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

Decks running it
14,942

of 970,456 commander decks, 1.5%.

Median deck price
$378

most of those decks cost $113 to $1,320.

Median power level
5.8

runs 4.2 to 7.6 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Painful Quandary

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$97.17
price
4.2
power
3.0
salt
Bracket 1 (Exhibition)
{W}{B}midrange
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Typical build
$382
price
5.7
power
7.2
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{B}{R}midrange
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High-end build
$1,252
price
4.7
power
7.2
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{B}{R}midrange
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