Emissary of Sunrise
Creature — Human Cleric
First strike
When this creature enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26590
Emissary of Sunrise enters, exiles the top card of your library, and lets you play it until end of turn — a body plus a free look stapled together for three mana. It's not flashy, but a 2/1 with first strike that replaces itself in creature-based or explore-adjacent strategies earns its slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Emissary of Sunrise does its best work, slotting into white go-wide, explore, or party-based decks that want incremental card advantage on a creature body. In Pioneer and Modern it's too slow and too low-impact to compete with faster card selection — formats that can run Opt, Consider, or Serum Visions have no reason to look here. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason; the rate simply doesn't scale. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic: if your planeswalker cares about creature bodies or the top of the library, Emissary of Sunrise is a cheap, painless inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Emissary of Sunrise is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. There's no price pressure on a three-mana white creature with limited competitive application, so the floor is the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.