Curator of Destinies
Creature — Sphinx
This spell can't be countered.
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foundations Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #11541
Curator of Destinies enters with a stack of fate counters and lets you cash them in to manipulate the top of your library — raw card selection stapled to a body. The Celestial Toymaker decks run it in over 60% of lists because the counter-spending synergy is direct and the payoff is immediate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker generates and cares about fate counters natively, making Curator of Destinies a near-automatic include — the two cards share a mechanical language, and Curator turns surplus counters into library manipulation that keeps the engine churning.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Curator of Destinies is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. Outside of dedicated The Celestial Toymaker builds, it sees negligible play in competitive 60-card formats — fate counters don't map onto any established Modern or Pioneer strategy, and the rate on the body isn't good enough to slot in on stats alone. In Commander, its ceiling is high inside the right shell and its floor is unplayable outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available for Curator of Destinies at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current market price. Given its near-exclusive home in The Celestial Toymaker decks, demand is narrow, and prices tend to track closely with that commander's overall popularity.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.