Sanctimony
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent taps a Mountain for mana, you may gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #25657
Sanctimony pays you one white mana every time an opponent taps a Mountain — passive, cumulative, and completely free to maintain once it's on the board. At one mana to cast, the floor is already high; in any red-heavy meta, it snowballs into meaningful mana advantage with zero upkeep.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Sanctimony is genuinely worth sleeving — four players means more red sources, more triggers, and a longer game to cash them in. In Legacy and Vintage it's a sideboard curiosity at best, legal but outclassed by faster hate options in any dedicated anti-red strategy. Modern sees it as a corner-case fringe piece, strictly for themed enchantment builds rather than competitive slots. Stick to Commander, specifically in white decks that want to punish red-heavy tables or generate incremental mana without dedicating card slots to ramp.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Sanctimony is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Demand is too narrow to push the price up, so it will stay in this tier unless a high-profile Commander deck brings it mainstream attention.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.