MTG Weekly Price Spikes: 11/7 – 11/13

Last updated on November 13, 2026

Carnivorous Cultivator | Illustration by Filip Burburan

It’s another pretty quiet Friday for the Magic card market, but at least this week’s movers are coming from three very different places.

One Reality Fracture rare is starting to look like a multi-format staple, Star Trek is giving an old artifact commander a bump, and Undead Warchief is back for a second week as its suspiciously cheap new printing continues to catch up with the rest.

Let’s check this week’s biggest movers!

Carnivorous Cultivator

Carnivorous Cultivator is shaping up to be one of Reality Fracture‘s sleeper hits!

Regular copies were still comfortably below $1 around a week ago, and were even lower when FRA launched. But they are pushing well past $2 now, with a pretty big jump in the last couple of days.

Source: MTGStocks

It took no time for Mono–Green Landfall decks in Standard (which is around 10% of the metagame in the last couple of weeks) to adopt Carnivorous Cultivator: the new elf warlock has been showing up in most of the mono-green decks, and usually as a four-of.

But Carnivorous Cultivator isn’t stopping at Standard: it’s also showing top-tier play in Lands decks in Legacy. Around a quarter of recent Lands lists are playing Carnivorous Cultivator, usually with three or four copies.

And it even had some competitive showings in Vintage!

Still, I’d keep expectations in check here. Carnivorous Cultivator is from a brand-new set that players seem to love, so supply is very large, and prices could plunge fast.

But putting up competitive results in three different formats it’s definitely impressive!

Urza, Chief Artificer

Last week, we mentioned that Star Trek hadn’t done much to shake up prices yet. That continues to be true… but the Borg may be trying to change that a bit.

Urza, Chief Artificer has been steadily climbing for a few months now, and have spiked to a new high as Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek launches.

Source: MTGStocks

The reasons seems pretty straightforward: Urza, Chief Artificer is one of Magic’s best artifact commanders. And Star Trek contains an awful lot of machines for him to boss around: There are around 60 news cards that are artifact creatures, plus a batch of artifacts that can become creatures, or cards that create artifact creature tokens.

According to EDHREC, good ol’ Urza seems especially happy to play with One, Borg Evolved, Jurati, Cordial Queen, Co-Option Adjutant, and Locutus of Borg.

The spike looks a bit speculative, though. Urza, Chief Artificer has definitely been climbing, but looking at currently listed near-mint copies, the trend seems to be cooling down; and at the time of writing there were some copies listed at around $10, with several copies trading this week for even less.

Undead Warchief – Commander: Foundations

We covered Undead Warchief‘s Foundations Commander printing last Friday because it was a really weird case.

Undead Warchief is an established Zombie staple whose older copies generally trade well above $10. Yet when the new Foundations Commander printing arrived, it initially sold for around just a dollar!

A reprint dropping prices is nothing new (just as the shocklands!), but in this case the opposite was happening, with the Foundations Commander climbing past $4… and the question was, would it keep going up? Or would the more expensive versions finally drop?

Well… up it is!

Source: MTGStocks

Nothing fundamental has changed since last week. There’s no hot new Zombie commander suddenly creating tons of demand, and older printings have kept their prices well above $10. It just seems clear that Undead Warchief really is a good, popular card, which for some reason (new players buying their first Commander precon, perhaps, and unaware of the secondary market?) has a new, still pretty cheap printing.