Sunspire Gatekeepers
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25870
Sunspire Gatekeepers enters and creates two 2/2 Soldier tokens — but only if you control two or more Gates, a condition most decks can't meet reliably. At four mana for a 2/4 vigilance body that usually brings nothing extra, it's a bulk rare that belongs in Gate-tribal and nowhere else.
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 |
Sunspire Gatekeepers is a Pauper-legal card — wait, it's actually a rare — and its home is squarely Commander, where the 100-card singleton format gives Gate decks enough density to make the trigger reliable. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it has never seen play; four mana for a conditional token is nowhere near competitive in those formats. In Commander, it earns its slot in dedicated Gate builds and is dead weight in anything else — the gate count requirement is a hard gate (pun intended) that most lists can't clear.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Sunspire Gatekeepers is deep bulk — buy a stack without thinking about it if you're building a Gate deck. It won't appreciate; it's a narrow roleplayer in a niche archetype, and supply will always outpace demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.