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Magic · Edge of Eternities · #176 · Uncommon

Close Encounter

Magic card price for Close Encounter: $0.23 market, from $0.01 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Jul 20, 2025 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$0.23
0.0% this week · 0.0% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days0.0%
90 days+15.0%
1 year+187.5%
All time−51.1%

Sellers right now

$0.01lowest listing$19.99highest
Market price$0.23
Mid listing$0.25
Direct$0.01
30-day avg$0.22

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$0.23
Cardmarket$0.21 €0.19

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

One year

$0.0752-week low$0.2352-week high
In the range100%
All-time low$0.05
All-time high$0.47
First priceJul 20, 2025
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.00$0.17$0.34$0.52
$0.23
Jul 2025Dec 2025May 2026Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

Close Encounter (Foil) was released in August 2025. Launch-week prices are left out here: before supply arrives they are mostly guesses. Across the past year it went +188%, with a low of $0.07 and a high of $0.23; today it sits near the top of that range. The cheapest listing right now is $0.01, and the 30-day average market price is $0.22.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$0.23$0.01$19.990.0%
Normal$0.11$0.01$19.990.0%

The card in play

Type line
Instant
Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or a warped creature card you own in exile.

Close Encounter deals damage equal to the power of the chosen creature or card to target creature.

Flavor

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