Ajani's Aid
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Ajani, Valiant Protector, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Prevent all combat damage a creature of your choice would deal this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Aether Revolt
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #23664
Ajani's Aid enters the battlefield and immediately answers a planeswalker or creature threat — that three-mana removal on arrival is the whole reason to run it. The enlist-a-cat-when-a-planeswalker-enters upside is gravy in dedicated superfriends builds, but the floor is a solid ETB removal spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ajani's Aid earns its slot in superfriends and Selesnya-adjacent planeswalker decks where the cat-token trigger fires repeatedly and the removal hits the stack before opponents can react. Competitive formats like Modern, Legacy, and Pioneer have cleaner, cheaper removal options, so Ajani's Aid doesn't see meaningful play there — three mana for conditional removal is too slow when Path to Exile and Fatal Push exist. Oathbreaker is the other format where it punches above its weight, since planeswalker density is structurally higher and every ETB trigger compounds value quickly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ajani's Aid is deep bulk — easy to pick up in any common box or throw into a trade pile without a second thought. The price is stable at the floor; there's no scenario where this climbs unless a planeswalker-centric Commander precon pushes casual demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.