Containment Priest
Core Set 2021 314 • rare
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Collector number
- 314
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Jesper Ejsing
- Market price
- $0.82
What it does
Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Some protection requires a bit of finesse.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Containment Priest was first introduced in the Magic: The Gathering Commander 2014 set before being reprinted in the Core Set 2021 as card number 314. The card serves as a thematic piece of control magic within the white color pie, designed to suppress creatures that enter the battlefield without being cast from a player's hand. Its function is a direct counter-play to strategies involving reanimation, blinking, or cheating high-mana creatures onto the board.
The artwork for the Core Set 2021 printing was illustrated by Johannes Voss. Voss focused on a stoic, ethereal aesthetic that aligns with the card’s restrictive nature, emphasizing the priest’s role as a silent, immovable barrier. Upon its release and subsequent reprints, the card was widely received by competitive players as a staple sideboard choice in formats like Modern and Legacy, valued for its efficiency in disrupting graveyard and tempo-based archetypes.
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