Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel

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Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel: Legendary Creature - Hyena Beast, Commander 2020. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{G}{W}
Mana value
4
Type
Legendary Creature - Hyena Beast
Colour identity
White and green (WG)
Power / toughness
3/3
Rarity
Mythic
Set
Commander 2020 (C20)
Released
2020-04-17
Collector number
19
Artist
Grzegorz Rutkowski
Commander rank
20,465 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Partner, Partner with, Vigilance
Commander
Can be your commander

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About Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel

Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white and green legendary creature from Commander 2020 (C20), a Commander product released in April 2020. It is collector number 19 in that set, with art by Grzegorz Rutkowski. It costs {2}{G}{W} (two generic, one white and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is white and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Commander 2020 is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.61 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Partner with Nikara, Lair Scavenger

Vigilance

When Yannik enters, exile another creature you control until Yannik leaves the battlefield. When you do, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures, where X is the exiled creature's power.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.61 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel, newest first.

  • Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist. When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled.
  • If Yannik leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, you won't exile any creature you control. Yannik's reflexive triggered ability won't trigger.
  • If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. It will still let the ability distribute counters.
  • If one of the target creatures becomes an illegal target in response to the reflexive triggered ability, the +1/+1 counters that would have been put on that creature are lost. They can't be put on another legal target.
  • Use the power of the creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many +1/+1 counters to distribute.
  • Yannik can be the target of its own reflexive triggered ability.
  • Yannik's triggered ability doesn't target the creature you control. That creature is chosen as the triggered ability resolves. After it's exiled, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and targets are chosen to receive the counters.
  • You choose how the counters will be distributed as you put the reflexive triggered ability onto the stack. Each target creature must be assigned at least one counter.

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