Legacy 75 Estimated.
I am basing this award out a listing on dacardworld since I could not find any on eBay or other sites.
1x Demonic Tutor Revised estimated SUMMER MAGIC 3000.
Although there is a version of Demonic Gift judge Tutor program is the only printed paper version goes for about 250 and a graduated beta for 400 Demonic Tutor is also revised and therefore magic was magic summer Demonic Tutor is price 3000.
1x BGS-8 May 1389 1x Preceptor Beta Estimated Time Walk Alpha 2575.
Time Walk is a classic card P9, so we need to get one that is in the purest state we can find that I found one on eBay that went for 1389 I found an Alpha on eBay for 2575, which corresponds to our needs adequately, I did not find any graduated sold so it will be the price.
1x Brainstorm Judge Gift Program Estimated 60.
1x PSA-10 Beta Ancestral Recall Estimated 5,500.
As with all P9 cards, we want to go with all graded versions we can find, and then choose the highest grade among them The PSA-10 reminder ads Ancestral said case is signed thankfully indicated for 5,500 No other comparable lists alpha are available on eBay.
1x Brainstorm Japanese FLEURET Mercadian 347 is about masks.
Wow, for a common Brainstorm is much more expensive than what I thought as the same film considering that it is a Japanese paper we look Based on completed listings on eBay sold for a 305 while others were recorded at 389 but had accepted the best deals I'll take the average of these two prices and believe that 347 is the market price for a Japanese film Brainstorm.
As there were no movies or Mirage Sixth Edition, we'll have to go with the paper version that is in From the Vault Exiled This is the most expensive print mystic Tutor on the market that will four times the cost of a Mirage or sixth edition copy.
1x Scroll Merchant Japanese FOIL 8th 430 Estimated.
Interesting note about the 8th Japanese Ed Merchant Scroll is that all have stained the type line, which should be Witchcraft in the name of the card Merchant Scroll even if you can not read Japanese, you can still see the symbols are the same in the areas of card name and type of line does not matter, because all manuscripts Japanese merchants this printing error, he did not really add anything extra to the price other than its Japanese-ness Foily I could not find a Japanese paper sale or sold, so based on the current list to 11 for non-leaf Japanese with the multiplier, I would say that a Japanese merchant would sell sheet roll 88 from the comments Twitter SonodaMTG his store currently contains Japanese merchant Scroll to 43900, which converts to 430 USD My normal multiplier will not work in this case, we'll go to the store SonodaMTG inch ur the price here.
biasing 1x Hurkyl revised SUMMER 2000 MAGIC Estimated.
Wow, I finally found a list of Russian aluminum foil If we wanted to simply buy one, this eBay listing can get us to 650 I personally like art and antiquities black border of the release but it is clearly we need to buy the magic version of summer for maximum affluence They are priced at 2000 per copy.
1x Ungiven Japanese FOIL Champions of Kamigawa 85 Gifts Estimate.
Based on the current lists sold at the time of writing the article, I estimate the cost of a sheet the Japanese version of Champions is about 85 We want the original here, none of this nonsense FTV Exiled.
3x Jace, the sculptor of the Russian spirit Worldwake FOIL Estimated 8160.
Jace is something special, it's so special, in fact, that my normal multiplier will not work in this non-leaf Japanese case Jace's sold about 150 each, but current ads since I could not find any price Russian leaf or non-leaf for Japanese sheet Jace s are listed at about 2400 this multiplier its 0 0625 If we base our Russian price sheet on this listing that sold for 150 and although it is SP, which brings us to 2400 for a Russian sheet too If we try to estimate NM, I would add 20 to the Russian list nonleaf 170 non-leaf, I believe a Russian NM sheet Worldwake Jace to be 2720 every three of them brings us to 8160 .
With P9, my philosophy is to go with consideration if we can this is the highest I could find is in the Beta This kit is a PSA-10 classified an Alpha This is exactly what we wanted, in the platform it will Since he was listed in 1700 and negotiated, and another mox sold for the same price that I graduated in 1200 Mox Emerald 1500.
As above, this is the highest I could find that was printed in beta, I could not find ads comparable Alpha Mox Sapphire.
Based on this research beta Time Vaults I did not see a ranked list of PSA that sold, but unfortunately the price was negotiated so that we can not see the actual price that was paid like other lists present are in the range of 1.400 in 1500 I think the PSA -10 that sold about 1700 there was no time Alpha comparable Vault that were recently sold.
1x Sol Ring Revised 3000 SUMMER MAGIC estimated.
1x Crypt mana Judge Program Gift Estimated 180.
I've found this ad sold on eBay for a judge Foil Mana Crypt which went for 180 Since the foils judge and book versions are nearly the same in the scarcity, and there is no difference prices between coupon book languages, we'll go with the version judge here.
1x Beckett-5 Beta Mox Pearl crimped Estimated 1900.
Yeah, that's it for Mox Pearl is a bad moxes we can t be satisfied with just getting a normally classified Beta Mox Pearl We must have graduated, the crimp version, and who knows how many of them exist That could literally the only one I think his deal for 1900 compared to some of the other things on this list, I'll assume it isn t an Alpha version of it.
In the same vein as our other P9, we want to have a graduated Unfortunately, I could not find any Ruby graduated Mox s in beta, which were still near NM I found some Beta Altered graduated cards but these horrible and personally look I want to have a way, we must take a step back from the beta here and go with the one-Alpha dacardworld I found Alpha Mox Ruby dacardworld Without the prize is 95 1.045.
Not only is the jewel of our platform, but the flagship of our collection and probably worthy of inclusion in a museum dedicated to magic somewhere on eBay for anyone to buy I do not know if it can be sold for 100,000, but since we are building this platform we will gold here virtually the only boasted BGS-10 Beta Black Lotus is certainly what i want for our Black Lotus platform there were no other comparable Alpha ads on eBay.
Hands down this has to be the most expensive card in all of Magic If anyone can find me a more expensive card, please post in the comments because I'm curious to see that he is.
Russian copies of Voltaic Key are just as hard to find as any other, so based on Japanese non-leaf voltaic key Playset price I would say that Russians are about 13 key foil with the multiplier 0125.
Based on sold ads for Mox Jets on eBay, graduated two were listed in 1250 and 1500, but were negotiated after negotiations, I guess they have sold nearly 1000 and 1100 respectively We will go with the cheapest option here because at this stage our budget begins to stretch thin I do not find comparable Alpha Jets Mox.
The main deck brings us to 97 197 710 mostly because of the Black Lotus that can probably be negotiated in the price a bit, but we must also ensure that we include the buffet.
For the sake of wrapping this article, I'll save you all the links and the research I COMPLETED for calculations and display them in place at the end of the article in case you're curious about the price calculations Suffice to say, Russian films are hard to find Maybe they are worth more than I give them credit.
My research gave the following prices for the reserve cards.
Drum roll The total value of the platform, including Hutch, comes to a grand total of 97 200.225 Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to play the most expensive game of magic is what it would cost.
Of course, I realize that if you bust open graduated cards it devalue Taking significantly into account, my point in writing this article is to show you that magic is a hobby of collection and surprisingly valuable the cheapest card deck is toxic flood 12 And even if we did not want to play with cards t graduated the price of the bridge would be more than 100,000 if we sought NM copies of everything in the rarest edition they exist.
I hope you have enjoyed this experience, it was definitely the most fun I've had to write an article if your friends ask you what the most expensive platform Magic is that you can now show them not only expensive platform, but it may as well do a Vintage tournament, I'm finally on Twitter follow me gildedgoblin.
The last thing I have included a handy table below as a quick reference in case you want to come back and find quickly the price of different cards in the game.
Do you have a source not want to be contrary, but I like to improve the article and try to get it as accurate as possible as you can imagine, some of these prices, it is really difficult to find a specific source I have made many changes since it was released this morning trying to identify the highest prices for different cards so please let me know if you can provide something.
The bolts were the eternal weekend for pasting the 5k It was one of the vendors, but as it was almost 6 months I do not remember who was there he These are versions that were in the Urza Japanese Destiny packs link is here.
I don t remember the vendor, but they were next to the wall closest to the tournament area, I managed to find a picture of the card.
The text is the least bit printing error, since they look nothing less standard text promo bolt Also, since the card name is not even printed, these are probably wouldn t legal for game, I think the decision of the gameplay for misprints is that maps identify as any printed title is visible that usually comes when multiple cards appear on a single physical adapter.
I am quite sure that the Korean version of the old school cards, etc. will exist and will be very expensive That is the only bid that I can find a Korean Academy and as you can see, it is about of 6-7x the price of English.
Regarding Russian Jaces sheet, the sky is the limit There should be about 27 Jaces with foil and set sold for about 30,000 private last year.
Alan, I found a Korean Yawgmoth Will with a price apparently signed by Richard Garfield too contained 149 idioma in which converts to about 205 USD I also updated my article to include your discovery for Korean Tolarian Academy, thank you for the source of it.
Any specific source to be there only 27 Russian Foil Jaces in existence with the agreement 30,000 I feel like it would have made the news somewhere haha this price.
I heard there was a discussion on how Russian WWK distributor ordered that they should commit to a certain amount of WotC and tightening the expected number around 27 Jaces sheet As with all sheet Jaces RUS, it was a private sale, but I heard from several sources that he has more than 30k there is usually a discussion MTG source who Hoses many eternal players with fully aluminum bridges.
If you contact the Occam user source, it can let you know some other numbers Underground albino sea, it must be worth a fortune.
You must return to the platform with the Betas price because Alphas Are not Legal tournament, thanks to the rounded corners they're more strictly collectibles at this stage.
They are legal in the tournament, but you are required to use opaque sleeves unless your entire deck is made of Alpha cards.
This also means clearly this article must include the most expensive sleeves possible, as part of the cost of the bridge.
I found 3 Russian sheet Scalding Tarns SP for sale on a Russian forum about 1110 each, but I think he can do a small discount so you were close enough st p 0 527 597 entry527597 I did not link evidence yet but I think your price of Russian Jace hay is very low.
Yes, I heard the quirks Misprint group on Facebook that someone was offered 50K for a whole set of Russian leaves Jaces He finally turned down, did not want to part with them, so I will use this price for them means they are about 12 5K each.
So usually my buffet is different, but it was full of Meta dredge I'm sure the various cards can buffet the price certainly other platforms that play full power are any more expensive so I wonder what which is the most expensive bridge.
Working on updates, I headed to the quirks Misprint Facebook group.
They've helped me a ton so far, I created a worksheet and get feedback from the community on the most precious versions of cards.
Anyone can edit, do not hesitate to make changes based on your own experience and knowledge.
There was a Mana Crypt on Ebay for 8k now.
Your price for Russian Jaces sheet are a little weak The only ones I have seen or heard on sale were more than 5,000 each.
The bolts could be a Textless sheet, so I do not know a price, but finally I could see, they were all over 2000.
Voltaic Key Saga Korea could also be priced at more than 50.
Matts prices on the sheet without text Bolts judge is correct last sale, I know was about a year back, with 2k as the price I suppose the current value of three would be 10k because it aren t too around There are also copies with square corners, which are slightly cheaper.
Also Russian Snapcaster Mages are more expensive than Korean you might get a few more dollars to the total value of Yawghmoth wills you can get Ron Spencer modified Korea, which will be about 500 higher than the Korean webpage forgive Ron certain alters really good and he did a great job on them.
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