Sentinel of the Nameless City
Sentinel of the Nameless City: Creature - Merfolk Warrior Scout, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Merfolk Warrior Scout
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 3/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 211
- Artist
- Josu Hernaiz
- Commander rank
- 11,760 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Vigilance, Explore
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About Sentinel of the Nameless City
Sentinel of the Nameless City is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), an expansion set released in November 2023. It is collector number 211 in that set, with art by Josu Hernaiz. It costs {2}{G} (two generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 3/4 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.37 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
"Halt, traveler. Whatever you seek, you will not find it here."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.37 (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 Sentinel of the Nameless City 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 |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Sentinel of the Nameless City
Sentinel of the Nameless City has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) #383 | Rare | 2023 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI) #211p | Rare | 2023 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI) #211s | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Sentinel of the Nameless City, newest first.
- Some spells or abilities might cause a creature to explore multiple times in a row. If you reveal a nonland card when a creature explores and leave it on top of your library, then the creature explores again immediately afterwards, you'll reveal the same card again.
- If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to explore but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still explores. If you reveal a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything, but you may put the revealed card into your graveyard. Effects that trigger "whenever a creature explores" trigger as appropriate.
- In some unusual cases, noncreature permanents may explore. For example, if the creature card returned by Defossilize is somehow not a creature once it's on the battlefield, it can still explore. You'll take all the same actions, and you may end up putting a +1/+1 counter on the permanent. (Note that some effects target a creature, and those effects would still require a legal target to have it explore.)
- If an ability instructs a creature to explore, its controller reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they'll put it into their hand. Otherwise, they'll put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then choose to either leave that card on top of their library or put it into their graveyard.
- Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."
- Once an ability that causes a creature to explore begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the exploring creature after you reveal a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
- If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.
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