Svyelunite Priest
Creature — Merfolk Cleric
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: Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. Activate only during your upkeep. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #29610
Svyelunite Priest gives you a repeatable counter on a stick — pay one blue mana, sacrifice a Plains or Island, and an opponent's spell gets countered. The cost is steep enough that this is a niche role-player rather than a staple, but in the right shell it's a recurrable answer that doesn't require holding up two or three mana.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Svyelunite Priest is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where any serious conversation about it lives. In Commander, it fits narrow blue-white or Azorius builds that can rebuy sacrificed basics — think landfall recursion or Emeria, the Sky Ruin synergies — where the land cost becomes a feature rather than a drawback. Legacy and Vintage have access to better counterspells at lower opportunity cost, so Svyelunite Priest doesn't compete there outside of dedicated combo or reanimator shells that specifically want the sacrifice trigger. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: if your planeswalker supports a sacrifice-lands theme, it earns a slot; otherwise it doesn't.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Svyelunite Priest is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. Demand is too narrow and supply too abundant for the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.