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Magic · Conspiracy: Take the Crown · #40 · Rare

Capital Punishment

Magic card price for Capital Punishment: $6.18 market, though the cheapest copy on sale asks $6.64, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$6.18
+13.0% this week · +17.5% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days+13.0%
30 days+17.5%
90 days+33.2%
1 year+32.6%
All time+30.9%

Sellers right now

$6.64lowest listing$15.30highest
Market price$6.18
Mid listing$8.75
30-day avg$5.51

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

Cardmarket$5.17 €4.59

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

One year

$4.3652-week low$6.1852-week high
In the range100%
All-time low$4.36
All-time high$6.79
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$2.17$3.85$5.54$7.23
$6.18
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

We have tracked Capital Punishment (Foil) since February 2024, when it sold for $4.72. Today the market price is $6.18, up 30.9%. Across the past year it went +32.6%, with a low of $4.36 and a high of $6.18; today it sits near the top of that range. The highest price we have recorded is $6.79, 9.9% above today. Listings currently start at $6.64; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $5.51.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$6.18$6.64$15.30+13.0%
Normal$5.77$3.96$27.46−8.4%

The card in play

Type line
Sorcery
Rules text

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for death or taxes. Each opponent sacrifices a creature for each death vote and discards a card for each taxes vote.

Flavor

"I did offer them a choice . . ."

—Queen Marchesa

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