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Ocular Halo

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: Draw a card."
{W}: Enchanted creature gains vigilance until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
common
Set
Dissension
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#25737
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Ocular Halo card art
Ocular Halo turns any creature into a card-draw engine by granting flying, vigilance, and a draw trigger whenever it deals combat damage to a player. The three-mana enchantment pays for itself the turn it connects, and in a deck built around Shabraz, the Skyshark — where every card drawn pumps your commander — it does double duty as both draw and a flying enabler.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Ocular Halo is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable draw trigger compounds over a long game in ways that simply don't matter in faster formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage it's too slow and too conditional; three mana for a combat-damage trigger gets laughed off any table where interaction is measured in milliseconds. Pauper is the one exception worth noting: at common, Ocular Halo is legal and the card-draw density at that rarity is low enough that a repeatable source has real value in creature-heavy builds. In Commander it earns its slot cleanly whenever you're running a flying- or vigilance-matters theme.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Ocular Halo is bulk — you'll pay more in shipping than for the card itself. That price isn't going anywhere; it's a niche enchantment with a narrow home, so grab a copy whenever you need one without a second thought.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.