Welcome back everyone, and I hope you are ready to talk more budget Magic! Today we are going to be picking up where we left off on newer gems to keep an eye on! I hope by the end of this read that you consider picking up some of these cards!

Urborg Lhurgoyf is an interesting card that might not hit huge monetary value, but it does have some upside in Pioneer and possibly casual Commander. Its current price is $0.68 for non-foils and $1.09 for foils. My mind goes to recursion when I see this card, and Golgari () is at the top of that list for both speed and power. Think about using this with quick creature spells and another pet card of mine, Graveblade Marauder. Having Graveblade Marauder out and then casting Urborg Lhurgoyf for its full kicker cost would be a huge play! If we are running a creature-heavy deck, this play would make perfect sense. Another thing to consider is Urborg Lhurgoyf's power and toughness will increase with each creature in your graveyard. This will help going into the mid to later parts of your game. Overall, I feel the Lhurgoyf has potential to go up, and you should trade into a playset when you can!

Keeping up on the lord train, Vodalian Hexcatcher is next on our list. It is currently $3.13 for non-foils and $3.49 for foils. This is going to be immediately plugged into merfolk decks across the board. Not only are we buffing our merfolk as they come out, but we can utilize them or merfolk tokens to potentially counter spells that may remove a single merfolk we do not want to lose, or counter a board wipe. The good thing to note with the ability is that there is no initial cost, so we can just sacrifice as many merfolk as we need to counter the spell at any time. We can potentially make use of this in Commander, seeing as board wipes are pretty widespread throughout decks. I personally would like to see this come down a bit more before trading or buying, but it is not a horrible buy-in rate. See if you have things you would not mind trading out of to get a playset of this.

Weatherlight Compleated is next on our list, and for good reason. Its current price is $4.32 for non-foils and $5.78 for foils. This is another great early game play for speedy deck with small creatures and/or recursion. It would not take too long to get the counters needed to make this a creature given the right build. And as creatures die, we get to scry to see what our next draw is going to be. I'm not sure if we would get to the seven-counter threshold for the card advantage, but in Commander that is easily attainable. The risk does not exceed the reward with this, as we are looking to have a 9/9 flier when it becomes a creature.

Some may argue it's a little fragile as it can be killed by both Artifact removal and Creature removal once that threshold has been reached. This is true, so consider having a backup plan. In Black we have cards like Deadly Dispute to counter our opponent's removal by sacrificing it in response to draw two cards and create a treasure token. This eliminates one of their removal spells while we draw into more spells and gain treasure. In Red we can use Shrapnel Blast to deal five damage to either our opponent or a creature threat. This one is pretty cheap considering its upside and that it is of mythic rarity. At the very least I would consider trading for two copies of this.

That is all for today, and I hope you come back as we continue our discussion of these types of cards!