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Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence

Legendary Creature — Snake Monk // Legendary Enchantment

Reveal your hand: If you have seven or more land cards in your hand, flip Sasaya.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Saviors of Kamigawa
Price
$2.96
EDHREC rank
#16557
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Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence card art
Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence flips into a land-doubling enchantment that can generate absurd mana — think Wakeroot Elemental territory from a single Forest tap — but the flip condition demands seven lands in hand simultaneously, which means you're either drawing deep or your hand is sitting idle for multiple turns. The payoff is real; the setup cost is brutal.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in exactly one: Commander. The flip condition — seven lands in hand — is nearly impossible to engineer in 60-card formats where hand size is tightly constrained by draw-one-per-turn and aggressive pressure punishes passive setup turns. In Commander, the 40-life buffer and slower table dynamics make the long setup survivable, and the singleton format rewards the 'build around this card' approach that Sasaya demands. Oathbreaker is theoretically legal but suffers the same hand-size problems as other 60-card environments.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.96 cheap tier

At $2.96, Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence sits at the cheap end of the spectrum for a card with genuine combo potential. It's a narrow build-around with a small audience, so the price is unlikely to spike — but if you're building the deck, there's no reason to wait.

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