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Denzilore Fatehold

Azorius

See the future. Shape the board.

The cantrip brings a Monk. Browse the original’s cards and rules.

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MEET YOUR COMMANDERDenzilore Fatehold

Denzilore Fatehold · Featured commander

STRATEGY · 3 PHASES

How this build plays

Original uses inexpensive scry spells and spell-made tokens: establish Denzilore, add bodies while filtering draws, and use counters to send the army past blockers. It keeps spell-trigger engines that later versions cut.

01SET THE STAGE
One look, one army-wide counter
Sigiled Starfish gives a repeatable scry activation once it can tap. Mystic Speculation can return to hand through buyback for another future scry. With Denzilore present, each scry event gives each of your creatures one counter; scry 3 is still one event, not three triggers.
- Denzilore Fatehold
- Sigiled Starfish
- Mystic Speculation
Rules text for these cards
Denzilore Fatehold
Flash Flying Whenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Sigiled Starfish
{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Mystic Speculation
Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
02BUILD THE ENGINE
The cantrip brings a Monk
With Monastery Mentor and Denzilore in play, casting Preordain makes a Monk before the spell resolves. Preordain then scries, letting Denzilore put a counter on that new Monk along with the rest of the board. More noncreature spells feed Mentor, but each one still needs its costs paid.
- Denzilore Fatehold
- Monastery Mentor
- Preordain
Rules text for these cards
Denzilore Fatehold
Flash Flying Whenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Monastery Mentor
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
03CARRY IT THROUGH
Make the growing board hard to block
Secure the Wastes builds a token army before a scry effect distributes counters. Herald of Secret Streams then makes creatures with +1/+1 counters unable to be blocked. It does not grant haste or protection, so newly created tokens may need to wait and the Herald needs to survive.
- Denzilore Fatehold
- Secure the Wastes
- Herald of Secret Streams
Rules text for these cards
Denzilore Fatehold
Flash Flying Whenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Secure the Wastes
Create X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.
Herald of Secret Streams
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

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Denzilore Fatehold

Flash Flying Whenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Sigiled Starfish

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Crystal Ball

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Mystic Speculation

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Sphinx of Foresight

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep. Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

Prescient Chimera

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Augury Owl

Flying When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Omen of the Sea

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this enchantment enters, scry 2, then draw a card. {2}{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Witching Well

When this artifact enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) {3}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Curate

Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Draw a card.

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way. +2: Draw a card, then scry 2. −3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value. Elminster can be your commander.

Myrel, Shield of Argive

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments. Whenever Myrel attacks, create X 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of Soldiers you control.

Adeline, Resplendent Cathar

Vigilance Adeline's power is equal to the number of creatures you control. Whenever you attack, for each opponent, create a 1/1 white Human creature token that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control.

Hero of Bladehold

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking.

Leonin Warleader

Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink that are tapped and attacking.

Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and vigilance. Whenever you attack with one or more Birds, scry 2.

Matoya, Archon Elder

Whenever you scry or surveil, draw a card. (Draw after you scry or surveil.)

Il Mheg Pixie

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Elrond, Lord of Rivendell

Whenever Elrond or another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, the Ring tempts you.

Proctor of Potential

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {W}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if you've scried or surveilled this turn. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Saheeli, Consul of Oversight

Flying Whenever you scry or surveil, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Nightveil Sprite

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Faramir, Prince of Ithilien

At the beginning of your end step, choose an opponent. At the beginning of that player's next end step, you draw a card if they didn't attack you that turn. Otherwise, create three 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.

Faerie Seer

Flying When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Eyes of the Watcher

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Emeria Angel

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Felidar Retreat

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

Court of Grace

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. If you're the monarch, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying instead.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. −3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. −7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Clarion Spirit

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Monastery Mentor

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.

Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Minn, Wily Illusionist

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with "This token gets +1/+0 for each other Illusion you control." Whenever an Illusion you control dies, you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power from your hand onto the battlefield.

Secure the Wastes

Create X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

Raise the Alarm

Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Sram's Expertise

Create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens. You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Semester's End

Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Rootborn Defenses

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Herald of Secret Streams

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.

Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Commander

1 card

1×Denzilore FateholdLegendary Creature — Elder Sphinx · Printing not specified

Creature

27 cards

Artifact

9 cards

Sorcery

4 cards

1×Mystic SpeculationSorcery · Printing not specified 1×PreordainSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Serum VisionsSorcery · Printing not specified 1×Sram's ExpertiseSorcery · Printing not specified

Enchantment

7 cards

1×Retreat to CoralhelmEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Omen of the SeaEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Eyes of the WatcherEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Felidar RetreatEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Court of GraceEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Reconnaissance MissionEnchantment · Printing not specified 1×Tocasia's WelcomeEnchantment · Printing not specified

Instant

15 cards

Planeswalker

2 cards

1×ElminsterLegendary Planeswalker — Elminster · Printing not specified 1×Elspeth, Sun's ChampionLegendary Planeswalker — Elspeth · Printing not specified

Land

35 cards

PREGAME CONVERSATION · Planned

Commander Bracket Assessment

Rules-Based Bracket: No raised minimumEstimated Power Bracket: Mid 3

Based on the 100-card main deck; sideboard excluded. The Rules-Based Bracket is the lowest bracket this card list allows under Commander bracket rules. The Estimated Power Bracket is a personal estimate of how strongly the deck plays. It is not an official rating.

Evidence and limitations

Rules-Based Bracket · minimum

No raised minimum found in the checked restrictions. This does not establish Exhibition intent, Core fit or absence of every possible combo.

Exact Game Changers: None.

Mass land denial registry: None identified in the checked registry. Modal or repeated-land targeting still requires a pregame discussion.

Your extra-turn cards: None identified in the checked registry. Opponent turns from Emrakul or gifts are not counted as your own chain.

Confirmed early two-card lethal or turn-chain flags are not inferred from keywords. This is a lower bound, not a complete combo solver or permission to delay a consistently early line until turn seven. Agreed Rule Zero / Exhibition exceptions are outside this ordinary-restriction check.

Estimated Power Bracket · Mid 3

Estimated from the card list alone, not from tracked win rates or game results.

Cantrips feed token makers and scry counters, with Herald turning a built board evasive. Repeatable scry is available but broad tutor access and fast mana redundancy are limited.

Assembly and timing: A four-mana commander, token board and later attack need development turns. No cheap two-card game-ending sequence is established.

Recovery and constraints: Protection and multiple token sources recover some pressure, but losing the board or commander costs accumulated counters.

Curve: 2.74 average nonland mana value. Cheap mana/land-search text: Arcane Signet · Sol Ring · Talisman of Progress · Mind Stone · Wayfarer's Bauble. This text-derived reading aid is not an official score.

Search-library evidence: Wayfarer's Bauble · Demolition Field. This includes restricted and land searches; efficient tutor overlap is reviewed separately above. There is no official tutor-count cap.

Fast mana indicators: Sol Ring. Conditional free interaction: None identified in the checked registry. Conditions and resource costs still apply.

Key cards: Sigiled Starfish · Monastery Mentor · Preordain · Herald of Secret Streams.

Official sources checked 2026-10-31; criteria update 2025-10-21, Game Changers update 2026-02-09. Method and official source links. Brackets 4 and 5 share structural freedom; competitive intent cannot be inferred from these counts.