Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
Land // Legendary Creature — Demon
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, , Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token., , Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $2.87
- EDHREC rank
- #1424
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince turns a critical mass of small creatures into a 9/7 flying, lifelink, indestructible, haste threat that closes games in one swing. The five-creature sacrifice cost is real, but any deck already flooding the board with tokens or Cleric recursion — think Orah, Skyclave Hierophant — pays it without blinking.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant runs a constant loop of Clerics dying and returning, which means the five-body toll for flipping Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince is often paid out of the graveyard recursion chain itself — the Abbey is a natural finisher for a deck already operating in sacrifice loops.
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder generates Thrull tokens whenever you cast a creature, and those tokens are exactly the fodder Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince demands — Endrek can hand you five sacrifices off a single expensive spell.
Raphael, Fiendish Savior
Raphael, Fiendish Savior buffs every Demon, Devil, Tiefling, and Vampire entering the battlefield, but the real synergy is that Raphael decks accumulate demon-adjacent tokens quickly, making Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince a straightforward alt-win tucked into a land slot.
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker returns creatures with one or less power from the graveyard at end of turn, so the five creatures fed to Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince come right back — the sacrifice cost is functionally free if you're triggering Shirei regularly.
Athreos, God of Passage
Athreos, God of Passage punishes opponents for letting creatures go to the graveyard, and the board-wide sacrifice to flip Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince forces exactly those graveyard triggers — opponents either pay life to stop recursion or watch Ormendahl hit the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince earns its land slot in any black deck that reliably puts five or more small creatures on the board — token strategies, Cleric tribal, and sacrifice loops all qualify, and a land that doubles as a game-ending threat demands no real deck-building cost. In Pioneer and Modern, it has seen play in token-dense shells and Human-tribal strategies as a one-of finisher, though faster formats punish the five-mana activation and five-creature threshold as too slow against aggressive or combo-heavy fields. Legacy and Vintage give it legal status but no meaningful home — the power ceiling just isn't high enough to compete at those tables. Oathbreaker is the sleeper format for this card, where lower starting life totals make a hasty, indestructible 9/7 even more threatening the turn it flips.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.87 cheap tier
At $2.87, Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince sits in the sweet spot where it's cheap enough to include on a whim but strong enough that it never feels like a budget concession. Prices on cards like this tend to floor out rather than drop further — it's a mythic land with a built-in win condition, and that combination keeps steady demand from Commander players across multiple archetypes.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.