Sentinel Tower
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Battlebond #79 (rare)
- Price
- $2.98 USD
Whenever an instant or sorcery spell is cast during your turn, this artifact deals damage to any target equal to 1 plus the number of instant and sorcery spells cast before that spell this turn.
Sentinel Tower has 1 printing, first in Battlebond (2018). EDHREC ranks it #10,007 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zethi, Arcane Blademaster decks (3,381 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Sentinel Tower most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster: 3,381 decks
- Urabrask // The Great Work: 923 decks
- Feather, the Redeemed: 712 decks
- Veyran, Voice of Duality: 660 decks
- Massimo, the Magician: 461 decks
- Eruth, Tormented Prophet: 312 decks
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot: 286 decks
- Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle: 136 decks
Often played with Sentinel Tower
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : For example, the first instant or sorcery spell cast during your turn causes Sentinel Tower to deal 1 damage; the second causes it to deal 2 damage, and so on.
- : You choose the target for Sentinel Tower’s ability, regardless of who cast the spell that caused it to trigger.
- : Sentinel Tower’s ability counts all instant and sorcery spells cast in the turn before the spell that caused it to trigger, even if those spells are still on the stack or have been countered.
- : Sentinel Tower’s ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.