Shards of Alara card list & prices

Shards of Alara (ALA) was released on 3 October 2008. It has 249 printings on TCGplayer: every rarity and every Borderless, Extended Art, Showcase or foil-pattern version counted separately, because each is priced separately, and each has a Normal and a Foil price of its own.

Each card below shows the cheapest in-stock listing we track in the United States, in USD; “≈” marks TCGplayer's market price where no US store has the card. Open a card for every store's price.

MTG Compare lists 249 cards in Shards of Alara (ALA), 43 of which have a live price in the United States right now. The rest are tracked but not currently stocked by any store we monitor; they reappear here priced the moment one lists them.

Prices run from US$0.08 to US$21.40, with a median of US$0.72. The priciest cards here account for 46% of the group's total value — a fairly ordinary spread, tilted toward the top end without one or two cards carrying the whole group.

The cards to know: Tezzeret the Seeker at US$21.40, Ad Nauseam at US$7.30, Elspeth, Knight-Errant at US$6.40. At the other end, Salvage Titan is the cheapest way in at US$0.08.

Buying a set card by card and buying sealed are different questions — the Box EV calculator answers the second, and the prices below answer the first. The calculator values each card at TCGplayer's US market price, converted, rather than the cheapest listing shown here, so its per-card figures will differ.