Last updated on April 24, 2026 Witherbloom, the Balancer | Illustration by Chris Rahn This weeks biggest movers in the Magic card market all point back to the same culprit: Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
If you played the TCG in the late '90s or early 2000s, you almost certainly had a Scyther in one of your decks, and that kind of personal connection drives prices in a way that pure aesthetics can't always replicate
For this deck, when we decided it was black-red group slug featuring Valgavoth, I had just built a Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos deck that was kind of a group slug theme, so I kind of just took my personal deck and tested that at the very first playtest, Holt recalled
In one case, you do not really have to find what you are searching for
It is the most vulnerable you find a Nicol Bolas but it is rare that he dies in this state