Enduring Curiosity
Enchantment Creature — Cat Glimmer
Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $10.35
- EDHREC rank
- #892
Enduring Curiosity turns every attacking creature into a draw trigger, making it one of the most efficient card-advantage engines available to blue decks at this cost. Sonic the Hedgehog is the canonical home, but any combat-focused commander that wants to stay gassed through the mid-game should be running this.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog's entire game plan is attacking fast and often, so Enduring Curiosity essentially reads 'draw a card each turn you do what you were already doing' — the synergy score of 0.61 and 65% inclusion rate reflect how naturally the two pieces fit together.
Zur, Eternal Schemer
Zur, Eternal Schemer can tutor enchantments directly onto the battlefield, meaning Enduring Curiosity can come down without ever touching your hand — and once it's out, every swing Zur's enchanted creatures make refuels the engine.
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima goes wide with attacking tokens and samurai, so Enduring Curiosity scales with board size in ways a single-target draw spell never could.
Niko, Light of Hope
Niko, Light of Hope generates Shard tokens that want to be sacrificed or attacked with, and Enduring Curiosity converts those combat steps into card advantage before the tokens cycle off.
Cynette, Jelly Drover
Cynette, Jelly Drover floods the board with Food-adjacent tokens that can swing in, and Enduring Curiosity rewards that horizontal aggression with a steady stream of cards to keep the pressure going.
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 |
Commander is the clear home for Enduring Curiosity — longer games mean more combat steps, and more combat steps mean more cards, which compounds into a decisive advantage over a table of four. In 1v1 formats like Legacy and Modern, the effect is real but slower to snowball, and you're competing against more efficient draw spells for the same slot. Pioneer and Standard offer fewer combat-synergy commanders to pair it with, making it a role-player in those formats rather than a centerpiece. Oathbreaker slots it naturally into any blue-white or mono-blue aggro shell that wants sustained draw without relying on sorcery-speed payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Curiosity and Ophidian Eye both attach to a single creature for under $1 and produce the same draw-on-damage trigger, but they scale with one attacker instead of every attacker — that's a meaningful ceiling on their output in wider boards. If you need the full breadth of Enduring Curiosity's effect and want to stay cheap, Military Intelligence is a clean two-mana enchantment that draws whenever two or more creatures attack, though it reads your board state rather than targeting a creature and is slightly narrower in practice.
Price Context
Current price
$10.35 mid tier
At $10.35, Enduring Curiosity sits in the mid tier — expensive enough that you should be building around it, cheap enough that it belongs in any deck where it's genuinely a two-mana draw engine rather than a luxury include. The price reflects real demand from the Sonic and Jin Sakai spikes; whether it stabilizes there depends on whether those commanders stay popular, not something to base a purchase decision on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.