Wistfulness

As of Aug 9, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Wistfulness is $7.46 (ECL #252), and the most expensive is $20.11 (ECL #296, Borderless, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $7.46, up 2.3% over 7 days, down 22.0% over 30 days, up 23.7% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $22.23 (2026).

Wistfulness has 3 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including promo pack and borderless treatments.

ECL #252

$7.46

CK $13.99 / $6.50 13%

MP $6.98 88 avail

PECL #252p Promo Pack

$10.06 +35%

CK $13.99 / $5.75 43%

MP $9.89 9 avail

ECL #296 Borderless

$10.49 +41%

CK $18.99 / $7.75 26%

MP $9.27 73 avail

PECL #252p Promo Pack Foil

$10.61 +42%

CK $24.99 / $10.00 6%

MP $12.76 6 avail

ECL #252 Foil

$12.19 +63%

CK $14.99 / $6.00 51%

MP $8.84 50 avail

ECL #296 Borderless Foil

$20.11 +170%

CK $34.99 / $14.00 30%

MP $20.07 20 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $14.00 cash for ECL #296 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 60% (wide).

• Nov 17, 2025 If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell.
• Nov 17, 2025 If you pay the evoke cost, you can have the creature's own triggered ability or abilities resolve before the evoke triggered ability. You can cast spells after that ability resolves but before you have to sacrifice the creature.
• Nov 17, 2025 To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an evoke cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
• Nov 17, 2025 Wistfulness's first and second abilities care about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbols in its cost.
• Nov 17, 2025 Wistfulness's first and second abilities check to see if at least two mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay Wistfulness's cost. It doesn't matter if more than two mana of that color was spent; the effect isn't multiplied.

Wistfulness has been reprinted 6 times. The Lorwyn Eclipsed reprint cut the price 14% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
ECL #252	2026-01-23	Mythic	Standard	$17.90	$25.73	$15.34	$5.99
ECL #296	2026-01-23	Mythic	Borderless	$17.01	$30.94	$20.44	$11.05
PECL #252p	2026-01-23	Mythic	Promo Pack	—	$16.50	$22.88	$20.34
PECL #252p	2026-01-23	Mythic	Promo Pack	—	$39.69	$38.86	$38.86
ECL #252	2026-01-23	Mythic	Standard	$16.82	$24.31	$22.18	$7.99
ECL #296	2026-01-23	Mythic	Borderless	$18.82	$42.34	$33.28	$22.58

Wistfulness is the #8,769 most-played card on EDHREC, up 292 places over the last 30 days.