Wail of the Forgotten Price
4 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2023
Wail of the Forgotten has been printed 4 times across 2 sets, first in 2023. Right now the cheapest printing is The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #343 at $0.25, while the most expensive is The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #244s at $0.58 — about 2× more. The median across 4 priced printings is $0.37. Reprint risk: LOW — Reprinted 4x historically, most recently in 2023 -- no dedicated reprint sets or recent activity.
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Every Wail of the Forgotten Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #343 (R) Cheapest | 2023 | $0.25 | $0.04 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #244 (R) | 2023 | $0.35 | $0.03 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #244p (R) | 2023 | $0.39 | $0.16 foil |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #244s (R) Foil | 2023 | $0.58 | $0.06 foil |
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.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 4 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
3 PrecedentsIf all targets for the chosen modes become illegal before Wail of the Forgotten resolves, the spell will be countered and none of its effects will happen. If at least one target is still legal, the spell will resolve but will have no effect on any illegal targets.
Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.