Icon of Ancestry

Core Set 2020 Promos · Magic: The Gathering · #229 · Rare · art by Chris Seaman


Icon of Ancestry

$2.35

TCGplayer market price · Foil printing · Near Mint

As of Sep 4 (the vendor's day), 9 days ago. Unchanged since Sep 4.

Listed median$3.00asks on TCGplayer now
7d+8.3%30d+8.3%90d+17.5%1y+35.8%
High and lowTCGplayer market price, daily

941 days tracked · 32 distinct prices · since Feb 8 2024 · a tracked day is one with a published value

Tracked high$4.13Feb 8 2024
Tracked low$0.30Jun 15 2025
Vs tracked high43% below
Vs its own historyThe Sep 5 price is at or above what this card cost on 53% of 941 tracked days

These figures follow the Foil printing.

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Price trend

$2.17$2.20$2.25$2.30$2.35
Aug 30, 2026Sep 1, 2026Sep 3, 2026Sep 5, 2026

Foil · last 7 days · daily · between $2.17 and $2.35 · the drawn points changed value once.

$2.17$2.20$2.25$2.30$2.35
Aug 6, 2026Aug 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026Sep 5, 2026

Foil · last 31 days · daily · between $2.17 and $2.35 · the drawn points changed value once.

$2.00$2.10$2.20$2.30$2.35
Jun 7, 2026Jul 7, 2026Aug 6, 2026Sep 5, 2026

Foil · last 90 days · one point per 2 days · between $2.00 and $2.35.

$1.01$1.50$2.00$2.41
Sep 13, 2025Jan 12, 2026May 13, 2026Sep 12, 2026

Foil · last year · one point per week · between $1.01 and $2.41.

$4.13$0.30$1.00$2.00$3.00$2.41
Feb 10, 2024Dec 21, 2024Nov 1, 2025Sep 12, 2026

Foil · one point per week · between $0.30 and $4.13 · 2 round trips between $0.30 and $2.25 (a move up or down of 1.5× or more that later came back to within 5% of its start, counted on the points drawn here). Weekly points begin Feb 10, 2024 (daily points since Feb 8, 2024).

TCGplayer market price · Foil printing · through Sep 5

How this chart is drawn

One value a day. Where a short view would draw too many points it thins to one point every few days and says so in its caption; the 1Y and MAX views show one point a week.

TCGplayer's own chart is drawn per condition, so it can differ from this one. This page holds one value per printing, the vendor's Near Mint market price.

Vs its era

Gap vs its era's typical move
~90d+13.4 pts

A gap in percentage points: this card's change minus the typical change of recent Magic: The Gathering cards (ungraded, English). Each window compares the latest price to the most recent one at least 30 or 90 days older, so the exact span differs from card to card. The typical card in this group did not move over about 30 days, so on that window this card's own change above is the whole difference. On ~90d: this card +17.5%, the typical card +4.0%. The group spans every price level, so this compares the card with its era's typical move, not with similar cards.

When it moved

Biggest daily movesMovePrice
Jul 18 2025+750%$0.30 → $2.55Show on chart
Jun 15 2025-87%$2.26 → $0.30Show on chart
Feb 17 2026+80%$1.01 → $1.82Show on chart
Jan 15 2026-59%$2.20 → $0.91Show on chart

Every day-over-day move of more than half the price in the tracked record, largest first. Moves smaller than half the price are left out, and so are moves under $0.25, so a fall or rise spread over several days can be bigger than any one row here. Each price is TCGplayer's market price, one value per day for this printing, built from recent sales; a move here is that value changing from one day to the next. How many sales sat behind a move is not in this record. The price at the top of this page is the value it has held since Sep 4.

Live market

Printings

PrintingMarketListed median
Foil · the headline price$2.35$3.00
Normal$1.56$1.58

Every printing listed here is the Rare card; the printing is the only difference. Market = TCGplayer daily market price, as of Sep 5. Listed median = the median of current TCGplayer listings, the asking side of the same marketplace, not sales. eBay figures on this page come from live listing asks, a different measure refreshed on each visit; they never mix into this table.

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