Cruel Bargain
Portal · R
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Price history
Every Normal sale we've read, grouped by when and for how much they sold, with the fair value line through them. Hover a day or week for what sold; the legend adds the other conditions. Past today is the forecast.
- Fair value · MP
- $5.58
- Change · 90d
- 0%
- Sales counted
- 5
- Most MP sold for
- $6.06 – $6.79
The line is fair value over time, from sales only, ending at today's. Bubbles group sales that sold close together, sized by how many: solid ones count toward fair value, hollow ones were left out. The strip along the bottom counts sales.
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Every condition
What a Normal copy is worth in each condition, from its own sales. Pick a row to switch the page to it.
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Sales
How each Normal moderately played copy sold, price and shipping, newest first. Times are US Central.
Oct 4
1:06 AM
Online · Buy it now$7.94
incl. $2.99 ship
Sep 24
3:20 PM
Online · Buy it now$4.90
free ship
Sep 23
12:48 PM
Online · Buy it now$6.38
incl. $1.49 ship
Sep 12
11:09 AM
Online · Buy it now$6.35
incl. $1.49 ship
Aug 21
2:12 AM
Online · Buy it now$6.50
incl. $2.00 ship
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Liquidity
How easily this copy turns into cash: how often it sells, how recently, and how many are waiting to.
Slowliquidity
Sells about every 2 weeks · last sold 29 days ago
- Sales a week
- 0.50
- Between sales
- 2w
- about every 2 weeks
- Last sold
- 29 days ago
- Sold, 30 days
- 1
- Typical sale, 30 days
- $7.94
- trimmed average of counted sales
- Listed now
- 10
- about 20 weeks of sales
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Outlook
Where fair value has been heading, read in Forecast's outlook words. Forecast Pro adds where it goes next, and why.
Outlook · 90d
Clear skies
Fair value is climbing steadily across recent sales.
- 7d
- +5.1%
- 30d
- +5.1%
- 90d
- +7.5%
Change to today's $5.58
From sales only · 1 sold, 30d
Forecast Pro
See where this card goes next — and why.
- The expected move over the next 30 days, with its likely range
- This card's forecast drawn out of its price history
- The reasons behind the call, and the catalysts on the calendar
- How the last forecast for this card turned out
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Play
Where the card is legal, and how much competitive play it sees.
Formats
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
- CommanderLegal
For every printing of this card, from Scryfall.
Competitive play
Share of top-placing tournament decks that play this card (every printing counts), last 90 days. Bigger events, better finishes and newer decks count more. Constructed: MTGO and Melee results via the MTGO Decklist Cache. cEDH: EDHTop16 with data from TopDeck.gg. Commander: EDHREC. See the meta
| Format | Tier | Decks | Copies | Top 8s | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cEDH | FSeen, but rarely (under 0.5%) | 0.0%(1) | 1.0 | 0 | −0.0% |
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Details
- Game
- Magic: The Gathering
- Set
- Portal (POR)
- Rarity
- R
- Artist
- Adrian Smith
- Type
- Single
- Released
- Jun 2, 1997
- SubType
- Sorcery
- OracleText
- Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up. (For example, if you have 11 life, you lose 6 life.)

