Devout Witness
Creature — Human Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19732
Devout Witness trades itself to destroy any artifact or enchantment — repeatable if you can blink or recur it, one-shot if you can't. It's outclassed by cheaper options in most formats, but white creature-based decks that want sacrifice fodder or redundancy past the four-count threshold will find a use for it.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Devout Witness occupies the low-priority slot of white permanent removal — functional, but Disenchant and Heliod's Intervention cost less mana and don't require a creature sacrifice. Pauper is where Devout Witness earns real consideration: the card pool is shallow enough that a repeatable, blink-able enchantment answer on a creature body carries genuine weight. In Legacy and Vintage it's strictly too slow; the formats move before a 2/1 for three can generate value. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in that cheaper spells dominate the same role.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Devout Witness isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given that it's a common with narrow competitive applications, it's almost certainly a bulk pickup — don't pay more than a few cents for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.