The Gaffer Price and Data

This page follows the nonfoil Tales of Middle-earth Commander printing of The Gaffer, collector number 12. Its October 20, 2026 market snapshot was $7.21 across conditions.

• The monthly history for this printing moved from $6.96 on June 30, 2026 to $7.21 on October 20, 2026, a gain of $0.25, or about 3.6%.
• In the daily history, $6.67 on October 6, 2026 rose to $7.37 on October 17, 2026, about 10.5%, before easing 2.2% to $7.21 on October 20, 2026.

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• On July 25, 2025, MTGStocks reported The Gaffer at $12.55 after a 289% weekly rise. That historical reported quote uses a different price series from the exact-printing chart above.
• The report connected the attention to Ragost, Deft Gastronaut, a new Edge of Eternities commander that turns your artifacts into Food.
• Ragost gives your artifacts a way to gain exactly the 3 life The Gaffer needs. This explains their deck-building connection; it does not establish how much buying Ragost caused.

MTGStocks, July 25, 2025 · Ragost rules · Independent Ragost deck explanation

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• The regular LTC 12 printing shown here and extended-art LTC 96 are nonfoil only. The scroll-frame LTC 414 has nonfoil and silver foil versions.
• The Hobbit Eternal added borderless HOC 15 on August 14, 2026 in nonfoil and foil, plus the surge foil HOC 55. These are separate printings from this chart.
• Compare the exact printing, finish and condition you want. The $7.21 snapshot is not a foil quote, and the new printings alone do not prove why a price changed.

Regular LTC 12 · Extended-art LTC 96 · Scroll-frame LTC 414 · Borderless HOC 15 · Surge foil HOC 55

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• The October 20, 2026 EDHREC snapshot recorded The Gaffer in 100,634 submitted Commander decks. Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit with Sam, Loyal Attendant led the listed pairings at 22,752 decks; Ragost, Deft Gastronaut accounted for another 8,702.
• The Gaffer can draw at each player's end step. Food and repeatable life gain let you meet its 3-life condition on several turns in the same round.
• Gain the life before the end step begins. Reaching 3 life after that point will not create a trigger you missed.
• Separate gains add together: three gains of 1 life meet the condition. Gaining more than 3 still produces one card from that end-step trigger.
• Life lost does not cancel life gained for this check. If you gain 3 life and lose 5 that turn, you still qualify.
• Life gained before The Gaffer entered also counts. You can gain 3, cast The Gaffer, then draw at the end step if it is still there.
• With Ragost, pay {2}, tap and sacrifice an artifact using its Food ability to gain 3 life. Sacrificing it to Ragost's separate {1} damage ability does not also gain life; the same Food cannot pay both sacrifice costs.

Commander snapshot, checked October 20, 2026 · The Gaffer rules · Ragost rules and separate activation costs

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