The Watcher in the Water

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth · #765 · mythic · EN

CA$4.39

cheapest of 8 store offers · see all

market $5.11 (foil)

Mana cost: {3}{U}{U}

Type: Legendary Creature — Kraken

Commonly played as: Tokens

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.

Artist: Chris Cold

Released: 2023-11-03

Finishes: Foil

Market price

  • TCGplayer foil: $5.11
  • Cardmarket foil: €5.83
  • MTGO tix: 0
$5.59$4.63
234 days of daily prices for The Watcher in the Water (foil): $5.23 to $5.11
2026-01-252026-11-12
foil · 234 days tracked · $5.23 → $5.11 (-2%) · low $4.63 · high $5.59
Daily USD snapshots; a flat stretch is a day with no new price recorded.

Other languages

The same printing (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #765) in 7 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
TopDeck HeroMP · foil · 4 days agoMPfoilCA$4.394 days ago
ManaPoolMP · foil · todayMPfoil$3.11today
Face To Face GamesNM · foil · todayNMfoilCA$5.99today
ManaPoolNM · foil · todayNMfoil$5.05today
Everything GamesNM · foil · 2 days agoNMfoilCA$7.302 days ago
ManaPoolSP · foil · todaySPfoil$5.24today

Truncated: 2 further offers are available at a higher price in the same conditions, out of 8 in total.

Format legality

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

In Gestic collections

  • Held in 4 lists
  • 4 copies tracked

Decks that play this card

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All printings of The Watcher in the Water

USD · low $0.27 · high $2243.23

Set#RarityUSD
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth#734z · mythic734zmythic$2243.23 foil
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth#526 · mythic526mythic$12.67
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth#765 · mythic765mythic$5.11 foil
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth#734 · mythic734mythic$72.22
Tales of Middle-earth Art Series#7 · common7common$0.27
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth#354 · mythic354mythic$3.93
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth#75 · mythic75mythic$2.21
Tales of Middle-earth Promos#75s · mythic75smythic$7.13 foil