Ajani Fells the Godsire
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target creature an opponent controls with power 3 or greater.
II — Create a 2/1 white Cat Warrior creature token, then put a vigilance counter on a creature you control.
III — Target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #11568
Ajani Fells the Godsire hits the board as a two-mana spell that destroys a creature and gains you life equal to its toughness — front-loaded, efficient, and immediately impactful. Garnet, Princess of Alexandria builds around exactly this kind of cheap, value-dense interaction, and the card earns its slot there without argument.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
Garnet, Princess of Alexandria rewards cheap spells that do multiple things at once, and Ajani Fells the Godsire — removal plus life gain for two mana — is precisely the kind of card that triggers her engine while keeping the curve tight.
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe cares about playing spells with different names, and Ajani Fells the Godsire slots in as a two-mana removal spell that pulls double duty by padding your life total, giving Sigurd something cheap and useful to tick off the list.
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah leans into the Ajani planeswalker theme, and Ajani Fells the Godsire shows up as both thematic glue and functional removal — cheap enough to cast early, and the life gain lines up with the life-matters subtheme the deck often runs.
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 |
Ajani Fells the Godsire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In Modern and Legacy the bar for two-mana sorcery removal is brutal — Path to Exile and Swords to Plowshares exist — so it doesn't compete there. In Commander, the life gain scales meaningfully when you're killing four- and five-toughness threats, and sorcery speed is less punishing in a multiplayer game where instant-speed interaction is already at a premium. Run it in life-matters or Ajani-themed builds and it's doing real work; outside those homes, better removal options exist even in the format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Ajani Fells the Godsire is bulk — you're not making a financial decision here, you're making a deck decision. Bulk rares with narrow homes tend to stay bulk, so there's no reason to hesitate on picking up copies for the decks that want it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
- Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
- Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.