MTG Weekly Price Spikes: 1/24-1/30

Last updated on January 30, 2026

Tyvar Kell | Illustration by Chris Rallis

There's been a deluge of reveals from upcoming Magic sets this week, and sure enough this week's biggest price spike is connected to a spoiler from Secrets of Strixhaven…

… but, by and large, the MTG card market is focused on Lorwyn Eclipsed and the many new elves, merfolks, more elves, goblins, and more elves we can now play with.

Let's check which are this week's biggest movers!

Library of Leng – 520%

Library of Leng is a very old card with quite the complex text (as we're about to see in a bit, since it deals with the subtle difference between costs and effects), and is one of this week's biggest spikers, jumping from about $1.15 to nearly $7 in the last seven days.

Source: MTGStocks

The spike is mostly due to speculation about the Library's interaction with Lorehold, the Historian from Secrets of Strixhaven, revealed a few days ago:

There's a pretty in-depth discussion in the MTG finance subreddit about whether or not the synergy actually works, given a subtlety between costs and effects. Library of Leng cares about effects that force you to discard; in general, costs are not effects. The Library's ability matters if you cast something like Faithless Looting, because the discard is an effect of the spell in this case). It won't do anything if you channel Boseiju, Who Endures, because the discard is part of channel‘s cost.

The quirk here is that you can have a cost nested inside an effect, as in Lorehold, the Historian‘s case, so some players are not sure whether or not Lorehold will trigger the Library.

Our in-house judge is telling us that, with a 95% degree of certainty, Lorehold does trigger Library.

Library of Leng does trigger for discards caused by Solitary Confinement, and we can't really see a reason why Lorehold would be any different.

Elvish Warmaster – 300%

Elvish Warmaster helps you go wide, then helps your whole board go tall. And in the last few days it has been going up, and up, and up!

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The two most popular commanders from main set Lorwyn Eclipsed , by a huge margin, are two elf commanders who, as elf commanders tend to do, love when you play more elves on top of your elves: Maralen, Fae Ascendant in the lead, and High Perfect Morcant a bit behind.

Elvish Warmaster sees play with both (and in Morcant decks above all, with a 66%+ inclusion rate), which would be enough to push the card up. But it turns out that, besides this sudden “Cool new commanders!” hype, the Warmaster has a lot of competitive punch in two different formats: several cEDH elf commanders want him in the 99, and it also sees play in competitive elf decks in Modern. And such demand has pushed it to around $5.25, up from $1.25 a week ago.

Vodalian Wave-Knight – 300%

Lorwyn Eclipsed is not just about elves, though.

There are also merfolk!

Source: MTGStocks

Vodalian Wave-Knight tends to care more about its knightly side, and as such is a staple in the 99 of commanders with explicit knight synergy, like Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir or The Council of Four. But Lorwyn Eclipsed‘s Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom has become quite a popular merfolk commander…

… and two out of three Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom decks are now including Vodalian Wave-Knight in the mix. Which, in turn, has roughly tripled Vodalian Wave-Knight‘s price since last week, pushing it almost to $10.

Elven Ambush – 150%

Then again, yeah, Lorwyn Eclipsed‘s elves sure are spiking other elves!

Source: MTGStocks

Amidst this elven onslaught, Elven Ambush has become quite a pricey uncommon, jumping around 150% (from about $3.10 last friday to about $7.70 today). 

And an assortment of other “Let's play elves on top of our elves” cards, from enchantments like Prowess of the Fair to a planeswalker like Tyvar Kell, are also going up this week.

Source: MTGStocks

Source: MTGStocks

Wort, Boggart Auntie – 110%

As a general rule of thumb, when hype from a new set makes older cards spike, it's usually new hot commanders making old cards popular. Which is pretty much what we've seen thus far today with elves and merfolk above.

But Wort, Boggart Auntie seems to be the opposite: An old, and fairly fringe commander that's receiving more interest thanks to a batch of new cards.

Source: MTGStocks

Wort, Boggart Auntie more than doubled in price since last week, from about $14 to over $29, and there seems to be two reasons for it: Scarcity (it has been printed exactly once, in the original Lorwyn), and a new bunch of boggart spells like Boggart Cursecrafter or Eclipsed Boggart… 

… which are super happy to see Goblins go to the graveyard (and then back to your hand thanks to Auntie's ability), and that are showing up en masse in new Wort, Boggart Auntie decks.