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Sanguine Spy

First printed in Streets of New Capenna (2022)

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Sanguine Spy

Creature — Vampire Rogue

Menace, lifelink
1 generic, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

2/3

Illustrated by
David Palumbo

Legality

Rulings (6)

  • The mana value of a double-faced card in your graveyard is always the mana value of the front face.
  • X is 0 when determining the mana value of a card in your graveyard.
  • “Five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard” means there are at least five different mana values among those cards.
  • Sanguine Spy's triggered ability checks the number of mana values among cards you control both when the ability triggers and when it resolves. If you no longer have five or more mana values among those cards when the ability resolves, you may not pay 2 life.
  • The mana value of a split card in the graveyard is the total mana value of both halves of that card. It does not have two mana values.
  • The mana value of a land card is 0.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Sanguine Spy in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Streets of New Capenna (SNC), Premier Draft 57.9% +2.8 +5.3 13985
Streets of New Capenna (SNC), Sealed 55.9% +1.6 +3.9 1190
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Combos

4 combos, the most popular first: