Let’s get this on the record: Bloom Tender has been a “reprint when?” meme for years. Commander players love it. Speculators love it. The rest of us just wanted a copy that didn’t cost a kidney. Well, Lorwyn Eclipsed dropped, and Wizards finally pulled the trigger. The new printing is here — and the market is doing exactly what you’d expect.

We’re not here to pump the card. We’re here to report. So: the original Eventide (2008) version had been sitting in the “ouch” zone for a long time. Then Special Guests gave us a fancy alternate art. Now the standard ECL version is the one everyone’s actually opening and buying. Price? It’s moving — and we’ve got the charts for all three printings below so you can compare.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/a/ba86688d-18f0-4b5c-a797-42bf125a6c9f.jpg?1767658349" alt="Bloom Tender — Lorwyn Eclipsed" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/f/ef1b78d9-8f09-4d67-ac6b-45204e525b35.jpg?1733001264" alt="Bloom Tender — Special Guests" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/7/d7cc2828-dfe7-410b-9735-10bb7211f0f5.jpg?1562940634" alt="Bloom Tender — Eventide (2008)" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
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 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Left to right: Lorwyn Eclipsed (new), Special Guests, Eventide (2008). Same elf, three flavors of cardboard.</figcaption>
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The three printings — and why they matter

Eventide (2008) is the original. It’s the one that made Commander players go “I need that.” Supply was tight for over a decade. Even after other printings, the classic frame and that Chippy art hold a premium. Foil Eventide? Don’t ask. (We’ll show you the chart instead.)

Special Guests gave us a gorgeous Julie Dillon take — New Capenna vibes, showcase treatment. It’s a premium product, so it never flooded the market. Prices held up. If you want the fancy version, that’s the one. If you want to play the card and not pay a fortune, that wasn’t it.

Lorwyn Eclipsed is the “finally, a normal one” printing. Standard booster availability, Nils Hamm art, no gimmicks. More supply usually means the new version trades lower than the oldest, rarest one — and that’s playing out. But demand is so high that the ECL copy is still carrying a real price. Foils and showcase versions in the set are doing their own thing (and yes, some of those are silly expensive). We’re keeping an eye on it. So should you if you’re in the market.

What we’re watching

Reprints don’t always kill a card’s price — and Bloom Tender is a format staple in Commander and beyond. The ability to tap for mana of each color among your permanents makes it a house in multicolor decks. So even with more copies in the wild, demand could keep the floor from falling out. That said, if you’ve been waiting to pick one up, the next few weeks might be the best window. Once the set’s been cracked for a while and the hype cools, we’ll have a clearer picture.

Below you’ll find three price charts: one for the new Lorwyn Eclipsed printing, one for Special Guests, and one for the original Eventide. Toggle regular vs foil on each and see how they’ve been moving. Compare the curves. The old one will still command a premium; the new one is where most of the action is. Special Guests sits in the middle — premium art, premium price.

Conclusion

Bloom Tender’s reprint in Lorwyn Eclipsed is exactly the kind of move players have been asking for. Supply is up, prices are in flux, and the market is doing what it always does: react. We’re not calling a top or a bottom here — we’re just making sure you’ve got the story and the data. Check the charts, compare printings, and decide for yourself. The Gazette will keep an eye on it. Now go tend those blooms.

The Bloom Tender boom — reprint fever is real

Nobody asked for this take. Here it is anyway.

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer is a 2/1 for one red that dashes in, steals the top card of your library when it hits you, and makes a Treasure. It's banned in Legacy. It's still the most wanted one-drop in Modern. Commander players run it in <a href="https://edhrec.com/cards/ragavan-nimble-pilferer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tens of thousands of decks</a>. The monkey didn't ask to be printed. The monkey didn't ask to be the format. The monkey just does monkey things. And the price? *chef's kiss* Still not cheap.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/9/a9738cda-adb1-47fb-9f4c-ecd930228c4d.jpg?1681963138" alt="Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer — Modern Horizons 2" style="max-width: 320px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">The monkey. Still judging you for not having one.</figcaption>
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This week in cardboard: we live in a society

You know the meme. "We live in a society where [something absurd]." We live in a society where a 2/1 monkey with dash is worth more than your dinner. We live in a society where Wizards printed it in MH2, then gave it a Multiverse Legends version, and the market said "cool, we'll take both." We're not telling you to buy or sell. We're telling you to look at the chart below and accept that the monkey won.

Anyway, the chart's below. Toggle foil if you want to feel worse. Stay toxic, gamers.

Hot take: Ragavan did nothing wrong (we're kidding, but look at the chart)

Modern Horizons 2 introduced the five evoke elementals: Solitude, Grief, Endurance, Fury, and Subtlety. They see play in Modern, Legacy, and Commander. Two that still show up everywhere — and have no reprint yet — are Solitude and Endurance. If you're tracking the set for value or playability, these are two to keep an eye on.

What they do

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 <li>Solitude — 3/2, flash, lifelink. When it enters, exile target creature; its controller gains life equal to that creature's power. Evoke: exile a white card from your hand. One-shot removal or a body; white's answer to big creatures.</li>
 <li>Endurance — 3/4, flash, reach. When it enters, up to one target player puts all cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in random order. Evoke: exile a green card from your hand. Graveyard hate that can also beat down.</li>
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Both are single printings in MH2. No reprint has been announced, so supply is fixed for now. Demand stays high in Modern (blink, tempo, midrange) and Commander. The charts below show how their prices have moved. Toggle regular vs foil to compare.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/7/47a6234f-309f-4e03-9263-66da48b57153.jpg?1763472875" alt="Solitude — Modern Horizons 2" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/b/eb0e0404-4846-4891-acfa-bd0951ecf9c6.jpg?1717470457" alt="Endurance — Modern Horizons 2" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
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 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Solitude (left) and Endurance (right), Modern Horizons 2. Both still single-printing staples.</figcaption>
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Why they matter for the set

If you're opening MH2 or trading into it, these two are among the highest-impact mythics. Solitude answers creatures at instant speed and fits any white deck that can pitch a card. Endurance answers graveyard strategies and doubles as a threat. Neither has been reprinted, so their price history reflects only the MH2 supply. The chart below shows the data for each. Use it to see where the market has been — not as buy or sell advice.

We'll keep an eye on the set.

Two MH2 elementals still worth watching — Solitude and Endurance

Seth Manfield won <a href="https://magic.gg/news/magic-world-championship-31-final-standings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Magic World Championship 31</a> in December 2025. He did it with Izzet Lessons — the same deck that had been dominating Standard for months. He went 0–2 in draft, then 10–0 in Standard to make the Top 8, then 9–0 in games on Sunday. In the finals he beat Akira Shibata 3–0. Same deck on both sides of the table. That’s the kind of format dominance that gets people’s attention. So did the prize: $100,000, a Black Lotus trophy, and the promise that Manfield’s likeness will appear on a future Magic card. He’s now one of three players in history to win the World Championship twice, alongside Javier Dominguez and Shahar Shenhar.

Then the bans came.On <a href="https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">November 10, 2025</a>, Wizards published the final banned and restricted announcement of the year. Standard got hit hard. Vivi Ornitier — banned. Proft's Eidetic Memory — banned. Screaming Nemesis — banned. Below, the three cards that left Standard.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/c/ecc1027a-8c07-44a0-bdde-fa2844cff694.jpg?1762773080" alt="Vivi Ornitier — Final Fantasy" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/f/af5b29b3-974c-4200-8df8-b072c11e1600.jpg?1762773095" alt="Proft's Eidetic Memory — Murders at Karlov Manor" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/e/ce35e6fb-ff54-44c4-a216-7ddd37f46882.jpg?1762773071" alt="Screaming Nemesis — Duskmourn: House of Horror" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
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 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">The three Standard bans from the November 2025 announcement. Left: Vivi Ornitier (Final Fantasy). Center: Proft's Eidetic Memory (Murders at Karlov Manor). Right: Screaming Nemesis (Duskmourn).</figcaption>
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The first two were the engine of the Izzet Cauldron deck that had put five or more copies into the Top 8 at every Standard Magic Spotlight event since rotation. Play Design didn’t mince words: the deck had “a strong fair game, efficient interaction, and a combo ceiling that other decks in the format can’t overtake,” with “no clear angle of counterplay.” So they removed Vivi (the Agatha’s Soul Cauldron combo piece) and Proft’s Eidetic Memory (the two-mana engine they compared to Up the Beanstalk, banned earlier in the year). Screaming Nemesis went too — not because it beat Izzet, but because Mono-Red was the only deck that could hang with it, and Wizards didn’t want red aggro to simply inherit the crown.

What it means for the market

We’re not here to call tops or bottoms. We’re here to report. The deck that won the biggest event of the year is no longer legal in Standard. The cards that spiked on the back of that deck are now format-illegal there. If you’re holding paper copies of Vivi, Proft’s Eidetic Memory, or Screaming Nemesis, your Standard demand just vanished; Commander and other formats still want some of these, but the narrative has changed. The same announcement hit Pioneer (Heartfire Hero banned), Legacy (Entomb and Nadu, Winged Wisdom banned), Pauper (High Tide banned), and Historic (Force of Negation, Frantic Search, Mystical Tutor, Entomb, and Dark Depths pre-banned). So it wasn’t just Standard. It was a broad sweep. Below you'll find price charts for the three Standard bans.

The takeaway

World Championship 31 was a great story — a comeback, a repeat champion, and a deck so good that the finals were a mirror match. But “so good” is exactly why that deck couldn’t survive. Wizards has said they’re moving to more frequent ban windows so they can react faster when one strategy takes over. So when you see a deck put five copies in every Top 8, don’t be shocked when a few key cards end up on the list. The Gazette will keep an eye on where those banned cards land in other formats. Until then — may your metagames be diverse and your combo pieces legal in at least one format you care about.

World Championship 31 — Izzet Lessons won it, then the hammer dropped

Cavern of Souls is a land. As it enters you choose a creature type. It taps for colorless or for one mana of any color — but that colored mana can only be spent to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can’t be countered. So in tribal decks it’s mana fixing and a way to push your threats through countermagic. It’s been a Commander and Modern staple for years. The price had stayed high because reprints were rare. Then The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023) put it in a standard-legal set. Same card, new supply. The market reacted.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/a/3aad15a2-8a1b-4460-9b06-e85863081878.jpg?1706884128" alt="Cavern of Souls — The Lost Caverns of Ixalan" style="max-width: 320px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Cavern of Souls — The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Choose a type, make it uncounterable.</figcaption>
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What the reprint did

LCI gave Cavern a normal booster printing. More supply usually means the new version trades at a lower price than the oldest printings — and that’s what happened. But demand is still high. Tribal decks in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, and Commander all want it. So the LCI copy found a floor; it didn’t crater. We’re not calling a top or a bottom. We’re giving you the chart for the Lost Caverns printing. Toggle regular vs foil and see where the market landed. If you’re in the market for a copy, the LCI version is the one most people are opening and buying. The Gazette will keep watching. May your tribes be uncounterable.

Cavern of Souls — the Lost Caverns reprint that finally hit Standard

We’ve all been there. You agree to a trade. You mail your cards. You wait. And then — nothing. Or worse, the wrong thing shows up, or it’s “lost in the mail,” or the other guy ghosts you. The secondary market for trading cards runs on trust until it doesn’t. So when we say Hoardgate uses **escrow**, we’re not just throwing around a buzzword. We’re saying: you don’t have to go first.

**What escrow actually does**

In plain English: both sides put their end of the deal into a neutral hold. When everything’s confirmed — cards received, condition as agreed — the hold releases. Nobody ships into the void hoping the other person will reciprocate. If something goes wrong, the process can pause or reverse instead of leaving one party holding the bag. For trades that involve real money or high-value cardboard, that’s the difference between “I’ll take the risk” and “we’re both protected.”

**Why we care**

We’re the Gazette. We report on cards, reprints, and the market. We also care that when you trade, you’re not relying on goodwill alone. Blockchain-backed escrow means the terms and the funds (or assets) can be held in a way that doesn’t depend on one person being nice. We’re not here to lecture — we’re here to point out that “trade safely” isn’t marketing fluff. It’s the whole point of not mailing your Ragavan to a PO box and praying.

**The short version**

If you’re going to trade with someone you don’t know, use a system where you don’t have to go first. Escrow is that system. Hoardgate uses it so that when you list your cards and someone wants to buy or trade, the deal is secured before anything moves. We’re not telling you to use us. We’re telling you to use *something* that doesn’t ask you to trust a stranger with an envelope. Your binder will thank you.

Questions? You know where to find us. Until then — keep those trades safe and those binders organized.

Why trade with escrow — a short sermon from the Gazette

Force of Negation does one thing: on your opponent’s turn you can exile a blue card from your hand instead of paying, counter a noncreature spell, and exile it. No graveyard, no recursion. It’s been a Modern and Legacy staple since Modern Horizons (2019). Then Double Masters 2022 gave it a reprint — borderless, full-art — and more recently it’s shown up in other products. So you’ve got the original and the 2X2 version as the two main paper printings most people care about.

We’re not here to tell you to buy or sell. We’re here to report. The MH1 version is the one that defined the card. The 2X2 version added supply and a bling option. Below you’ll see both printings and the charts that go with them. Toggle regular vs foil. The story’s in the curves.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/9/e9be371c-c688-44ad-ab71-bd4c9f242d58.jpg?1764758768" alt="Force of Negation — Modern Horizons" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/8/1825a719-1b2a-4af9-9cd2-7cb497cd0317.jpg?1770635208" alt="Force of Negation — Double Masters 2022" style="max-width: 260px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
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 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Left: MH1 (original). Right: Double Masters 2022. Same counter, two price tags.</figcaption>
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Why the Force still matters

Free interaction that only hits noncreature spells is exactly what blue decks want when they need to protect a combo or stop one. In Modern and Legacy, Force of Negation is a format staple. In Commander it’s in <a href="https://edhrec.com/cards/force-of-negation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tens of thousands of decks</a>. So demand has stayed high even as reprints added supply. The MH1 copy is the classic; the 2X2 copy is the one that’s easier to find in the wild. Check the charts below and decide for yourself. The Gazette will keep an eye on the Force.

Force of Negation — from Modern Horizons to Double Masters and beyond

Nobody wants to be the person who asks. Nobody wants to be the person who has to answer. "Did you pay the 1?" Three words. One Rhystic Study on the table. Every spell your opponents cast: draw a card unless they pay {1}. So either they pay the tax and you don't draw, or they don't pay and you draw. Either way, someone is mildly annoyed. It's been that way since Prophecy. It's in <a href="https://edhrec.com/cards/rhystic-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tens of thousands of Commander decks</a>. It's one of the most recognizable cards in the format. And the price? Let's just say the table isn't the only thing that's tilted when you look at the chart.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/6/d6914dba-0d27-4055-ac34-b3ebf5802221.jpg?1600698439" alt="Rhystic Study — Jumpstart" style="max-width: 320px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Rhystic Study. You know what it does. You know what they say.</figcaption>
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This week in cardboard: we're all that guy

Hot take: Rhystic Study is the card that turned "did you pay the 1?" into a format-wide meme. There's no escape. You either run it and become the person asking, or you don't run it and watch someone else draw three cards a turn round the table. The reprints have come — Jumpstart, Secret Lair, and others — but the demand never really went away. We're not telling you to buy or sell. We're telling you to look at the chart below and accept that this enchantment has been winning the social game since before most of us knew what Commander was. *taps chart* This bad boy can fit so many drawn cards. Anyway, did you pay the 1? Stay toxic, gamers.

Hot take: "Did you pay the 1?" is the most loaded question in Commander

Amalia Benavides Aguirre came out of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan: a 2/2 Vampire Scout with ward—pay 3 life. Whenever you gain life, Amalia explores. When her power is exactly 20, you destroy all other creatures. The combo was straightforward — gain life, put +1/+1 counters on her, hit 20, board wipe and swing. In Pioneer it was enough for Wizards to act. She's now banned in Pioneer. She's still legal in Standard, Modern, and Commander. So the deck that ran her in Pioneer is gone from that format; the card itself is very much alive elsewhere.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/a/9acf80a5-f2ca-45b4-aca8-fbc690e35401.jpg?1724700069" alt="Amalia Benavides Aguirre — The Lost Caverns of Ixalan" style="max-width: 320px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Amalia Benavides Aguirre — explore on life gain, destroy all other creatures at 20 power.</figcaption>
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What the ban means

Pioneer lost the Amalia combo. Players who had the deck either switched to another format or shelved the strategy there. Demand for the card in Pioneer vanished for that format; demand in Commander and Standard (and to a lesser extent Modern) remains. We're not calling a top or a bottom. We're reporting: the chart below shows the LCI printing. If you're playing her in another format or just tracking the aftermath of the ban, the data's there. Until next time — may your life gain be modest and your power counts be 19 or 21.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre — Pioneer ban and where the explore combo stands now

Solitude is a 3/2 Elemental for five white that flashes in, exiles a creature, and gives its controller life equal to that creature’s power. Or you evoke it by exiling a white card from your hand and get the exile effect without the body. In Modern it’s been a format staple since Modern Horizons 2. In Commander it’s in <a href="https://edhrec.com/cards/solitude" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thousands of decks</a>. One printing in MH2 — no reprint yet — so the price has had room to move.

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 <img src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/7/47a6234f-309f-4e03-9263-66da48b57153.jpg?1763472875" alt="Solitude — Modern Horizons 2" style="max-width: 320px; height: auto; border-radius: 8px;" />
 <figcaption style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #e7d79c; margin-top: 12px; opacity: 0.95;">Solitude — Modern Horizons 2. Flash, lifelink, exile. Or evoke and skip the body.</figcaption>
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We’re not here to tell you to buy or sell. We’re here to point at the chart. One card, one printing. Toggle regular vs foil and see where it’s been. If Wizards ever reprints the elemental cycle, that’s when the floor might shift. Until then, the solitude is real — and so is the price.

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