Lorwyn Eclipsed: Chase Cards and Value

The set's most valuable pulls, from a $4,000 serialized faerie to the Standard staples worth chasing.

Lorwyn was one of Magic's most beloved planes, and it took nearly two decades for Wizards to go back. Lorwyn Eclipsed, released January 23, 2026 as the 109th expansion and the first of seven Standard-legal sets on the 2026 calendar, is that return. The premise: a group of Strixhaven first-years, nudged along by Oko, wake the being Isilu early and throw the plane into a rapid, unstable cycle of day and night. Mechanically that means transforming cards that flip between the sunny Lorwyn and the gloomy Shadowmoor, the new Blight keyword action (you pay costs by putting -1/-1 counters on your own creatures), and a nostalgic pile of returning mechanics like Kindred, Changeling, Evoke, and Persist.

For collectors, the more interesting story is the Collector Booster economy. Lorwyn Eclipsed leans hard on premium treatments: a 10-card Japan Showcase lineup with anime-style art in both traditional and Fracture Foil versions, 20 woodcut-style Special Guests split evenly between Lorwyn and Shadowmoor themes, Fable-frame Booster Fun cards, five reversible shock lands, and one genuinely rare serialized card. Below is a countdown of the chase cards actually driving prices, working up to the single most valuable pull in the set.

A quick note before the numbers: these are secondary-market prices from the first months after release, when a set is at its most volatile. Aggregator listings on TCGplayer and Card Kingdom often run ahead of what cards actually sell for, and everything here can move as supply catches up and Standard decks settle. Treat the figures as a snapshot, not a quote.

#7 Hexing Squelcher

Around $16 to $18. Hexing Squelcher is the format-warping utility creature every set seems to get one of. A two-mana Goblin, its job is to make your own spells impossible to counter, which is a modest effect in Standard but a real enabler in Commander and cEDH, where it can protect a combo turn from a table full of interaction. Cards that see play in multiple formats hold value better than pure Standard flavors of the month, and that cross-format demand is why this one holds a spot near the top of the base rares.

#6 Moonshadow

Around $19 for the mythic rare; roughly $210 to $230 for the Japan Showcase Fracture Foil. Moonshadow is a one-mana black mythic elemental with Menace that enters as a fragile 1/1, a 7/7 body weighed down by six -1/-1 counters, and grows back toward that 7/7 as permanent cards hit your graveyard. It rewards a deck built to fill its own graveyard rather than a straightforward beatdown shell. The regular copy is a reasonable buy, but the money is in the treatment. The Japan Showcase Fracture Foil, which drops in roughly 1 in 100 Collector Boosters and carries a shattered-glass pattern across the whole card, trades for well over ten times the base price. That gap between a functional playset and the collector version is the whole pitch of Collector Boosters.

#5 Wistfulness

Around $18 to $20. Wistfulness is an Evoke incarnation, a callback to the original Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block, and it earns its price by being flexible. It is a 6/5 body when you need one, a card-filtering effect that draws two and discards one when cast with blue, and a way to exile an opponent's artifact or enchantment when cast with green. Cards that do several useful things on one piece of cardboard tend to get maindecked across archetypes, and that breadth of play is what keeps demand steady.

#4 Chronicle of Victory

Around $20 to $22. Chronicle of Victory is the typal payoff of the set, a colorless legendary artifact frequently compared to a beefed-up Vanquisher's Banner: you name a creature type, your creatures of that type get +2/+2 with first strike and trample, and you draw a card whenever you cast a spell of that type. Lorwyn was always a tribal plane (Faeries, Elves, Goblins, Kithkin, Merfolk), so a strong Kindred anthem lands in fertile ground here. It slots into Standard tribal builds and a long list of Commander decks, and that Commander pull is the piece most likely to keep it relevant after Standard moves on.

#3 Bitterbloom Bearer

Around $20 to $23 for the standard rare. This is the best pure-gameplay card in the set. Bitterbloom Bearer is a two-mana 1/1 Faerie Rogue with Flash and Flying that, at the beginning of your upkeep, costs you one life and makes a 1/1 flying Faerie token. If that sounds familiar, it should: it is essentially Bitterblossom stapled onto a creature body, a token engine that snowballs if it survives even a turn or two. It is the most-played new card in the set and the standard version's price reflects that. Hold this thought, because its premium sibling is the reason the whole set has a headline.

#2 Bloom Tender (Japan Showcase Fracture Foil)

About $12 to $14 for the standard mythic; around $350 for the Japan Showcase Fracture Foil. Bloom Tender is a reprint, and a welcome one. The original from Eventide is one of the most efficient mana creatures ever printed: tap it and it adds one mana of each color among the permanents you control, which in a multicolor deck can mean up to five mana from a single tap. It has long been a Commander staple with a matching price tag, so folding it into a Standard set both eases supply and creates an obvious chase treatment. The Fracture Foil Japan Showcase version is the second most valuable single in the set, a reminder that a great reprint plus a scarce finish is a reliable recipe for a $300-plus card.

#1 Serialized Bitterbloom Bearer

$4,000 and up. Only 500 serialized copies of Bitterbloom Bearer exist, each individually numbered, printed in a borderless double rainbow foil, and found in well under 1% of Collector Boosters. The detail that makes it sing for collectors is the art: this version uses work by Rebecca Guay, who painted the original Bitterblossom back in 2008, closing a loop nearly twenty years wide. One copy has already sold for $4,000, and retail listings have appeared higher still, in the $3,700 to $4,250 range depending on the seller. Serialized cards are the modern top of the Magic collectible pyramid, and this is the set's crown. If you want to understand how numbered cards became a market of their own, our guide to serialized Magic cards walks through the mechanics.

Recap: Lorwyn Eclipsed chase cards

Rank	Card	Notable version	Approx. price
1	Bitterbloom Bearer	Serialized (500 copies)	$4,000+
2	Bloom Tender	Japan Showcase Fracture Foil	around $350
3	Bitterbloom Bearer	Standard rare	$20 to $23
4	Chronicle of Victory	Standard rare	$20 to $22
5	Wistfulness	Standard rare	$18 to $20
6	Moonshadow	Mythic (regular)	around $19
7	Hexing Squelcher	Standard rare	$16 to $18

How to think about the set

The pattern in Lorwyn Eclipsed is the pattern in most modern Standard sets: the playable rares and mythics settle into the $15 to $25 range and drift down as supply grows, while the real money concentrates in a handful of scarce treatments. If you are opening product to play, the base versions of Bitterbloom Bearer, Bloom Tender, and Chronicle of Victory are the cards you actually want. If you are opening it to hit, you are hunting Japan Showcase Fracture Foils and, in the best case, one of the 500 serialized faeries.

For a broader look at how these premium finishes work, see our explainers on Magic booster types and foil treatments, and if you want to know what comes after Lorwyn Eclipsed, our 2026 set release schedule lays out the rest of the year. We track graded and raw prices for cards like these across the market at Misprint, and the takeaway is consistent: a strong reprint or a serialized homage holds value far better than the average Standard rare.