Last updated on October 30, 2026
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand | Illustration by Josiah โJoโ Cameron
Sphinx Season took last Friday off. But apparently that was enough rest!
The Ur-Sphinx is back to dragging old sphinxes out of bulk boxes, while Jace, Multiverse Architect continues pushing Polymorph effects higher for the second week in a row.
And another card from an old Commander deck is surging thanks to Dack Fayden, Helping Handโs increasingly convincing cEDH results.
Letโs check this weekโs biggest movers!
Sphinx Sovereign
Sphinxes were quiet last week, but are taking the lead again. And this weekโs Spikinโ Sphinx award goes toโฆ
After sitting at around $1 for months, last week this old Shards of Alara mythic has started moving very quickly. The market price has roughly tripled to around $3, while remaining near-mint copies on TCGplayer are currently asking well above $10.
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And if youโve been following this series lately, you probably donโt need three guesses to identify the culprit.
The Ur-Sphinx has spent more than a month sending practically every playable (and occasionally questionableโฆ) sphinx upward.
Thereโs a strong argument that Sphinx Sovereign belongs to the latter categoryโฆ but itโs also a very scarce sphinx: Sphinx Sovereign has one printing, as a mythic rare printed nearly two decades ago. No Commander reprint. No bonus sheet. Nada.
I personally wouldnโt be in too much hurry in slapping this sphinx into a Commander deck, but, well, weโre here to report about prices, not playability. It definitely looks like, if itโs scarce and itโs a sphinx, itโs gonna fly.
Polymorph
Good olโ Polymorph is back for a second consecutive week.
Last Friday we covered the card after new demand from Jace, Multiverse Architect started pushing prices upward. Since then, the spike has only accelerated, and by now it has spread across different printings.
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Jace, Multiverse Architect remains the #1 commander built on EDHREC over the past month, with more than 11,000 new lists. Heโs already climbed to around #160 among all commanders despite having existed for less than a month.
And, as we noted last week, Jace is basically a Polymorph commander cosplaying as a planeswalker. His โ3 exiles another creature or planeswalker you control, then reveals cards from your library until you hit another creature or planeswalker and puts it directly onto the battlefield. That rewards you for making expendable tokens and stuffing your deck with creatures that provide an enormous payoff.
And Polymorph fits in that game plan like a glove. Point it at your tiny token, dig through your deck to find the payoff.
Divergent Transformations
Polymorph isnโt the only Polymorph effect enjoying an uptick: Divergent Transformations, which we also covered last week, has kept running hot.
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Divergent Transformations is basically the Commander-sized version of Polymorph. It exiles two target creatures, then each controller reveals cards until they hit another creature and puts it directly onto the battlefield. It also has undaunted, meaning it costs less for each opponent you have. In a normal four-player Commander game, that knocks the seven-mana cost all the way down to just .
Bronzebeak Foragers
Two weeks ago we covered Radiant Solar, which jumped thanks to Dack Fayden, Helping Handโs impressive performance in cEDH.
And it looks like Dack isnโt finished!
This week, a dinosaur from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is riding along: Bronzebeak Foragers jumped from below $1 to over $3, and with near-mint copies currently listed even higher.
Source: MTGStocks
So why does Dack want a random Dinosaur from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander?
Because Bronzebeak Foragers does something particularly useful after Dack starts handing your creatures to your opponents.
When the Foragers enters, you can exile up to one nonland permanent controlled by each opponent until the Foragers leaves the battlefield.
Dackโs creatures enter under your control first, meaning you control their ETB triggers. Dack then gives one of those creatures to each opponent before those triggers resolve.
That means Bronzebeak Foragersโs trigger can target the very creatures you just donated.
Exile them, and when the Foragers subsequently leaves the battlefield, those cards return under their ownersโ control.
Who just happens to be you!
And, interestingly, Bronzebeak Foragers seems to be something casual Commander players havenโt caught up yet. When you check cEDH Dack lists, Bronzebeak Foragers shows up fairly often. But EDHREC currently has the card in only about 17% of all Dack Fayden, Helping Hand decks. While itโs always hard to guess what will happen with a cardโs price, Bronzebeak Foragers seems to be a card just waiting for more players to discover it.
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