Veiled Ascension
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, put a flying counter on each face-down creature you control.
Face-down creatures you control enter with a flying counter on them.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cloak the top card of your library.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #15373
Veiled Ascension generates a 2/2 token every time a face-down creature is turned face-up, turning morph and disguise payoffs into a creature-flooding engine with no mana attached to the triggers. Kaust, Eyes of the Glade runs it in 92% of decks because the two cards form a closed loop: Kaust generates face-down creatures for free, and Veiled Ascension converts each flip into board presence.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade
Veiled Ascension appears in 92% of Kaust, Eyes of the Glade decks because Kaust's ability to cast spells face-down and flip them without paying morph costs means every activation feeds directly into free 2/2 tokens — the enchantment doesn't ask you to do anything extra, it just taxes the engine you're already running.
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 |
Veiled Ascension is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales with the number of triggers you generate over a long game, and morph/disguise strategies only exist as meaningful archetypes in EDH. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes against formats where a four-mana enchantment that doesn't immediately affect the board will never see a sleeve. Commander is where Veiled Ascension earns every slot it occupies, specifically in the narrow but dedicated pocket of face-down-matters commanders like Kaust.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Veiled Ascension is bulk — appropriate for a card with a narrow home and a single dominant commander driving almost all of its demand. It holds that floor as long as Kaust decks stay popular, but there's no crossover appeal to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.