D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign

D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign

Legendary Creature — Orion Scientist

Not yet released — 13 Nov 2026

Mana cost: {1}{G/U}{G/U}

How we read this card

Untap another target permanent.

activated {T} — untaps a permanent

Surveil 1.

activated {3} — surveils

What we read on this card

Causes: untap a permanent, surveil.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a permanent untaps — 48 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When a permanent untaps thanks to D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign:

  1. Mesmeric Orb — mills a card
  2. Wake Thrasher — gets +1/+1

you surveil — 101 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign surveils:

  1. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  2. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  3. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  5. Thoughtbound Phantasm — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong — triggers

a card in a graveyard — 2,533 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign:

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  2. Transplant Theorist — puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  3. Heart-Shaped Herb — puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  4. Nantuko Calmer — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Nantuko Calmer needs
  5. Grazing Kelpie — puts cards into the graveyard that Grazing Kelpie can bring back
  6. Gurzigost — puts cards into the graveyard that Gurzigost can bring back
  7. Mindwhisker — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Mindwhisker needs
  8. Endurance — puts cards into the graveyard that Endurance can bring back
  9. Anurid Scavenger — puts cards into the graveyard that Anurid Scavenger can bring back
  10. Stone-Tongue Basilisk — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Stone-Tongue Basilisk needs

174 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 2,533 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 6,391 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  3. Screaming Swarm — mills a card
  4. Imperious Mindbreaker — mills a card
  5. Staff of Titania — makes a token
  6. Fractal Harness — puts counters on a permanent
  7. Inquisitorial Rosette — makes a token
  8. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  9. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls
  10. Throwing Knife — sacrifices itself

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 6,391 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign attacks:

  1. ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Madame Web, Clairvoyant — mills a card
  3. Bonny Pall, Clearcutter — draws you 1 card
  4. Hazardroot Herbalist — gives +1/+0
  5. Ranger Class — puts a counter on a creature
  6. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  7. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  8. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent
  9. Alora, Merry Thief — triggers
  10. Twins of Discord — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature blocks — 6,391 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign blocks:

  1. Barrow-Blade — strips abilities
  2. Favor of the Woods — gains you 3 life
  3. Gift of the Woods — gives +0/+3
  4. Noxious Assault — puts a counter on a permanent
  5. Ferocity — puts a counter on a permanent
  6. Mammoth Harness — grants first strike
  7. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature
  8. Dwindle — kills a creature

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is cast — 6,423 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign is cast:

  1. Primeval Bounty — makes a token
  2. Dancing from Dark to Dawn — puts that spell's mana value counters on a creature
  3. Summon: Fenrir — it arrives with counters thanks to Summon: Fenrir
  4. Mona Lisa, Ever Adaptable — makes a token
  5. Champions of the Perfect — draws you 1 card
  6. Masked Admirers — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Primordial Sage — draws you 1 card
  8. Oketra's Monument — makes a token
  9. Beast Whisperer — draws you 1 card
  10. Silverback Elder — triggers

43 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 7,050 cards in D'Vana Tendi's colors can cause this (D'Vana Tendi is one).

When D'Vana Tendi, Optimistic Ensign enters:

  1. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  2. Legolas Greenleaf — puts a counter on a permanent

134 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.