Two Recent Black Mythics Printed Have Breached The $100 Mark

Last updated on July 8, 2026

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse | Illustration by Chris Rahn

It's not often that a card is worth over $100. Most cards are worth pennies, and yet a chosen few are special enough and desirable enough to sell at that price. Recently, two black mythics cards crossed the threshold into triple digit prices, and better yet, these are both cards printed in the last few years. But what makes them so valuable, and will they hold their price?

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse is a card that runs away with games. Every turn she stays on the board, the balance shifts in favor of her controller. If you don't have an answer, you can try to draw more cards to find one, but that will only kill you faster. Meanwhile, every card her controller draws puts them further out of reach. It's for these reasons that Sheoldred, the Apocalypse is a good card, however you may be surprised to know that it now costs $100 USD to get a single base copy of it.

Previously Sheoldred, the Apocalypse had a quite hefty price tag when she was still legal in Standard, and she's never been a cheap card, but the $100 price tag is a fairly recent development.There are a few contributing factors to this high price.

One is the fact that her effect is fairly unique. There are other cards that punish your opponents for drawing such as Underworld Dreams, Curse of Fool's Wisdom, Kederekt Parasite, etc. Conversely there are effects that gain you life for drawing cards, such as Horizon Chimera, Queza, Augur of Agonies, or Starving Revenant.However, none of these cards do both, nor do they do it unconditionally or at the rate that Sheoldred, the Apocalypse is able to do so.

The second reason for the high price is how widely she sees play. Yes, she gets played in Commander, but also Modern, and even older formats like Legacy. Now granted, she's not played super often, but in the decks that want her, they need her. These are usually mono black decks that utilize powerful card draw engines such as Necrodominance in Modern and/or The One Ring in Legacy. Having Sheoldred, the Apocalypse in play offsets the life costs and results in a very efficient resource engine that can end the game quickly.

The Soul Stone

The Soul Stone is unassuming on its face. Most of the time it will just be an efficient mana rock. However, an efficient mana rock is a great thing for a card to be, but for a card selling for upwards of $120 USD, there must be something more to this black mythic… and there is!

Obviously there's another ability on the card; its harness ability, which allows you in this case to pay seven mana and tap it and exile a creature you control to unlock its ability to return creatures from the graveyard to play every turn. That's a nice ability to have attached to a card like this, because as good as it is to have early in the game, at a certain point in a drawn out game, a simple mana producing artifact starts to feel irrelevant. This has led to it being popular in commander, as these decks are always looking for mana rocks, and so any deck running black that wants to upgrade its strategy is happy to play one of these.

Another factor contributing to the price of The Soul Stone is the fact that it's still legal in Standard, meaning there is an increased demand for it as there exist decks in the format that want to play this card. Outside of that though, there is another secret factor driving up the price of this card. We just saw The Mind Stone get printed in Marvel Super Heroes, and it stands to reason that in the next few Marvel sets (which we know are coming), we'll get to see the rest of the infinity stones. It's also safe to assume that there will be some kind of card for the Infinity Gauntlet that benefits you from having all the infinity stones in play. 

This is pure speculation, but it makes sense that there would be at least some kind of payoff for The Soul Stone and The Mind Stone having their own unique subtypes and harness abilities. At any rate, it makes the card just that much more special and therefore desirable to collectors, thus driving up the price.

Wrap Up

Necrodominance | Illustration by Robin Olausson

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and The Soul Stone are special cards, and you cannot ignore the cool-factor they bring to the table. Add to that the fact that they're so good and unique in their effects, and suddenly they cost an arm and a leg. That's just basic economics. However, it's good to see that cards these days are still capable of holding prices like these, as it makes opening packs and collecting more exciting. So far, these are the only two black mythics in recent memory to reach this point, but they might not stay that way. Maybe Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER will get on this list soon. Until then, I hope you have a few copies of these cards laying around, because if you don't, it's going to cost a pretty penny to get them.