Set Review: Unleashed at Ninety Days
Unleashed has the steepest top end of any set tracked here and almost nothing between its Legends and its Uncommons. The ninety-day review is less flattering than the release one was.
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I review every set twice, at release and ninety days later, on the theory that the second review is the one worth reading. The release review is written against hype and preorder prices; the ninety-day review is written against whatever the market actually decided. Unleashed is a set where those two documents disagree substantially, and the disagreement is almost entirely about shape rather than about level.
The Legend run is the whole set
Unleashed's Showcase Legends occupy collector numbers 226 through 237 in a run of 219, and they contain the top of the set by a very large margin. Virtuoso in both its starred and unstarred printings, Bashful Bloom at 230, Green Father at 233, Deceiver at 235*, Gloomist at 232* and Scorn of the Moon at 234 all sit above the hundred-dollar line. No other tier in the set comes close. This is a set whose value is concentrated in about a dozen printings.
Unleashed Showcase Legends
Unleashed · 230/219
- Market
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- Low
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- Foil
- US$73.62
- 7d
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The middle is thinner than it looked
Below the Legends, Unleashed's Epic tier is small and its ordering is unstable. Rengar, Trophy Hunter at 120/219 leads it, with Death from Below, Inviolus Vox, Shadow and Vi, Hotheaded following in a band narrow enough that their order has changed more than once since April. Master Yi, Unstoppable and The Ruination bring up the rear. A set with a dozen expensive Legends and an Epic tier this compressed is a set that rewards buying singles and punishes buying boxes.
Unleashed Epics
The starred-versus-base question is more confused in Unleashed than in any other set. Virtuoso's star trades above its base and Keeper of the Hammer's star does too, but Green Father's base trades at several times its star at 233*/219, and Scorn of the Moon's base does the same against 234*/219. Four pairs, two in each direction, from one set. Whatever determines those relationships, it is clearly assigned per printing rather than by any rule that applies to the set as a whole, and I would treat anyone who claims otherwise with suspicion.
The ninety-day verdict is that Unleashed is a strong set for collectors and an expensive one for everyone else. Its Uncommons — Back Off, Mosstomper, Deadly Flourish, Soul Shepherd — are perfectly reasonable and cheap, its Battlefields are the standard three, and its middle is thin enough that there is very little to buy between five dollars and thirty. Sets with that profile tend to look better in retrospect than they do at ninety days, because the concentration at the top ages well. I would still rather buy the singles than the boxes.
Concentration at the top is not a flaw, it is a business model. It just means the honest way to describe the set is by naming the dozen printings that are it.
Prices sourced from TCGplayer. Market and Median are TCGplayer's own figures per printing; Low is the lowest active listing, which can be a damaged or non-English copy. Updated August 12, 2026.
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