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Peak price: $14,999.99 Timetwister resets both players' decks and hands, almost leading to a complete restart during a match. These two, along with Volcanic Island, all fit in the same colour scheme, and therefore regularly go in the same decks, which is probably why they’re all so highly valued. Imagine a Mox Ruby, but make it for Blue mana, and you’ve got everything you need to know here. Peak price: $14,999 Mox Sapphire is an artifact in more ways than one. This one's a Black mana source, and remains as ridiculously powerful as the rest of its moxy brethren. There’s a lot of Mox cards on this list, but we promised to lay out the most valuable MTG cards - and Mox cards remain ridiculously valuable.
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Peak price: $11,999.99 The Mox series continues to be ridiculously valuable. And if you're running some graveyard snuffling cards, you can always get the two they made you throw away back. If they don't know your strategy, you could try and fool them, or just pick three super-cards and watch them struggle to guess which one is least dangerous. Your opponent gets to choose two to go in the graveyard, but that still gives you a lot of power. Arguably Blue at its bluest, three mana allows you to hunt down any three cards in your library.

This one is very powerful, but interesting enough not to be banned absolutely everywhere. Peak price: $4,999.99 With Intuition, your opponent chooses exactly how you get to hurt them. My gut feeling says I absolutely cannot afford this Now then, without any more ado, onto the list. Thankfully, this leaves us with some all-time classic cards, so it’s likely to be true several years from now - even if the prices themselves change, the content should be accurate. That also means we’re taking a look back at the most expensive Magic: The Gathering cards of all time, rather than attempting to nail down any kind of value in the current market. First of all, all of the prices are taken directly from auction houses or listed on MTGGoldfish for a consistent comparison. That being said, it is fun to marvel at just how valuable MTG cards can become, so we thought we’d take a look at the most expensive cards in Magic: The Gathering. Its purpose is to keep the value of certain cards from dropping, but what it’s actually done is caused certain formats to be completely inaccessible to all but the most trust-fundy of people. The Reserved List, for those not in the know, is a list of cards that can never be reprinted. There are plenty of people who put big money into MTG, and it’s caused some spectacular prices throughout the years thanks to things like the Reserved List. Most expensive Magic: The Gathering cards

Fingers crossed you find one of these in your attic here are the most rare and expensive Magic: The Gathering cards of all time. Some rare MTG cards are ridiculously expensive, the kind of long-term investment that could justifiably be kept in an armoured vault with attack dogs waiting outside. There's no way of knowing if you'll find the most valuable Magic: The Gathering card until you start looking around, especially considering that at the end of the day.

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Your old deck could be more valuable than you realise - or it could be full of Mudholes and goblins worth less than the box they're kept in. The fact that I know some of the people named in the book, like Peter Adkison and Richard Garfield, added that much more life to the story.Magic: The Gathering is practically its own currency at this point, with no shortage of rare and expensive MTG cards out there to buy, sell and trade. As gaming becomes more and more mainstream and mass market, it’s wonderful to have a record about those who were there at that cusp and see how they helped define the culture that’s arisen around gaming of all kinds. It’s really a coming-of-age story for Jon, one that many gamers can probably identify with.
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I’d long known about the top players on Magic‘s Pro Circuit, and I’d heard stories about how some of them were now winning poker tournaments, but the book goes over it all in loving detail. It’s a fascinating study of a generation of gamer geeks that I could well have been a part of were I 10 years younger. It’s the story of how Jon Finkel, a Magic: The Gathering player, went from high-school nerd to world champion, joined a casino blackjack card-counting team, and then decided to take on the World Series of Poker too. I just finished reading Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids by David Kushner.
