Last updated on February 25, 2025
Stock Up | Illustration by Izzy
Stock Up, a mostly-overlooked blue sorcery from Magic's latest set, Aetherdrift, has seen its price increase by a whopping 535% since yesterday, and more than 1,100% since last week, now sitting at around $4.00 according to MTG Goldfish and TCGplayer.
Source: TCGplayer – Stock Up (DFT), near mint
Aetherdrift hit the shelves on February 14, 2025, and few paid attention to this unassuming blue uncommon: Stock Up was initially priced at a modest $0.30. But in the last few days it has made waves in pretty much every 60-card MTG format, from Standard to Modern – and even the biggest, baddest (and priciest!) battlefield in Magic: Vintage.
What Is Stock Up?
Divination | Illustration by Matt Stewart
As Frank Karsten put it in his official Pro Tour Aetherdrift Standard Metagame Breakdown: “Stock Up is perhaps the best Divination variant ever,” and redditors rabidly agree to the point that some in the r/spikes community are wondering if this is Aetherdrift’s very best card.
Being a sorcery (rather than an instant) is indeed a drawback, but the amount of card selection is phenomenal, and the fact that Stock Up puts the cards in your hand without technically drawing them is very relevant in MTG formats where Orcish Bowmasters and card-draw hate are prevalent.
And this is not theorycrafting. What’s driving this spike isn’t just hype — it’s results.
Topping The Standard Pro Tour
At Pro Tour Aetherdrift during Chicago MagicCon, Stock Up shone in two standout decks.
Arne Huschenbeth piloted an Azorius Control list (splashing green in the sideboard) to a 9-1 record, finishing 12th overall, with four copies of Stock Up as his primary card advantage engine. Packed with removal, counterspells, and board wipes, his deck used Stock Up to dig for answers and stabilize in the late-game. And Huschenbeth's success has been replicated by players happy to control the Standard playfield by Stocking Up to find your answers and stabilize as the game goes on.
Former Magic World Champion Yuta Takahashi (who you can see in Faerie Mastermind!) brought an Azorius Omniscience deck that leveraged Stock Up to keep the party going after cheating Omniscience into play, ensuring a steady flow of win conditions.
All in all, Frank Karsten’s meta report for the Aetherdrift Pro Tour noted 45 copies of Stock Up across 349 decklists, with 41 in main decks—a strong showing for a new card in a format dominated by established hits like Monstrous Rage and This Town Ain't Big Enough.
And, cherry on top: While not in the main deck, Stock up still made its way to #1 in last week's Pro Tour. Chicago Overlord Matt Nass, piloting a Zur, Eternal Schemer deck, had a copy of Stock Up in the sideboard.
But as seen in TCGplayer's data, Stock Up‘s stocks started going up before Pro Tour players took the blue sorcery to the top – the huge majority of copies were traded more than a week ago, even if the price spike is happening right now.
Why?
Let's look at high-power formats.
Breaching Modern and Legacy
Stock Up is also finding a home in the Modern format thanks to Breach decks, like Liny reaching Top 4 in London last weekend.
But the recognition of realizing that Aetherdrift's blue sorcery is the real deal should probably go to Legacy Show and Tell players, who more than two weeks ago jumped onto Stock Up sooner than anybody else during the 28th God of Legacy Tournament in Tokyo, Japan.
Vintage Stocks Are Up
The real surprise, though, is Stock Up’s forage in Magic’s most powerful format, where players have found that the blue sorcery is a perfect fit for Paradoxical Outcome decks — decks built around Moxen, Time Walk, and the titular Paradoxical Outcome. This archetype, which relies on returning 0-mana artifacts to generate massive card advantage, thrives on finding key combo pieces quickly, and it's here where Stock Up rubs elbows with the likes of card-draw powerhouses like Brainstorm and Ancestral Recall.
Should You Stock Up?
Greed | Illustration by Izzy
Should you stock this blue sorcery, then?
With the usual caveat that this is not investment advice (doing your own research is priceless, folks!), Stock Up does seem to be the real deal in a lot of different Magic formats, to the point that TCGplayer's Emma Partlow likens Stock Up to Fatal Push, the iconic uncommon from Aether Revolt that became a must-have for competitive players. “[Stock Up]’s going to be a card that every competitive player will want,” Emma writes, “and will end up being incredibly hard to find, this is because some uncommons have a fairly comparable pull rate to mythic rares.”
On the other hand, though, Vintage has a tiny player base. While Vintage decks are so expensive that $4 is not even a rounding error in their deck-building budget, and no self-respecting Vintage player will bat an eyelash paying a lot more for a playset, it seems too small an audience to absorb the output for the latest Standard set.
In turn, this means that Standard and Modern will likely dictate Stock Up‘s long-term demand. If a top-tier deck emerges in either format – say, a refined Bant Control list or a top-tier Modern shell – then it will remain relatively pricey for an uncommon, at least until reprinted. For reference, Fatal Push used to cost $4-5 until reprinted in Double Masters, which is around what you see right now for Stock Up over at TCGplayer.
Source: TCGplayer – Stock Up (DFT), near mint
For now, Stock Up is living the Max Speed dream that Aetherdrift promised: going fast and furious in no time flat!
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