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Magic · Innistrad: Crimson Vow · #20 · Rare

Hopeful Initiate

Magic card price for Hopeful Initiate: $0.40 market, from $0.25 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$0.40
+5.3% this week · +5.3% in 30 days
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1 day+5.3%
7 days+5.3%
30 days+5.3%
90 days+5.3%
1 year+8.1%
All time−89.6%

Sellers right now

$0.25lowest listing$19.99highest
Market price$0.40
Mid listing$0.53
30-day avg$0.38

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$0.40
Cardmarket$0.65 €0.58

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

One year

$0.2952-week low$0.4152-week high
In the range92%
All-time low$0.29
All-time high$3.89
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.35$0.50$0.66$0.82
$0.40
Jul 20Aug 19Sep 18Oct 18
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

We have tracked Hopeful Initiate (Foil) since February 2024, when it sold for $3.86. Today the market price is $0.40, down 89.6%. Across the past year it went +8.1%, with a low of $0.29 and a high of $0.41; today it sits near the top of that range. The highest price we have recorded is $3.89, 873% above today. Listings currently start at $0.25; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $0.38.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$0.40$0.25$19.99+5.3%
Normal$0.39$0.20$20.00+2.6%

The card in play

Power / Toughness1 / 2
Type line
Creature — Human Warlock
Rules text

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

2W, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Other printings of Hopeful Initiate

6 more · $0.34 – $4.83
All printings
Hopeful Initiate (287), Innistrad: Double Feature — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Hopeful Initiate Innistrad: Double Feature · #287 $4.83 Hopeful Initiate (20), Prerelease Cards — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Hopeful Initiate Prerelease Cards · #20 $1.04 Hopeful Initiate (Extended Art) (350), Innistrad: Crimson Vow — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Hopeful Initiate (Extended Art) Innistrad: Crimson Vow · #350 $0.58 Hopeful Initiate (20), Promo Pack: March of the Machine — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Hopeful Initiate Promo Pack: March of the Machine · #20 $0.50 Hopeful Initiate (27), Innistrad Remastered — Magic card price −2.3% 7d Hopeful Initiate Innistrad Remastered · #27 $0.42

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