3 New Secrets of Strixhaven All-Stars That Have Doubled in Price

Last updated on May 5, 2026

Professor Dellian Fel | Illustration by Lie Setiawan

Secrets of Strixhaven is in full swing, and things are looking great. The set has had impacts on multiple formats, and the cards making those impacts have been going up in price. Usually prices fluctuate after release before stabilizing, but the recent Pro Tour has shaken things up for Standard, and as a result, three cards have doubled in price in the past week.

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The Professor Is In

If Professor Dellian Fel was printed five years ago, there would be no question that it was a great card. But things have changed recently in terms of card design, especially as it pertains to planeswalkers, and before the release of Secrets of Strixhaven there were serious doubts about this card. Unlike most planeswalkers we get nowadays, it has no real gimmick. It just does a variety of things at a reasonable rate, and in this case, that seems to be enough.

At the Pro Tour over the weekend, Professor Dellian Fel showed up in a handful of green black control decks, acting as a key card. The fact that it can come down and remove a creature and stick around, or gain life and suddenly have 7 loyalty makes it a pain to deal with if you don't have direct removal, and its -6 ability can function as a win condition if you simply include some incidental life gain in your deck. This is why it's seeing play, and it's also why its price has doubled in the past week or so, fetching around $20 USD online.

Path to Exile… But Better

I can't sing the praises of Erode loudly enough. This card is great, and it's another example of a card going up in price significantly after a strong showing at the Pro Tour. I don't think anyone doubted that Erode would be a good card. It's just Path to Exile that trades exiling for hitting planeswalkers, something that can often be more valuable.

However, what was unexpected was how this card would be used in Standard. It's performance at the Pro Tour was not just as removal, but as a piece in green white landfall decks that can use it on their own creatures to get an extra landfall trigger, or two if you use it on a land that you've earthbent with Badgermole Cub or Earthbender Ascension.

Erode is the kind of card that will likely keep its price even after leaving standard, as efficient removal is always desirable in formats like Modern or Legacy. Currently, the base printing of Erode is selling for about $10 to $12 USD depending on where you look, which is about twice what it was selling for before the Pro Tour.

The Big Red Machine

Paradigm is an ability that was extremely hard to evaluate before this set was released, and it's still even a bit challenging to figure out what exactly to do with these cards. That aside, all five of the spells with paradigm are undeniably powerful, but one stands out above the rest.

Improvisation Capstone has found its place in Standard, appearing in Jeskai and four color control lists in the recent pro tour, but it's also appearing in several Commander lists. Improvisation Capstone serves as a very effective win condition, especially in decks with other highly impactful spells, as hitting something like Jeskai Revelation off the top of your deck feels like an amazing deal, especially when you get to spin the wheel again every turn. Because of its performance in Standard, this card has also doubled in price from where it was last week, with a base copy of the card now selling for about $18 USD.

What's The Next Big Thing?

Stock Up | Illustration by Dominik Mayer

This set is still fresh, and things are still moving and changing, and I don't find it hard to imagine that there will be other cards that will double or triple in price if they find a home somewhere. Cards like Traumatic Critique, Flashback, and especially Flow State already seem like they are viable across formats, and while they might not spike in price, they are likely to hold their price and perhaps steadily increase as time goes on. So many cards in this set have potential, and for some of them, it's only a matter of time before their potential is realized.