Cabaretti Ascendancy
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #13564
Cabaretti Ascendancy turns every creature that enters your battlefield into a scry 1, which compounds fast in token and go-wide strategies where you're flooding the board each turn. Three mana for a static enchantment that filters your draws without spending cards is a clean rate — the catch is it does nothing the turn you cast it and nothing if your creature count is low.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cabaretti Ascendancy is a Commander card — the enchantment's value scales with how many creatures enter over a game, and the 99-card singleton format gives it enough time and board development to matter. In token-heavy or creature-dense Commander builds, scry 1 per ETB is quietly powerful draw filtering that doesn't cost cards. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, three mana for a do-nothing enchantment that only scries — without drawing — is too slow and too conditional to see play. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient engines and wouldn't touch it. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card context where creature-dense builds could make marginal use of it, but the format is narrow enough that it's purely a corner case.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Cabaretti Ascendancy is firmly bulk — pick it up in a trade binder or toss it in a cart filler order without thinking twice. Bulk enchantments with narrow Commander applications rarely spike, so don't expect the price to move unless a high-profile token commander drives sudden demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.