Cornered Market Price

Updated 2026-07-14

Cornered Market from Mercadian Masques is a prison piece that prevents players from playing additional copies of permanents sharing a name with something already in play, creating a lock against specific redundant strategies in Legacy and Commander hate-bear builds. Its competitive adoption is limited by the specificity of the effect: it punishes strategies built around multiple copies of a named permanent rather than functioning as a universal stax piece. Mercadian Masques is an era-defining set that produced a number of cards with niche but resilient demand, and Cornered Market falls into the category of cards that appeal primarily to dedicated prison specialists rather than broad Commander audiences. The price at this level reflects limited supply of near-mint copies from a 25-year-old product rather than active competitive demand. Collectors who target complete Mercadian Masques rare sets form the narrow but consistent demand pool that sustains pricing here.