15 Most Expensive Magic Cards (2019 Edition): Page 14 of 15

Most Expensive Magic Cards
The legendary, mortgage-paying power nine.


2. Underground Sea (Alpha)

Blue and Black decks are a sweet spot for combo, control and more recently aggro. 

 There may be no more feared card in all of magic. You see it come down and you have no idea what you are playing against, save that it will be ruthless. Reanimator, Storm, Stoneblade, STAX, Tezzerator, Delver, Lands and countless other decks all rely on Seas and can kill you faster than you can stabilize. There might be no better combination of colors for control or combo than blue and black. It draws you cards and it draws you what you need.

Black can do just about everything and blue makes everything happen better, in theory anyway. This also makes it the soundest real estate investment in magic. The high price is indicative of the number of decks in which it is played, hinting at its demand and stability. The most expensive dual land, an Alpha Underground Sea goes for $8,499.99 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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