Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
At the beginning of your upkeep, 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.) Each enchantment card in your hand has miracle. Its miracle cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {4}. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Strategy & Gameplay
Aminatou, Veil Piercer is a powerhouse three-color planeswalker-adjacent creature that brings exceptional card advantage and strategic depth to multiple competitive formats. This legendary human wizard excels in control and midrange strategies that leverage enchantment-based synergies, offering both filtering and acceleration through its unique ability set. The surveil effect triggers at the beginning of your upkeep, providing consistent library manipulation that fills your graveyard while organizing your draws, which is invaluable for self-mill strategies, flashback synergies, and escape mechanics. What makes this card particularly compelling is its second ability that grants miracle to every enchantment in your hand, effectively reducing their casting costs by four mana. This creates explosive turns where you can cast powerful enchantments like Spreading Plague or Detention Sphere at a fraction of their normal cost when drawn fresh on your turn, generating tremendous tempo advantages. Players seeking this card should consider it for Commander decks built around Aminatou herself as a companion piece, Azorius or Dimir control shells that want enchantment payoffs, or any strategy that benefits from graveyard interaction and cost reduction. The three-color mana requirement of one white, one blue, and one black is reasonable in well-constructed manabases, and the 2/4 body provides legitimate evasion against aggressive decks. Its legality across legacy, vintage, Commander, Oathbreaker, and duel commander formats makes it a flexible inclusion for players with diverse format preferences. This card rewards careful deckbuilding and intelligent sequencing while providing immediate value upon resolution.
Illustrated by David Palumbo