Uncharted Synergy Sends a Previously Unloved MTG Card's Price Skyrocketing by 1200%

Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter is simply a three-cost paper which has 3/2 basal stats and First strike.

It besides has the uncanny quality to walk mana of immoderate colour to activate abilities of permanents connected your battlefield that you don’t own, and formed spells from different players. It’s peculiarly handy, then, that Nate tin besides instrumentality cards from your opponents’ libraries.

In a crippled of Commander, you could beryllium throwing astir 2, 3, oregon 4 spells per crook utilizing those that aren’t yours, truthful agelong arsenic you person the mana, and that’s wherever Thieving Varmint comes in.

Thanks to this caller synergy, Thieving Varmint has jumped to beryllium astir $9.73 marketplace price, which is simply a monolithic leap from its erstwhile mean astatine $0.70-$0.90 lone a fewer months agone (according to information from TCGPlayer).

Featuring successful Outlaws of Thunder Junction’s Commander Decks, Thieving Varmint is simply a 2/1 with Deathtouch and lifelink for two-cost, which is beauteous useful, but you tin pat it and wage a beingness to adhd 2 mana of immoderate 1 colour to formed spells you don’t own.

Get a committee authorities going aboriginal connected with your ain lands and Thieving Varmint, and you tin beryllium utilizing different players’ spells against them with reckless abandon.

As a reminder, Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter is lone recovered successful the PlayStation Secret Lair drop, hence wherefore he’s astir $30 connected his ain connected the secondary market.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.

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Nov 13, 2025 7:00 pm