Mastery of the Unseen
Mastery of the Unseen: Enchantment, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 74
- Artist
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Commander rank
- 16,327 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Manifest
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About Mastery of the Unseen
Mastery of the Unseen is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white enchantment from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 74 in that set, with art by Daniel Ljunggren. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. 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 5 sets, from Fate Reforged (2015) to Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.24 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.
{3}{W}: Manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
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 Mastery of the Unseen by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Mastery of the Unseen
Mastery of the Unseen has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #55705 | Rare | 2015 |
| Fate Reforged (FRF) #19 | Rare | 2015 |
| Fate Reforged Promos (PFRF) #19s | Rare | 2015 |
| Ugin's Fate (UGIN) #19 | Rare | 2015 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Mastery of the Unseen, newest first.
- You must ensure that your face-down spells and permanents can easily be differentiated from each other. You're not allowed to mix up the cards that represent them on the battlefield in order to confuse other players. The order they entered the battlefield should remain clear. Common methods for indicating this include using markers or dice, or simply placing them in order on the battlefield. You must also track how each became face down (manifested, cast face down using the morph ability, and so on).
- Turning a permanent face up or face down doesn't change whether that permanent is tapped or untapped.
- Because face-down creatures don't have names, they can't have the same name as any other creature, even another face-down creature.
- If a manifested creature would have morph if it were face up, you may also turn it face up by paying its morph cost.
- Unlike a face-down creature that was cast using the morph ability, a manifested creature may still be turned face up after it loses its abilities if it's a creature card.
- The face-down permanent is a 2/2 creature with no name, mana cost, creature types, or abilities. It's colorless and has a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the permanent can still grant or change any of these characteristics.
- A permanent that turns face up or face down changes characteristics but is otherwise the same permanent. Spells and abilities that were targeting that permanent, as well as Auras and Equipment that were attached to the permanent, aren't affected.
- If a face-down permanent you control leaves the battlefield, you must reveal it. You must also reveal all face-down spells and permanents you control if you leave the game or if the game ends.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Mastery of the Unseen is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.