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Magic · Shadows over Innistrad · #255 · Common

Explosive Apparatus

Magic card price for Explosive Apparatus: $0.17 market, from $0.08 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$0.17
0.0% this week · 0.0% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days0.0%
90 days+70.0%
1 year+21.4%
All time+54.6%

Sellers right now

$0.08lowest listing$5.99highest
Market price$0.17
Mid listing$0.32
30-day avg$0.17

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$0.17
Cardmarket$0.28 €0.25

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

One year

$0.0852-week low$0.2052-week high
In the range75%
All-time low$0.08
All-time high$0.20
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.06$0.11$0.16$0.21
$0.17
Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

We have tracked Explosive Apparatus (Foil) since February 2024, when it sold for $0.11. Today the market price is $0.17, up 54.6%. Across the past year it went +21.4%, with a low of $0.08 and a high of $0.20; today it sits in the middle of that range. Its all-time high in our data is $0.20, still 17.6% above the current price. The cheapest listing right now is $0.08, and the 30-day average market price is $0.17.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$0.17$0.08$5.990.0%
Normal$0.05$0.01$19.950.0%

The card in play

Type line
Artifact
Rules text

3, T, Sacrifice Explosive Apparatus: Explosive Apparatus deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Flavor

"Souls are volatile things. When compressed and loaded into a handheld device, their destructive potential is quite impressive."
—Dierk, geistmage

Other printings of Explosive Apparatus

1 more · $0.17 – $0.25
All printings
Explosive Apparatus (233), Core Set 2019 — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Explosive Apparatus Core Set 2019 · #233 $0.25

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