The Water Crystal

As of Aug 7, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of The Water Crystal is $3.47 (FIN #85), and the most expensive is $11.76 (FIN #333, Borderless, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $3.47, up 10.9% over 7 days, down 5.5% over 30 days, down 7.5% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $21.45 (2025).

The Water Crystal has 3 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including borderless and prerelease treatments.

FIN #85

$3.47

CK $4.99 / $2.00 42%

MP $1.97 174 avail

FIN #85 Foil

$4.59 +32%

CK $4.99 / $2.00 56%

MP $3.74 52 avail

FIN #333 Borderless

$8.97 +159%

CK $9.99 / $5.00 44%

MP $6.48 75 avail

PFIN #85s Prerelease Foil

$9.49 +173%

CK $10.99 / $3.70 61%

MP $10.60 3 avail

FIN #333 Borderless Foil

$11.76 +239%

CK $12.99 / $6.50 45%

MP $10.05 47 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $6.50 cash for FIN #333 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Jun 6, 2025 If an opponent is instructed to put a card into their graveyard without using the word "mill," The Water Crystal's second ability doesn't apply.
• Jun 6, 2025 In the rare case where you control two of The Water Crystal, each opponent mills eight more cards than originally instructed. If you control three, your opponents mill twelve more, and so on.
• Jun 6, 2025 Some older cards have received errata to instruct a player to mill cards rather than to put the top cards of their library into their graveyard. Use the Oracle™ card reference at Gatherer.Wizards.com to determine whether a specific card has received such errata. As a rule of thumb, if an effect instructs a player to look at or reveal a card before it's put into its owner's graveyard, it's unlikely to have received errata.
• Jun 6, 2025 The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of blue spells you cast.
• Jun 6, 2025 To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of The Water Crystal's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

The Water Crystal has been reprinted 5 times. The Final Fantasy reprint cut the price 23% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
FIN #333	2025-06-13	Rare	Borderless	$6.66	$7.81	$6.56	$7.31
FIN #85	2025-06-13	Rare	Standard	$3.03	$4.41	$2.33	$2.02
FIN #85	2025-06-13	Rare	Standard	$3.12	$3.22	$2.81	$5.25
FIN #333	2025-06-13	Rare	Borderless	$8.17	$10.04	$8.56	$7.78
PFIN #85s	2025-06-13	Rare	Prerelease	—	$18.98	$8.55	$7.66

The Water Crystal is the #1,717 most-played card on EDHREC, up 71 places over the last 30 days.