MTGGOLDFISH: Secret Lair Commander Deck

[MTGGoldfish][Magic Newsletter] [width="1"] --------------------------------------------------------------- Cook and Becker Magic: the Gathering Art Print Collection --------------------------------------------------------------- Officially licensed premium art prints from Cook and Becker x Magic: the Gathering.[Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Secret Lair Spoilers — August 5 | Angels Commander Deck --------------------------------------------------------------- Angels: They're Just Like Us but Cooler and with Wings is the latest 100-card Secret Lair Commander Deck [Void Winnower](for+Zendikar/Void+Winnower#paper) [Jeweled Lotus](Masters/Jeweled+Lotus#paper) This week in the world of Magic finances, two big forces are moving the market: last weekend's Pro Tour Lord of the Rings and the release of Commander Masters. In Modern we're seeing many cards that performed on the Pro Tour stage ticking up in price headlined by [Dauthi Voidwalker](Horizons+2/Dauthi+Voidwalker#paper) (up 23% to $10), [Fury](Horizons+2/Fury#paper) (up 6% to $43) and [Subtlety](Horizons+2/Subtlety#paper) (up 31% to just under $27). The one big exception here are the Lord of the Rings cards themselves, with [Orcish Bowmasters](Lord+of+the+Rings+Tales+of+Middle+Earth/Orcish+Bowmasters#paper) and [The One Ring (bundle)](Lord+of+the+Rings+Tales+of+Middle+Earth:Foil/The+One+Ring-bundle#paper) each losing around 5% this week as the set continues to be opened; a trend that is likely to continue as Wizards announced this week that Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth is on track to become the best selling set in the history of the game by the end of this year. Perhaps the biggest takeaway here is that big paper events do still matter. While Commander might be the dominate force in the Magic market these days, there are still players watching things like Modern Pro Tours and picking up the cards that performed well. Speaking of Commander, the single biggest gainer this week was [Void Winnower (Just Some Totally Normal Guys)](Lair/Void+Winnower-Just+Some+Totally+Normal+Guys#paper), with the Eldrazi doubling in price to over $50. It was only a few years ago you could snag the nine-drop for a couple of bucks and as recently as July it was in the $10 price range. But it seems that despite endless complaining about the cost of the Commander Masters precon decks, a lot of players are not just picking them up but spending money to upgrade them. This might be one of those cases where Magic social media isn't representative of the community as a whole. If you just read Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook you'd probably assume that Commander Masters is a flop considering the amount of negative feedback about the high cost of the decks. But it seems in practice a lot of players really don't care, or at least they don't care enough to skip the product, because we've seen a ton of Eldrazi and Slivers spike in price in the past couple of weeks. Finally, checking in on Commander Masters itself, the set officially released on Friday and prices have dropped a ton in just the past week. Back on July 28th, a complete set of Commander Masters would have set you back $2,020. Today a complete set is down to $1,205, a huge 40% drop in just over a week. As such, there are some great deals on singles at the moment, with many of the Commander staples reprinted in the set already less than half of what they were before. Based on what happened with Double Masters 2022 reprints last year, expect prices to keep slowly trending down over the next several months. For some of the most popular cards in the set like [Dockside Extortionist](2019/Dockside+Extortionist#paper) and [Teferi's Protection (borderless)](Masters+2022:Foil/Teferis+Protection-borderless#paper), the floor came roughly six months after the set released. So you should have a little while to snag what you need before prices start to climb once again. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Fastest Bannings in the History of Magic: the Gathering --------------------------------------------------------------- When a card is banned right after it release it's a pretty sure sign Wizards messed up and the card is truly broken. Here's the fastest bans in Magic: the Gathering history --------------------------------------------------------------- What are the odds of winning by being tempted by the Ring an infinite number of times thanks to Ratadrabik of Urborg, Nazgûl, and Boromir? Let's find out --------------------------------------------------------------- Is Diamond Lion actually good? Let's see if we can use it to combo off in Modern and find out --------------------------------------------------------------- White continues to get even more tricky so we take a trip down memory lane to see all the cards that gave us trust issues dating all the way back to Closed Beta of Arena](Lord+of+the+Rings+Tales+of+Middle+Earth/The+One+Ring) - [Orcish Bowmasters (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth)](Lord+of+the+Rings+Tales+of+Middle+Earth/Orcish+Bowmasters) - [Jeweled Lotus (Commander Masters)](Masters/Jeweled+Lotus) - [Lorien Revealed (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth)](Lord+of+the+Rings+Tales+of+Middle+Earth/Lorien+Revealed) - [The One Ring (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth)](Lord+of+the+Rings+Tales+of+Middle+Earth:Foil/The+One+Ring-bundle) Want more news? Follow us on [Facebook](, [Twitter](, [Instagram](, and [Tumblr](. Not expecting this email? [Unsubscribe here](. MTGGoldfish, Inc. 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