15 Most Expensive Magic Cards (2019 Edition): Page 13 of 15

Most Expensive Magic Cards
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3. Mox Sapphire (Alpha)

You can play this, a land, and an Ancestral vision on your first turn to start the game with 7 cards and one mana. 

 Some say that the steady blue mana provided by Mox Sapphire makes it better than Black Lotus. Those people have a point, but they’ve never had a Black Lotus brought back against them over and over again. Blue mana is the best mana, however, and getting a free island on turn one is no small boon.

A lot of the “best opening hands” in magic feature both cards and it’s easy to see how you could win on turn one. You can’t win on turn zero without it, either. Nor could you cast an Ancestral Recall on turn one, or a Brainstorm with fetch mana up. Nothing says “consistency” like free blue mana. One Alpha Mox Sapphire will cost you about $7,299.99, Near Mint.

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CMClassy 5 years 10 months ago

Cardboard being worth thousands of dollars will never cease to amaze me. As much as WOTC would love to do away with the Reserved list, the people obsessed with collecting and maintaining value are causing trouble in that front. Legacy and Vintage are forever inaccessible because of it.

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