Veiled Sentry
Enchantment
When an opponent casts a spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes an Illusion creature with power and toughness each equal to that spell's mana value.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #27409
Veiled Sentry is a 1/1 for one mana that becomes a 3/3 when an opponent plays a land — reasonable body, but the trigger condition hands your opponents full control over when it transforms. Cards that require your opponents to do something before they do anything are almost always worse than cards that just do the thing.
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 Sentry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Legacy and Vintage, a conditional 3/3 that requires an opponent to play a land before it does anything isn't close to the power threshold those formats demand. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there Veiled Sentry competes against a deep pool of one-drop creatures that either generate immediate value or scale much harder in a four-player game — the land trigger is nearly guaranteed to fire on turn one, but a vanilla 3/3 isn't moving the needle at any table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Veiled Sentry is deep bulk, and the price reflects the demand accurately. Don't expect movement — this is a card you find in a common box, not one you track.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.