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Sentinel of the Nameless City

Creature — Merfolk Warrior Scout2 generic manaGreen mana

The Map token is the quiet engine here, and it does more structural work than the explore keyword alone suggests. Explore off an enter-the-battlefield trigger is common enough, but stapling a second explore's worth of value onto every attack (delivered through a token you spend on your own schedule) turns a 3/4 with vigilance into a repeatable card-selection and grow-your-team loop that never has to stop swinging. Vigilance is the load-bearing keyword: because the body stays back on defense while the attacks keep manufacturing Maps, the card generates value on both axes of the turn without exposing itself to the usual attacker's tradeoff. And the Map is not a raw explore. Sacrificing it can target any creature you control, so the sentinel front-loads the fuel and lets you point it wherever it matters most: pumping a threat that's already connecting, or digging a small body toward a land it needs. Because the token can only be cracked at main-phase timing, the explores resolve as deliberate value rather than surprise blowouts, which keeps a card this dense from spiraling into a combat trick. What emerges is a green three-drop built around deferred, stacking incrementalism: a creature whose ceiling is not its stats but the number of turns it survives to keep printing Maps.

Sentinel of the Nameless City (lci)
LCI · #211rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.43
Foil: $0.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "1 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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