From the Vault: Annihilation

Measured activity

Living Death (Foil)made the set's biggest measured move, +38% to $5.90. 8 cards broke away from the set's shared move over the measured window, busier than most Magic: The Gathering sets (53.3 per 100 cards vs. a 26.6 median). 5 moved up, 3 moved down.

How Magic: The Gathering sets usually behave

Value concentrates hard: across 393 measured Magic: The Gathering sets, the single top card typically holds about 8% of a set's total card value.

New sets have typically eased about 23% more than the market overall within 30 weeks of release, fastest in the first few weeks.

Named moves in this set

The set's largest single-card departures from its own shared move.

1. +38%Living Death (Foil)$5.90 2026-04-27
2. -31%Decree of Annihilation (Foil)$4.05 2024-05-20
3. +28%Smokestack (Foil)$4.25 2026-01-05
4. +24%Cataclysm (Foil)$4.38 2026-02-02
5. -20%Terminus (Foil)one active week$3.53 2025-03-03
6. +17%Armageddon (Foil)$11.19 2024-03-04
7. +13%Wrath of God (Foil)$4.25 2026-06-22
8. -12%Rolling Earthquake (Foil)$3.71 2024-11-18

“One active week” means the price changed at the daily market close in only one week of the move window. A single-week jump on an otherwise flat quote can be a stale price rather than a sustained move.