Price of Progress Price and Data

Price of Progress punishes nonbasic-heavy mana bases for just one generic and one red mana. This page's $9.07 market quote is for the Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning #18 foil, dated October 20, 2026.

Fire and Lightning #18 is a foil-only printing. An Exodus or Eternal Masters nonfoil is a different purchase, so don't compare its price with this foil without checking the edition and finish.

• The Fire and Lightning foil was $9.08 on June 20, 2026, reached $9.88 on September 5 and 6, 2026, and was $9.07 on October 20, 2026.
• That was an 8.8% rise from the first observation to the highest observation in this window, followed by an 8.2% decline. The latest quote is $0.01 below the June 20 quote.
• The 71 observed daily prices have gaps, including September 9 through October 19, 2026. The chart doesn't establish a smooth decline during that gap or an all-time high. These are foil market prices, not a nonfoil series. Exact-printing price chart.

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• The June-to-October 2026 foil observations show a modest rise and pullback, not a sharp new spike. A $9.88 high within that window isn't proof of the card's lifetime peak.
• The September 2026 Zeta Set reprints changed the supply choices, but didn't create a legal Pauper home for Price of Progress. Wizards' September 4, 2026 announcement banned it as the new common cards entered tabletop Pauper on September 7, 2026. Official Pauper announcement.
• Its enduring demand comes from dealing large amounts of damage against nonbasic-heavy decks. Current Legacy lists below use it both in main decks and sideboards, while EDHREC recorded 58,809 submitted Commander decks on October 21, 2026. Those uses explain why players want the card; they don't establish the cause of this foil's price changes. Commander usage source.

• Exodus #95, released June 15, 1998, is the original nonfoil. Fire and Lightning #18, released November 19, 2010, is foil only and is the printing priced here.
• Eternal Masters #141, released June 10, 2016, comes in nonfoil and foil. The List also has nonfoil copies carrying the EMA-141 and EXO-95 identifiers.
• Secret Lair #1521, released February 5, 2024, has nonfoil and foil versions. The Zeta Set's #65, #186 and #307 versions, released September 2, 2026, are nonfoil alternatives.
• Buy the cheapest delivered version you like for play; pay extra for the original edition or a particular foil because you want that treatment. All these printings use the same rules text. Released paper printings and finishes.

• Each player takes twice their own number of nonbasic lands when the spell resolves. If your opponent has four nonbasics and you have one, they take eight and you take two. It doesn't deal one shared amount to the table. Current card text.
• A Volcanic Island is still nonbasic despite its Island and Mountain types. Blood Moon making a land a Mountain doesn't give it the basic supertype either.
• Watch open fetch lands and Wasteland: players can change their land count before the spell resolves. Sacrificing a fetch land for a basic reduces that player's nonbasic count by one.
• Fireblast can sacrifice two Mountains as its alternative cost. If you sacrifice nonbasic Mountains before Price of Progress resolves, you also reduce your own damage; sacrificing basic Mountains doesn't change that count.
• Legacy is a current tournament home, with three main-deck copies in the October 13, 2026 Burn example, three sideboard copies in the October 17 Boros Energy list and two sideboard copies in the October 20 Izzet list. It isn't Modern-legal and is banned in Pauper as of the October 21, 2026 rules check.
• In Commander, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus doubles the damage to your opponents, while your own Price of Progress damage stays undoubled by Solphim. Don't bring it into a nonbasic-heavy deck without accounting for your own life total.

Wasteland: Wasteland can change the nonbasic count before Price of Progress resolves. This link is Eternal Masters #248.

Fireblast: Fireblast lets a red deck spend Mountains instead of six mana; check whether the lands you sacrifice are basic. This link is Dominaria Remastered #119.

Solphim, Mayhem Dominus: Solphim doubles your noncombat damage to opponents rather than doubling the damage you take. This link is Phyrexia: All Will Be One #150.

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