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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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)

$0.01$0.09$0.17$0.25

$0.23

Jul 20Aug 19Sep 18Oct 18

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.

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