Prices are rounded up to the nearest dollar value.

As usual, the average prices for each of these cards were measured and tracked using pricing site MTGGoldfish, and based on the market value at the time of writing.

As we continue our descent into the most expensive cards throughout MTG’s History, let’s take a look back at the beginning of one of the franchise’s most famous and impactful arcs - as well as the five priciest pieces of cardboard that came out of it. Antiquities served as effectively the first major ‘story arc’ in the Magic’s extended franchise, at least, as far as booster packs were concerned, and has a special place in many players’ hearts for that alone.įor both story and mechanical reasons, Antiquities is one of the most intriguing of the early Magic sets - and much like Arabian Nights, some of the cards from it fetch a tremendous price. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that this is where MTG truly lept from a collection of unrelated fantasy cards to a game with its’ own lore and extended universe. Many of these events would be chronicled in tie-in novels, and sets of their own further on in the franchise (including a more fleshed-out depiction of the Brothers’ War in 2022) offered more in-depth looks at the time of darkness, the period of unease, and the Ice Age that the world went through as a result of the conflict. This decades-long conflict would later play a major part in the history of the Multiverse, resulting in not only the apparent death of Mishra and awakening of Urza’s Planeswalker powers, but difficulties for Dominaria as a whole that would last for thousands of years - not to mention the unsealing of the Phyrexian Empire’s first iteration. In the case of Antiquities - a set entirely consisting of Artifacts and cards that mention Artifacts - we mean this quite literally.Īfter ancient powerful war machines from the Thran Empire are discovered on the plane of Dominaria, brothers Urza and Mishra utilize them in a tremendous battle for control of both halves of a mystical stone. ( KXNET) - The Arabian Nights are over, and with that, it’s time to look at a different type of ancient artifact from Magic: The Gathering’s long history.

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