Top 10 Bestselling Presold Cards From Wilds of Eldraine – #4 Not Dead After All

While it’s unusual to see a Common appear so high when discussing the bestselling presold cards of an upcoming release, there’s a good reason for it with Not Dead After All. While the design of the Instant was likely intended for Limited play, the card will play a notable role in one of Modern’s most notable archetypes — Rakdos Evoke (also known as Rakdos Scam). Innocuous it may seem in a vacuum, but Not Dead After All will likely replace either Undying Malice or Feign Death in Rakdos Evoke, where it continues to encourage the obnoxious turn one play of casting Grief for it’s Evoke cost, then with the Evoke trigger on the stack, cast one of these one mana Black Instant spells where Grief will re-enter the battlefield, allowing the Rakdos Evoke player to take two nonland cards and have a 4/3 with Menace for good measure.

What is notable about Not Dead After All is how Grief (or Fury) is how the evoked creature returns to the battlefield tapped but with a Wicked Role Enchantment Aura attached instead. Either way, Not Dead After All is the kind of card that could become the next Lórien Revealed, where it’s a Common that could have a higher markup due to Modern applications, where it could secretly become a valuable card without players realizing when cracking open Wilds of Eldraine boosters. Either way, if you happen to open foils, these will be worth something to the right Rakdos Evoke player.