Illicit Auction price & price history
What Illicit Auction costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.
Card details
Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- Type
- Sorcery
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}{R}
- Rarity
- rare
- Latest printing
- Classic Sixth Edition
- First printed
- 1996-10-08
- Commander legality
- Legal
Illicit Auction price today
$5.16
€2.12
30 days +4.5%
as of 2026-10-05
- All-time high
- $5.23
- All-time low
- $2.29
- 1-year average
- $3.92
- Data since
- 2025-07-24
Illicit Auction has traded between $2.29 and $5.23, averaging $3.92 over the past year. It appears in 635 of the commander decks we track.
Illicit Auction in the deckdiver.app commander deck database
of 891,084 commander decks, 0.1%.
most of those decks cost $138 to $1,391.
runs 3.7 to 6.4 across those decks.
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