Summary

• Odyssey introduced graveyard mechanics like flashback and Threshold, shaping Magic: The Gathering's gameplay.
• Cards like Buried Alive and Nantuko Shrine reflect the set's focus on manipulating the graveyard.
• Entomb, the most valuable card from the set, highlights the power of graveyard interactions in deck strategies.

Odyssey marked 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering’s 24th set when it released in ꧋October 2001, and it introduced an entirely new region of Dominaria called Otaria. After the Apocalypse set finished up the lengthy Weatherlight Saga, Odyssey introduced entirely new 🐷heroes to Magic’s storyline.

In terms of gameplay, Odyssey was the first set that explicitly featured mechanics that revolved around manipulating your own graveyard, and it introduced the popular flashback mechanic (which 🌊allows you to play spells from your graveyard) as well as Threshold, which has been featured sparingly in following sets – including in 2024’s Bloomburrow. Let’s take a look at t𒊎he most valuable cards from Odyssey.

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10 ꩵ ꦜ Nantuko Shrine

Market Price: $5.50

An unusual card, this green enchantment could be had for under a dollar before the release of Murders at Karlov Manor in 2024, but that set introduced the intriguing “a deck can have any number of🙈🐈 this card” Slime Against Humanity.

If you play that card (which is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:great for a Commander deck) with a Nantuko Shrine in play, you get a huge ooze token as w𒆙ell as myriad squirrel tokens related to the amount of Slime Against Humanity cards in your graveyard. That’s certainly an interesting and fun synergy, leading to♈ this card’s price increase.

9 Buried A𒆙live

Market Price: $6.06

Originally printed back in 1997’s Weatherlight set, this black sorcery perfectly fits into Odyssey’s graveyard shenanigans set theme, and it also pairs beau൩tifully with any number of reanimation spells – especially those that can pull multiple bodies ouꦫt of the ‘yard at once.

This card has been reprinted a few times over the years – including in 2024’s Modern Horizons 3 – but Odyssey’s printing is the only old-bordered version with Greg St💮aples’ iconic artwork that shows a poor soul getting, as you would expec🧜t, buried alive.

8 𒁏 Price of Glory 🍎

Market Price: $8.12

Old MTG sets used to print cards that severely hosed entire strategies, and this red enchantmenꦰt is a prime example of one of those cards. Destroying a land whenever it’s tapped on someone else’s turn is an incredibly powerful effect, and with this in play, games grind to a halt as people mostly stick to playing cards on their turns.

Playing instant-speed spells is ingrained into the DNA of Magic players, but this card forces you to rethink every play on an opposing player’s turn, o🍌r it simply acts as a sponge for targeted or mass removal so🌼 players can get back to their standard strategies.

7 Seize🌼 the Day ♔

Market Price: $9.04

Extra combat step spells are almost always eminently powerful – just look at the price point for beloved Baldur’s Gate 3 companion 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Karlach’s MTG card for evidence &ndash♏; and this is the only onꦓe of those spells that can be played from the graveyard.

That means, hypothetically, that you can untap a single creature two times and chain together three straight combat steps if you have 5 colorless mana and two red mana. That ability pairs eminently well with a cre🧸ature with a super-strong attack trigger – such as the milling abilities of Lord Xander, the Collector, or Ulamog, th෴e Ceaseless Hunger.

6 Terravore

Market Price: $9.06

The long-standing Lhurgoyf creature type saw a boost after the release of Odyssey, and green’s addition to the series was Te🎃rravore – a creature whose power and toughness can balloon rapid♐ly when paired with cards that shovel a ton of lands into the graveyard.

While the card’s uncommon printing from Dominaria Remastered can be had for a pittance (under 20 cents on TCGPlayer), its rඣare Odyssey printing will cost you quite a bit more – likely because ꧃of the attractive vintage-style border.

5 🌃 Cephalid C🅰oliseum

Market Price: $12.27

A land that can draw you three ca🎀rds? It’s Ancestral Recall on a stick! Of course, this nonbasic land forces you to discard three cards after drawing three, but for decks that take advantage of this drawback – such as the ultra-popular, tournament-winning Psychatog deck from this era – that’s more of a boon than a hindrance.

With classic artwork from master land illustrator John Avon, the Odyssey printing of this card has retained an extremely high price point – especially in contrast to its Modern Horizons 3 reprinting, which features the same art with a modern card border bu🌳t can be had for mere pennies.

4 Deserted Temple ꦰ ಞ

Market Price: $13.00

Unusual nonbasic lands from older MTG sets alm♔ost always retain a high price point on the secondary mar♔ket, and this rare from Odyssey slots into that style of card perfectly.

Featuring a strong and cheap activated ability that allows you to untap any land, this card is🌜 broken alongside powerhouse nonbasic lands such as Gaea’s Cradle or Tolarian Academy that can be tapped for tons of mana at a time.

3 ♊ ༒ Tainted Pact

Market Price: $21.91

A unique and intriguing search card for black mages, this card is a perfect addition to Commander decks that need to find that one card to either save🧸 themselves or win the game on the spot. As such, it’s no wonder this card’s price point exceeds $20.

By default, Commander decks feature no cards with the same name, which means this card can fetch up any card you want, whether it be a final combo piece to go infinite or a board wipe to help reset the game – allowing you🦂 to swoop in and win out of nowhere.

2 Tarnished Citad💟el

Market Price: $33.64

As evidenced by Deserted Temple, unusual nonbasic lands retain high price points long after their release due to scarcity and the novelty factor – both of which play a role 🥃in the over-$30 price tag of Ody▨ssey’s Tarnished Citadel.

Essentially a worse version of City of Brass or Mana Confluence, this card had never been reprinted until My🤡stery Booster 2 gave the card a novel, white-bordered reprint, but this card’s supreme scarcity and massive drawback likely add to its impressive pric💫e point.

1 Entomb

Market Price: $36.30

The most valuable card from Odyssey is this one-mana black instant🍬 spell that allows you to search your deck for any card and toss it into the graveyard. While this might sound counterproductive, any deck that plays this card will certainlౠy have a reason to put cards into their own ‘yard.

Whether you give your foe a one-two punch with this card on their end step and then a Reanimate on your turn to bring back some massively powerful creature, or you’re fueling some other graveyard-based combo, Entomb is the card that can find any card y♍ou need to get the ball rolling – and all for one mana. No wonder this version of the card fetches nearly $40 close to 25 years after it was released.