Snubhorn Sentry
Creature — Dinosaur
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature gets +3/+0 as long as you have the city's blessing.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #20856
Snubhorn Sentry is a 0/3 that becomes a 3/3 whenever you have the city's blessing — a genuinely sturdy body for one mana once ascend triggers, and pairing it with Welcome to . . . // Jurassic Park unlocks that condition fast in token-heavy builds. The cost is real, though: until you hit ten permanents, it's a vanilla 0/3 that blocks nothing relevant.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Snubhorn Sentry is a niche include — ascend is trivially easy to trigger in a multiplayer game, so the 3/3 body is almost always online by turn three, but one-mana 3/3s aren't scarce enough to justify a slot unless you're specifically building around Dinosaurs or ascend payoffs. In Pauper it's more interesting, where cheap, durable blockers matter and ascend can come online in token or go-wide shells. Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy all have access to far more efficient one-drops, so Snubhorn Sentry doesn't compete there outside of highly themed Dinosaur lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Welcome to . . . // Jurassic ParkSnubhorn SentryAltar of DementiaPitiless Plunderer
Infinite self-mill; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Snubhorn Sentry is pure bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. It won't hold or gain value, but it's an essentially free pickup if a Dinosaur or ascend Commander build calls for it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.