Spoiler alert: the cards with the best profit margin aren't necessarily the most expensive cards--how reliably a card sells factors into its ability to generate revenue. If that's confusing, look at it this way--people are statistically more likely to buy a Ford Focus than they are to buy a Cadillac Escalade.
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Top 10 'Force of Will: The Seven Kings of the Lands' by Dollar Volume |
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$ Vol. Rank |
Card Name |
Average Price |
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1 |
Alice, the Girl in the Looking Glass (Full Art - Valkyrie) |
$25.33 |
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Alice, the Girl in the Looking Glass (Valkyrie) |
$7.89 |
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2 |
Alice, the Girl in the Looking Glass (Saint) |
$5.99 |
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Alice, the Girl in the Looking Glass (Full Art - Saint) |
$22.46 |
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3 |
Pricia, the Beast Lady |
$16.02 |
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Pricia, the Beast Lady (Full Art) |
$36.52 |
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4 |
Blazer Gill Rabus |
$11.69 |
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Blazer Gill Rabus (Full Art) |
$23.98 |
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5 |
Deathscythe, the Life Reaper |
$1.91 |
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Deathscythe, the Life Reaper (Full Art) |
$11.00 |
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6 |
Snow White, the Valkyrie of Passion |
$3.27 |
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Snow White, the Valkyrie of Passion (Full Art) |
$6.64 |
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7 |
Cinderella, the Valkyrie of Glass |
$3.10 |
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Cinderella, the Valkyrie of Glass (Full Art) |
$8.48 |
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8 |
Qing Long, the Sacred Beast |
$1.95 |
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Qing Long, the Sacred Beast (Full Art) |
$7.97 |
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9 |
Artemis, the Gods Bow |
$0.91 |
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Artemis, the Gods Bow (Full Art) |
$6.35 |
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10 |
Ratatoskr, the Spirit Beast of Yggdrasil |
$2.19 |
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Ratatoskr, the Spirit Beast of Yggdrasil (Full Art) |
$11.28 |
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Both versions of Alice, the Girl in the Looking Glass--Valkyrie (#1) and Saint (#2)--take the two top spots on our list. The Ruler side searches your main deck for a card for free, while the J-Ruler side of each card has a solid, relevant ability.
Blazer Gill Rabus (#4) says that your Magic stones may generate red as well as whichever color they’d generate naturally. This allows you to play a red deck in combination with another color, without needing to play any Magic stones that produce red. The effect of fixing your colors at zero cost is rare, powerful, and thus highly-sought after.
Pricia, the Beast Lady (#3), the most expensive card in The Seven Kings of the Lands, works in conjunction with Sacred Beasts, a new race of resonators showcased in the new expansion. The power of Sacred Beasts is pervasive enough to bolster the status of two other cards in the Top 10--Qing Long, the Sacred Beast (#8), and Ratatoskr, the Spirit Beast of Yggdrasil (#10).
Games of Force of Will generally revolve around each player’s J-Ruler--it's for this reason that the Top 10 cards in The Seven Kings of the Lands are all J-Rulers, save Deathscythe, the Life Reaper (#5).
Competitive Force of Will has been dominated by a few select strategies so far. The good news is that The Seven Kings of the Lands aims to shake up the competitive landscape. It'll be exciting to see how the expansion affects Force of Will going forward, as well as whether or not Force of Will can live up to its meteoric trajectory.
--Jon Corpora is a Creative Producer at TCGplayer.com. TCGplayer.com is the largest collectible card marketplace on the web, with hundreds of brick and mortar sellers listed.
The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the writer, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial staff of ICv2.com.