Ajani's Last Stand
Enchantment
Whenever a creature or planeswalker you control dies, you may sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create a 4/4 white Avatar creature token with flying.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, if you control a Plains, create a 4/4 white Avatar creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2019 Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #22525
Ajani's Last Stand is a four-mana white enchantment that creates a 4/4 Avatar token with flying and vigilance whenever a creature or planeswalker you control dies, then exiles itself if you skip your next draw step — a steep but manageable price for a repeating threat engine. The token trigger fires on every death, so in sacrifice or aristocrats shells it generates a stream of flying bodies that demand immediate answers.
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 |
Ajani's Last Stand is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. In 60-card formats the once-per-turn throttle and the skipped draw step are too punishing when you need consistent, fast action — four mana for a conditional token doesn't compete. In Commander the calculus flips: you have 40 life, multiple opponents creating chaos, and commanders like Teysa Karlov or Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver who trigger death effects constantly, letting Ajani's Last Stand snowball one 4/4 at a time while the skipped draw is a minor tax spread across a long game.
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Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Ajani's Last Stand isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Given its narrow competitive range and Commander-specific appeal, it typically sits in budget territory — worth picking up if it fits your gameplan, not a card that demands urgency.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.