15 Most Valuable Weatherlight Cards

Doomsday | Illustrated by Adrian Smith

The final set in Mirage block was 1997's Weatherlight. While it does stand as the finale to the block, it was actually the beginning of the long-running Weatherlight Saga, which dominated Magic: The Gathering's lore for nearly a half-decade.

Weatherlight continued the run of fascinating, stylized artwork featured on cards in the prior two sets (Mirage and Visions), which always serve as a delicious dose of nostalgia for older Magic-heads out there (couldn't be me).

Despite this set being designed completely separately from its predecessors, the mechanics and vibes of the set slot perfectly into the continent of Jamuraa. Notably, Weatherlight was the first set that featured cards that made the graveyard mechanically relevant. But what are the most valuable cards from this nearly 30-year-old release? Read on to explore.

Note: All prices come via TCGPlayer's Market Price History over the past calendar year and are subject to change. Foil cards didn't exist until Urza's Legacy, so no cards of that ilk are here.

15. Pendrell Mists

Market Price: $5.15

A far earlier example of the infamous “pay the ” mechanic that was made famous/notorious by Prophecy's Commander stalwart, Rhystic Study, this four-mana rare enchantment clocks in at just over $5 on today's market.

Featuring awesome, gauzy artwork by an all-star from this era of Magic art, Andrew Robinson, this card remains a potent threat, especially in Commander where it can single-handedly delete token-creation strategies and other “go wide” machinations.

14. Liege of the Hollows

Market Price: $5.32

The first-ever card to explore the “Squirrel kindred” space, this 3/4 Spirit creature was an auspicious beginning for a creature type that would continue to gain prominence throughout the years in Magic, thanks to heavy inclusion in various Un-sets, Squirrel Wrangler in Prophecy, culminating in 2024's Bloomburrow, where Squirrels were a heavily supported archetype.

While this card has likely been power-crept out of any real play (due to the fact that any player with open mana can also create lots of their own furry, long-tailed creatures when the Liege bites it), it still stands as an important historical Squirrel-enabler, likely leading to it retaining a price above $5.

13. Phyrexian Furnace

Market Price: $5.60

An interesting card, and one that Wizards of the Coast has tinkered with in the intervening 28 years. Relic of Progenitus was first and likely remains the best one-mana graveyard hate artifact in existence, though Scrabbling Claws also effectively does the same thing that the Furnace does, just better.

While this card does retain a high price point, that's likely simply due to its scarcity, as it's only been reprinted on The List. Forcing players to keep track of the order of their graveyard might be the cruelest part of this graveyard hate piece.

12. Paradigm Shift

Market Price: $5.77

An absolutely bonkers card that will almost certainly never get printed in quite this way in modern Magic, this two-mana sorcery simply exiles your entire library (you didn't need that, right?) and replaces it with your graveyard.

This card is an inexpensive way to achieve this effect, leading to some simple, easy wins with cards like Thassa's Oracle, Laboratory Maniac, and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. So inexpensive was this effect that Wizards more or less reprinted it in black in 2002's Judgment as Morality Shift… for a whopping .

11. Doomsday

Market Price: $6.72

Weatherlight sure didn't shy away from cards that completely eviscerate your library, did it? While Paradigm Shift has never seen a reprint since its release, Doomsday is far more readily available, seeing reprints in Sixth Edition, the Amonkhet Invocations bonus sheet, Masters 25, a Secret Lair Drop and, most recently, Mystery Booster 2.

While losing your entire library certainly seems daunting, this card is the ultimate “devil's bargain,” as you're able to stack your deck (all five cards of it) with the five cards you need to win the game as expediently as possible. Banned in Oathbreaker and still pricey in 2025, this is a classic black card.

10. Abeyance

Market Price: $9.17

Kicking off a run of three straight hard-to-find white cards is this instant for that more or less “pauses the game,” allowing you to halt your foe from doing much of anything.

Sure, cards like Silence and, especially, Orim's Chant have made this card obsolete, but the fact that this is a cantrip makes it yet another attractive instant that can be tucked away underneath an Isochron Scepter for infinite uses. A near-$10 price tag confirms this card's power.

9. Debt of Loyalty

Market Price: $9.86

A card I did not even know existed until starting research on this article, this is a terrifically powerful surprise that can really ambush your foes via its utterly unique ability. First off, the ability to regenerate any creature is only found on 30 cards in Magic's history. That's supreme scarcity.

Furthermore, many of those are very niche cases (save for one of Urza's Destiny's most valuable cards, Yavimaya Hollow). That's why tacking on the ability of gaining control of the regenerated creature is even more impressive, especially for only . Definitely worth the near-$10; surprise your next Commander pod by stealing a foe's dying fatty and popping off.

8. Peacekeeper

Market Price: $10.10

Featuring some of the best art in the entire set (by Donato Giancola), this three-mana 1/1 requires an investment of each upkeep to simply keep it alive. But this Human more than makes up for that investment by stopping ALL creatures from attacking.

Foe built up a board full of hasty Goblins with Krenko, Mob Boss and Goblin Chieftain? Too bad, the Peacekeeper's here. An excellent flavor win, as the card does exactly what it says on the tin. You need some peace on the board? Cast the Peacekeeper!

7. Goblin Bomb

Market Price: $12.60

An extremely enjoyable coin-flipping minigame for casual matches, this card is also an all-star in Krark, the Thumbless Commander builds... so long as you have some ways to manipulate all the fickle coin flips (like with Krark's Thumb).

While the payoff of dealing an astounding (for the time) 20 damage to any target isn't quite the boon it used to be with loads of lifegain floating around as well as the existence of Commander, where 20 damage is only half the player's life total, this is still a classic Gobby card from Weatherlight that deserves its place in the top 10 of this list.

6. Firestorm

Market Price: $15.67

A one-mana burn spell extraordinaire, this card requires you to have a pretty stacked hand, but if you can pop off with a card like Enter the Infinite beforehand, you can immediately end the game... so long as nobody around is holding on to a counterspell.

This card was a notable competitive powerhouse upon release, featuring in both decks in the Finals of the 1998 World Championships with Brian Selden's Recurring Nightmare deck taking the top spot with two main deck Firestorms helping to clear out opposing threats. Never reprinted, this primo burn spell is worth over $15 on the secondary market.

5. Mana Web

Market Price: $17.83

As we've seen with other lists from this era of Magic, low-cost artifacts with unique effects and nonbasic lands from this era often hold premium secondary market values, either due to scarcity, collectability, or usefulness in older formats or in Commander.

Mana Web fits into (at least) that “artifact with unique effect” category, as it forces opponents to tap “ALL lands they control that could produce any type of mana that land could produce” upon them tapping a single land for mana. This can grind games to a halt, and when combined with cards that force lands to tap (like Rishadan Port from Mercadian Masques), you're looking at an eminently annoying “locked” board state.

4. Winding Canyons

Market Price: $22.27

The first of three straight super-rare nonbasic lands from Weatherlight is this intriguing one that can tap for a colorless, or, far more importantly, tap and pay in order to cast creature spells as if they had flash. Now that's what I call an activated ability!

This being a repeatable effect means that all of your creatures – not just Slitherwisp – can be played whenever you'd like, which can lead to some powerful interactions you might not see coming. While this land doesn't blow you away with its power, it's useful and scarce; hence its over $20 price tag.

3. Lotus Vale

Market Price: $38.76

Any card with “Lotus” in the name is going to do big business for aftermarket sellers. In this case, this take on the original Black Lotus (much like Lion's Eye Diamond from Mirage) is still a big-money card despite the drawbacks this nonbasic land provides.

Sure, you have to sacrifice two untapped lands… but so what? You've got a Lotus on the field (not a Lotus Field, though) in land form; nobody can compete with that! Despite being power-crept to oblivion by Lotus Field, this is still an original and scintillating design with terrific John Avon artwork that has aged well. As such, a near-$40 price point seems to make sense.

2. Scorched Ruins

Market Price: $57.26

Third straight banger nonbasic land, third straight amazing work of art by John Avon and the second-most valuable card from Weatherlight: it must be Scorched Ruins. Magic cards that provide massive amounts of colorless mana are always hot commodities and this eminently scarce Weatherlight nonbasic clearly fits that bill by delivering a staggering to your mana pool.

Not only is this card the second-most valuable from Weatherlight, it's in the top five across the entire Mirage block, behind only the big guns: Lion's Eye Diamond, Phyrexian Dreadnought, Vampiric Tutor, Shallow Grave and…

1. Null Rod

Market Price: $86.94

That's right, the most valuable card from Weatherlight is perhaps the finest-ever piece of Magic tech devoted to hating on artifacts: Null Rod. For the low, low cost of you can stop all activated abilities of artifacts from being activated. That's inclusive of mana abilities!

As expected, this domineering effect is worth its weight in gold (or at least cardboard) with a price tag approaching $90 in 2025. Much like City of Solitude from Mirage, abilities this potent aren't printed very often, even during the Wild West of Magic's early days. As such, this card will likely only gain value over time. If you have one you pulled from a Weatherlight pack in 1997, congrats!

The Weather(light) Up There…

And there we have it. Up next: From the set that was the genesis of the far-reaching and Magic epoch-defining Weatherlight Saga, we fast-forward three years to Invasion block, which served as the thrilling conclusion to that years-long storyline. Catch you next time!

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