Zed, Master of Shadows (Showcase, Signature)

Zed, Master of Shadows (Showcase, Signature) is the Signature print of Zed, Master of Shadows — numbered 191*/166, past the end of Vendetta's base run, which is what makes it far scarcer than the ordinary showcase printing. It sits in the Fury domain.

2 stores in the United States have it in stock, but the pricing is top-heavy: US$1,400.00 at the cheapest, then a 29% jump to US$1,800.00 for the next one. That cheapest listing is doing all the work — if it goes, the effective price of this card rises by roughly 29% overnight.

A played copy is the value play here: US$1,400.00 against US$1,800.00 for Near Mint, 22% less for a card that plays identically behind a sleeve, and foils are barely dearer than non-foils right now — US$1,400.00 against US$1,800.00 — which rarely lasts.

Zed, Master of Shadows is stocked in 3 of the markets we track — Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom — each priced in its own currency, so the table above ranks by delivered cost inside whichever market you pick rather than converting between them. In the United States the cheapest listing is US$1,400.00 before postage and US$1,400.00 delivered.

The Signature print carries a 11666.7× premium over the plain version — US$1,400.00 against US$0.12. Both are legal in the same decks, so that gap is paying for the art and the scarcity, not for anything on the table.

Within Vendetta this is a genuine chase card: it is more expensive than 99% of the 249 priced cards in the set, against a set median of US$0.29. Cards at this end of a set's distribution are what make sealed product worth opening, and what make it expensive to buy singles for a deck that needs them.

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