Veyran, Voice of Duality 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.
Official card text
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Complete guide
Veyran, Voice of Duality is a powerhouse for spell-slinging decks, acting as both a threat and a massive force multiplier. By duplicating your triggered abilities whenever you interact with instants and sorceries, Veyran ensures your board state accelerates at twice the normal speed.
Mastering the Magecraft
Veyran features a Magecraft ability that grants it +1/+1 whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell. More importantly, its second ability is a static effect that watches for triggers. If the act of casting or copying a spell causes a permanent you control to trigger, that ability fires an additional time. This includes Veyran's own +1/+1 buff, effectively giving it +2/+2 per spell.
Resolution Step-by-Step
When you cast an instant or sorcery, Veyran's static ability checks for any triggered abilities that respond to that event. First, the original ability is put on the stack. Immediately after, Veyran's effect adds a second instance of that same ability to the stack. You choose targets and modes for each trigger separately. These triggers resolve one by one before the original spell that caused them even finishes resolving.
Timing and Restrictions
It is important to note that Veyran only doubles abilities triggered by casting or copying spells. It does not double 'Enter the Battlefield' or 'Dies' triggers, even if the permanent in question is a Wizard. Furthermore, copying a card in a graveyard does not trigger Veyran; you must actually cast that copy for it to count as a spell on the stack.
When to Lead with Veyran
Ideally, you should cast Veyran before your main sequence of spells to maximize the value of its doubling effect. Because it scales its own power and toughness so quickly, it can often serve as a surprise finisher if you have a handful of cheap cantrips or copy effects ready to go.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumIf you control both cards and cast an instant, Veyran will trigger twice (getting +2/+2). However, if Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you only search for one land. Veyran only doubles triggers caused by casting or copying instants and sorceries; it has no interaction with the Golem's 'enter' or 'dies' triggers.
Roaming ThroneIf Roaming Throne enters and you choose 'Efreet' or 'Wizard', it will double Veyran's triggers. When you cast a sorcery, Veyran's Magecraft normally triggers once, plus once from its own effect (2 total). Roaming Throne then sees the 'Efreet Wizard' ability triggering and adds another, resulting in 3 total +1/+1 triggers for Veyran.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Veyran, Voice of Duality
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Veyran, Voice of Duality's last ability causes each of your magecraft abilities, including Veyran's own, to trigger an additional time.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Veyran's effect doesn't copy the triggered ability; it just causes the ability to trigger again. Any choices you make as you put the ability on the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution are also made individually.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If you somehow control two Veyrans (which would be poetic), you casting an instant or sorcery spell causes abilities to trigger three times. A third Veyran (less poetic) causes abilities to trigger four times, and so on.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Veyran, Voice of Duality + Storm-Kiln Artist + View from Above
- 1Cast View from Above by paying
, targeting Storm-Kiln Artist. - 2Storm-Kiln Artist and Veyran trigger twice.
- 3Resolve the Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating two Treasure tokens.
- 4Resolve the Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 5Resolve View from Above, giving Storm-Kiln Artist flying until end of turn and returning View from Above to your hand.
- 6Activate the two Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 7Repeat.
Chain of Smog + Veyran, Voice of Duality
- 1Cast Chain of Smog by paying
, targeting yourself. - 2Veyran triggers twice, giving itself +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 3Resolve Chain of Smog, causing you to discard two cards and copy Chain of Smog, targeting yourself.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Veyran, Voice of Duality + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Storm-Kiln Artist + Seething Anger
- 1Cast Seething Anger with buyback by paying
. - 2Storm-Kiln Artist, Veyran and Birgi trigger twice each.
- 3Resolve both Birgi triggers, adding .
- 4Resolve both Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 5Resolve both Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 6Resolve Seething Anger, giving target creature +3/+0 and returning Seething Anger to your hand.
- 7Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding
. - 8Repeat.
Ovika, Enigma Goliath + Veyran, Voice of Duality + Skirk Prospector + Reiterate
- 1Cast any other instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Cast Reiterate with buyback by paying
, targeting the spell. - 3Veyran and Ovika each trigger twice.
- 4Resolve both Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 5Resolve both Ovika triggers, creating six 1/1 Phyrexian Goblin creature tokens with haste.
- 6Resolve Reiterate, creating a copy of the spell it was targeting and returning Reiterate to your hand.
- 7Veyran triggers twice, giving itself +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 8Activate Skirk Prospector six times by sacrificing the six Phyrexian Goblins, adding .
Veyran, Voice of Duality + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Storm-Kiln Artist + Mystic Speculation
- 1Cast Clockspinning with buyback by paying .
- 2Storm-Kiln Artist, Veyran and Birgi trigger twice each.
- 3Resolve both Birgi triggers, adding .
- 4Resolve both Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 5Resolve both Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 6Resolve Mystic Speculation, causing you to scry 3 and return it to your hand.
- 7Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Repeat.
Ovika, Enigma Goliath + Veyran, Voice of Duality + Phyrexian Altar + Reiterate
- 1Cast any other instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Cast Reiterate with buyback by paying , targeting the spell.
- 3Veyran and Ovika each trigger twice.
- 4Resolve both Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 5Resolve both Ovika triggers, creating six 1/1 Phyrexian Goblin creature tokens with haste.
- 6Resolve Reiterate, creating a copy of the spell it was targeting and returning Reiterate to your hand.
- 7Veyran triggers twice, giving itself +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 8Activate Phyrexian Altar six times by sacrificing the six Phyrexian Goblins, adding .
Alania, Divergent Storm + Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions + Veyran, Voice of Duality
- 1Put any triggered and/or activated ability onto the stack.
- 2Holding priority, cast Vantress Visions by paying , targeting the activated or triggered ability.
- 3Alania and Veyran trigger twice.
- 4Resolve both Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 5Resolve the first Alania trigger, choosing to have an opponent draw a card and copying Vantress Visions, with the copy targeting Alania's remaining trigger.
- 6Veyran triggers twice, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 7Resolve the copy of Vantress Visions, copying Alania's trigger.
- 8Repeat from step 5.
Veyran, Voice of Duality + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Storm-Kiln Artist + Clockspinning
- 1Cast Clockspinning with buyback by paying .
- 2Storm-Kiln Artist, Veyran and Birgi trigger twice each.
- 3Resolve both Birgi triggers, adding .
- 4Resolve both Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 5Resolve both Veyran triggers, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 6Resolve Clockspinning, returning Clockspinning to your hand.
- 7Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 8Repeat.
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