Celestial Gatekeeper is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Flying When this creature dies, exile it, then return up to two target Bird and/or Cleric permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
How it works : Celestial Gatekeeper
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You can choose to target this card as one of the two Bird and/or Cleric cards. If you do, it gets exiled and does not get returned to the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Celestial Gatekeeper + Molten Echoes + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite blinking of some creaturesInfinite colored manaInfinite creature tokens with hasteInfinite death triggers
- 1Cast Celestial Gatekeeper by paying
. - 2Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Molten Echoes, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper with haste.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the nontoken Celestial Gatekeeper, adding
. - 4Celestial Gatekeeper dies, triggering itself.
- 5In response, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Celestial Gatekeeper token, adding .
- 6The Celestial Gateekeeper token dies, triggering itself, exiling itself and returning Celestial Gatekeeper from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 7Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Molten Echoes, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper with haste.
- 8Resolve the nontoken Celestial Gateekeeper's trigger, failing to exile itself and returning up to two more Birds and/or Clerics from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Celestial Gatekeeper + Dual Nature + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite blinking of some creaturesInfinite colored manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Cast Celestial Gatekeeper by paying .
- 2Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Dual Nature's first ability, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the nontoken Celestial Gatekeeper, adding .
- 4Celestial Gatekeeper dies, triggering itself and Dual Nature's second ability.
- 5In response, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Celestial Gatekeeper token, adding .
- 6The Celestial Gateekeeper token dies, triggering itself, exiling itself and returning Celestial Gatekeeper from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 7Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Dual Nature's first ability, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper.
- 8Resolve the nontoken Celestial Gateekeeper's trigger, failing to exile itself and returning up to two more Birds and/or Clerics from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Legal formats
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