Leovold's Operative
Creature — Elf Rogue
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #31003
Leovold's Operative gives you a 2/2 with ward 1 and cloak — a face-down 2/2 with manifest dread — for three mana, letting you blank removal with a surprise blocker while threatening a free creature flip. The rate is fair but unspectacular; you're here for the cloak synergy, not the body.
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, Leovold's Operative earns a slot in cloak and manifest-matters builds, where the free manifest dread generates extra value on top of an already-reasonable body. Pauper is the format where Leovold's Operative has the most legs — common-legal cloak enablers are rare, and a three-mana 2/2 that puts a card face-down is a genuine resource generator in slower games. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but will never want it; the effect isn't close to the power threshold those formats demand.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Leovold's Operative is deep bulk — buy a playset and still pay less than a dollar. Bulk commons with narrow mechanical niches rarely climb, so treat this as a cheap role-player to slot in, not a pickup to hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.