Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin Pirate
When Adéwalé enters, reveal the top six cards of your library. Put an Assassin, Pirate, or Vehicle card from among them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Whenever a Vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Assassin's Creed
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #6088
Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains puts immediate pressure on the board by freeing your creatures from being tapped-down or otherwise neutralized, turning what would be a stalled position into an attack step. The cost is real — a five-mana legendary with no built-in protection is a removal target before it does anything — but in the right shell, the payoff justifies the risk, and Edward Kenway decks run it at nearly 88% inclusion for good reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Edward Kenway
Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains appears in 88% of Edward Kenway decks because Kenway's pirate-and-treasure engine relies on creatures staying untapped and ready to attack, and Adéwalé's untap effect directly enables that aggressive gameplan turn after turn.
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks include Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains at roughly 29% because Ezio rewards landing unblocked assassin hits, and liberating tapped-down attackers means more reliable connections against a prepared board.
Ramses, Assassin Lord
Ramses, Assassin Lord picks up Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains to ensure the assassin tribe stays active — Ramses's kill-trigger gameplan collapses if blockers or stax effects keep the team locked down.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is firmly Commander, where the five-mana cost is manageable and the political value of untapping allies or punishing stax pieces is meaningful across a multiplayer table. In Legacy and Vintage it competes against formats that close games before a five-mana creature with a conditional ability gets to matter, so expect zero competitive play there. Modern is equally uninterested — the format's clock is too fast and the effect too narrow. Commander is the only context where Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or out of a bulk bin. Price stability at this tier is essentially a non-issue; it will stay cheap unless a breakout deck pushes demand, and nothing on the current landscape suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Edward Kenway
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- Ramses, Assassin Lord
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.