Essence Anchor
Essence Anchor: Artifact, Tarkir: Dragonstorm. At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Tap: Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 44
- Artist
- David Astruga
- Commander rank
- 8,819 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Surveil
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About Essence Anchor
Essence Anchor is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue artifact from Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), an expansion set released in April 2025. It is collector number 44 in that set, with art by David Astruga. It costs {2}{U} (two generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy and Gladiator. Tarkir: Dragonstorm is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.24 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token. Activate only during your turn and only if a card left your graveyard this turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.24 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Essence Anchor by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Essence Anchor is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.