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Warhammer 40K was the first full set for Universes Beyond, released as four Commander decks. There were two variations, the regular and collector decks, with the latter only having cards in the Surge Foil rarity. The collector decks were more expensive, making the cards in them more valuable than the default printings. These are the most expensive Warhammer cards in Magic: The Gathering.
An Affordable Option
MTG Warhammer is one of the more affordable Universes Beyond sets to start collecting, with prices ranging between $20 – $50 for the most expensive cards.
13. Exalted Flamer Of Tzeentch (Surge Foil) – $12.27
Exalted Flamer Of Tzeentch is a support card for decks that play instant and sorcery spells. It’s especially strong if you only have one of those in your graveyard, as it gives you a guaranteed way to loop it. If it’s an extra turn spell like Time Warp, you can lock everyone else from playing the game by continuously taking on extra turns by putting it back into your hand every turn.
12. Biotransference (Surge Foil) – $12.48
Biotransference turns all your artifacts into a board presence, capable of flooding the battlefield quickly. It transforms every creatures on the battlefield, casting each of them cast as a two-for-one. This card’s value is mostly to do with the fact that it’s such a utility, though the fact it’s a Surge Foil has definitely spiked the price slightly
11. Chaos Defiler (Surge Foil) – $12.51
Chaos Defiler isn’t the most powerful card in the Warhammer set, but the artwork is primarily what drives its value. It’s a way to remove a nonland permanent your opponents’ control, but it’s rather inconsistent due to it being random as it plays into the chaos theme of the deck it’s included in.
10. Commissar Severina Raine (Surge Foil) – $13.28
If you are constantly attacking with a lot of creatures, Commissar Severina Raine is the card for you. It turns all your attacking creatures into extra damage, as they will all cause each opponent to lose life equal to the number of attacking creatures to swing wide and deal outbursts of damage. Even the non-Surge Foil printing is valuable, only $1 cheaper than the Surge Foil.
9. Biophagus (Surge Foil) – $13.90
Biophagus is a mana dork, but one that can give a +1/+1 counter to a creature it helps cast. There are many synergies with +1/+1 counters to make them enter with extra, and combined with Biophagus can give them a hefty bit of counters as soon as they hit the battlefield.
8. Celestine, The Living Saint (Surge Foil) – $14.46
Lifegain decks can often gain a ton of life in one turn, so Celestine, The Living Saint will have no trouble returning any creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. Decks running white have many great creatures to reanimate, and since Celestine has lifelink itself, can trigger its effect for a card with a mana value of three or less by just dealing damage.
7. Skullclamp (Surge Foil) – $16.31
Skullclamp is one of the best equipment in all of Magic, so much so that it’s banned in both Modern and Legacy. It turns any creature with low toughness into a draw engine by equipping Skullclamp to it to kill it and draw two cards.
6. Sceptre Of Eternal Glory (Surge Foil) – $17.01
Usually, mana rocks need to do a lot if they cost three mana, so despite Sceptre Of Eternal Glory being four mana it is still a great choice. If you have three lands with the same name (something common in decks running multiple basic lands), it becomes a mana rock that creatures three mana instead of just one.
5. Shadow In The Warp (Surge Foil) – $18.54
Shadow In The Warp is a fantastic enchantment that makes it easier to cast any creature spells on your turn. Two mana is a steep discount, and can help get creatures out ahead of your mana curve. The card would be good with just that effect, but the bonus of burning your opponents for casting noncreature spells solidifies it as one of the set’s best.
4. Bloodthirster (Surge Foil) – $20.19
Cards that create extra combat phases are fantastic, and Bloodthirster is one of the many ways to do that. By simply dealing combat damage, you can an extra combat. Since it has both flying and trample, it can get it for damage rather easier to guarantee the extra combat. The one downside is that Bloodthirster only untaps itself for the extra combats, not all creatures.
3. Canoptek Scarab Swarm (Surge Foil) – $21.71
Canoptek Scarab Swarm is a graveyard hate card that has the potential the hit the battlefield with a lot of extra creatures if it’s exiling a lot of artifacts or lands from a graveyard. While it’s not good against every deck, in the ones it is punishes opposing graveyard decks hard.
2. Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph (Surge Foil) – $30.57
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph is one of the most popular commanders in the whole set, so its Surge Foil printing is one of the set’s most expensive. There are many cards that deal one damage to permanents and players, turning cheap burn spells into removal and more efficient burn with Ghyrson Starn’s effect.
1. Triumph Of Saint Katherine (Surge Foil) – $45.71
Triumph Of Saint Katerine is one of the most meta-relevant cards from the set, as it sees play in the Legacy format (as all sets released are legal there, including Commander products). It finds its home in various decks using Up The Beanstalk, as an easy way to trigger it by casting it for its miracle cost when you draw it for turn. It also sees play in various control decks in the meta. Since Triumph Of Saint Katherine sees play in one of the highest power formats in all of Magic, the price of it is more than usual cards, especially its Surge Foil variant which is the most expensive card in Magic: The Gathering’s Warhammer set.
That’s as much as we have on the most expensive MTG Warhammer cards, all of which are available most reliably from TCGPlayer. With other Universes Beyond collaborations – Lord of the Rings, even Fallout – the more expensive cards hail from unique printing types. There’s Borderless cards, Surge Foils, Showcases, and serialized cards too. The Warhammer collaboration, perhaps as Wizards of the Coast were still testing out the formula, is quite primitive in the fact it only features standard card prints.
Most expensive MTG Warhammer cards – FAQs
Are MTG Warhammer 40K cards worth the money?
Most of the more expensive MTG Warhammer cards are so because of the surge foil prints. There’s a few that have a little more going for them though, such as Triumph of Saint Katherine and Biophagus, though most of the interest in the others is due to the branding.
Are Warhammer 40K cards legal?
All of the Warhammer 40K cards are legal in Commander, Vintage, and Legacy formats, though Standard, Pioneer, and Legacy formats they are not. The most popular format that people use cards from Universes Beyond sets is in Commander.
