Mages' Contest price & price history
What Mages' Contest costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.
Card details
You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. 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. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.
- Type
- Instant
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}{R}
- Rarity
- rare
- Latest printing
- The List
- First printed
- 2000-10-02
- Commander legality
- Legal
Mages' Contest price today
$15.36
€7.13
30 days -1.3%
as of 2026-10-05
- All-time high
- $18.03
- All-time low
- $7.81
- 1-year average
- $15.70
- Data since
- 2025-07-24
Mages' Contest has traded between $7.81 and $18.03, averaging $15.70 over the past year. It appears in 962 of the commander decks we track.
Mages' Contest in the deckdiver.app commander deck database
of 891,084 commander decks, 0.1%.
most of those decks cost $194 to $1,900.
runs 4.2 to 7.4 across those decks.
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