Deploy the Gatewatch

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Deploy the Gatewatch: Sorcery, Commander Masters. Look at the top seven cards of your library. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Mana value
6
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
White (W)
Rarity
Mythic
Set
Commander Masters (CMM)
Released
2023-08-04
Collector number
819
Artist
Wesley Burt
Commander rank
10,762 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Deploy the Gatewatch

Deploy the Gatewatch is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white sorcery from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 819 in that set, with art by Wesley Burt. It costs {4}{W}{W} (four generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Eldritch Moon (2016) to Commander Masters (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.48 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to two planeswalker cards from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Gideon and Liliana may not have seen eye to eye, but that did not stop them from fighting side by side.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.48 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Deploy the Gatewatch by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Deploy the Gatewatch

Deploy the Gatewatch has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Eldritch Moon (EMN) #20Mythic2016
Eldritch Moon Promos (PEMN) #20sMythic2016

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