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Magic · Prerelease Cards · #75 · Mythic

The Watcher in the Water

Magic card price for The Watcher in the Water: $6.45 market, though the cheapest copy on sale asks $8.25, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$6.45
0.0% this week · −4.4% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days−4.4%
90 days+10.6%
1 year−2.6%
All time+20.8%

Sellers right now

$8.25lowest listing$49.77highest
Market price$6.45
Mid listing$10.47
30-day avg$6.55

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$6.45
Cardmarket$7.22 €6.42

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

One year

$4.9352-week low$6.7552-week high
In the range84%
All-time low$4.93
All-time high$7.00
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$4.76$5.88$7.01$8.13
$6.45
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

The Watcher in the Water 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 $8.25; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $6.55.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$6.45$8.25$49.770.0%

The card in play

Power / Toughness9 / 9
Type line
Legendary Creature — Kraken
Rules text

The Watcher in the Water enters the battlefield tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Other printings of The Watcher in the Water

6 more · $3.69 – $151.43
All printings
The Watcher in the Water (Borderless Poster) (734), Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth — Magic card price +1.4% 7d The Watcher in the Water (Borderless Poster) Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth · #734 $151.43 The Watcher in the Water (Showcase Scrolls) (526), Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth — Magic card price +0.8% 7d The Watcher in the Water (Showcase Scrolls) Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth · #526 $16.89 The Watcher in the Water (Extended Art) (Surge Foil) (765), Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth — Magic card price +1.6% 7d The Watcher in the Water (Extended Art) (Surge Foil) Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth · #765 $5.21 The Watcher in the Water (Extended Art) (354), Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth — Magic card price +3.4% 7d The Watcher in the Water (Extended Art) Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth · #354 $3.91 The Watcher in the Water (75), Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth — Magic card price +1.7% 7d The Watcher in the Water Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth · #75 $3.69

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