Price of Progress
Price of Progress: Instant, Eternal Masters. MTG card details, printings, market prices, official rulings, and format legality, all in one place on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Eternal Masters (EMA)
- Released
- 2016-06-10
- Collector number
- 141
- Artist
- Yohann Schepacz
- Commander rank
- 2,802 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Price of Progress
Price of Progress is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon red instant from Eternal Masters (EMA), a Masters set released in June 2016. It is collector number 141 in that set, with art by Yohann Schepacz. It costs {1}{R} (one generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It is banned in Pauper and Duel Commander. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Exodus (1998) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $7.13 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Enthusiasm can be tempered in the furnace of the earth.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $7.13 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Price of Progress by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Banned |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Banned |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Price of Progress
Price of Progress has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #186 | Common | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #307 | Common | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #65 | Common | 2026 |
| The List (PLST) #EXO-95 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1521 | Rare | 2024 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1521★ | Rare | 2024 |
| The List (PLST) #EMA-141 | Uncommon | 2019 |
| Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning (PD2) #18 | Uncommon | 2010 |
| Magic Online Theme Decks (TD0) #B23 | Uncommon | 2010 |
| Exodus (EXO) #95 | Uncommon | 1998 |
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.