Sacred Guide
Creature — Human Cleric
, Sacrifice this creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a white card. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #27803
Sacred Guide exiles itself to tutor any white card from your library directly onto the battlefield — the catch is that card enters tapped and you sacrifice it at end of turn, so this is a setup piece, not a value engine. The most important use case is dropping Thassa's Oracle into play ahead of schedule to close out a combo turn you couldn't otherwise afford.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sacred Guide earns its slot, specifically in white-based combo decks that need redundant ways to assemble a winning board state through disruption. The tapped-and-sacrificed clause barely matters when the card you're fetching wins the game on resolution. In Legacy and Vintage, the format's raw power level leaves little room for a 1/1 that provides a delayed, conditional tutor — faster and less restrictive options exist. Oathbreaker is the other format worth mentioning: the tighter game length makes the one-shot tutoring effect more reliable, and white Oathbreaker shells that want a specific spell signature can leverage Sacred Guide as an additional path to it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Sacred Guide sits firmly in bulk territory despite being the only card in Magic that tutors white permanents directly onto the battlefield. That price almost certainly understates its ceiling in dedicated combo lists — pick up copies now rather than after a breakout deck pushes it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.