All-Star Standard-Legal Uncommon Climbs in Price

Last updated on August 15, 2025

Into the Flood Maw – art by Danny Schwartz

It's been two weeks since Edge of Eternities landed in Magic's Standard format, bringing with it a long-awaited rotation (which was skipped last year as Standard transitioned from a two-year to a three-year rotation schedule).

As we reported earlier, several cards like Shoot the Sheriff are going up in price as players look to replace rotated staples. But also some format staples are seeing upward pressure, as  the decks that include them rise as the cream of the crop in the current Standard meta – and even find themselves played across other Magic formats.

A couple of these Magic cards are uncommons, but so sought after that they can rival most rares in price. Like the two cards we'll cover today: Into the Flood Maw and Untimely Malfunction…

… both of which went from less that $3 (which is still a respectable price for uncommons that were printed last year!) to nearly $6 for near-mint copies in the US market.

Into The Flood Spike

Into the Flood Maw needs little introduction for any Magic player dabbling in Standard, to the point that some pro players think it's borderline problematic:

Bouncing any non-land permanent is huge, letting you mess with pesky enchantments or artifacts. This blue instant sees play in Arclight Phoenix in Pioneer; Landless Belcher in Modern; and makes the cut into cEDH with the likes of Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, Kraum + Tymna, or Vivi Ornitier in the command zone.

And, of course, Vivi makes Into the Flood Maw one of the most popular cards in Standard, which the Final Fantasy mage dominates right now with its Izzet Soul Cauldron deck, including 7 out of 8 decks in the Arena Championship 9 top cut.

As such, and even though it was already widely recognized as a multi-format powerhouse, Into the Flood Maw went from about $3.50 a month ago, to more than double in price in the last week for near-mint copies.

Source: TCGplayer – Into the Flood Maw (BLB), near-mint

Currently, Into the Flood Maw is the second most-expensive uncommon you can play in Standard, second only to Aetherdrift‘s mythic uncommon, Stock Up.

Untimely Time To Buy?

Interestingly, if you play Standard you will rarely see the third most-expensive uncommon that you could play (but nobody does, and for good reason: It's unplayable in this format): Untimely Malfunction.

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In this case, it's because of how good the red instant is in cEDH (where it's often part of Magda, Brazen Outlaw‘s toolkit) and how popular it is in casual Commander brews with Tannuk, Steadfast Second: more than half of Tannuk's deck play Untimely Malfunction, and Tannuk has become one of the most popular Edge of Eternities commanders.

Similarly to Into the Flood Maw, Untimely Malfunction went from about $3 since mid-July to close to $6 nowadays, roughly doubling price in the span of a month:

Source: TCGplayer – Untimely Malfunction (DSK), near-mint

What Will Happen With These Uncommons' Prices?

Magda, Brazen Outlaw – Illustration by Slawomir Maniak

There's little doubt that demand for Into the Flood Maw and Untimely Malfunction is organic – both cards see a lot of play, and are competitive staples in their respective formats. And they were well on players' radars well before they started moving up in price; in particular, Into the Flood Maw had an earlier $5 peak back in May.

With the usual caveat that this is not investment advice (always do your own research, folks!), the question is whether or not supply will increase now that prices have gone up. Both Bloomburrow and Duskmourn were very popular sets when they launched, and will be Standard-legal until 2027, so there's little doubt that there are a lot of copies available – and casual sellers that wouldn't bother trading a one-buck card may all of a sudden start selling their copies if they can get $20 for a full playset.

And if you drafted those sets a bunch (which you probably did, since they are both excellent!), that seller could be you… so make sure to check your bulk, if you haven't already!