After a year of relatively low-powered sets like Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur’s Gate and Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Magic: The Gathering blew the game wide open with Double Masters 2022. A reprint set focused on rereleasing some of the game’s biggest and splashiest cards, it is jam-packed full of potential value.
With so much on offer in Double Masters 2022, knowing which cards you’ve pulled could be worth anything can be hard. Here are the top ten most valuable cards of Double Masters 2022, using TCGPlayer’s market average as of July 13, 2022.
10 Dockside Extortionist (Foil Etched) – $138.59
Double Masters 2022 marked the first -ever reprint for this Commander staple, which can reach up to 50 for even a basic version. By far one of red’s best ways to generate Treasure tokens, it has the power to push you way ahead of the rest of the table’s resources.
Etched foil prints are only available in Collector’s boosters, which makes this version of the card the rarest of them all.
9 Wrenn and Six (Foil Etched) – $139.43
Wrenn and Six has always been a highly-sought-after card, thanks to being a staple in the Modern format. Even the basic edition of this is worth a decent whack ($70.67), but of course the introduction of not one, but two new printing treatments has let the price skyrocket.
The strength of Wrenn and Six lies in its +1 ability, which returns a land from your graveyard to your hand. Combine it with any kind of fetchland, and you’ve immediately got a way to ensure you’re playing at least one land every turn. In a format as fast as Modern, even missing one land drop can be the difference between winning and losing.
8 Imperial Seal – $139.80
The one card on this list that isn’t an alternate art or foil is Imperial Seal. First printed way back in 1999’s Portal: Three Kingdoms starter kit, this is the first time this card has ever seen a booster pack reprint. While the original Three Kingdoms version is still selling for well over $1500, this version is slightly more affordable.
Imperial Seal is a great card for Commander. It does the same thing as a Vampiric Tutor, just at sorcery speed rather than instant. In other formats that makes a difference, but as you’re only allowed to run one of each card in Commander anyway, it allows you to run two one-mana tutors in a single deck.
7 Imperial Seal (Borderless) – $154.26
The second of only two cards on this list you can find in a Draft booster (the first being the basic Imperial Seal), this borderless art version features artwork by Mark Tedin, a long-time Magic artist who’s done illustrations for famous cards like Chaos Orb, Braingeyser, City of Brass, and the original Emrakul, The Aeons Torn.
At only $15 more than the basic Imperial Seal, it isn’t too unreasonable to splash for this version if you wanted to make your deck that extra bit stylish. Then again, it’s still almost the price of a full booster box of most other Magic sets…
6 Emrakul, The Aeons Torn (Textured Foil) – $188.44
Some of the biggest inclusions in Double Masters 2022 are the three Eldrazi titans. These are among the scariest creatures in the whole game, thanks to their on-cast triggers, high stats, and devastating annihilator abilities.
Despite being the cheapest of the three, Emrakul is the most infamous of the three. On cast you’re granted another turn, which, when combined with its inability to be countered and protection from all colours was more than enough to get it banned in the Commander format.
5 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (Textured Foil) – $212.52
Kozilek isn’t as severe as Emrakul, only giving you four cards instead of a whole extra turn. Despite that, a 12/12 for ten generic mana is incredibly powerful – and the fact it isn’t banned in Commander like Emrakul probably helps keep its price up.
Textured foiling is a new printing process introduced in Double Masters 2022. Only found on a few specific cards in Collector’s boosters, they give the card an almost fabric-like look and feel that is radically different to the regular and etched foils we’ve seen before.
4 Liliana, The Last Hope (Textured Foil) – $214.82
Along with Aminatou (who doesn’t even make the top ten of this set’s value), Liliana is the face of Double Masters 2022. Take a new foil method, give it to one of Magic’s most popular characters, and put it on one of her better cards, and the result is a piece worth over $200.
While The Last Hope isn’t normally the most valuable Liliana card ever, with basic versions coming in under $15, it’s far from being bad. A great fit for any black-using deck, it can control the board with its +1 ability or fuel graveyard strategies with its -2. It’s an all-round good card, and this gorgeous textured foil printing by Scott M. Fischer helps make it even better.
3 Ulamog, The Infinite Gyre (Textured Foil) – $228.92
The most valuable of the Eldrazi Titans can destroy any target permanent just for being cast, which – while expensive – makes it an excellent removal spell-come-devestarting-10/10-creature. Like the other Titans, the whole strategy of Ulamog is to either ramp up and cast it for full cost, or find ways to reduce its cost to rush it out early.
The alternate art of this textured foil version is by Thomas M. Baxa, who is well known for his horrifically grim art on cards like Terminate, Swarmyard, Spellskite, and Double Masters 2022’s take on Flickerwisp. This set’s theme of bringing back older artists is an absolute home run for it, as we can see how their styles have developed over the years.
2 Imperial Seal (Foil Etched) – $252.82
It might be surprising to some to see the foil etched edition of Imperial Seal by the most valuable. After all, it isn’t even the alternate art we see on the borderless version, so what makes it so special?
The only reason that this version is vastly more valuable is that etched foils aren’t available in Draft boosters – they are exclusive to the much more expensive Collector’s packs. This means they are much scarcer than the other versions, which are already rare on their own. Having one of these is the ultimate flex of “yeah, I got a Collector’s booster” and “yeah, I got an Imperial Seal” combined into one, massive gloat.
1 Wrenn and Six (Textured Foil) – $330.39
Sitting at almost $200 more than its other Collector’s booster printing is Wrenn and Six’s textured foil version. This is the ultimate flex, as you could easily save almost $300 by just going for a basic version – but if you want to show off with the fanciest of cards, this one is the one you want.
It’s the exact same card, with the same abilities and same Modern powerhouse status. All that’s different is the new art by Donato Giancola, which helps us get a better look at the dryad Wrenn and their sixth tree companion, Six. Wrenn has since left Six in the forests of Innistrad, picking Seven in Innistrad: Midnight Hunt to continue their journey through the multiverse.