Very Cryptic Command (B)

MAGIC-UNSTABLE · 49 · Magic: The Gathering

This is a variant printing

b — it shares card number 49with its base printing, but it is a different card and it sells for a different price. Most price sources average the two together. We don’t.

Rarity: Rareprinted as “R”
Set: UnstableMain set · 288 cards
Released: December 8, 2017
Language: EN
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Riplytics identity key: 49|b|en

Market value

Unknown

We don’t have verified sold prices for this exact printing yet. When we do, they will appear here with the sales behind them — not an average of whichever listings happened to share a card number.

See the full Unstable master set

Same code, different cards

We know of 29 different cards printed as 49.

They share a code. They do not share a value — and most price sources average them together and publish the result as a single figure. That number isn’t wrong about one of these cards. It isn’t about any of them.

And there may well be more. Event winners, magazine promos, regional exclusives — a card can be reprinted with the same code and a completely different value.

4954

MAGIC-ART-SERIES-TARKIR-DRAGONSTORM

4981

MAGIC-ART-SERIES-MODERN-HORIZONS-2

art series

MAGIC-ART-SERIES-MODERN-HORIZONS

borderless

MAGIC-COMMANDER-THE-HOBBIT

commander 2015

MAGIC-OVERSIZE-CARDS

commander 2019

MAGIC-OVERSIZE-CARDS

gold stamped signature

MAGIC-ART-SERIES-ZENDIKAR-RISING

showcase

MAGIC-OUTLAWS-OF-THUNDER-JUNCTION-THE-BIG-SCORE

textured foil

MAGIC-SPECIAL-GUESTS

0049

MAGIC-FOUNDATIONS

049

MAGIC-JUMPSTART

MAGIC-DECKMASTERS-GARFIELD-VS-FINKEL

MAGIC-UNSTABLE

alternate foil

MAGIC-UNHINGED

anime

MAGIC-FOUNDATIONS-JUMPSTART

MAGIC-UNSTABLE

MAGIC-UNSTABLE

dvd

MAGIC-THE-LIST-REPRINTS

MAGIC-UNSTABLE

extended art

MAGIC-COMMANDER-WILDS-OF-ELDRAINE

MAGIC-UNSTABLE

foil etched

MAGIC-STRIXHAVEN-MYSTICAL-ARCHIVES

halo foil

MAGIC-SECRET-LAIR-COUNTDOWN-KIT

ripple foil

MAGIC-COMMANDER-MODERN-HORIZONS-3

surge foil

MAGIC-UNIVERSES-BEYOND-WARHAMMER-40000

tokyo lands

MAGIC-SECRET-LAIR-DROP-SERIES

white border

MAGIC-MYSTERY-BOOSTER-2

Rare

MAGIC-ZENDIKAR-RISING

We show you which card is which. We don’t yet show you what each one is worth — because a price is only meaningful once you know which of these it belongs to, and almost nobody publishing prices has bothered to find out.

Know a printing we’re missing? Regional promos, magazine inserts, event exclusives and lottery items are exactly where catalogs go wrong — and ours is no exception. We list what we know of, not what exists.

This catalog gets better when collectors tell us we’re wrong. Corrections are the product — every one makes it something nobody starting today could reproduce.