Judgment MTG Cards Worth Money: What Still Holds Value
Prices from cards tracked on RareWell — updated daily. Last updated August 5, 2026.
The Judgment cards worth money cluster in three places: the Wishes cycle (Living Wish, Burning Wish, and Cunning Wish in particular), Mirari's Wake, and the incarnation cycle led by Genesis and Anger. Add Cabal Therapy — an uncommon that became a Legacy pillar — and you have most of the set's value in under a dozen names.
Judgment closed out the Odyssey block in May 2002 as a small set with a deliberate green-white skew, the mirror image of black-heavy Torment. Small sets from this era were opened far less than modern releases, so clean copies of the good cards are scarcer than their age alone suggests.
| Card | Set | Rarity | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabal Therapy | Judgment | uncommon | $24 |
| Sylvan Safekeeper | Judgment | rare | $16 |
| Seedtime | Judgment | rare | $14 |
| Balthor the Defiled | Judgment | rare | $12 |
| Burning Wish | Judgment | rare | $9.68 |
 Cunning Wish | Judgment | rare | $8.92 |
 Solitary Confinement | Judgment | rare | $8.88 |
 Living Wish | Judgment | rare | $8.79 |
 Epic Struggle | Judgment | rare | $8.57 |
 Mental Note | Judgment | common | $8.53 |
 Glory | Judgment | rare | $8.09 |
 Genesis | Judgment | rare | $7.81 |
 Phantom Nishoba | Judgment | rare | $7.57 |
 Cephalid Constable | Judgment | rare | $7.07 |
 Mirari's Wake | Judgment | rare | $6.96 |
 Filth | Judgment | uncommon | $6.96 |
 Prismatic Strands | Judgment | common | $6.52 |
 Dwarven Bloodboiler | Judgment | rare | $6.02 |
 Morality Shift | Judgment | rare | $5.66 |
 Test of Endurance | Judgment | rare | $5.36 |
Why a small 2002 set still has money cards
Judgment sits at the end of the Odyssey block, a graveyard-obsessed era whose best cards aged into eternal formats and Commander rather than fading with Standard. The set's rare pool is lopsided: a handful of rares carry serious demand while the rest are true bulk, which is typical for early-2000s expansions.
The color skew matters for collectors, too. Green and white got extra cards at black's expense, so the set's identity — and most of its value — lives in green-white staples and a few splashy build-arounds.
The Wishes cycle
The five Wishes let you grab a card from outside the game — in tournament play, your sideboard — and three of them turned into genuine eternal-format cards. Burning Wish became a toolbox engine for combo decks, Cunning Wish gave blue control decks answers on demand, and Living Wish fetched silver-bullet creatures and lands.
Death Wish and Golden Wish are the forgettable half of the cycle and price accordingly. When people search for valuable Judgment rares, it's the red, blue, and green Wishes they're after, and foil copies of those three sit well above the rest of the set.
Mirari's Wake and the Commander rares
Mirari's Wake is the set's marquee casual card: a mana doubler stapled to an anthem that has lived in green-white Commander decks since the format took off. It has been reprinted several times, but plenty of players still want the original Judgment printing, and it remains among the pricier cards of the set.
Beyond the Wake, look at Sylvan Safekeeper, a one-drop sacrifice outlet that protects your board and shows up in Legacy sideboards and Commander decks alike; Worldgorger Dragon, infamous for its Animate Dead combo loop; and casual favorites like Phantom Nishoba, Solitary Confinement, and Test of Endurance. None of these are windfalls, but they all hold real, steady demand.
The incarnations: value from the graveyard
Judgment's incarnation cycle — Anger, Brawn, Filth, Genesis, Glory, and Wonder — grants an effect while the card sits in your graveyard, a design that only got better as graveyard strategies matured. Genesis is the standout, recurring creatures every turn in grindy decks, with Anger's free haste close behind.
Wonder and Glory see steady Commander play, while Brawn and Filth trail the cycle. As with everything from this era, foils are the real chase: early-2000s foil sheets were small, and clean foil incarnations carry serious multipliers over their nonfoil versions.
Sleepers: Cabal Therapy, lands, and foils
Cabal Therapy is the quiet star of Judgment — an uncommon discard spell that became a Legacy staple for decades. Nonfoil copies are affordable, but original foils are among the most expensive cards in the whole set. Krosan Verge and Riftstone Portal are uncommon lands with lasting Commander demand, and the nostalgic Erhnam Djinn reprint still finds buyers.
If you're sorting a Judgment collection, pull every rare, every incarnation, Cabal Therapy, and all foils before bulking anything. The live prices on this page come from collections tracked on RareWell, so you can check exactly where each card sits today.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is the most valuable card in Judgment?
- In nonfoil, it's usually Mirari's Wake or one of the playable Wishes at the top. Foils reshuffle the list entirely — foil Cabal Therapy and foil eternal staples typically outprice every nonfoil rare. Check the live price table above for current order.
- Are the Judgment incarnations worth money?
- Genesis and Anger carry most of the cycle's value thanks to Commander and graveyard decks; Wonder and Glory are worth pulling too. Foil copies of any incarnation deserve a careful price check.
- Is Cabal Therapy from Judgment worth anything?
- Yes. It's only an uncommon, but decades of Legacy play keep demand alive, and the original Judgment foil is one of the priciest cards in the set.
- Why does Judgment have so few black cards?
- The set was designed as the mirror of Torment: Torment got extra black cards, and Judgment compensated with extra green and white. The few black cards it does have include Filth and Balthor the Defiled.