Meta Report: Order Is the Cheapest Domain on the Board

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Every column about domain pricing eventually runs into Order and has to explain it away. Fury, Calm, Mind and Body all have Showcase Legends anchoring their top ends at three-figure prices. Order does not have one in the tracked catalogue at all. Its most expensive entry is a Rune, and after that it drops straight into the Epic tier. That is a structural gap, not a demand signal, and almost every strange thing about Order's price behaviour follows from it.

A Rune at the top is unusual

Order Rune at OGN 214a/298 is a Showcase printing of a Rune, and it carries the domain on its own. Runes are a type that ordinarily lives in the cheap end of a catalogue, so a Showcase Rune sitting where another domain would have a Legend creates an odd shelf: one expensive card with nothing structurally similar beneath it to price against. Cards without comparables are the hardest to value and the easiest to mismark in both directions.

Order Rune

Origins · 214a/298

ShowcaseOrder

Market

US$116.97

Low

US$100.43

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7d

-0.9%

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Below it, the Order Epics form a small and fairly rational group. Baited Hook is a Gear at OGN 242/298, Corina Veraza is a Unit at SFD 179/221, and The Ruination is a Spell at UNL 180/219 — three sets, three types, and a spread narrow enough that they clearly price against one another rather than against the Rune. King's Edict at OGN 237/298 is the Rare that sits just underneath and functions as the floor for the whole domain.

The entire Order shelf above five dollars

Card	Market	7d
Order RuneOGN 214a/298	US$116.97	-0.9%
Baited HookOGN 242/298	US$32.33	-2.1%
Corina VerazaSFD 179/221	US$30.89	+0.6%
The RuinationUNL 180/219	US$20.84	+0.1%
King's EdictOGN 237/298	US$19.69	+52.6%
Noxian DrummerOGN 222/298	US$7.51	-16.4%
DeathgripSFD 163/221	US$7.40	+6.8%
SalvageOGN 224/298	US$6.02	-21.5%

What a missing top end does to everything else

Domains with expensive Legends get a steady trickle of attention from collectors working down from the top, and that attention supports the Epics and Rares underneath. Order has no such trickle, so its mid-tier is priced almost entirely by whatever players are doing, with no collector bid layered on top. In practice that makes Order the most honest domain on the board and also the most vulnerable: when interest fades, there is nothing structural holding the prices up.

It also means the domain's Uncommons behave differently from the others. Noxian Drummer, Deathgrip and Salvage are all within about a dollar and a half of each other, which is normal, but they have been more responsive to short-term movement than the equivalent Body or Calm Uncommons over the same period. Thin collector interest cuts both ways; it removes the ceiling as well as the floor.

I would not call Order cheap in the sense of being a bargain — a domain can be inexpensive for perfectly good structural reasons and stay that way indefinitely. What I would say is that Order is the one domain where price movement is likely to reflect actual play patterns rather than the collectibles market, which makes it the most useful domain to watch if what you care about is format demand. That is a narrow use, but it is a real one.

A domain with no chase card is a domain with no collector floor. That makes Order's chart the closest thing on this site to a pure demand signal — and the least forgiving one.