Adun Oakenshield
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
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: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23377
Adun Oakenshield puts a repeatable recursion engine in your command zone — tap three mana, return any creature from any graveyard to hand, repeat every turn you have the mana. The cost is real: three mana per activation is slow, and Adun dies to almost anything, which means Coretapper and other fragile combo pieces you're trying to rescue can stay buried if the board is hostile.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Adun Oakenshield actually gets used — as the commander, the recursion is always accessible and the Jund color identity opens up the full toolbox of black and green graveyard support alongside red's disruption. In Legacy and Vintage, Adun is legal but competes against faster, cheaper recursion options and never sees competitive play. Oathbreaker is legal but the format's compressed game length makes a three-mana tap ability feel even slower than usual.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed for Adun Oakenshield, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. As an older legendary creature with a narrow but dedicated Commander audience, copies tend to sit in the low-to-mid single digits — worth picking up if you're building around it, but not a card you need to rush on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.