Sindbad
Creature — Human
: Draw a card and reveal it. If it isn't a land card, discard it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
- Price
- $4.87
- EDHREC rank
- #25629
Sindbad trades a tap and a land reveal for a card draw — but only if the top card is a land, making it a high-variance engine that punishes non-land draws with nothing. In any deck not actively stacking the top of the library, the ceiling is too low and the floor is a wasted activation.
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 |
Sindbad is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it finds a niche in land-centric decks — particularly those running Sensei's Divining Top, Sylvan Library, or other top-deck manipulation that guarantees the activation converts — but even there, dedicated land-draw engines do the job more reliably. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is simply outclassed by everything available at the one- and two-mana range. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: playable only if you're already engineering the top of your deck.
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Price Context
Current price
$4.87 cheap tier
At $4.87, Sindbad sits in the budget-rare tier — priced primarily by age and collector interest rather than competitive demand. The price is unlikely to drop significantly given the card's vintage scarcity, but you're paying a nostalgia premium for a card that rarely earns a mainboard slot.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.