Keep Watch
Keep Watch: Instant, Wilds of Eldraine Commander. Draw a card for each attacking creature. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC)
- Released
- 2023-09-08
- Collector number
- 98
- Artist
- Fred Rahmqvist
- Commander rank
- 4,549 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Keep Watch
Keep Watch is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common blue instant from Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC), a Commander product released in September 2023. It is collector number 98 in that set, with art by Fred Rahmqvist. 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 Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander and PreDH. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Judgment (2002) to Wilds of Eldraine Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.84 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).
Card text
Draw a card for each attacking creature.
"I see their moral dilemmas. I see their raw courage. I see their self-sacrifice. I see our victory."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.84 (as of 2026-11-11).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Keep Watch by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Keep Watch
Keep Watch has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Planechase (HOP) #10 | Common | 2009 |
| Judgment (JUD) #43 | Common | 2002 |
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