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Magic · Mirage · Common

Choking Sands

Magic card price for Choking Sands: $0.35 market, from $0.14 at the cheapest listing, Normal printing, updated Oct 17, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Normal · Oct 17, 2026
$0.35
−2.8% this week · +6.1% in 30 days
Buy on eBay →
1 day+2.9%
7 days−2.8%
30 days+6.1%
90 days+16.7%
1 year+40.0%
All time−2.8%

Sellers right now

$0.14lowest listing$10.00highest
Market price$0.35
Mid listing$0.35
Direct$0.27
30-day avg$0.34

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$0.35
Cardmarket$0.61 €0.54

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

One year

$0.2552-week low$0.3752-week high
In the range83%
All-time low$0.18
All-time high$0.37
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Normal · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.26$0.46$0.65$0.85
$0.35
Jul 19Aug 18Sep 17Oct 17
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

We have tracked Choking Sands since February 2024, when it sold for $0.36. Today the market price is $0.35, down 2.8%. Across the past year it went +40.0%, with a low of $0.25 and a high of $0.37; today it sits near the top of that range. Its all-time high in our data is $0.37, still 5.7% above the current price. The cheapest listing right now is $0.14, and the 30-day average market price is $0.34.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Normal$0.35$0.14$10.00−2.8%

The card in play

Type line
Sorcery
Rules text

Destroy target nonswamp land. If that land is a nonbasic land, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land’s controller.

Flavor

"The people wiped the sand from their eyes and cursed—and left the barren land to the hyenas and vipers."

—Afari, Tales

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