Tolarian Sentinel
Creature — Human Spellshaper
Flying
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- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27996
Tolarian Sentinel trades a land from your hand for a card drawn — a clean one-for-one cantrip on a 1/3 flying body that can block all day. The setup cost is real, but in any deck that wants to pitch lands to an effect or rebuy them from the graveyard, it earns its slot immediately; everyone else should look elsewhere.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tolarian Sentinel finds a home in blue artifact and spellslinger decks that generate excess lands or want a cheap flying blocker that replaces itself — it's never the engine, but it's a low-friction piece. In Pauper, the combination of a relevant body and card parity at common is legitimately useful in tempo and control shells where every scrap of value matters. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in paying one mana plus a land for a single card on a 1/3, when those formats are drowning in faster options. Tolarian Sentinel is a Commander and Pauper card; everywhere else it simply isn't strong enough to compete.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
The One RingTolarian Sentinel
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you; You have protection from everything; Lock
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Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Tolarian Sentinel is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common box, not tracking it on a price site. Don't expect movement; it holds exactly what it's worth as a functional but unspectacular common, and the only reason to buy more than a copy or two is if you're sleeving up a Pauper list or need to fill a slot alongside something like The One Ring in a lands-matter Commander build.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.