Gateway Sneak
Creature — Vedalken Rogue
Whenever a Gate you control enters, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #14518
Gateway Sneak draws you a card every time it sneaks through combat unblocked — an effect that compounds fast in a gate-heavy list. Outside of Nine-Fingers Keene, that trigger rarely fires enough to matter, so this is a build-around piece, not a general-purpose blue creature.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene is the only Commander who makes Gateway Sneak a must-include — Keene's gate-synergy shell puts multiple gates into play quickly, and Gateway Sneak turns every successful attack into card advantage that snowballs the board state.
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 |
Gateway Sneak is a Commander card in practice — the gate subtype matters almost nowhere else, and a 2/1 unblockable-conditional for two mana doesn't clear the bar in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer. In those formats the card draw is too conditional and the body too fragile to compete. Standard legality is academic; constructed gate payoffs have never been competitive at that level. Commander with Nine-Fingers Keene is the one context where Gateway Sneak earns its slot, reliably triggering off a commander who actively incentivizes gates to enter play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Gateway Sneak is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a playset without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new gate-matters commander pushes the archetype into wider play.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.