Well hold on to your hats kids, we’re in for a wild ride. If you didn’t watch the Pro Tour and don’t want to be spoiled then I’d recommend reading this article after you have. With that said, the best deck of the Pro Tour has been one of the most dominant in recent times. Mardu Vehicles literally ran over everyone on its way to the finals. A lot of the time it wasn’t even close. Let’s take a look at the cards now and see how Standard prices have changed because of this.

The winner of Pro Tour Aether Revolt was Luis Esper Berthoud whom, despite his name, was playing the very popular Mardu Vehicles deck. Although most teams came to a slightly different configuration, the base deck takes advantage of Spire of Industry to allow you to easily splash Black in a R/W Vehicles deck. The core of the deck included Heart of Kiran, Toolcraft Exemplar, Scrapheap Scrounger, Thraben Inspector, Veteran Motorist, and Gideon, Ally of Zendikar. The light splash of Black was usually for Scrapheap Scrounger, Unlicensed Disintegration, and Fatal Push. The combination of many powerful and aggressive creatures with indiscriminate powerful removal allowed the deck to come out swinging much earlier than most decks were ready to interact with. Out of the 23 decks with 8 or more wins in the Constructed part of the Pro Tour, only 1 of them played Saheeli Rai which is a stark contrast to recent SCG Opens. The price movements definitely show here.

Heart of Kiran is up from $15 to $25 after this weekend’s festivities. It’s a small set mythic rare that could continue to climb if it continues to be dominant. If you’re looking to play them in the near future I could see them flirting with being a $35 card for a weekend in the next month so I would recommend biting the bullet and just getting them while you can. Retail prices are mostly sold out at $25 and will likely be restocked at $30 or more. While I would usually say never say never, Smuggler's Copter was banned recently for reasons that are very similar to Heart of Kiran. They didn’t really give us a bunch of new tools to deal with cheap vehicles and decks have warped to support crew 3 instead of crew 1 to abuse the fact that Heart of Kiran isn’t easily killed. The durability of Scrapheap Scrounger also helps keep this vehicle on top. If you have copies you were thinking about selling, now is a good time to cash out.

Scrapheap Scrounger was the most played creature in the top decks of the weekend. After dropping to an innocuous $2.50 roleplayer card, it’s basically impossible to find copies under $4 now. While it’s not a huge jump, much like Heart of Kiran it could have more room to grow as more people adapt to playing Black aggressive decks with Fatal Push. While this is an artifact, it is probably better to think of it more like a Black card. The amount of artifact synergies help it really shine after Aether Revolt and without a card like Pillar of Flame being reprinted, it’s hard to see that stopping. If Black aggressive decks continue to be the cream of the crop I could see this becoming $8-10 in the coming months. Unlike the Heart of Kiran, this card isn’t inherently too powerful ( I think) and I wouldn’t suspect it for a ban.

Spire of Industry is definitely the least flashy and probably the most underrated card in the Mardu Vehicles decks. It’s a big part of the glue that makes the mana work because it’s very similar to Glimmervoid in the deck. While it won’t replace Glimmervoid in Modern, it will be an irreplaceable part of some mana bases and could be included in more decks if the Oath of the GatewatchEldrazi see more play. I’d expect this to be a $3-6 card for its lifetime in Standard. As such, I wouldn’t really rush to go buy or sell any as there is likely to be enough copies to go around.

It’s hard to tell what exactly will come out of the weekend as the way to solve these Mardu Vehicles decks. It’s possible we see a lot more copies of Release the Gremlins as it was a niche sideboard card before that showed a bit of strength on camera. I wouldn’t expect huge jumps but it could see a spike as people rush out to get them. Ishkanah, Grafwidow has almost all but disappeared from Standard due to the lack of Emrakul, the Promised End to work toward. I’m not sure it will be coming back but there is definitely something to be said about creatures that gain some value immediately and put a lot of toughness of reach blockers into play. The Mardu Vehicles decks did a great job exploiting the lack of flying creatures and high toughness creatures with vehicles and Unlicensed Disintegration. It’s probably that some number of Ishkanahs will end up back in decks to help stem the bleeding on games that you can turn the corner on. Liliana, the Last Hope should be good against a lot of the creatures in this Mardu Vehicles decks because there are so many creatures with just 1 toughness. The reality is that it’s so easily removed by a single attack from a Heart of Kiran that I am not sure it will make the cut. It’s a card I am not interested in buying now but I will start watching if it takes a dip in the next few weeks as it didn’t show up at the Pro Tour.

I hope I covered the weekend of a very exciting Pro Tour. While it wasn’t the Inventors' Fair that a lot of people might have been expecting I think it was pretty close. The new team format disincentivizes some risk taking but as we saw at Pro Tour Kaladesh, the Pro Tour does not dictate the coming weeks. The Grixis control deck that won it all immediately disappeared as did the Temur Aetherworks Marvel decks it preyed upon to get to the top tables.