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Magic · Battle for Zendikar · #118 · Common

Nirkana Assassin

Magic card price for Nirkana Assassin: $0.27 market, from $0.01 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$0.27
0.0% this week · 0.0% in 30 days
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7 days0.0%
30 days0.0%
90 days+80.0%
1 year+28.6%
All time+12.5%

Sellers right now

$0.01lowest listing$1.77highest
Market price$0.27
Mid listing$0.35
30-day avg$0.24

Market price is what a near-mint copy actually sold for. The cheapest listing is what a seller asks today — on thin markets the two differ a lot.

Where to buy

TCGplayer$0.27
Cardmarket$0.21 €0.19

EUR converted at 1.1253 (ECB reference rate). Shipping and condition not included.

One year

$0.1452-week low$0.2852-week high
In the range93%
All-time low$0.12
All-time high$0.28
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.02$0.11$0.21$0.31
$0.27
Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
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Price story

Our price record for Nirkana Assassin (Foil) begins in February 2024 at $0.24; the market price today is $0.27, up 12.5% since then. In the last year the price changed +28.6% and ranged from $0.14 to $0.28, and it now trades near the top of that range. This is the highest market price in our records for this card. The cheapest listing right now is $0.01, and the 30-day average market price is $0.24.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$0.27$0.01$1.770.0%
Normal$0.06$0.01$7.860.0%

The card in play

Power / Toughness2 / 3
Type line
Creature — Vampire Assassin Ally
Rules text

Whenever you gain life, Nirkana Assassin gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Flavor

Nirkana assassins craft incurable concoctions by mixing basilisk marrow and deathwillow sap with the vital fluids of a dozen other poisonous species.

Other printings of Nirkana Assassin

2 more · $0.18 – $0.32
All printings
Nirkana Assassin (118), The List Reprints — Magic card price +6.7% 7d Nirkana Assassin The List Reprints · #118 $0.32 Nirkana Assassin (449), Jumpstart 2022 — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Nirkana Assassin Jumpstart 2022 · #449 $0.18

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