Whir of Invention

8 printings · from $5.11 to $65.96 · pictured: Special Guests #86

€6.14

cheapest of 22 store offers · see all

market $9.15

Mana cost: {X}{U}{U}{U}

Type: Instant

Commonly played as: Tutor

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artist: Brian Chippendale

Released: 2025-02-14

Market price

  • TCGplayer: $9.15
  • TCGplayer foil: $14.59
  • Cardmarket: €6.47
  • Cardmarket foil: €11.50
  • MTGO tix: 0.17
$14.68$8.44
233 days of daily prices for Whir of Invention: $8.84 to $9.15
2026-01-252026-11-13
regular foil · 233 days tracked · $8.84 → $9.15 (+4%) · low $8.44 · high $14.68
Daily USD snapshots; a flat stretch is a day with no new price recorded.

Other languages

The same printing (Special Guests #86) in 10 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
CardTraderNM · 6 days agoNMregular€6.146 days ago
CardmarketNM · todayNMregular€6.20today
ManaPoolSP · todaySPregular$7.09today
ManaPoolNM · todayNMregular$7.20today
CardTraderSP · 6 days agoSPregular€10.526 days ago
CardmarketNM · foil · todayNMfoil€11.50today
CardTraderNM · foil · 6 days agoNMfoil€12.196 days ago
ManaPoolNM · foil · todayNMfoil$14.00today
ManaPoolSP · foil · todaySPfoil$15.24today
The Mystic StoreSP · 11 days agoSPregularCA$23.9911 days ago
CardTraderSP · foil · 6 days agoSPfoil€15.566 days ago

Truncated: 11 further offers are available at a higher price in the same conditions, out of 22 in total.

Format legality

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

In Gestic collections

  • Held in 45 lists
  • Played in 4 decks

Decks that play this card

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All printings

Set#RarityUSD
Special Guests#86 · mythic86mythic$9.15
Special Guests#96 · mythic96mythic$65.96 foil
The List#AER-49 · rareAER-49rare$5.78
Secret Lair Drop#311 · rare311rare$9.92
Kaladesh Remastered#73 · rare73rare—
Aether Revolt Promos#49p · rare49prare$6.79
Aether Revolt Promos#49s · rare49srare$18.27 foil
Aether Revolt#49 · rare49rare$5.11