Opal Lake Gatekeepers
Creature — Vedalken Soldier
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, you may draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #22044
Opal Lake Gatekeepers is a conditional draw spell stapled to a 2/4 body — you get a card only if you control two or more Gates, which makes it dead weight in any deck not built around that land type. The four-mana cost is already asking a lot for a vanilla blocker; without the trigger, it's unplayable.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Opal Lake Gatekeepers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the format that makes the most sense for it is Pauper — Gate synergy shells exist there and the card-draw trigger actually fires consistently. In Commander, it sees fringe play in dedicated Gate decks helmed by commanders like Maze's End strategies, where hitting the Gate threshold is trivial; everywhere else the condition is too unreliable to justify a roster slot. In Modern and Pioneer, Gate payoffs exist but Opal Lake Gatekeepers competes against more efficient options and rarely makes the cut outside of budget brews.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Opal Lake Gatekeepers is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. It holds no financial value and never will; pick it up for a Gate deck purely on function, not any expectation of appreciation.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.