Heart-Piercer Manticore

As of Aug 7, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Heart-Piercer Manticore is $0.19 (C19 #146), and the most expensive is $0.89 (AKH #138, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.21, up 16.7% over 7 days, up 23.5% over 30 days, up 61.5% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $0.21 (2026).

Heart-Piercer Manticore has 3 tracked printings across 3 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including prerelease treatments.

C19 #146

$0.19

CK $0.49 / $0.03 84%

MP $0.15 541 avail

AKH #138

$0.21 +11%

CK $0.49 / $0.03 86%

MP $0.15 721 avail

PAKH #138s Prerelease Foil

$0.40 +111%

CK $0.59 / $0.08 80%

MP $0.30 22 avail

AKH #138 Foil

$0.89 +368%

CK $0.79 / $0.16 82%

MP $0.33 86 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $0.16 cash for AKH #138 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 80% (wide).

• Jul 14, 2017 If a spell or ability puts a creature card with embalm into your graveyard during your main phase, you'll have priority immediately after that spell or ability resolves. You can activate the creature card's embalm ability before any player can exile it with an effect, such as that of Crook of Condemnation, if it's legal for you to do so.
• Jul 14, 2017 Once you've activated an embalm ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation.
• Apr 18, 2017 For each card with embalm, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Amonkhet booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with embalm; you can use the same items to represent an embalmed token as you would any other token.
• Apr 18, 2017 Heart-Piercer Manticore features a new style of triggered ability. When it enters the battlefield, its triggered ability goes on the stack without a target. While that ability is resolving, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, a second ability triggers and you pick a target that will be dealt damage. This is different from other abilities that say "If you do . . ." in that players may cast spells and activate abilities before a creature is sacrificed and then again after the creature is sacrificed but before damage is dealt.
• Apr 18, 2017 Heart-Piercer Manticore's damage-dealing ability triggers only when you sacrifice a creature as a result of the instruction of its triggered ability. It won't trigger if you sacrifice a creature for any other reason.

Heart-Piercer Manticore has been reprinted 4 times.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment
C19 #146	2019-08-23	Rare	Standard
AKH #138	2017-04-28	Rare	Standard
AKH #138	2017-04-28	Rare	Standard
PAKH #138s	2017-04-28	Rare	Prerelease

Heart-Piercer Manticore is the #19,062 most-played card on EDHREC, down 302 places over the last 30 days.