Celestus Sanctifier
Creature — Human Cleric
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #29286
Celestus Sanctifier enters with a life payment that cycles the day/night state and leaves a 2/1 body behind — the effect is narrow and the stats are unimpressive. It earns a slot only in dedicated day/night decks, and even there it competes hard for space.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Celestus Sanctifier is a fringe piece in day/night-matters builds, where flipping the day/night cycle on demand has real value — but three mana for a 2/1 that does it once is a steep ask when enchantments and instants can do the same job more efficiently. In Pauper it's legal but sees no meaningful play; the effect doesn't map onto any competitive archetype. Across Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, Celestus Sanctifier is simply too slow and too low-impact to register.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Celestus Sanctifier is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box, not a buylist. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand driver that would move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.