MTG Card Prices

Market Intel

The only fresh piece today is MTGGoldfish’s rundown of cards that should stay banned forever, which mostly reinforces that things like Jeweled Lotus and Griselbrand are still viewed as “do not touch” for Commander and eternal formats, according to MTGGoldfish. Structurally, the more interesting thread is still Pauper, where Wizards just injected ten Zeta commons on a very short leash and that shift reportedly helped push Baleful Strix upward once its new common printing hit the discourse, per Star City Games. Between that and the Reality Fracture preview schedule that reads like a media scavenger hunt, it feels like Wizards is trying to juggle “please break Pauper a little” with “please don’t break our product releases again.”