MTG Weekly Price Spikes: 3/13 – 3/20

Last updated on March 26, 2026

Force Spike | Illustration by Nelson DeCastro

A fairly quiet week in the Magic card market (as long as we don't talk about lairs and scalpers… although, spoiler alert, we kinda will).

Premodern keeps flexing as one of Magic's strongest financial forces, competitive Legacy has had some impact, and this week's Secret Lair proves once more that if Wizards won’t print to demand, scalpers will happily handle the “distribution.”

Quirion Dryad

As you probably noticed by now if you follow the Magic card market, it's not all about the bass: it's all about Premodern. This week Quirion Dryad (a card you likely never saw if you play Commander) went up by a silly 1,000%, from about $1.30 last week to well over $15.15 for near-mint copies in the US market…

… but only for its Planeshift version (later versions are still worth less than fifty cents).

This green creature has been doing very well later, usually paired with Psychatog in Grow and GAT decks.

Source: MTGStocks

In case you're new to this trend: Premodern is a player-run format that includes sets from Fourth Edition to Scourge, but it does allow you to play later reprints, so you can play your Foundations copy of Llanowar Elves if you want. But in the last couple of months it has become pretty clear that players prefer the “premodern” print for competitive cards, and those prints tend to spike while later reprints remain mostly flat.

Force Spike

Then again, it's not only just about Premodern, even Force Spike is very much a Premodern powerhouse.

But here's the twist for this blue instant: The Legends original costs around $6-$7, and has been a pricey card for quite a few months.

But Force Spike is also a staple in Mono Blue Aggro decks in Pauper, and as of late it reached a lot of top cuts in major Duel Commander tournaments, usually in Tasigur, The Golden Fang decks, Aragorn, King Of Gondor decks, and Spider-man 2099 decks.

And that multi-format stardom is pushing up the price of the reprints, which have roughly doubled in price since last week.

Source: MTGStocks

Sand Scout

Sand Scout is here to let new(ish) cards save face and show they can go up in price too!

Although, yet again, it's an old format doing the heavy lifting: Boros Aggro decks bursted into the Legacy metagame by the end of last year, have been gaining a lot of traction since then, and have had a pretty good run in the last few weeks…

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… including the #1 spot in the recent MTGO RC Super Qualifier.And Sand Scout, from Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander, is usually a 4x in this deck. The price has slowly been going up since the end of last year, and has spiked the last week to over $6.

Source: MTGStocks

Dandân and Scalpers

Source: Secret Lair

As we reported earlier this week, the Secret Lair Dandân deck launched through the Chaos Vault for $99.99…

… sold out in just about 30 minutes…

… and got almost immediately relisted for a 150%-200% markup on resellers like TCGPlayer.

Source: MTGStocks

By now, it seems pretty clear that this is how WotC intends to run Secret Lairs. And no matter how much Magic players complain, WotC seems determined to never do print-to-order runs. Either be the lucky few that snatch a copy right on time, or be willing to pay thrice.