Magic: The Gathering Card Prices
HobbyCardIndex tracks 133,506 Magic: The Gathering cards, and the average raw (ungraded) card is worth about $31. Every price comes from real sold sales, raw and graded, and it's updated daily.
Source: HobbyCardIndex · Updated daily · https://hobbycardindex.com/categories/magic-tcgMost valuable Magic: The Gathering cards right now
| # | Card | Raw price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Lotus | $50,466 |
| 2 | The Mind Stone [Borderless] #385 | $29,300 |
| 3 | Smaug the Magnificent [Borderless] #249 | $22,000 |
| 4 | Smaug the Magnificent [Borderless Foil] #249 | $20,100 |
| 5 | Black Lotus | $19,628 |
| 6 | Mount Doom [Serialized] #750 | $14,100 |
| 7 | Shadow Of The Enemy [Serialized] #735 | $12,750 |
| 8 | Black Lotus | $12,550 |
| 9 | Traveling Chocobo [Borderless Gold Serialized] #551F | $9,999 |
| 10 | Mox Sapphire | $9,188 |
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How to find what your Magic: The Gathering card is worth
Scan it. Point your phone at the card with the card scanner and it pins the exact card, parallel included, to its real sold prices.
Or look it up. Type the player or character, year, set and card number into the price checker and read the raw and graded prices side by side.
Then check the set. Open the Magic: The Gathering set pages to see where your card sits next to the rest of the checklist, because the chase card and the base card from the same set can be a hundred dollars apart.
How Magic card prices work
Magic prices are set by two different crowds and it helps to know which one you're selling to. Players buy cards to use, so a card's price tracks how good it is in Commander, Modern or Standard and drops the day it gets banned or outclassed. Collectors buy the old and the scarce, Alpha and Beta, the Power Nine, serialized and borderless treatments, and those prices don't care about the metagame at all. We track about 133,500 Magic cards at an average raw price of about $31. Our most valuable list right now is the collector side almost entirely: a Black Lotus at about $50,500 raw, a borderless The Mind Stone at $29,300, serialized Lord of the Rings cards, and three different Black Lotus printings.
The levers are the card, then the set it was printed in, then the treatment, foil, borderless, extended art, serialized, then the condition and the grade. Grading matters less in Magic than in any other category we track: across the Magic cards with both prices, the median PSA 10 sells for a bit under four times raw, because most of the market still trades raw and sleeved. Prices come from real sold sales, raw and graded, rebuilt daily.
The sets that set the market
The biggest Magic set in our catalogue by count isn't a set at all: The List reprints run about 3,800 cards, because the List slips old cards into new boosters and each one is its own entry. Mystery Booster, the same idea in a different box, is next at about 1,800. The real sets come after: Fallout at roughly 1,600 cards, Secret Lair Drop at 1,580, Commander Legends Battle for Baldur's Gate at 1,360, Lord of the Rings at 1,310, Doctor Who at 1,280 and Final Fantasy at 1,240. Half of that list is Universes Beyond, which is where Magic's money and arguments both live right now, and the Lord of the Rings serialized cards in our most valuable list came out of that set.
Commander product fills the rest of the top: Commander Legends at about 1,220 cards, Commander Masters at 1,180, Marvel Super Heroes Commander at 1,180, Modern Horizons 3 at 1,030 and Foundations at 1,190. The old sets are tiny by comparison, which is the point. Alpha, Beta and Unlimited are tiny by comparison and carry most of the collector market. Check the set symbol before you price anything; a Black Lotus from three different printings sits at three different prices in our list.
What a grade is worth
For the Magic cards we track that carry both a raw and a PSA 10 price, about 3,500 of them, the median PSA 10 sells for a bit under four times raw. That's the lowest graded premium of any major category in our index, and it says something true about Magic: most of the market still trades raw and sleeved, players don't want slabs, and the slab is a newer habit in Magic than in sports. A PSA 10 adds the most to the cards that are collectibles first, Alpha and Beta rares, the Power Nine, serialized treatments, and almost nothing to a Commander staple.
So the grading question in Magic is narrower than in Pokemon. If you've got an old border rare in genuinely clean shape, a serialized card or a tournament promo, a grade can pay. For anything you'd actually shuffle, sell it raw. On every card page we show raw next to PSA 10, PSA 9, PSA 8 and the BGS, CGC and SGC grades, plus the population report, so you can see whether a slab would change the number for your card.
How to use this price guide
Identify the printing first, because the same Magic card name can exist in dozens of sets, treatments and languages, and that's where the price lives. Scan the card with the phone scanner and it identifies the set and treatment, or search by name and set. The card page shows the raw price, every graded price we carry, the price history chart and the sold comps behind the number, and if a particular treatment has no sales of its own we show the comparable versions of the same card.
The most valuable list on this page is raw prices only, cleaned of obvious data glitches and of sealed product. The one-of-one The One Ring sits at $2 million in our index, a real sale but not a price guide, so it's filtered out of the table. The set grid takes you to full checklists with prices. If you're pricing a collection to sell, sort into playables and collectibles first and treat them as two different jobs. A free account tracks 25 cards and runs 50 scans a month, and prices refresh daily.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find out what my Magic cards are worth?
Scan the card with our phone scanner or search it by name and set. The card page shows the raw price, the graded prices, the price history chart and the sold sales behind the number. Check the set symbol and treatment first, because a Beta printing and a Commander deck reprint of the same card are priced worlds apart.
Are old Magic cards from the 1990s worth anything?
Often, yes, and more than in most hobbies. Alpha, Beta and Unlimited cards carry most of the collector market, with Black Lotus at about $50,500 raw topping our list, and even the commons from the first sets sell. Revised and the mid-1990s expansions are worth less, not nothing. Condition matters, but not as brutally as in Pokemon.
Which Magic cards are worth money right now?
The Power Nine, serialized and borderless treatments and the one-of-one promos. Our most valuable list today is led by a Black Lotus at about $50,500 raw, a borderless The Mind Stone at $29,300, two Smaug the Magnificent borderless printings at about $20,000 each and a serialized Mount Doom at $14,100. The One Ring one-of-one sits at $2 million.
Is grading worth it for Magic cards?
Less often than in other categories. Across the Magic cards we track with both prices, the median PSA 10 sells for a bit under four times the raw price, because most of the market trades raw and sleeved. Grade the old-border rares in clean shape, serialized cards and promos; sell the playables raw. Check the population report first.
Do you track Universes Beyond and Commander cards?
Yes. Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Fallout, Final Fantasy and Marvel Super Heroes are in the index at over a thousand cards each, as are Commander Legends, Commander Masters and Foundations. Each set has its own checklist page with prices, and the serialized Lord of the Rings cards are among the most valuable in the category.
How often are these Magic card prices updated?
Daily. Every card price on HobbyCardIndex is rebuilt from real sold sales on a rolling nightly cycle, and each card page carries a price history chart so you can see the move over a month, a year or longer. The card count and average price at the top of this page refresh from the same data.
Where do the prices come from?
Real sold prices from eBay and the major auction houses, raw and graded, updated daily. We pull completed sales, not asking prices, from across the market and combine them into one price per card and grade, so the number you see is what people actually paid. Graded prices cover PSA, BGS, SGC and CGC.