Market Value (based on PriceCharting.com ): Ungraded: $329.06 Grade 7: $290.00 Grade 8: $304.29 Grade 9: $348.56 Grade 9.5: $500 PSA 10: $788.97 The second most valuable card to come out of this set is Eevee #188, an Illustration Rare that currently has a market price of about $80, give or take
ST01-014-guard-point and OP01-029-radical-beam are excellent counter events, that also happen to be Straw Hat cards
This is a cheap card, but you really dont want to play it before you have six lands so you make copies of Scute Swarm instead of the Insect tokens
In fact, apart from Blackcleave Cliffs, the 20 most played lands in Modern have all been printed or reprinted since Khans of Tarkir , and even if we expand out to the top 50, only a handful of fringe lands (Tolaria West, the rest of the ally fast lands, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, and Gemstone Mine) don't have a relatively recent reprinting
This is true of any planeswalker that costs this much mana thats worth playing, but its important to point out that Elminster does check this box
It doesnt have the greatest ceiling, and one could argue its just another graveyard deck, but the floor is solid, with ample room for customization
