Magic: The Gathering isn’t a cheap hobby to get into, which makes the return of TCGplayer’s Mayhem cashback offer all the more noteworthy.
The eBay-owned retailer is one you can trust, but for today only (Friday, May 29, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM ET), you can get 8% cashback on your purchases across Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon TCG, Disney Lorcana, and just about anything else.
Even better, TCGplayer subscribers get 10%, so you’re getting some change back for your card purchases.
With all that in mind, here are some cards I’d recommend checking out.
Edgar Markov
Look, Edgar Markov isn’t the most surprising card on this list (it remains one of Commander’s most popular cards to lead your deck), and he’s a no-brainer for the vast majority of Vampire decks.
Still, he’s not cheap (despite a reprint last year), which makes him an ideal pickup in this promotion. This Retro Frame version is $36.99 right now.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Sticking with Vampires, Bloodthirsty Conqueror is an awesome card that will also set you back around $36.
This Foundations printing is spiking in price, but given it’s a 5/5 with flying and deathtouch that means opponents’ life is essentially transferred to you when they lose it, it’s not coming down anytime soon.
Ugin, Eye of the Storms
This Mythic from Tarkir: Dragonstorm is a seven-cost, colorless Planeswalker that lets you exile a card that’s one or more colors when it enters, and when you cast another colorless spell.
Ugin, Eye of the Storms also triggers lifegain, adds three colorless mana, and lets you play colorless cards without paying their mana costs. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? That’s right, it slots nicely into an Eldrazi deck.
It’s around $40 at the moment, making this an ideal time to buy it and get some money back.
Icetill Explorer
Building a Landfall deck with access to green? You need Icetill Explorer. This Edge of Eternities card is a 2/4 that allows you to play an additional land on your turn, while also letting you grab lands from your graveyard.
It’s dropped a fair amount recently, and you can scoop it up for around $25 at the time of writing. This is one I’m definitely considering adding to my collection.
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
It’s not the priciest card on this list at just $7 or so, but Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer is that kind of card that, having picked it up, I’m desperate to squeeze into a deck.
Whether you’re into Marvel’s Spider-Man set or not, it operates in a cool design space because you get to bring something back from the graveyard, and turn attacks against it into +1/+1 counters. Given it’s already a 5/5, you can build something particularly powerful — especially if you equip it with something like Pariah or Pariah’s Shield.
Which cards are you thinking of picking up? Something from Secrets of Strixhaven or a Secret Lair perhaps? Let us know in the comments!
For more on Magic: The Gathering, be sure to check out why the Secrets of Strixhaven Codex bundle is so popular, what the heck happened to Commander decks for The Hobbit, and all we know about the new mono-color Foundations decks coming with Reality Fracture.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
