Essence Channeler

As of Aug 6, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Essence Channeler is $0.44 (BLB #12), and the most expensive is $3.25 (PBLB #12p, Promo Pack, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.44, down 10.2% over 7 days, down 20.0% over 30 days, down 51.1% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $7.39 (2024).

Essence Channeler has 4 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including promo pack, prerelease and extended art treatments.

BLB #12

$0.44

CK $1.29 / $0.26 41%

MP $0.15 490 avail

BLB #12 Foil

$0.95 +116%

CK $0.99 / $0.20 79%

MP $0.78 62 avail

PBLB #12p Promo Pack

$1.58 +259%

CK $1.79 / $0.36 77%

MP $1.58 3 avail

PBLB #12s Prerelease Foil

$1.73 +293%

CK $2.99 / $1.35 22%

MP $1.54 7 avail

BLB #356 Extended Art

$2.19 +398%

CK $1.49 / $0.60 73%

MP $0.91 62 avail

BLB #356 Extended Art Foil

$2.55 +480%

CK $2.49 / $0.75 71%

MP $1.03 16 avail

PBLB #12p Promo Pack Foil

$3.25 +639%

CK $1.99 / $0.60 82%

MP $2.25 2 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $1.35 cash for PBLB #12s (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 55% (wide).

• Jul 26, 2024 Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Essence Channeler’s second ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
• Jul 26, 2024 Essence Channeler’s first ability cares whether you’ve lost life this turn, not how your life total has changed. For example, if you’ve gained 2 life and lost 1 life so far this turn, you’ve still lost life.
• Jul 26, 2024 Essence Channeler’s last ability doesn’t cause you to move counters from Essence Channeler onto the target creature. Rather, you put the same number of each kind of counter Essence Channeler had when it died onto the target creature.
• Jul 26, 2024 Essence Channeler’s last ability puts all counters that were on Essence Channeler onto the target creature, not just its +1/+1 counters.
• Jul 26, 2024 Essence Channeler’s second ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, no matter how much life was gained.

Essence Channeler has been reprinted 7 times. The Bloomburrow reprint cut the price 84% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
PBLB #12s	2024-08-02	Rare	Prerelease	—	$2.66	$2.36	$1.71
BLB #12	2024-08-02	Rare	Standard	$1.25	$0.65	$0.78	$1.09
PBLB #12p	2024-08-02	Rare	Promo Pack	—	$0.60	$0.82	$0.91
PBLB #12p	2024-08-02	Rare	Promo Pack	—	—	$0.83	$0.86
BLB #12	2024-08-02	Rare	Standard	$0.83	$0.44	$0.79	$1.03
BLB #356	2024-08-02	Rare	Extended Art	$5.96	$0.63	$0.94	$1.48
BLB #356	2024-08-02	Rare	Extended Art	$1.02	$0.59	$0.83	$1.09

Essence Channeler is the #3,945 most-played card on EDHREC, up 42 places over the last 30 days.