Magic: The Gathering - The 10 Most Valuable Cards From Kaldheim

Summary

• Kaldheim set introduced many meta-defining cards playable in Pioneer and Commander formats.
• Tokens like Koma's Coil can hold value despite being in packs, offers practical in-game utility.
• Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is a top choice as it doubles your counters while hindering opponents' abilities.

Kaldheim was a major set in Magic: The Gathering's history. It was the set that kicked off the second Phyrexian invasion arc that lasted for the next few years, cultivating in the finale March of the Machine. Alongside the Phyrexians, it was also our first real look at Kaldheim itself, a world inspired by Norse mythology.

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As for the cards themselves, Kaldheim introduced many that see play across multiple formats. Though Kaldheim has rotated out of Standard, many were meta-defining and others remain relevant in formats like Pioneer and Commander.

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10 Tergrid, God Of Fright//Tergrid's Lantern

Market Price: $5.49

Tergrid, God of Fright is one of the many God cards with a creature on the front and an artifact on the back. While some Gods you always want to be casting one side, Tergrid is good on both sides, with abilities that are always beneficial.

With Tergrid's effects, it fits into any forced sacrifice or discard decks, as it's a way to get around the downside of often being one-for-one trades by putting them on your side of the battlefield or having a static ability to force the sacrifice and discard.

9 Youthful Valkyrie

Market Price: $8.96

Despite only being an uncommon, Youthful Valkyrie is among the top when it comes to the most valuable cards. It is a great Angel, slowly growing in stats whenever an Angel comes into the battlefield. With how easy it is for Angels to flood the battlefield, Youthful Valkyrie can grow very quickly to become a problem.

Youthful Valkyrie mostly only sees play in Commander Angel decks, though it does see some niche usage in Pioneer Angel decks. Despite it only seeing major play in Commander, Angels are one of the most popular creature types, leading to Youthful Valkyrie's higher price tag.

8 Koma's Coil Token

Market Price: $9.60

Normally, tokens are worth pennies, especially since most packs tend to have them. However, the token that Koma, Cosmos Serpent creates is worth more than most actual cards in all of Kaldheim. The token itself isn't anything special, just a 3/3 Serpent token with no abilities. However, this token is the only Serpent token in all of Magic, giving it an extra layer of novelty.

Even though it was reprinted, the original Kaldheim copy still holds value.

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One Ring to rule them all and also cost a lot more than any other Magic card in history.

Koma, Cosmos Serpent is a great card, and makes Koma's Coil tokens every upkeep. Koma can sacrifice Serpents to tap a permanent and shut off its activated abilities or to give itself indestructible, giving practical use for Koma's Coil tokens in-game.

7 Maskwood Nexus

Market Price: $10.48

Maskwood Nexus is a great support card in any deck that cares about specific creature types, especially if it's playing more than one. It gives you the ability to create tokens with changeling so they are every creature type to help better support your strategies.

While Maskwood Nexus has been reprinted a few times since Kaldheim, the original printing is still among the most valuable. If you want the regular printing, it's one of the cheaper values, but the Extended Art version is worth a fair bit more if you're looking to bling your deck out more.

6 Birgi, God Of Storytelling//Harnfel, Horn Of Bounty

Market Price: $111.50

In storm decks, Birgi, God of Storytelling fills an excellent role in giving you extra red mana for every spell you cast. You generally never want to be casting Birgi on the Harnfel side, as the creature side is almost always better. If you have a way to also discount your red spells, Birgi helps you even generate excess mana to potentially cast your whole deck.

Birgi sees play in multiple formats, including Pioneer in Grinning Ignus combo deck and sees niche Legacy play in Ruby Storm decks. Commander storm decks also use Birgi, sometimes as a commander.

5 Valki, God Of Lies//Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor

Market Price: $12.41

Valki, God Of Lies is a flipwalker that wound up causing the rules of cascade to change so the front side of the card was the only side you could cast, since cheating Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor into play proved to be too good for many formats.

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Both sides of Valki are excellent, with Valki being hand disruption useful in the early game to steal a powerful creature (with the potential to turn into it later), while Tibalt is a great end-game card, capable of removing multiple creatures and stealing cards from your opponents' libraries to cast yourself.

4 Halvar, God Of Battle//Swords Of The Realms

Market Price: $12.98

The Equipment side of Halvar, God of Battle isn't too special, but the creature half is the main attraction. In decks that are playing a lot of Auras and/or Equipment, Halvar gives them a massive boost to give them double strike. Since Aura and Equipment tend to give large stat-boosts, this can be enough to be lethal.

Halvar, God of Battle assists in cheating around equip costs, which can put a powerful Equipment onto a creature for free that would otherwise cost a hefty amount of mana to do so.

3 Esika, God Of The Tree//The Prismatic Bridge

Market Price: $16.17

The only five-color card in Kaldheim, Esika, God of the Tree is one of the few God cards great on both sides. The creature helps you ramp with your creatures, while the backside helps to cheat out creatures and planeswalkers from your library for free.

Both sides of the card have uses in different decks. For legendary creature-focused decks, the front side tends to be better whereas more open decks and planeswalker ones the backside is better. Esika is one of the few five color commanders, giving it a lot of its value.

2 Goldspan Dragon

Market Price: $17.66

Despite seeing multiple reprints since its Kaldheim release, Goldspan Dragon is still one of the most valuable cards in Kaldheim. It's a fantastic card that severely ramps up Treasure production, and allows you to get two mana out of them instead of just one.

Even removal nets you Treasure from Goldspan Dragon. In multiplayer formats, you can attack Goldspan Dragon into a player with no creatures with flying or reach to attack safely and keep generating Treasure. Five mana is slightly high, but in Treasure-based decks, you can generate five mana with ease.

1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Market Price: $56.60

Far and away the most valuable card in Kaldheim is Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider. The card is fantastic, doubling all of your counters you spread while halving your opponent's ability. This includes cards like planeswalkers as they put loyalty counters on themselves, so Vorinclex can enable planeswalker ultimate abilities the same turn they enter the battlefield.

Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is very easy to cast, and six mana for such a powerful effect is more than worth it. While it doesn't see play in 60-card formats, it sees a lot of play in Commander where it shines the most thanks to how much counter support there is there.

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