Desperate Research

Invasion · #100 · rare · EN

$0.25 · Foil $5.80

cheapest of 41 store offers · see all

market $0.41 · Foil $6.99

Mana cost: {1}{B}

Type: Sorcery

Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

Artist: Ron Spencer

Released: 2000-10-02

Finishes: Nonfoil, Foil

Market price

  • TCGplayer: $0.41
  • TCGplayer foil: $6.99
  • Cardmarket: €0.41
  • Cardmarket foil: €8.30
  • MTGO tix: 0.07
$6.99$0.35
234 days of daily prices for Desperate Research: $0.37 to $0.41
2026-01-252026-11-12
regular foil · 234 days tracked · $0.37 → $0.41 (+11%) · low $0.35 · high $6.99
Daily USD snapshots; a flat stretch is a day with no new price recorded.

Other languages

The same printing (Invasion #100) in 8 other languages.

Store prices

The 3 cheapest per condition and finish, in stock at the last check. Offers not re-confirmed within 60 days are not shown. Prices in different currencies are compared at the current exchange rate.

StoreConditionFinishPriceChecked
ManaPoolMP · todayMPregular$0.25today
The Comic HunterNM · 2 days agoNMregularCA$0.412 days ago
ManaPoolHP · todayHPregular$0.30today
GameKeeperMP · todayMPregularCA$0.43today
401 GamesHP · 2 days agoHPregularCA$0.452 days ago
Magic StrongholdSP · yesterdaySPregularCA$0.48yesterday
TopDeck HeroMP · todayMPregularCA$0.48today
ManaPoolSP · todaySPregular$0.34today
TopDeck HeroSP · todaySPregularCA$0.54today
ManaPoolNM · todayNMregular$0.42today
CardmarketNM · todayNMregular€0.41today
CardTraderHP · todayHPregular€0.51today
CardTraderDM · todayDMregular€0.54today
ManaPoolSP · foil · todaySPfoil$5.80today
ManaPoolMP · foil · todayMPfoil$6.01today
Atlas CollectablesSP · foil · todaySPfoilCA$11.72today
CardTraderSP · foil · todaySPfoil€8.02today
CardmarketNM · foil · todayNMfoil€8.30today
CardTraderMP · foil · todayMPfoil€10.01today
CardTraderNM · foil · todayNMfoil€19.25today

Truncated: 21 further offers are available at a higher price in the same conditions, out of 41 in total.

Format legality

  • standard: not legal
  • pioneer: not legal
  • modern: not legal
  • legacy: legal
  • vintage: legal
  • commander: legal
  • pauper: not legal
  • brawl: not legal

In Gestic collections

  • Held in 11 lists
  • Played in 1 deck
  • 16 copies tracked