Five structural factors compound to drive valuations from 5x to 50x the standard ex variant of the same Pokemon
Additionally, it has plenty of great deck-exclusive cards too every Energy deck wants Aether Refinery, Conversion Apparatus, and Localized Destruction
Commanders Bundle Cards Each Commanders Bundle has five cards, three of them being Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Swiftfoot Boots
Aang's Journey Absorb Vis Ainok Guide Analyze the Pollen Archaeomancer's Map Archdruid's Charm Arid Mesa Armillary Sphere Ash Barrens Assassin's Trophy Atalan Jackal Attune with Aether Avengers Disassembled Axgard Armory Bad River Bant Panorama Battle Plan Beamsaw Prospector Beanstalk Giant Beneath the Sands Bioengineered Future Biotech Specialist Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus Black Chocobo Blighted Woodland Bloodstained Mire Bog Glider Borderland Explorer Borderland Ranger Borough Backup Boseiju Reaches Skyward Boseiju, Who Endures Boundless Realms Bountiful Landscape Braidwood Sextant Brave the Wilds Brokers Hideout Burnished Hart Bushwhack Cabaretti Courtyard Call the Mountain Chocobo Campus Guide Canoptek Wraith Caravan Vigil Case of the Shattered Pact Celebrate the Harvest Centaur Rootcaster Changeling Wayfinder Circuitous Route Civic Wayfinder Cleansing Wildfire Colossal Collision Coming Attraction Compass Gnome Contaminated Landscape Cosmium Confluence Crop Rotation Crumble to Dust Cultivate Cycle of Renewal Dance of the Tumbleweeds Dauntless Scrapbot Dawntreader Elk Deathsprout Deceptive Landscape Deep Reconnaissance Demolition Field Dig Up Diligent Farmhand Dire-Strain Rampage Disorienting Choice
Impending cards become especially powerfulOverlord of the Balemurk practically doubles in value, because Terra copies them and stacks multiple ETB and attack triggers
However, some Magic cards are immensely valuable, so the hobby can also be considered an investment
