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Magic · Prerelease Cards · #18 · Rare

Fateful Absence

Magic card price for Fateful Absence: $1.23 market, from $0.98 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 17, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 17, 2026
$1.23
0.0% this week · −15.2% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days−15.2%
90 days−16.9%
1 year−16.3%
All time−54.1%

Sellers right now

$0.98lowest listing$5.00highest
Market price$1.23
Mid listing$1.60
30-day avg$1.25

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$1.23
Cardmarket$0.99 €0.88

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

One year

$1.2352-week low$1.8352-week high
In the range0%
All-time low$1.23
All-time high$2.68
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.94$1.26$1.59$1.91
$1.23
Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

Fateful Absence came out in October 2026; we leave the first weeks out of this story, because early prices are set before real supply exists. Listings currently start at $0.98; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $1.25.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$1.23$0.98$5.000.0%

The card in play

Type line
Instant
Rules text

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Its controller investigates. (They create a colorless Clue artifact token with "2, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Flavor

Sensing a plot, Sorin raced to his grandfather's resting-crypt. But someone else had gotten there first.

Other printings of Fateful Absence

6 more · $0.23 – $5.40
All printings
Fateful Absence (18), Innistrad: Double Feature — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Fateful Absence Innistrad: Double Feature · #18 $5.40 Fateful Absence (2), Game Day & Store Championship Promos — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Fateful Absence Game Day & Store Championship Promos · #2 $0.96 Fateful Absence (18), Promo Pack: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Fateful Absence Promo Pack: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt · #18 $0.69 Fateful Absence (Extended Art) (328), Innistrad: Midnight Hunt — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Fateful Absence (Extended Art) Innistrad: Midnight Hunt · #328 $0.52 Fateful Absence (18), Innistrad: Midnight Hunt — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Fateful Absence Innistrad: Midnight Hunt · #18 $0.44

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