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Court of Vantress

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose up to one other target enchantment or artifact. If you're the monarch, you may create a token that's a copy of it. If you're not the monarch, you may have this enchantment become a copy of it, except it has this ability.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Wilds of Eldraine Commander
Price
$5.73
EDHREC rank
#2981
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Court of Vantress card art
Court of Vantress drops a repeatable copy effect on the table that compounds with every monarch trigger — the ceiling is absurdly high. The cost is giving every opponent a path to steal the crown and shut you off, which makes it a liability against aggressive tables unless you're running Obeka, Splitter of Seconds or a similarly exploitative shell that ignores the downside entirely. Faerie Mastermind is a cheaper, safer blue value engine if you just want card advantage without the monarchy baggage.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.64

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds skips the end step entirely, meaning Court of Vantress triggers fire repeatedly without ever letting opponents reclaim the monarch by dealing combat damage — the enchantment becomes a non-interactive copy machine.

02
Zur, Eternal Schemer

Zur, Eternal Schemer

33.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Zur, Eternal Schemer can tutor enchantments into play directly, and Court of Vantress fits neatly into a controlling Esper shell that wants a slow, value-generating engine to pull ahead once the board is locked down.

03
Aragorn, King of Gondor

Aragorn, King of Gondor

27.7% of decks · synergy 0.26

Aragorn, King of Gondor wants to hold the monarch as a core mechanic, and Court of Vantress rewards that by turning every end step under the crown into a free copy of any spell worth having.

04
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

23.3% of decks · synergy 0.20

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor plays in a curse-heavy build where the monarchy changes hands constantly, and Court of Vantress adds a payoff for whichever player is sitting on it — often Lynde's controller, who has the most tools to reclaim it.

05
Pramikon, Sky Rampart

Pramikon, Sky Rampart

10.8% of decks · synergy 0.10

Pramikon, Sky Rampart restricts attack vectors in a way that makes the crown far easier to protect, and Court of Vantress turns that defensive posture into sustained card advantage.

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

Commander is the natural home for Court of Vantress — the monarchy mechanic was designed for multiplayer, and a three-mana enchantment that copies spells each end step you control the crown scales to exactly the kind of long game Commander rewards. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but irrelevant: three mana for a conditional trigger that requires holding the monarchy is not competitive in any context where games end on turns one through three. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth noting, and even there the faster pace makes it harder to capitalize on the trigger consistently. Play Court of Vantress in Commander and nowhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Mirrormade and Estrid's Invocation both copy enchantments for two to three mana and give you a fixed permanent rather than a situational trigger — they're less explosive than Court of Vantress but never hand opponents a resource race. If you specifically want the monarchy, Court of Cunning and Throne of Eldraine-era draw engines can slot in cheaper, though none replicate the copy effect; that's genuinely what you're paying for.

Price Context

Current price

$5.73 mid tier

At $5.73, Court of Vantress sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it doesn't break a budget build. It's a unique effect with no direct reprint competitor, which suggests the floor holds, but it's also narrow enough that a future dedicated monarch card could undercut its appeal.

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