The MTG card Keranos, God of Storms is spiking in price. This Theros god card was valued at just $3.50 at the start of the month, according to our favorite price checker MTG Goldfish. But now copies are being snatched up for $11.20, and the rise doesn’t seem to have halted just yet.
Even though they were all announced at the same time, it seems on each consecutive week a different unique Playstation card has taken its turn blowing up the secondary market. First it was Ghost of Tsushima, then it was Uncharted, and now it’s God of War’s time to make waves.
Released in the October 27 superdrop, the Norse Kratos card, Kratos, Stoic Father is all about gods, and he’s been making lots of god cards in Jeskai colors get slowly more expensive.
The game plan for this commander is pretty simple. You play Kratos and his son Atreus, with a bunch of different god cards in your deck. You attack with them (or let them die) to gain experience counters. Kratos turns your XP into enormous stat buffs with counters, while Atreus can use them to give you all the card draw you’ll ever need. Simple!
So why is Keranos spiking particularly hard with this synergy that works for every god who’s some combination of red, white, and blue? Well the thunder god might grumble about this, but I think it’s simply because he hasn’t really had a place anywhere else until now.
Don’t get me wrong, Keranos, God of Storms is a decent card. Every turn it either lets you draw or throws a lightning bolt at something, which is nice value, and neither effect is bad. But it’s not amazing, either. For five mana, what you actually get here is a bit low impact for a multiplayer format. I’m sure if this card was created nowadays, it’d let you shoot damage at each player instead of just one.
Other top gods for Kratos/Atreus decks have stronger synergies that mean their base price was already more costly. Iroas, God of Victory for instance, is strong in any deck that cares about attack triggers, since he makes attacking creatures indestructible. That’s made him a bosom companion for Isshin, Two Heavens as One – a top 20 MTG commander. And The Locust God needs no introduction – it’s in a load of decks.
But Keranos has only ever really found itself in five color decks which care about gods or indestructible creatures up to now, and with the whole Magic cardpool available, he’s never the obvious choice. It’s only now that a god deck with a more restrictive color identity has come out that he’s become indispensable.
By the way, I really hope we get more cards with the Father & Son partner ability in the future, so that way with future UB products we can pair Atreus with Darth Vader or Kratos with Simba. Come on, what other duos can we make, join in with me at the Wargamer Discord!
Source: Wargamer
