Torpor Orb Price
6 printings · 4 sets · first printed 2011
Torpor Orb has been printed 6 times across 4 sets, first in 2011 and most recently in 2026. Right now the cheapest printing is Mystery Booster 2 #236 at $3.92, while the most expensive is The Big Score #57 at $28.76 — about 7× more. The median across 6 priced printings is $5.39. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 6x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (Mystery Booster 2).
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Every Torpor Orb Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Booster 2 #236 (R) Cheapest | 2024 | $3.92 | $3.00 |
| The Big Score #27 (M) | 2024 | $4.73 | $3.50 |
| New Phyrexia #162 (R) | 2011 | $5.07 | $3.60 |
| The Big Score Promos #27p (M) | 2026 | $5.71 | $5.30 |
| The Big Score #92 (M) | 2024 | $11.65 | $9.00 foil |
| The Big Score #57 (M) | 2024 | $28.76 | — |
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 6 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
7 PrecedentsAbilities that apply "as [this creature] enters the battlefield," including many abilities that ask a creature's controller to choose a color or creature type, are unaffected.
Replacement effects are unaffected by Torpor Orb's ability. For example, a creature that enters the battlefield with one +1/+1 counter on it will still receive a +1/+1 counter.
Look at the permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger. For example, if you control March of the Machines, which says, in part, "Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature," each artifact will be a creature at the time it enters the battlefield and will not cause triggered abilities to trigger.
Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keyword abilities are triggered abilities and will have "when," "whenever," or "at the beginning of" in their reminder text.
Torpor Orb stops a creature's own enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that would trigger when a creature enters the battlefield.
The trigger event doesn't have to specify "creatures" entering the battlefield. For example, Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider from the Lost Caverns of Ixalan release has an ability that says "Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target Pirate you control." If an artifact creature enters the battlefield under your control, that ability won't trigger. If a noncreature artifact enters the battlefield under your control, the ability will trigger.
If Torpor Orb and a creature enter the battlefield at the same time, that creature entering the battlefield won't cause triggered abilities to trigger.