Timeless Witness
Timeless Witness: Creature - Human Shaman, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}{G}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Creature - Human Shaman
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 2/1
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 274
- Artist
- Deruchenko Alexander
- Commander rank
- 1,278 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Eternalize
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About Timeless Witness
Timeless Witness is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon green creature from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 274 in that set, with art by Deruchenko Alexander. It costs {2}{G}{G} (two generic and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 2/1 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Modern Horizons 2 (2021) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.48 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.48 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Timeless Witness by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Timeless Witness
Timeless Witness has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #654 | Uncommon | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #179 | Uncommon | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #358 | Uncommon | 2021 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Timeless Witness, newest first.
- The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its mana value is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.
- If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you'll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it.
- Once you've activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card.
- The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Timeless Witness is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
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