Showdown of the Skalds

As of Aug 9, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Showdown of the Skalds is $0.31 (PLST #KHM-229), and the most expensive is $2.64 (PKHM #229s, Prerelease, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.31, down 8.8% over 7 days, down 3.1% over 30 days, down 11.4% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $0.62 (2024).

Showdown of the Skalds has 4 tracked printings across 3 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including promo pack and prerelease treatments.

PLST #KHM-229

$0.31

CK $0.49 / $0.03 90%

MP $0.20 89 avail

KHM #229

$0.38 +23%

CK $0.49 / $0.04 89%

MP $0.15 149 avail

KHM #229 Foil

$0.61 +97%

CK $0.99 / $0.20 67%

MP $0.41 29 avail

PKHM #229p Promo Pack

$0.93 +200%

CK $0.99 / $0.10 89%

MP $0.64 8 avail

PKHM #229p Promo Pack Foil

$1.20 +287%

CK $1.99 / $0.70 42%

MP $2.49 1 avail

PKHM #229s Prerelease Foil

$2.64 +752%

CK $1.79 / $0.45 83%

MP $3.21 7 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $0.70 cash for PKHM #229p (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 65% (wide).

• Feb 5, 2021 A chapter ability doesn’t trigger if a lore counter is put on a Saga that already had a number of lore counters greater than or equal to that chapter’s number. For example, the third lore counter put on a Saga causes the chapter III ability to trigger, but chapters I and II won’t trigger again.
• Feb 5, 2021 Any cards you don’t play by the end of your next turn will remain exiled.
• Feb 5, 2021 As a Saga enters the battlefield, its controller puts a lore counter on it. As your precombat main phase begins (immediately after your draw step), you put another lore counter on each Saga you control. Putting a lore counter on a Saga in either of these ways doesn’t use the stack.
• Feb 5, 2021 Each symbol on the left of a Saga’s text box represents a chapter ability. A chapter ability is a triggered ability that triggers when a lore counter that is put on the Saga causes the number of lore counters on the Saga to become equal to or greater than the ability’s chapter number. Chapter abilities are put onto the stack and may be responded to.
• Feb 5, 2021 If multiple chapter abilities trigger at the same time, their controller puts them on the stack in any order. If any of them require targets, those targets are chosen as you put the abilities on the stack, before any of those abilities resolve.

Showdown of the Skalds has been reprinted 6 times.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment
PLST #KHM-229	2022-04-29	Rare	Standard
PKHM #229s	2021-02-05	Rare	Prerelease
KHM #229	2021-02-05	Rare	Standard
KHM #229	2021-02-05	Rare	Standard
PKHM #229p	2021-02-05	Rare	Promo Pack
PKHM #229p	2021-02-05	Rare	Promo Pack

Showdown of the Skalds is the #7,684 most-played card on EDHREC, down 150 places over the last 30 days.