A combination of obscene rarity, stellar artwork, usefulness on the tabletop, and a connection to one of MTGs most famous cards have coalesced to drive its price way up
I will try and post the cert numbers of what I have here to cover NR base and QSS
One of the most common errors is assuming that all non-English cards can be shadowless
I believed it was the new Tier 1 deck
Exciting Pulls ($21 $40) Glittering Wish $23 Norin the Wary $23 Marrow-Gnawer $25 Mindslaver $25 Pyretic Ritual $25 Blasting Station $25 Boreal Druid $28 Celestial Kirin $30 Delay $30 Isamaru, Hound of Konda $30 Maelstrom Nexus $30 Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant $35 Balefire Liege $35 Blighted Agent $35 Zurs Weirding $40 Reki, the History of Kamigawa $40 This list could just as easily be called foils that are way more valuable than I expected them to be when I started writing this article. Pyretic Ritual at $25 makes sense, and theres Commander demand for Balefire Liege and Maelstrom Nexus, but a lot of these cards have quite a ways to fall
Both contain two contrasting elements: the decayed upper half of The War in Heaven compared to the pristine lower half
