Aethertide Whale

As of Aug 7, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Aethertide Whale is $0.08 (AER #27), and the most expensive is $0.80 (PAER #27s, Prerelease, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.17, down 5.6% over 7 days, up 142.9% over 30 days, up 142.9% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $0.21 (2024).

Aethertide Whale has 4 tracked printings across 4 sets, in nonfoil, ripple foil and foil finishes, including prerelease treatments.

AER #27

$0.08

CK $0.49 / $0.03 63%

MP $0.15 609 avail

DRC #69

$0.15 +87%

CK $0.49 / $0.03 80%

MP $0.15 1778 avail

M3C #175

$0.17 +113%

CK $0.49 / $0.03 82%

MP $0.15 896 avail

AER #27 Foil

$0.25 +212%

CK $0.49 / $0.08 68%

MP $0.15 43 avail

M3C #175 Ripple Foil

$0.28 +250%

CK $0.49 / $0.08 71%

MP $0.26 15 avail

PAER #27s Prerelease Foil

$0.80 +900%

CK $1.79 / $0.72 10%

MP $0.59 16 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $0.72 cash for PAER #27s (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 60% (wide).

• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
• Jun 7, 2024 If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
• Jun 7, 2024 If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
• Jun 7, 2024 Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

Aethertide Whale has been reprinted 6 times. The Modern Horizons 3 Commander reprint cut the price 79% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
DRC #69	2025-02-14	Rare	Standard	—	$0.15	$0.09	$0.05
M3C #175	2024-06-14	Rare	Standard	$0.34	$0.15	$0.07	$0.08
M3C #175	2024-06-14	Rare	Standard	—	—	—	—
AER #27	2017-01-20	Rare	Standard	—	—	—	—
AER #27	2017-01-20	Rare	Standard	—	—	—	—
PAER #27s	2017-01-20	Rare	Prerelease	—	—	—	—

Aethertide Whale is the #8,492 most-played card on EDHREC, down 171 places over the last 30 days.