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Celestial Gatekeeper

Creature — Bird Cleric

Flying
When this creature dies, exile it, then return up to two target Bird and/or Cleric permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Legions
Price
$1.88
EDHREC rank
#14995
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Celestial Gatekeeper card art
Celestial Gatekeeper enters and immediately replaces itself and a second creature by returning two Bird or Cleric cards from your graveyard to play — that's a two-for-one stapled to a 2/2 flying body for five mana. Pair it with Molten Echoes in a Bird or Cleric tribal shell and each copy triggers independently, turning a single cast into a full graveyard reclamation engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Celestial Gatekeeper is a Commander card through and through — the tribal payoff and five-mana cost fit a 40-life, multiplayer environment where Bird and Cleric synergies have the room to compound over a longer game. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never found a home; the cost is too steep and the effect too slow against those formats' threats. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA that a dedicated Bird or Cleric list could squeeze value out of it there too.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.88 cheap tier

At $1.88, Celestial Gatekeeper sits in comfortable bulk-rare territory — cheap enough to slot into any tribal build without a second thought. It's a narrow card with a small but consistent audience, so the price is unlikely to move dramatically in either direction.

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