Lands Matter MTG Cards Spike 266% Thanks to Edge of Eternities Precon

Last updated on July 10, 2025

Crucible of Worlds – art by Ron Spencer

Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast revealed the full deck list for World Shaper, one of Edge of Eternities Commander precons. It has a very strong “Insects… IN SPACE!” theme:

These space bugs have a twist, though: They care a lot about lands (which is also one of the themes that EOE's main set supports). And a couple of existing land-matters cards that would be great additions to No products found. have been rocketing up in price since the reveal: Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, and Tiller Engine.

Zask, Skittering Swarmlord's Launchpad

The most notable spike from the No products found. aftermath is Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, which jumped a stratospheric 266% in price: From about $6 to nearly $16 in the US market in a single day. 

Source: MTGStocks

Right until yesterday, Zask, Skittering Swarmlord traded just 2-4 daily copies on average on TCGplayer. But it traded a staggering 40 copies in the first hour after the announcement, and 140 copies all told during yesterday. Most offers on TCGplayer at the time of writing sit at even higher, between $18 and $24.

Source: TCGplayer – Zask, Skittering Swarmlord (J22), near-mint

With a single printing in Jumpstart 2022, Zask, Skittering Swarmlord is a Legendary green Insect that lets you play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. It also plus self-mills whenever one of your insects dies. It has absolutely no cEDH punch, but it's a fairly popular Golgari commander in casual Commander tables, and very common in the 99 when Grist, the Hunger Tide sits in the command zone.

Zask, Skittering Swarmlord‘s synergy with the No products found. is pretty obvious. The deck's theme is “Insects who care about lands,” and Zask, Skittering Swarmlord cares about both. But what really kicked its price into overdrive in this case was some prime time in the No products found. reveal video:

Source: The Command Zone YT Channel

Nothing like a bit of time under the limelights for a card to get pricey, as Zask can attest to… and so can the colorless artifact we'll talk about next.

Tiller Engine's Price Spike

Tiller Engine went from $9 to $10.5 overnight, a modest 25% increase when compared with Zask, Skittering Swarmlord. But ten bucks is a price that Tiller Engine reached in mid-April, when it traded about 20 copies per week… and yesterday it traded three time as many, in a single day, suggesting his upward trend could continue.

Source: TCGplayer – Tiller Engine (DMC), near-mint

What's more:Tiller Engine is a completely different insect construct when it comes to competitive performance: It's been on a rampage since Bloomburrow, working wonders with Lumra, Bellow of the Woods as its commander in cEDH. But, yes, fame matters much in market movements:

Source: The Command Zone YT Channel

In Zask, Skittering Swarmlord‘s and Tiller Engine‘s defense, the other cards brought up in the No products found. reveal video have not moved at the time of writing, suggesting there's something else going for the insect and the construct.

But, on the other hand, it's clear that taking center stage clearly helped them go up in price.

Is this Minute of Fame a Flash in the Pan, or the Real Deal?

Zask, Skittering Swarmlord does seem to be the right insect at the right time. Zask not only fits No products found.‘s gameplan…

… it also hits the exact flavor that this Commander precon is going for. And flavor is worth a pretty penny in casual Commander.

Tiller Engine, as noted, is a different beast: This is an artifact that can sit at the final table of a cEDH tournament, and that is no stranger to prices over ten bucks.

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On the other hand, there's definitely an “I just saw my favorite content creator recommend this card!” factor at play here.

With our usual caveat that this is not investment advice (always do your own research, folks!), if you have no interest in land-loving space bugs (or land-matters commander in general) and spare copies of any of these two cards, it may not be a bad idea to sell into the hype. And if you were thinking about grabbing a copy to upgrade your No products found., you may want to wait a bit for the hype to die down.

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