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Adarkar Valkyrie

Snow Creature — Angel

Flying, vigilance
{T}: When target creature other than this creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Coldsnap
Price
$2.33
EDHREC rank
#7862
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Adarkar Valkyrie card art
Adarkar Valkyrie offers a tap-to-steal resurrection effect that, when looped with Thornbite Staff, turns every opponent's creature death into a free reanimate on your side of the board. The six-mana ask is real, but Isu the Abominable makes the cost irrelevant — Isu generates the mana, the Valkyrie generates the engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Isu the Abominable

Isu the Abominable

69.1% of decks · synergy 0.68

Isu the Abominable is the natural home for Adarkar Valkyrie: Isu's snow-creature-matters payoffs pair with the Valkyrie's triggered reanimation to recycle your snow threats turn after turn, and the color identity fits cleanly into Isu's blue-white shell.

02
Brion Stoutarm

Brion Stoutarm

51.2% of decks · synergy 0.50

Brion Stoutarm flings creatures to the dome and Adarkar Valkyrie catches them on the way down — tap the Valkyrie targeting the creature before Brion sacrifices it, and it returns to your control at end of turn instead of your opponent's graveyard.

03
Merieke Ri Berit

Merieke Ri Berit

34.3% of decks · synergy 0.34

Merieke Ri Berit steals creatures and destroys them when she untaps; Adarkar Valkyrie lets you pre-target those stolen creatures so they come back under your control rather than hitting the graveyard for good, turning Merieke's self-destruct clause into a repeatable theft engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Adarkar Valkyrie earns its slot — a six-mana creature needs a combo or engine payoff to justify the investment, and EDH's slower clock and high-value creatures deliver both. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but competes with far more efficient reanimation, so it sees no competitive play there. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table. Oathbreaker can support it in the right white shell, though the 60-card singleton constraint makes the combo lines harder to assemble consistently.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

77 decks
Brion StoutarmAdarkar ValkyrieVillage Bell-Ringer

Brion StoutarmAdarkar ValkyrieVillage Bell-Ringer

Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$2.33 cheap tier

At $2.33, Adarkar Valkyrie sits in budget-rare territory — cheap enough to slot in without deliberation, and the price reflects its narrow but genuine combo demand rather than broad staple status. It's not a card that spikes, but it also doesn't rotate, so the floor is stable.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.