Winding Constrictor

As of Aug 7, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Winding Constrictor is $0.48 (AER #140), and the most expensive is $18.42 (PIP #751, Surge Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.57, down 93.0% over 7 days, up 21.3% over 30 days, up 35.7% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $8.84 (2026).

Winding Constrictor has 5 tracked printings across 4 sets, in nonfoil, foil, surge foil and etched finishes, including borderless treatments.

AER #140

$0.48

CK $0.69 / $0.07 85%

MP $0.25 204 avail

PIP #223

$0.57 +19%

CK $0.79 / $0.20 65%

MP $0.61 18 avail

PLST #AER-140

$0.71 +48%

CK $0.69 / $0.07 90%

MP $0.52 20 avail

AER #140 Foil

$1.94 +304%

CK $2.99 / $0.90 54%

MP $1.90 12 avail

SLD #309 Borderless Etched

$5.59 +1065%

CK $8.49 / $5.20 7%

PIP #223 Foil

$6.56 +1267%

CK $9.99 / $6.00 9%

MP $7.80 3 avail

SLD #309 Borderless

$8.84 +1742%

CK $5.49 / $1.10 88%

MP $6.19 14 avail

PIP #751 Surge Foil

$18.42 +3738%

CK $22.99 / $11.50 38%

MP $20.35 4 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $11.50 cash for PIP #751 (Surge Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Sep 29, 2017 If a nonartifact, noncreature permanent (such as a planeswalker) would enter the battlefield with counters on it and become an artifact or a creature on the battlefield due to another card's effect (such as that of Mycosynth Lattice), Winding Constrictor's effect will give that permanent another of those counters.
• Feb 9, 2017 If an artifact or creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of any kind of counters on it, it enters with that many plus one instead.
• Feb 9, 2017 If an effect includes multiple instructions to put one or more counters on an artifact or creature, such as Lifecrafter's Gift does, Winding Constrictor's effect applies to each of those instructions.
• Feb 9, 2017 If you control two Winding Constrictors, the number of counters placed on the artifact or creature is the original number plus two. Three Winding Constrictors adds three to the original number, and so on.
• Feb 9, 2017 If you would get counters of multiple kinds at the same time, Winding Constrictor increases the number of each of those kinds of counters by one. The same is true if counters of multiple kinds would be placed on an artifact or creature you control.

Winding Constrictor has been reprinted 8 times. The Fallout reprint cut the price 83% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
PIP #223	2024-03-08	Uncommon	Standard	$0.87	$0.20	$0.15	$0.17
PIP #751	2024-03-08	Uncommon	Standard	—	$1.14	$2.78	$11.43
PIP #223	2024-03-08	Uncommon	Standard	—	$7.77	$0.85	$0.77
PLST #AER-140	2022-04-29	Uncommon	Standard	—	—	—	—
SLD #309	2021-06-21	Rare	Borderless	—	—	—	—
SLD #309	2021-06-21	Rare	Borderless	—	—	—	—
AER #140	2017-01-20	Uncommon	Standard	—	—	—	—
AER #140	2017-01-20	Uncommon	Standard	—	—	—	—

Winding Constrictor is the #2,049 most-played card on EDHREC, down 9 places over the last 30 days.