Card Spotlight
Denzilore Fatehold
A four-mana 3/4 Elder Sphinx with flash and flying. Whenever you scry or surveil, he puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control, with no once-per-turn limit.
Commander Spotlight
Denzilore Fatehold ↗
A four-mana 3/4 Elder Sphinx with flash and flying. Whenever you scry or surveil, he puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control, with no once-per-turn limit.
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Strategies it goes well with
- Cheap scry and surveil spells. Opt and Consider cost one mana, draw a card and each add a counter to every creature you control. A deck with ten or more of these turns him into a repeatable anthem.
- Go wide, then grow. The trigger scales with the number of creatures you control. Cadet tokens and other small creatures turn each scry into several counters at once.
- Repeatable surveil. Permanents that surveil every turn, such as Search for Azcanta, give you a trigger each upkeep without spending a card.
How it does in Commander
As the commander
As the commander, he leads a white-blue deck built on cheap cantrips and small creatures. Four mana with flash is easy to cast on curve, and a 3/4 flier blocks well while the counters build. He needs creatures already on the board to matter, so a hand of only cantrips and no bodies is slow.
In the 99
In another white-blue deck he fits anywhere that already scries or surveils several times a turn cycle. In a counters deck he works as a second anthem engine; without scry or surveil he's a 3/4 flash flier.
Formats it's strong in
- White-blue cantrip and flier decks. Every one-mana scry or surveil spell grows the whole team, and fliers make the counters hard to block.
- +1/+1 counter decks. Proliferate and counter doublers multiply what each trigger already gives you.
Formats it's weak in
- Decks with few creatures. A control deck with three creatures gets little from a counter on each creature you control.
- Decks without scry or surveil. Without a steady supply of scry and surveil effects, he has no trigger and is a four-mana 3/4.
Synergistic cards
Opt ↗
Scry 1 and draw for {U} at instant speed, which you can cast after flashing him in.
Consider ↗
Surveil 1 and draw for {U}. It also fills the graveyard for the set's threshold cards.
Search for Azcanta ↗
Surveils at the beginning of every upkeep, which is a free trigger each turn.
Grateful Apparition ↗
A two-mana flier that proliferates when it deals combat damage to a player, adding another counter to everything that already has one.
Is it worth the price?
Denzilore is a mythic from the Reality Fracture main set, released October 2, 2026, so early prices are still settling and he has no reprints yet. He's a reasonable pickup if you are building white-blue counters or cantrips; there is no rush otherwise.
Frequently asked questions
Does Denzilore Fatehold trigger more than once a turn?
Yes. His ability has no once-each-turn clause, so every scry or surveil puts a counter on each creature you control. That is the difference between him and Prudent Fateseer, which only triggers once each turn.
Does Denzilore Fatehold put a counter on himself?
Yes. He says each creature you control, and he is one of them. Tokens you control get a counter too.
Why does Denzilore Fatehold have flash?
Flash lets you cast him at the end of an opponent's turn and keep mana up for instant-speed scry and surveil spells. It also gives sorcery-speed removal fewer chances to hit him before your turn.