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Shepherd of the Cosmos

Creature — Angel Warrior

Flying
When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Foretell {3}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Kaldheim
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#15941
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Shepherd of the Cosmos card art
Shepherd of the Cosmos enters, reanimates a permanent with mana value two or less from your graveyard, and pairs with Angelic Renewal to loop itself indefinitely — the ETB alone justifies the slot. Six mana is the cost, and in Commander that's a fair ask for a body plus recursion plus infinite-loop potential when Ranar the Ever-Watchful is watching.

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Ranar the Ever-Watchful

Ranar the Ever-Watchful

21.5% of decks · synergy 0.21

Ranar the Ever-Watchful triggers on the first token created each turn, and Shepherd of the Cosmos looping through Angelic Renewal generates a Spirit token on every exile — turning a two-card engine into a board-flooding, ward-generating machine that wins on the spot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Shepherd of the Cosmos is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but it only sees meaningful play in Commander, where six-mana value pieces are acceptable and the graveyard loop is genuinely broken. In competitive 60-card formats, six mana with no protection and no immediate board impact is a non-starter against faster clocks. Commander is the correct home: multiplayer games run long enough to cast it, and a single untested loop can end the game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Shepherd of the Cosmos sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire, easy to throw in any white reanimation shell without budget concern. Bulk rares with active combo applications tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency to stock up, but at this price there's also no reason not to.

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