The Planeswalker Index: which Magic Planeswalker is worth the most?
Which recurring Planeswalker has the highest typical card price? We took the median non-foil price of the priced printings of twelve recurring Planeswalkers (only planeswalker cards, no namesakes). In this pull Ugin ranks first, and Jace, who has the single priciest printing, ranks #9.
The Planeswalker Index
Median non-foil TCGplayer USD price across priced printings. Median, not average, so one Secret Lair chase card can't inflate it.
Jace: one pricey printing, a low median
Jace has the priciest non-foil planeswalker printing among these twelve characters, the Secret Lair Jace, the Mind Sculptor at about $300. Yet the typical Jace is just $2.54, ranking #9 of 12.
That gap between the average and the median is exactly why the Index ranks by the median: one trophy printing shouldn't decide whether a character is "worth more."
The priciest card for each
| Planeswalker | Priciest printing | Top | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ugin | Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (Secret Lair Promo) | $81 | $15 |
| Teferi | Teferi, Master of Time (Core Set 2021 Promos) | $17 | $6.79 |
| Liliana | Liliana, Dreadhorde General (War of the Spark) | $112 | $6.09 |
| Elspeth | Elspeth Tirel (Secret Lair Drop) | $84 | $4.58 |
| Sorin | Sorin Markov (Zendikar) | $23 | $4.49 |
| Karn | Karn Liberated (Secret Lair Promo) | $149 | $4.49 |
| Nissa | Nissa Revane (Zendikar) | $8.19 | $4.27 |
| Ajani | Ajani, Nacatl Pariah (Modern Horizons 3) | $17 | $2.87 |
| Jace | Jace, the Mind Sculptor (Secret Lair Drop) | $300 | $2.54 |
| Garruk | Garruk Wildspeaker (Secret Lair Promo) | $8.75 | $1.84 |
| Chandra | Chandra, Awakened Inferno (Core Set 2020 Promos) | $12 | $1.49 |
| Gideon | Gideon, Ally of Zendikar (RCQ 2022) | $8.87 | $0.65 |
Method & sources
- For each character we pulled the priced printings of the planeswalker cards bearing the name (a strict
type:planeswalkerfilter, so namesakes like "Liliana's Caress" are excluded). - Per character we took the median TCGplayer USD price across priced printings, robust to one expensive chase card.
- TCGplayer USD market price per printing, via the open Scryfall API. Valued 2026-06-24. Reference estimates, not sold records; prices move.
- TOS-clean aggregate stats. We never scrape and never invent a number, these figures are reproducible from the open API.
What this data can't tell you
- How common each printing is. Every priced printing counts once, so a Japanese alternate-art War of the Spark Liliana (Liliana's top printing here) weighs the same as a widely opened core-set copy.
- Foil or graded value. Only non-foil prices are used, and some top printings exist mostly or only in foil.
- A stable ranking for small groups. Ugin has only 15 priced printings, so his median can move with a few price changes.
- Why one character outprices another. We did not measure demand, play rates or print runs.
- Every Planeswalker. We picked twelve recurring characters; others are not ranked.
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FAQ
Which Magic Planeswalker is worth the most?
On the median price per printing, Ugin, in the twelve characters we measured. Across 15 priced printings of Ugin planeswalker cards the median TCGplayer price is $15, about 3.3× the middle of the field ($4.38) and 22.4× the lowest, Gideon ($0.65; that ratio is rough, because sub-$1 prices are thin). We rank by the median, not the average, so one chase printing can't crown a character, and 33% of Ugin printings clear $20. Ugin's median rests on only 15 printings, so a few price moves can shift it.
Isn't Jace, the Mind Sculptor the most expensive Planeswalker?
In our non-foil pull, the Secret Lair Jace, the Mind Sculptor (~$300) is the priciest planeswalker printing among these twelve characters. But "Jace" spans 15 planeswalker cards and many printings, so the median Jace printing is $2.54, ranking #9 of 12. His average ($13) is ~5× his median, which is why we rank by the median. Foil and graded copies, which we did not measure, can price far higher.
Why does Ugin top the list?
We measured prices, not why. What the data does show: Ugin has 4 planeswalker cards and 15 priced printings in our pull, while Chandra has 23 cards and Jace 15. We did not test whether the number of cards, demand or print runs explain the medians.
Where does this data come from, and is it reliable?
We pulled the planeswalker cards bearing each name (a strict type:planeswalker filter) and their TCGplayer USD price per printing via the open Scryfall API, then took the median per character (TCGplayer USD market price per printing, via the open Scryfall API, valued 2026-06-24). Every priced printing counts once, including promos and alternate-art versions such as the Japanese War of the Spark planeswalkers, however rare or common that printing is. These are reference estimates, not sold records, and prices move. Reproducible from the open API.
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