The MOST EXPENSIVE Green Commons in Magic: the Gathering (And Why They Are So Expensive)

Forest Bear came with twins!

40% Rebecca Guay. 👏👏👏

Deglamer is for targeting indestructible artifact lands in pauper.

I run a non blue counterspell deck with Saskia as the commander, but even Avoid Fate is a bit too specific.

Easiest way to predict if you'll be an expensive green card: were you painted by Rebecca Guay?

Something feels right about grizzly bear (by any other name) topping the list.

This list is the Rebecca Guay list (being green it's not surprising)

Deglamer is specially good against Kenku Artificer's affected artifact since you usually put the counters in an indestructible artifact land. It's also used to shut down recursive artifact combos. Rancor barely sees any play in pauper.

The irony of pauper making commons out of reach.

Most Expensive Commons: Rebecca Guay LOL

Avoid fate is not good. People assume a green counter spell must be good cause green doesn’t normally get counter spellls but a card like Tamiyo’s Safekeeping can do everything Avoid Fate does and more.

I bet Avoid Fate wouldn't be as expensive without that bright, shiny Foglio art.

Couldn't be more different from the blue list - fascinating

I haven't touched my elves in a long time, looks like priest has aged nicely. Lol

I love seeing cards like Avoid Fate which are super old versions of by now commonly printed effects, it's essentially their first attempt at the one mana instants green gets nowadays that give hexproof and indestructible.

Rancor used to be on the list... Then they reprinted it into the ground

No Tamiyo's, must be too new.

Love seeing Three Kingdoms cards finally get their spotlight. Love that Three Visits is actually a good card cause it’s like an iconic part of the book. Liu Bei, soon to be leader of one of the titular Three Kingdoms is at an impasse and he’s told to seek the Sleeping Dragon if he wishes to realize his ambitions. Kongming (The Sleeping Dragon) was the special name of Zhuge Liang an intellectual Sage living out in the country. Liu Bei and his sworn brothers attempted to visit his thatched roof hut but were always unsuccessful and turned away, but upon the third visit he finally gets an audience and he recruits him as his strategist and Kongming reveals his plan/prediction of China being split into 3. Kongming definitely gets a lot of lines and starts superseding Liu Bei as one of the main characters. (Especially when Liu Bei dies)

I am not surprised so many cards made it on the list because of rarity alone.
While green's average strength is completely fine its peak strength has always been lacking.
Other colors have these insane single cards that can turn the tide of a game at pretty much any rarity - while green's standout cards are
ramp
costed too fairly because green can ramp
long term value cards
or cards that need specific other cards to function - even in this list we have an ooze-only and an elves-only card.

Top 10 Crappy Cards That Are Only Expensive Because They Were Exclusive To Portal Sets 😩

Don't sleep on zodiac rooster. It is a 2 mana plainswalker, after all.

Plainswalk, not to be confused with Planeswalk.

Priest of titania was also printed on mistery box. That's where i got the copies I have. It was a huge set, but it still provided a good amount of them. God i Miss those mistery drafts. cool set! First "commander masters" ever printed

I guess technically Avoid Fate got a power level erratum when they did away with the "Interrupt" type. Probably not too many cards that can say that. (Other than when they introduced planeswalkers and probably errata'd "target creature or player" to "any target".)

Golden Bear also sees play it Ruxa decks in commander.

I am guessing Priest of Titania, Rancor, Werebear...

When you often say "rarity" in these videos I think you'd be better off saying "scarcity" to avoid confusion with card rarities.

If you suck at the actual game play Arena and spend. Let the system rig the game to let you win 😂

Of course zodiac rooster is expensive, it's a 2 mana plainswalker. 🤭

Rebecca Guay kills it with expensive green commons. Great art for cool cards.

I have like 11 Priest of Titania should I keep or sell? 😥😥

Priest of Titania both can get infinite mana in tons of ways and is particularly funny AGAINST Changeling decks :D

Avoid Fate is cute and all, but is outclassed by every one-green protective instant since Snakeskin Veil, which was a bitter pill when I first built my Ayula EDH lol

The flavor text for Forest Bear confuses me. Bears regularly eat fish, surely they can have both fish and bear paws?

Shit like Skyshroud Claim exists and people are still putting Cultivate and Kodamas Reach in their decks. I'll never fucking understand it. They're like 50 fucking cards down the list. Straight fucking unplayable.

The funny thing about Three Visits is when it was reprinted for the first time i picked up the OG one for less then $10. I just wanted the original art.

LOL I have golden bear, the woodland mystic, priest of titania, all given to me because they were common back in the days

Cool EDH idea
Priest of Titania + New Bear Commander that makes ALL creatures bears = LOTS of mana

The demand for Deglamer has absolutely nothing to do with Rancor. It's so awkward to hear that from a Pauper player perspective! Deglamer's popularity is due to the indestructible artifact lands from Modern Horizons that heavily impacted the format - along with the fact that it can hit REALLY important auras like Ancestral Mask, All that Glitters, Ethereal Armor, or other important artifacts.

how about doing these Most Expensive lists but excluding cards that only have 1 normal printing?

I actually have many of those. No complete playset, but like one or two.
Good to know they are actually worth something.

Forrest Bear: "okay wait...wait...wait wait wait...wait...waaaaaaaait. Wait."

Magic the gathering is weird.... nothing is more powerful than "untap all your creatures" normally. And mobilize ain't played as much as Sol Ring?? Why not?? In VS system, "untap all" is a Fantastic Four limited card named "Cosmic Radiation" In VS system mobilize is the ultimate searcher card says : "Discard a charcter card, search your deck for a character cad with the same affiliation". A tutor that puts the card in your hand.

It’s notable that Priest of Titania was made at a time (I think) when mana burn was a thing, which would hurt you for overproducing mana.

Tokens were also much more rare back then.

Both of these factors have made Priestess of Titania even better than she used to be, because you can make Elf tokens to make more mana and not take damage because of it.

Let me guess. The most expensive one mana cards from blue, black, and red are also from Portal Three Kingdoms hehe

Slime Against Humanity should have been Typal Sorcery - Ooze. Get people used to the rewording of Tribal.

I have Forest Bear in my Ayula deck and it always makes me laugh when I play it. Its picture is hilarious, and the fact that a generic 2/2 is over $20 just makes it even funnier. It's one of my favorite cards tbh.

It's right up there with my nearly $60 Razorclaw Bear that I always make a joke when I play along the lines of "Some people drop a $60 bomb against you in commander and the next thing you know you're getting Mana Drained. I drop a $60 'bomb' in commander and now you're face to face with a 4 mana 3/3 with an extremely mediocre effect. Money well spent." Good times, always makes me laugh.