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◇ Catalog #526

The Watcher in the Water

ltr·#526·mythic·showcase

Illus. Chris Cold

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Nov '23

2 yr ago

Value

$10.89+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $10 · low $9.33

NM$9.89

LP—

MP—

HP—

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$9.14–$10modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $15low $0.03range 50133.3%n 83

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #5,663 · Niche pick

Variants

Showcase$9.89

Gameplay

Legendary Creature — Kraken

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.

9/9

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 1

2023-06-16wotc

For the last ability, the target Kraken can (and probably will) be The Watcher in the Water. If it is, and if it has at least one stun counter on it, you'll remove a stun counter from it instead of untapping it.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $9.89. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $15.07 across 83 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from LTR — the lineup includes Showcase alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #526 of *The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2023 The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth release.

Card type: Legendary Creature — Kraken, color identity blue, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {3}{U}{U} (5 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #5,663 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Chris Cold. Rarix catalogs 164 other cards credited to this artist.