Tier-1 Dual Land Cycle Bottoms Out at Lowest Price in Years

Last updated on February 6, 2026

Temple Garden | Illustration by Adam Paquette

Lorwyn Eclipsed did it. The newest Magic set has finished what Edge of Eternities started four months ago: Between both sets, the full shock lands cycle is legal in Standard… and the increased supply has pushed prices down to the point that you can get almost any of them for less than $10, according to this week's US prices for near-mint copies:

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These low prices may not last too long, though, and we may soon see all of them return to the $10-$12 range… but it looks like finding at least one printing of each shock land for less than $15 will be the norm for the foreseeable future.

All Shocklands Have Dropped In Price

Breeding Pool – Illustration by Mike Bierek

Shock lands are among the best lands in Magic, seeing top-tier competitive play in every MTG format where they are legal. Five months ago, we covered how reprinting five shock lands in Edge of Eternities had, quite predictably, dropped their prices to all-time low, even with the increased demand of those shock lands now being legal in Standard.

Now Lorwyn Eclipsed has done the same for the remaining half of the cycle, and you can get a playset of any of them for around $40 or lower.

There are two caveats here, though.

First, this is only true for some printings of each shock land, usually from either Edge of Eternities, Lorwyn Eclipsed, Gatecrash, Guilds of Ravnica, or Ravnica Remastered. More sought-after versions, like the original printings or Unfinity borderless reprints, usually cost more than twice as much for regular copies.

In fact, some of the pricier versions even went up for a time right after Edge of Eternities reprinted them (probably because they became legal in Standard, thus increasing demand among Standard players who wanted the shiniest versions), and are still more expensive than a year ago:

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But if what you only care about playability and a near-mint card, then currently you can get an Edge of Eternities Stomping Grounds for about $7-$8, and a Gatecrash Breeding Pool for about $10-$11.

The other question is: Will shock lands keep going down? Or will they rebound?

Breeding Pool: Sharply Down, Then Slowly Up

Sacred Foundry (Edge of Eternities) – art by Titus Lunter

The price trajectory of the Gatecrash printing of Breeding Pool suggests that this slump may be temporary. When Edge of Eternities released, Breeding Pool‘s price had a brutal 67% nosedive, from close to $20 to less than $7…

Source: MTGStocks

… but since then it slowly rebounded to about $10, where it sits nowadays. It seems unlikely that it will ever climb back to $20, but something in the $12-$15 range doesn't seem too farfetched.

And this rebound doesn't seem too tightly tied to the Standard metagame: Breeding Pool is indeed one of the most popular lands in Standard right now…

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… but Sacred Foundry is half less popular yet its Gatecrash printing shows a similar trend: From close to $20, dropping to around $7 right after EOE, now back to close to $10.

Source: MTGStocks

Needless to say not all cards from the same cycle will behave equally, and shock lands are no exception. There will always be some color combination that does better than others in each Magic format, and with shock lands being multi-format staples there's no way to tell exactly how demand will shape up. It's clear that the shock land cycle, as a whole, is at its lowest price (if you go for the cheapest version of each card). But if the above trends are any indication, they will grow a bit more expensive in the coming months.