World Championship Decks

Measured activity

City of Brass - 1996 Eric Tam (ARN)made the set's biggest measured move, +166% to $24.99. 284 cards broke away from the set's shared move over the measured window, busier than most Magic: The Gathering sets (47.7 per 100 cards vs. a 26.6 median). 204 moved up, 80 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. +166%City of Brass - 1996 Eric Tam (ARN)$24.99 2026-05-25
2. +158%Submerge - 2000 Tom van de Logt (NMS) (SB)$6.31 2024-10-07
3. +157%Cabal Therapy - 2003 Peer Kroger (JUD)$6.28 2026-04-06
4. +157%Parallax Wave - 2000 Nicolas Labarre (NMS) (SB)one active week$5.74 2025-07-28
5. +149%Parallax Tide - 2000 Tom van de Logt (NMS)$15.27 2025-11-03
6. +128%Phyrexian Furnace - 1997 Paul McCabe (WTH) (SB)$6.99 2026-02-23
7. +122%Tsabo's Web - 2001 Antoine Ruel (INV)$13.00 2026-05-11
8. +121%Sylvan Library - 1996 Bertrand Lestree (4ED)$39.99 2025-06-02
9. +112%Ancient Den - 2004 Manuel Bevand (MRD)one active week$8.55 2024-09-09
10. +110%Birds of Paradise - 1996 Eric Tam (4ED)$8.49 2024-04-15
11. +110%Dust Bowl - 2000 Janosch Kuhn (MMQ)one active week$10.09 2026-01-12
12. +105%Fyndhorn Elves - 1996 Bertrand Lestree (ICE)$5.24 2026-06-01

“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.