10 Most Valuable Rogue Cards

Distract the Guards | Illustrated by Torgeir Fjereide

Rogues are a rather motley bunch.

Unlike more narrowly defined Magic creature types, Rogues encompass thieves, spies, burglars, assassins, ne’er-do-wells, and various other light-fingered miscreants. They crop up alongside everything from Humans and Rats to Merfolk and Skeletons, while sharing plenty of sneaky blue-black design space with the game’s Faeries.

Rogues have received some memorable typal support over the years, but the creature type’s true strength might be its sheer variety. Appropriately enough, the most expensive members of this larcenous lot come from all over Magic’s history.

So make sure to hide your valuables: let’s take a look at the game’s most valuable Rogues.

10. Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (Etched Foil) – Commander Legends

Market Price: $42.53

Sakashima might technically be a Human Rogue, but this legendary creature spends most of its time impersonating other creatures, making it an honorary member of the most valuable Shapeshifters club.

Beyond copying another creature you control, Sakashima switches off the legend rule for your permanents and boasts the useful partner keyword. That is a fairly obscene amount of Commander shenanigans on one card, and the Etched Foil from its first printing in Commander Legends remains the primo version.

9. Generous Plunderer (Vault Frame The Big Score) – Outlaws of Thunder Junction

Market Price: $44.03

“Generous” might be stretching its definition a bit here. This two-mana red Rogue can make you a Treasure every upkeep, but your chosen opponent gets one too. Luckily, theirs enters tapped, and every artifact your foe controls makes the Plunderer hit them harder when it attacks.

Give your opponent Treasure, then punish them for owning Treasure. That’s diabolical... and typical Rogue behavior.

8. Astarion, the Decadent – Astarion’s Thirst Secret Lair Drop

Market Price: $52.67

Few characters are better suited to the Rogue creature type than Baldur’s Gate 3’s delightfully self-interested vampire spawn (no, not that Vampire Spawn), Astarion.

Deathtouch and lifelink already make this Vampire Elf Rogue a useful combatant, but his end-step trigger can essentially double down on either an opponent’s lost life or your own life gain. That is extremely potent Commander fodder before you even factor in this Secret Lair’s sumptuous new artwork.

7. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar (Borderless Mana Foil) – Foundations

Market Price: $68.85

Look who wandered over from the most valuable Skeleton cards list. Everyone’s favorite diminutive bag of bones is up to his usual chicanery here, exiling cards whenever opponents discard them and allowing you to play those purloined goodies yourself.

Tinybones has become one of Magic’s more recognizable modern characters, and the embossed mana-symbol treatment on this borderless Mana Foil from Foundations makes an already adorable thief considerably more decadent.

6. Merfolk Looter (Foil) – Seventh Edition

Market Price: $71.95

Another repeat customer, this iconic 1/1 already appeared among the most valuable Merfolk cards, and its Rogue credentials earn it another appearance here.

Merfolk Looter is about as straightforward as Magic creatures get: tap it, draw a card, then discard a card. The effect became so ubiquitous that “looting” entered the game’s general vernacular, all thanks to this card. Add the scarcity and desirability of old-school Seventh Edition foils, and suddenly this unassuming uncommon is worth over $70.

5. Aladdin – Arabian Nights

Market Price: $98.12

Long before Rogues received a smorgasbord of typal payoffs, Aladdin was out here filching artifacts the old-fashioned way, so long as he keeps “One Jump Ahead,” of course.

For three mana and a tap, this 1/1 can steal an opposing artifact for as long as you control him. It's clunky by modern standards, but the original hails from 1993’s Arabian Nights, Magic’s first-ever expansion set, so an antiquated design is pretty much par for the course. Ultimately, it’s “A Whole New World” for Magic design. (That’s the last Aladdin reference, I promise.)

4. Bilbo, Thief in the Night (Surge Foil Dragon Hoard Frame Card) – The Hobbit

Market Price: $115.99

There might not be a character in fantasy literature more deserving of the Rogue type than an actual professional burglar from The Lord of the Rings franchise.

Bilbo reduces the cost of spells you cast from outside your hand and can cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery directly from your graveyard whenever he attacks. For just two mana, that is some eminently exploitable text. Slap a dazzling Surge Foil Dragon Hoard frame on Mr. Baggins and, well, there and back again to a price point north of $100 we go.

3. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (Serialized Multiverse Legends) – March of the Machine

Market Price: $222.50

The normal version of Tetsuko Umezawa costs pocket change, which makes the gulf between it and this serialized rendition particularly striking. The two-mana 1/3 makes creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less unblockable, opening the door for all manner of tiny-creature skullduggery (befitting a Rogue).

Of course, gameplay utility is only part of the equation here. Turn an inexpensive uncommon into a serialized Double Rainbow Foil collectible and suddenly Tetsuko is rubbing elbows with cards worth hundreds of dollars.

2. Gwendlyn Di Corci – Legends

Market Price: $226.90

Nothing like a Reserved List card from 1994 to crash the top of one of these rankings. For four mana, Gwendlyn Di Corci is a 3/5 Grixis () Human Rogue that can tap to force a player to discard a random card, though you can only activate the ability during your turn.

She certainly isn’t breaking Commander tables in 2026, but being an unreprintable Legends rare (with rather racy artwork by modern Magic standards) has a funny way of making quaint old cards alarmingly expensive.

1. Vren, the Relentless (Japanese Raised Foil Anime Card) – Bloomburrow

Market Price: $236.58

No dusty Reserved List curio takes the crown here. Instead, our most valuable Rogue is an exceptionally fancy Rat Rogue from 2024’s well-received Bloomburrow expansion.

Vren boasts a nasty bit of rules text, exiling opposing creatures that would die before creating increasingly beefy Rat tokens at the end of each turn based on how many creatures were exiled. Add the flashy Japanese Raised Foil Anime treatment, and this ruthless little rodent narrowly slips past Gwendlyn at $236.58 to become the most valuable Rogue card in Magic.

A Rather Pricey Rogues’ Gallery

And there you have it. From an Arabian Nights artifact thief and a pint-sized Skeleton pickpocket to Bilbo Baggins himself, Rogues might possess one of the strangest collections of characters of any creature type in Magic.

Of course, if you own any of these Rogue grails, you’re definitely in the money. Apparently, crime does pay after all.

Thanks for reading, and we’ll catch you next time. Happy collecting!