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2 astrophysicists playing with data science techniques to see if we can predict MtG card prices and sharing the results. Love playing paper Magic (limited, pauper, EDH). Posts may use affiliate links in case you fancy supporting our data exploring.

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Can't wait to play the Weasleys in pauper

10.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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X-ing Card Values with Zimone, Infinite Analyst The Secrets of Strixhaven precon commanders have dropped and so we've applied our data science algorithms to try to identify which existing cards have a high likelhood of going up in value. As always,...

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06.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can the banning announcement be the hybrid mana thing?

05.02.2026 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kai Budde's world championship deck and following his PT coverage as a kid got me into magic properly. I remember wondering how anyone could be quite this good at the game and some part of that hooked me on magic. A massive loss for the magic community.

30.01.2026 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Positively Arming Lucy MacLean - Vault-Tec Approved Synergies Straight from the sterile halls of Vault 33 and into the chaos of the Command Zone, Lucy MacLean brings a "fish out of water" energy to the table that belies her endless potential for EDH politics and...

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26.01.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Barefoot Ashling - 6 Commander Staples Missing from the Lorwyn Precons "Got My Boots!" - is not something poor old Ashling will be saying just before she strolls down that Path into Exile.The Lorwyn Eclipsed Precons come out next week. There are a bunch of broadly used c...

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14.01.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty excited to do this next week

14.01.2026 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm particularly looking forward to doing this next week with Auntie Ool

14.01.2026 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lorwyn Eclipsed Dance of the Elements: 10 Cards to Buy and 8.5 to Sell Ahead of the Precon Release The Lorwyn precon lists just dropped so there are some reprints coming that you might want to clear out your copies of (a reprinting almost always drops the price of the existing copies). There are al...

Crunched some numbers on Dance of the Elements precon

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09.01.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does the quillspike-devoted druid loop happen already somewhere? With Auntie Ool you get to draw your deck with it right?

07.01.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lorwyn Blight Curse: 5 Cards to Buy and 10 to Sell Ahead of the Precon Release The Lorwyn precon lists just dropped so there are some reprints coming that you might want to clear out your own copies ahead of (a reprinting almost always drops the price of the existing copies). Th...

Which cards are likely to go down in value and which cards might (Quill) spike in price from the new Lorwyn Eclipse Blight Curse precon:

I did some data sciencing to try to work it out:

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07.01.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that county champs foil now the most expensive token of all time?

05.01.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm excited for your myriad of mutavaults, but it's blowing my mind that that once OP standard staple is now just a token

05.01.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This then I guess: just to make sure Aboshan has lots of cephalid friends

01.01.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whhhhaaaaaatttt? Why?!

01.01.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was playing pre-2015 so there's weirdly more discovery space for me post 2015, but I had no idea this card existed until I started brewing a Kratos, God of War deck (with Silent Arbiter etc.). Felt thematically perfect though:

30.12.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Morcant's Blight Top 10: AI Predictions for -1/-1 Staples to Spike with Lorwyn Lorwyn's only a month away and the spoiler season is kicking off! A few days ago we got to see High Perfect Morcant, who offers Golgari elves a -1/-1 AND proliferate engine. Check its price on TCGPlay...

I ran our home-built 'Future Sight AI' on the new Lorwyn spoiler High Perfect Morcant to see what it thinks could be the next Fluorishing Defenses card spikes. Here's what it thinks will spike if Morcant gets popular: www.tap-for-value.com/post/morcant...

14.12.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best.Basics.Ever.

13.12.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does this make the cut for pauper faeries?

11.12.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10.12.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hulk SMASH! What else goes into the Hulk deck with Caltrops? The Magic's Marvel set Spoilers have just begun with everyone from Galactus to Namor and the Fantastic Four included! Reddit in particular has gone a bit wild for a certain cheeky Hulk combo:Check its...

Popped together some thoughts on a Hulk commander deck after yesterday's #MtGMarvel spoilers.

Not just Caltrops...

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10.12.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unearthing Value: Analyzing the Cards Toph Turns into Price Spikes The release of the Magic: The Gathering AvatarΒ set has introduced several compelling new Commanders, but one is clearly dominating the conversation: Toph, the First Metalbender. Quickly rose to become...

Since Tophs's been doing some phenomenal commander metal (and earth) bending, we've had a quick data-science look at what other card prices she might impact : www.tap-for-value.com/post/unearth... #mtgfinance #mtgavatar

06.12.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fire Nation Rises: 9 Cards Exploding in Price Due to Fire Lord Azula With the release of the Magic Avatar set there have been a bunch of new commanders that have hit the scene. Amongst them, Fire Lord Azula has been discussed across the content as a top new commander a...

Fire Lord Azula was the highest trending commander on EDHrec this week, so what's she been doing (and might still do) to card prices: www.tap-for-value.com/post/the-fir...

03.12.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bending the Magic Secondary Market with Avatar: The Top 15 Cards that Airbending will Inflate in Price We’ve taken a bespoke combo of AI and data science techniques to see what the new Avatar cards might do to bend Magic the Gathering card prices: So lets start with which cards are likely to float up i...

Seen a lot about how airbending is 'expensive/sorcery blink', but it also lets you *cast* them which gives lots of bonus triggers. Our list of commander cards that will be impacted by Airbending feels like it has a few different bits. Is it wrong? www.tap-for-value.com/post/bending...
#mtg #avatar

18.11.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spider-Man Price Predictions: How Did We Do? Our aim is to find those cards that we think will go up in value over the following months. To do that, we’ve been looking at cards we expect to feature in decks built around some popular new releases...

We've done a review of how well our price rise prediction algorithms performed for spiderman and so here's a quick summary article on it:

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11.11.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uncharted Value: Which of Magic's Hidden Treasures will Nathan Drake Unearth? Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter is coming to Commander, fresh from the new Uncharted PlayStation Secret Lair Superdrop! We’ve applied our data science algorithms to identify the top cards that will go u...

We ran some data science algorithms on Nathan Drake to find out which cards he might impact the price of:

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27.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

longer term though? Its heroic intervention that can attack?

16.10.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not even spectacular Spidey or punk?

16.10.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why no Iroas? Well, anyone who nabbed the secret lair already got their copy (well, Freya)? Anything we missed? Personally, I just think this deck looks a blast (and I've got a soft spot for Jeskai anyway...). Anyway love your thoughts on the card choices (for the deck or finance shenanigans).

16.10.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1. Purphorous, Bronze Blooded is an auto include. He sneaks the other Gods into play, gives everything haste and triggers Kratos. From the #mtgfinance side: there's 1 printing of him, and supply's dwindling but he's still relatively cheap for the low supply.

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16.10.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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