Maelstrom Pulse Price
13 printings · 13 sets · first printed 2009
Maelstrom Pulse has been printed 13 times across 13 sets, first in 2009 and most recently in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Foundations #661 at $0.21, while the most expensive is Amonkhet Invocations #29 at $29.73 — about 142× more. The median across 11 priced printings is $0.40. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 13x, including dedicated reprint sets like Innistrad Remastered, Bloomburrow Commander.
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Every Maelstrom Pulse Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations #661 (R) Cheapest | 2024 | $0.21 | $0.04 |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander #269 (R) | 2024 | $0.30 | $0.08 |
| Bloomburrow Commander #126 (R) | 2024 | $0.31 | $0.04 |
| Innistrad Remastered #244 (R) | 2025 | $0.35 | $0.06 |
| Double Masters #207 (R) | 2020 | $0.37 | $0.53 foil |
| Ultimate Masters #204 (R) | 2018 | $0.40 | $0.09 |
| Modern Masters #180 (R) | 2013 | $0.55 | $0.52 |
| Alara Reborn #92 (R) | 2009 | $1.32 | $0.90 |
| Grand Prix Promos #2011 (R) Foil | 2011 | $4.41 | — |
| Ultimate Box Topper #U24 (M) Foil | 2018 | $7.57 | $3.50 foil |
| Amonkhet Invocations #29 (S) Foil | 2017 | $29.73 | $19.00 foil |
| Historic Anthology 2 #16 (R) | 2020 | — | — |
| Magic Online Promos #37845 (R) Foil | 2011 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 13 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
3 PrecedentsMaelstrom Pulse has only one target. Other permanents with the same name will be destroyed even if they have hexproof or protection.
If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Maelstrom Pulse tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. You won't destroy any permanents at all. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), you do destroy other permanents with the same name.
Unless a token is a copy of another permanent or was explicitly given a name by the effect that created it, its name is the subtypes it was given when it was created plus the word "Token." For example, if an effect creates a 1/1 Soldier creature token, that token is named "Soldier Token."