Most Magic: The Gathering players have long since cottoned on to the fact that buying the individual cards they need for their decks is a much better value proposition than buying sealed product and hoping to open them. That said, for those with limited resources, determining which cards from a new set are worth buying into can be a very difficult task.

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This is certainly the case for Wilds of Eldraine, an expansion stuffed with so many powerful and exciting cards that your first instinct will likely be, to paraphrase Game of Thrones, “Buy them all.” For those without the means to do so, however, here are the ten standout singles you should set your sights on.

10 Mosswood Dreadknight/Dread Whispers

An incredibly cool reference to the Arthurian myth of the Green Knight, Mosswood Dreadknight is as inevitable as its inspiration. Each time it falls in combat, you can rescue it from the beyond via its Adventure side, letting the Dreadknight make its fated return whenever you choose.

The card is a solid self-contained value engine, as well as just being a 3/2 trampler for two: a more than acceptable rate for Aggro and Midrange decks. Despite the fact that it will almost definitely see extensive play in Standard and beyond, the market value on Dreadknight isn’t very high currently, making it a great pickup in this early stage of release.

9 The Restless Lands

If there’s one thing you can rely on in Magic, it’s creature lands being heavily played in Standard and Commander. While rarely good enough to break into the likes of Modern, these lands almost always find a home in any Standard deck that matches their colours, since the downside of them entering tapped is more than balanced out by their potential as late-game mana outlets.

Wilds’ Restless cycle is no exception, bringing five efficient new creature lands united by the theme of having attack triggers on top of their solid stats. All five will undoubtedly grow in value as Wilds of Eldraine Standard develops, but Cottage and Fortress are particularly exciting, for Food and Control decks, respectively.

8 Blossoming Tortoise

One of the most-hyped cards during the prerelease discussion for Wilds of Eldraine, Blossoming Tortoise raised a lot of heads with its mana ramp capabilities and powerful interaction with creature lands. Bizarrely, its price hasn’t stayed high to reflect this potential, and the Tortoise is now one of the more affordable Mythics in the set.

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Given how powerful this card is in a vacuum, the absolute certainty of it becoming a green Commander staple, and the very high likelihood that it will also see play in Standard, you’ll want to take advantage of this strange lapse in collective judgement to pick up some copies for yourself. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but we can see the value of this one Blossoming in the weeks to come.

7 Rest In Peace

Many of the Enchanting Tales reprints from Wilds of Eldraine are so iconic that they need no introduction, and Rest in Peace definitely falls within that category. It’s a multi-format all-star, capable of single-handedly winning you the game against graveyard-focused decks in Commander, Modern, and even Legacy.

This ubiquity has, predictably, led to the card commanding a not-inconsiderable price tag in recent years, but this reprint has helped to bring it down a few notches. If you want to pick this eternal staple up, with some stunning new art to boot, now is as good a time as any to do so.

6 The Irencrag

Two-mana mana rocks are an extremely common sight in Commander, but it’s rare that we see one released into Standard. The Irencrag not only delivers that, something that would make it playable alone, but does so with the potential upside of becoming a reasonable piece of Equipment later on as well.

In constructed formats, this is a nice way to get around the legend rule and make use of a second copy of the card if you draw one. In Commander this isn’t a concern, but the card is still great early and late, particularly in a Voltron brew. The Irencrag is guaranteed to see play, so pick it up now if you’re a fan of swords, rocks, or both.

5 Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron

One of the clear best commanders from the set, and a creature efficient enough to see constructed play as well, Agatha’s current low price tag is a truly baffling conundrum. For just two mana, she offers you a baseline discount of one mana on all of your activated abilities, opening the doors to some truly devastating combos in older formats.

Her cauldron, a card which synergises incredibly well with Agatha, remains a high-dollar card, but the witch herself has somehow avoided that fate. It doesn’t take a magical vision to see that Agatha will, at the very least, be a Commander staple going forward, and the potential outside of that is high enough to warrant picking her up now before she inevitably jumps up later.

4 Hardened Scales

Hardened Scales isn’t the most expensive card in the world, having been reprinted a few times to satiate the demand for it in both Modern and Commander, but it isn’t the cheapest either. The card has maintained a consistent rate for the last few months, but the new version from Wilds’ Enchanting Tales bonus sheet comes at a considerable discount.

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This may be down to the new papercraft style used on the reprint not being to everyone’s taste, but those who enjoy it can also enjoy a great card at a great price. If you’re looking for a card with multi-format relevance, you’ll be Hard-pressed to do better than this in Wilds of Eldraine.

3 Devouring Sugarmaw/Have For Dinner

It’s an encouraging sign when the Adventure half of a card is good enough to see play on its own, and Have for Dinner, the adventure on Devouring Sugarmaw, most definitely is. Getting a 1/1 and a Food for just two mana, at instant speed no less, is a great deal, whether you’re running a Food deck or one with many bargain cards and sacrifice outlets.

This is to say nothing of the Sugarmaw itself, which is a menacing 6/6 trampler for four, more than capable of topping off the curve of an Aggro deck if you have enough tokens to keep it fed. The card feels relatively underhyped so far, meaning you can, in the tradition of junk food, pick this one up on the cheap.

2 Goddric, Cloaked Reveler

Mono-red Aggro is one of the most consistently viable Standard archetypes in Magic, and cards that see play in that deck are consistently undervalued until it’s too late more often than not. Goddric is a prime example of this: one of our picks for the best red cards in the set, and a potential 4/4 hasty flyer for three in an aggressive shell.

Players are likely overestimating how hard it’ll be to keep Goddric in Dragon form each turn, hence the low excitement level so far, but once they do you’ll be glad you got your copies when they were as cheap as they are now. It’s also worth noting that his firebreathing Anthem effect for all your Dragons makes him viable in Commander as well.

1 Stroke Of Midnight

Envelope-pushing removal spells, in the vein of Fatal Push, Infernal Grasp, etc., come along once every few sets, and when they do they typically become chase uncommons that outprice many of the set’s rares. Stroke of Midnight feels like one of these cards, just without the price tag to match. Not yet, at least.

It’s easy to gloss over Stroke due to its three-mana cost, but it’s actually an almost-always-better version of Generous Gift, a card-carrying Commander staple. You do lose the ability to blow up lands here, but in exchange, you give your opponent a much smaller token. Stroke is a Swiss Army Knife of a card, and for that reason, it’s worth picking up for use in Standard, Commander, and beyond.

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