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The Watcher in the Water
Mythic
Surge foil
Extended art
Booster Fun
EN
Released · Illustrated by Chris Cold
- Collector Boosters only
Not in a preconstructed deck (collector booster or promo printing).
What is this worth
Surge foil
$5.21
High confidence
- Retail Card Kingdom $4.49 as of 2026-10-13
- Retail Cardmarket $6.25 as of 2026-10-15
- Retail Mana Pool $5.29 as of 2026-10-13
- Retail TCGplayer $5.21 as of 2026-10-15
- Buylist Card Kingdom $1.58 as of 2026-10-13
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Price history
Foil
7 d
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30 d
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Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 15 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.
Oracle text
The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.
Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.
Legalities
Legal Not legal
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Premodern
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Pauper Commander
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Brawl
Legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
tlr
Not legal
competitivebrawl
Legal
Identifiers and data
- Scryfall id
- 951527ef-0561-43b6-8293-4f74dd3f157c
- Oracle id
- a9ddb3dc-f289-46a1-af17-3a8523a26b0d
- Illustration id
- 369f9543-06ac-4de6-b4cc-ddb0079a7049
- Card back id
- 0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
- TCGplayer id
- 500332
- Cardmarket id
- 738010
- MTGJSON uuid
- 4b2b82e9-658e-5c2e-8135-21d2764d6726
- Set code
- LTR
- Collector number
- 765
- Layout
- normal
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- black
- Security stamp
- triangle
- Promo types
- surgefoil, universesbeyond, boosterfun
- Frame effects
- extendedart, legendary
- Booster
- No
- Games
- paper, mtgo
- Story spotlight
- No
- Reserved list
- No
- EDHREC rank
- 5665
- Penny rank
- 16308
- Preview source
- The Outerhaven
- Preview date
- 2023-06-06
