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Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature.
Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3037
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Athreos, Shroud-Veiled card art
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled puts a coin counter on one of your creatures every end step, and whenever that creature dies or is exiled, it returns to your hand — an engine that turns any removal spell into a free rebuy. The six-mana cost is real, but once it's online, opponents effectively can't permanently answer your best creatures. Resourceful Defense and Aminatou, Veil Piercer both push this further, but Athreos, Shroud-Veiled is worth the slot on its own.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

60.7% of decks · synergy 0.56

Aminatou, Veil Piercer cares about each opponent's permanents having the same name, and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled keeps bouncing your key enchantments and creatures back from exile to keep the curse triggers firing. The coin-counter protection means Aminatou's best targets almost never stay gone.

02
Zur, Eternal Schemer

Zur, Eternal Schemer

43.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Zur, Eternal Schemer turns enchantments into creatures, and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled ensures those creature-enchantments come back whenever they'd die. It's built-in resilience for a commander whose threats are otherwise vulnerable to any removal that hits creatures.

03
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal

Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal

35.1% of decks · synergy 0.32

Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal rewards you for playing cards from outside your hand, and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled keeps refilling your hand with creatures that have already died — looping the trigger engine cheaply. The two cards create a self-sustaining value loop that's hard for opponents to interrupt.

04
Mathas, Fiend Seeker

Mathas, Fiend Seeker

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.24

Mathas, Fiend Seeker puts bounty counters on opponents' creatures, and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled protects the creatures you want to keep swinging with to collect those bounties. When your attacker dies trying to earn a card, Athreos just returns it to hand ready to swing again.

05
Piru, the Volatile

Piru, the Volatile

25.5% of decks · synergy 0.24

Piru, the Volatile wipes the board when it dies, and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled turns that death into a hand return rather than a graveyard visit — letting you replay Piru and threaten the board wipe again without a tutor or reanimation spell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Athreos, Shroud-Veiled is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — six mana is a steep ask in any 60-card format where the game can be over before it resolves. In Modern and Pioneer it competes with threats that close games faster at a lower cost, and decks that could use a recursive value engine generally have more efficient options. In Commander, the math flips: games go long enough that the coin-counter engine pays off, and the political dimension of opponents choosing whether to bounce your creatures adds a layer 60-card formats never see. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander variant where Athreos, Shroud-Veiled occasionally shows up, primarily in life-drain or sacrifice shells that can leverage the recursion at a slower pace.

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Pricing data for Athreos, Shroud-Veiled isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. As a mythic enchantment god with a specific but real combo identity, it tends to hold moderate value — worth confirming the current market price rather than assuming a bargain.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.