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Magic · Collector's Edition · Common

Drain Life (CE)

Magic card price for Drain Life (CE): $5.00 market, from $3.68 at the cheapest listing, Normal printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Normal · Oct 18, 2026
$5.00
0.0% this week · 0.0% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days0.0%
90 days−1.6%
1 year+38.1%
All time+47.1%

Sellers right now

$3.68lowest listing$27.07highest
Market price$5.00
Mid listing$5.62
Direct$7.18
30-day avg$5.00

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$5.00
Cardmarket$3.38 €3.00

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

One year

$3.6252-week low$5.5852-week high
In the range70%
All-time low$3.21
All-time high$5.95
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Normal · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$2.04$3.33$4.62$5.91
$5.00
Jul 20Aug 19Sep 18Oct 18
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

We have tracked Drain Life (CE) since February 2024, when it sold for $3.40. Today the market price is $5.00, up 47.1%. Across the past year it went +38.1%, with a low of $3.62 and a high of $5.58; today it sits in the middle of that range. The highest price we have recorded is $5.95, 19.0% above today. Listings currently start at $3.68; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $5.00.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Normal$5.00$3.68$27.070.0%

The card in play

Type line
Sorcery
Rules text

(This card has square corners and a gold bordered back. Not tournament legal.)

Drain Life does 1 damage to a single target for each B spent in addition to the casting cost. Caster gains 1 life for each damage inflicted. If you drain life from a creature, you cannot gain more life than the creature’s toughness.

Other printings of Drain Life

18 more · $0.16 – $65.20
All printings
Drain Life, Alpha Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Drain Life Alpha Edition $65.20 Drain Life, Beta Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Drain Life Beta Edition $26.66 Drain Life, FNM Promos — Magic card price +0.9% 7d Drain Life FNM Promos $16.50 Drain Life (IE), International Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Drain Life (IE) International Edition $7.84 Drain Life (102), 30th Anniversary Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Drain Life 30th Anniversary Edition · #102 $1.20

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