Sultai Ascendancy
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #8695
Sultai Ascendancy gives you a free scry 2 at the start of each upkeep, letting you stack the top of your library or dump unwanted cards into the graveyard — both at once, repeatedly. Three mana for an enchantment that does nothing immediately is a real cost, but any deck that cares about graveyard density or top-deck manipulation, including Mimeoplasm, Revered One lists, earns back that tempo within two or three turns.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mimeoplasm, Revered One
Mimeoplasm, Revered One wants the largest, strangest creatures in the graveyard as fast as possible, and Sultai Ascendancy mills unwanted cards while quietly filtering toward the spells you actually need — it's card selection and graveyard fueling on the same permanent.
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
Sultai Ascendancy feeds Sidisi, Brood Tyrant twice over: the discard half mills creatures to trigger Zombie tokens, and the scry half lets you control which creatures hit the yard versus which stay on top to draw into.
The Mimeoplasm
The Mimeoplasm treats the graveyard as a second hand, so Sultai Ascendancy pulling fatties off the top and depositing them into the bin is essentially free setup for the commander's enter-the-battlefield ability.
Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Muldrotha, the Gravetide wants a graveyard full of every permanent type, and Sultai Ascendancy's repeated self-mill ensures there's always something castable from the yard while smoothing draws over a long game.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sultai Ascendancy is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander. In 60-card formats, a three-mana do-nothing enchantment that generates no immediate board presence simply can't compete — scry 2 per turn cycle is powerful over a long game, but competitive Legacy and Modern end before that value accumulates. In Commander, the 40-life clock and multiplayer table give Sultai Ascendancy the time it needs to pay off, and graveyard-reliant Sultai commanders turn it from a nice-to-have into a core piece. Oathbreaker is a reasonable fit for the same reasons as Commander, particularly in graveyard-centric Sultai planeswalker decks.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Current price data for Sultai Ascendancy isn't available in our system — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Historically it has been a budget-friendly enchantment, so if you're running a graveyard-focused Sultai deck, it's rarely a wallet consideration.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.