Essence Backlash price & price history
What Essence Backlash costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.
Card details
Counter target creature spell. Essence Backlash deals damage equal to that spell's power to its controller.
- Type
- Instant
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{R}
- Rarity
- common
- Latest printing
- Return to Ravnica
- First printed
- 2012-10-05
- Commander legality
- Legal
Essence Backlash price today
$0.09
€0.15
30 days 0.0%
as of 2026-10-05
- All-time high
- $0.16
- All-time low
- $0.05
- 1-year average
- $0.11
- Data since
- 2025-07-24
Essence Backlash has traded between $0.05 and $0.16, averaging $0.11 over the past year. It appears in 213 of the commander decks we track.
Essence Backlash in the deckdiver.app commander deck database
of 891,084 commander decks, 0.0%.
most of those decks cost $35.37 to $349.
runs 4 to 6.1 across those decks.
Real decks that run Essence Backlash
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