
Painful Quandary price & price history
What Painful Quandary costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.
Painful Quandary price today
$1.32
€0.99
30 days -13.2%
as of 2026-11-10
- All-time high
- $1.89
- All-time low
- $0.50
- 1-year average
- $1.28
- Data since
- 2025-07-24
Painful Quandary has traded between $0.50 and $1.89, averaging $1.28 over the past year. It appears in 14,942 of the commander decks we track.
Card details
Card text
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
- Type
- Enchantment
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Rarity
- rare
- Latest printing
- Foundations
- First printed
- 2010-10-01
- Commander legality
- Legal
Painful Quandary in the deckdiver.app commander deck database
of 970,456 commander decks, 1.5%.
most of those decks cost $113 to $1,320.
runs 4.2 to 7.6 across those decks.
Real decks that run Painful Quandary
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