The Golden Throne

As of Aug 9, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of The Golden Throne is $9.81 (40K #157), and the most expensive is $24.91 (40K #157★, Surge Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $9.81, flat over 7 days, down 7.8% over 30 days, down 13.2% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $13.37 (2024).

The Golden Throne has 2 tracked printings across 1 sets, in nonfoil and surge foil finishes.

40K #157

$9.81

CK $15.99 / $7.25 26%

MP $9.37 51 avail

40K #157★ Surge Foil

$24.91 +154%

CK —

MP $23.10 7 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $7.25 cash for 40K #157; the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 55% (wide).

• Oct 7, 2022 For your life total to become 1, you will gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is -4 when The Golden Throne's ability applies, it will cause you to gain 5 life. Alternatively, if your life total is 20 when it applies (perhaps because you tried to draw a card from an empty library), you will lose 19 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly. Notably, this means that if you can't gain life or the life gain event is modified by another replacement effect, you might still have 0 or less life and still lose the game.
• Oct 7, 2022 If a spell or ability both destroys The Golden Throne and deals enough damage to you to reduce your life total to zero or less, you will still lose the game. This is because the state-based action that causes a player to lose the game due to having zero or less life won't be performed until after the spell or ability finishes resolving. At that point, The Golden Throne is no longer on the battlefield to apply its replacement effect.
• Oct 7, 2022 If an effect says that you can't lose the game, The Golden Throne's first ability doesn't apply.
• Oct 7, 2022 If an effect states that an opponent wins the game, The Golden Throne's effect doesn't apply.
• Oct 7, 2022 In a Two-Headed Giant game, The Golden Throne's ability set's the team's life total to 1, but only you gain or lose life.

The Golden Throne has been reprinted 2 times.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment
40K #157★	2022-10-07	Rare	Standard
40K #157	2022-10-07	Rare	Standard

The Golden Throne is the #4,361 most-played card on EDHREC, down 33 places over the last 30 days.