Historical recurring signal
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Referenced in 12 reviewed reports across 8 days. Reports from Jun 28, 2026 to Jul 6, 2026 repeated one public signal type around the same canonical context.
Intelligence History
A chronological record of reviewed Trend Intelligence reports that connected Pauper to deckbuilding, product, supply, pricing, or market changes.
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Recurring Signals
Historical recurring signal
Referenced in 12 reviewed reports across 8 days. Reports from Jun 28, 2026 to Jul 6, 2026 repeated one public signal type around the same canonical context.
Historical recurring signal
Referenced in 12 reviewed reports across 8 days. Reports from Jun 28, 2026 to Jul 6, 2026 repeated one public signal type around the same canonical context.
Historical recurring signal
Referenced in 8 reviewed reports across 8 days. Reports from Jun 28, 2026 to Jul 6, 2026 repeated one public signal type around the same canonical context.
Reviewed Reports
Baleful Strix did not stop at a price spike. Esper Affinity using four Strixes, four Dispatches, and two Cut Downs just won a 42-player paper tournament, with the same 75 also finishing third, giving the Zeta cards their clearest competitive result yet.
This format was part of the play context.
Version-specific: compare the exact set, collector number, finish, treatment, and product source before trusting the move.
Baleful Strix and Cut Down really did move after The Zeta Set made them Pauper legal, but the first wave of scarcity is already becoming more complicated. Cut Down sold through a large amount of cheap supply and Baleful Strix repriced across many printings, while early paper events show the cards seeing play without immediately taking over the format.
This format was part of the play context.
Version-specific: compare the exact set, collector number, finish, treatment, and product source before trusting the move.
Giant's Boulder is TCGplayer's top seller, but the card is nowhere close to disappearing: Cardmarket still has 6,403 copies of the only printing. Pauper and Standard players are finding real uses for the one-mana artifact, making this confirmed demand with extremely deep supply.
This format was part of the play context.
Version-specific: compare the exact set, collector number, finish, treatment, and product source before trusting the move.
Refurbished Familiar keeps selling because artifact decks can cast it cheaply, attack in the air, and make the opponent discard. More than nine hundred listings mean ordinary copies are still easy to find.
This format was part of the play context.
Version-specific: compare the exact set, collector number, finish, treatment, and product source before trusting the move.