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Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions

Enchantment // Instant — Adventure

If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Wilds of Eldraine
Price
$5.93
EDHREC rank
#2028
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Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions card art
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions doubles every enters-the-battlefield trigger your permanents produce, which in the right shell functions like a second Panharmonicon stapled to a cantrip adventure — the front half digs you toward your engine, and the enchantment closes the loop. At five mana it's asking for a real investment, but commanders like Y'shtola Rhul that run dense ETB packages treat it as an auto-include rather than a luxury, and Venser, Shaper Savant bouncing and replaying key pieces makes the doubling effect pull even harder.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Y'shtola Rhul

Y'shtola Rhul

54.7% of decks · synergy 0.53

Y'shtola Rhul's whole game is blinking creatures to reuse ETB effects, so Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions doubling each trigger turns every blink into two payoffs at once — the synergy score of 0.53 and 55% inclusion rate reflect that this isn't a nice-to-have, it's a core piece of the engine.

02

Beluna Grandsquall

45.3% of decks · synergy 0.43

Beluna Grandsquall cares about casting spells with odd mana values and generating value off the cascade chain, and Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions at five mana fits the curve while doubling whatever ETB haymakers the cascade line flips into play.

03
Gorion, Wise Mentor

Gorion, Wise Mentor

43.4% of decks · synergy 0.41

Gorion, Wise Mentor targets adventure spells and cards with flexible casting modes, so Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions serves double duty — the adventure half is a legal Gorion target, and the enchantment payoff scales off every creature ETB the deck generates afterward.

04
Yarok, the Desecrated

Yarok, the Desecrated

37.4% of decks · synergy 0.35

Yarok, the Desecrated already doubles ETB triggers, and stacking Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions on top means relevant triggers resolve three times instead of once — the 37% inclusion rate across nearly 13,000 decks makes it one of the most common supplemental doublers in the archetype.

05
Cynette, Jelly Drover

Cynette, Jelly Drover

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Cynette, Jelly Drover creates Food tokens off creature ETBs, and Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions doubles each of those triggers to accelerate the Food count; at 24% inclusion the card is found in roughly one in four Cynette lists that want to maximize token generation without relying on combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions does its best work — the singleton format rewards flexible two-faced cards, the adventure digs for combo pieces, and the enchantment back half scales obscenely in ETB-heavy metas where a single resolved permanent can represent multiple game-winning triggers. In Pioneer and Modern it's legal but fighting for a slot in decks that already have access to faster, more focused permanents, and five mana is a steep ask in those formats where the game is often decided by turn four. Legacy and Vintage can run it, but neither format has compelling reasons to spend that much mana on a conditional doubler when faster engines exist. Standard is where it occasionally sees fringe play in tempo-oriented blue decks that want the adventure cantrip early and the enchantment as a late-game follow-up.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Panharmonicon does the core job — doubling artifact and creature ETB triggers — for under $3 and without the five-mana enchantment entry cost, though it skips the adventure half entirely so you lose the early card selection Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions provides. Anointed Procession fills a similar role in token-focused lists for roughly the same price, but it's narrower, covering only token creation rather than the full ETB range the Virtue hits.

Price Context

Current price

$5.93 mid tier

At $5.93, Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions sits comfortably in the mid-tier range — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but not a barrier to entry for most budgets. The price is justified by its genuine power in ETB-heavy Commander builds, and given its broad cross-format legality and consistent demand from multiple high-synergy archetypes, the $5–7 range looks stable.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.