Denethor, Stone Seer
Legendary Creature — Human Noble
When Denethor enters, scry 2.
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, Sacrifice Denethor: Target player becomes the monarch. Denethor deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #15059
Denethor, Stone Seer puts a scry engine on the board that scales with your life total, turning life-gain payoffs into top-deck control for as long as you can stay healthy. The cost is real — he's fragile, he asks you to build around both the Ring tempts and the scry trigger, and Aragorn, King of Gondor is the clearest home because he does exactly that work in a single commander slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aragorn, King of Gondor
Aragorn, King of Gondor's Ring-tempting triggers feed directly into Denethor, Stone Seer's scry condition, turning each Ring escalation into a top-deck filter that compounds over a long game.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Denethor, Stone Seer earns a real slot — the 100-card singleton structure makes repeatable scry genuinely valuable, and the Ring Tempts You payoffs that justify him exist almost exclusively in EDH. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but irrelevant; the competition for three-mana creatures is brutal and neither format has any interest in a life-total-gated scry trigger. Oathbreaker is legal but niche, and the 20-life starting total makes his condition harder to exploit than it is in Commander's 40-life games.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Denethor, Stone Seer is deep bulk — buy a playset for less than a booster pack and don't think twice about the price. Bulk rares from Universes Beyond sets trend flat or downward as supply is plentiful, so there's no hold-value case here, just a cheap role-player for the right shell.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.