Sea Gate Oracle
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Masters 2017
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #7417
Sea Gate Oracle enters, lets you look at the top two cards of your library and keep one, and leaves you with a 1/3 body on the board — all for two mana. The effect is modest but the floor is high, and in Inalla, Archmage Ritualist shells that trigger on Wizard ETBs, you get the scry-style selection twice before the token even disappears.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist triggers on every Wizard entering the battlefield, so Sea Gate Oracle's ETB fires once when you cast it and again when Inalla creates a hasty token copy — netting you two looks at the top of your library for a single two-mana investment.
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Ranar the Ever-Watchful rewards blinking creatures with Spirit tokens, and Sea Gate Oracle is a cheap, repeatable blink target that refills your hand options every time Ranar's engine bounces it.
Brago, King Eternal
Brago, King Eternal blinks every nonland permanent you control on a successful combat damage trigger, meaning Sea Gate Oracle's enter-the-battlefield selection resets every single turn Brago connects.
Y'shtola Rhul
Y'shtola Rhul cares about foretell and casting spells from exile, and Sea Gate Oracle's low cost and cantrip-style filtering slot cleanly into that low-to-the-ground, card-selection-heavy game plan.
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Yorion, Sky Nomad's entire identity is blinking a pile of permanents at once, and Sea Gate Oracle is exactly the kind of cheap ETB creature that scales well when twenty cards flicker simultaneously.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sea Gate Oracle actually sees play — blink and Wizard-tribal decks treat the ETB as a repeatable resource, and the 1/3 body is relevant enough to chump and trade. In Pauper it's a known quantity as a commons-legal card-selection tool, though the format has enough competition at two mana that it sits on the fringes. Legacy and Vintage have access to so much faster selection that Sea Gate Oracle doesn't register. It's a Commander card through and through: slow formats that reward incremental value are where the Oracle's modest but reliable dig does real work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Sea Gate Oracle is firmly bulk — you'll find copies in any common box at your local game store without thinking twice about it. The price has nowhere meaningful to go given how widely it's been printed, so buy it for the effect, not as anything to hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.