MTGGOLDFISH: The Best Commander Card From Every Year

[MTGGoldfish][Magic Newsletter] [width="1"] --------------------------------------------------------------- The Best Commander Card from Every Year of Magic: the Gathering --------------------------------------------------------------- Commander has grown from a fringe format to the most popular way to play the game of Magic: the Gathering. Today we look at the best card each year has to offer for the format --------------------------------------------------------------- 2BBurn-6e2ea09e-b16d-4b8d-a416-8efd451b3f55%2Ejpg How much damage can we get from a single Thermo-Alchemist or Play with Fire with the help of Solphim, Mayhem Dominus and Mechanized Warfare? Let's find out [Phyresis Outbreak](All+Will+Be+One+Commander/Phyresis+Outbreak#paper) [Atraxa, Grand Unifier](Will+Be+One/Atraxa+Grand+Unifier#paper) This week in the world of Magic finance the biggest winner was actually a Modern card: [Shining Shoal](of+Kamigawa/Shining+Shoal#paper). The Betrayers of Kamigawa rare jumped a massive 863% this week from under $2 to nearly $18 thanks to a strange new build of Mono-White Humans that has recently become popular in the format. Alongside the typical suite of aggressive Humans, the deck is playing [Chancellor of the Annex](Phyrexia/Chancellor+of+the+Annex#paper) to slow down opponents, but the seven-drop is also a great option for pitching to [Shining Shoal](of+Kamigawa/Shining+Shoal#paper) to fizzle a big [Murktide Regent](Horizons+2/Murktide+Regent#paper) or [Archon of Cruelty (showcase)](Horizons+2/Archon+of+Cruelty-showcase#paper) attack while also potentially burning the opponent out of the game. While the deck has put up some results on Magic Online, just how good it really is remains to be seen which makes the future of [Shining Shoal](of+Kamigawa/Shining+Shoal#paper) murky. One one hand, it's only played in one somewhat untested Modern deck. On the other hand, [Shining Shoal](of+Kamigawa/Shining+Shoal#paper) has never been reprinted and Betrayers of Kamigawa is super old and wasn't heavily opened back during its day, which means supply isn't especially high. We've seen some other semi-popular Kamigawa cards like [Oboro, Palace in the Clouds](of+Kamigawa/Oboro+Palace+in+the+Clouds#paper) and [Minamo, School at Water's Edge](Booster+Retail+Edition+Foils:Foil/Minamo+School+at+Waters+Edge#paper) maintain huge prices despite fairly low play, which means if [Shining Shoal](of+Kamigawa/Shining+Shoal#paper) does develop into an archetype staple in Modern, its price could climb even higher. Personally I'd play it safe and look to move my copies while prices are high. It's only a matter of time before [Shining Shoal](of+Kamigawa/Shining+Shoal#paper) is reprinted. Meanwhile in the world of Commander, [Phyresis Outbreak](All+Will+Be+One+Commander/Phyresis+Outbreak#paper) - a new sweeper from the Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander precons - is on the rise, shooting up from around $2 to $8 this week as a cheap one-sided wrath for poison decks. If you need a copy you can snag the [Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa](All+Will+Be+One+Commander/Ixhel+Scion+of+Atraxa#paper) lead Corrupting Influence precon, although outside of [Phyresis Outbreak](All+Will+Be+One+Commander/Phyresis+Outbreak#paper) itself there isn't much value in the deck with the next most expensive cards being [Karn's Bastion](All+Will+Be+One+Commander/Karns+Bastion#paper) and [Glistening Sphere](All+Will+Be+One+Commander/Glistening+Sphere#paper) at around $4. Considering that the precon itself is selling for almost $50 on Amazon, unless you are planning to build a poison deck and can use most of the cards, snagging singles is likely the way to go in this case. Finally, checking in on Phyrexia: All Will Be One itself, the set's price is slowly trending down with a complete set dropping from $500 to $475 in the past week. The biggest loser this week was actually one of the most hyped cards in the set with [Atraxa, Grand Unifier](Will+Be+One/Atraxa+Grand+Unifier#paper) dropping 13% to under $30. If you're trying to pick up singles while prices are at their floor, it's probably worth waiting another month or so for the community's focus to shift to March of the Machine to give cards a little while longer for prices to fall. --------------------------------------------------------------- Podcast 422: Would You Dig Through Garbage for Magic Cards? --------------------------------------------------------------- The crew discusses Commander Masters, dumpster diving for Magic and more --------------------------------------------------------------- What are the odds of winning with Monument to Perfection in Standard? 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