Zhou Yu, Chief Commander Price

Updated 2026-07-17

Zhou Yu, Chief Commander from Portal Three Kingdoms is a legendary creature with an extraordinary secondary market story, drawn from one of Magic's rarest and most regionally concentrated print runs. Portal Three Kingdoms was distributed primarily in Asian markets in 1999 in limited quantities, making it one of the scarcest expansions ever produced for the game. Price data records an explosive volatile move: the thirty-day window shows a massive positive gain of over two hundred percent, while the seven-day window is flat, placing the full acceleration earlier in the trailing month. Moves of this magnitude in low-liquidity cards most commonly reflect a targeted buyout, a list placement from a high-profile Commander content creator, or a rules-interaction discovery. Without confirmed volume data, the magnitude is suspicious; a single high-priced transaction can move nominal price in a thin market. Holders should not extrapolate this as structural appreciation until sustained bid support at the new level is demonstrated.