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Ajani Steadfast

Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani

+1: Until end of turn, up to one target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike, vigilance, and lifelink.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.
−7: You get an emblem with "If a source would deal damage to you or a planeswalker you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage."

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Magic 2015
Price
$4.66
EDHREC rank
#5117
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Ajani Steadfast card art
Ajani Steadfast's minus lets every planeswalker you control tick up immediately — paired with Teferi, Master of Time or Commodore Guff, that's multiple extra loyalty activations per round with no additional mana investment. Four mana for a one-shot burst of loyalty plus a passive pump anthem is a real rate, and any deck running three or more planeswalkers should want it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

61.2% of decks · synergy 0.59

Commodore Guff already cares about stacking loyalty counters on every planeswalker you control, and Ajani Steadfast's minus turns that from a slow drip into an immediate surge — run both and your board of walkers jumps toward ultimates a full turn cycle faster.

02

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah

28.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah leans on the Ajani legendary subtype for tribal synergies, and Ajani Steadfast slots in as both a payoff and an enabler, pumping the rest of your walker suite while contributing a second Ajani permanent to any effects that count them.

03
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's ChampionMaster Chef

Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion // Master Chef

16.3% of decks · synergy 0.15

Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion // Master Chef rewards every counter placed on any permanent, so Ajani Steadfast distributing loyalty counters across your entire planeswalker board triggers that engine repeatedly from a single activation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Ajani Steadfast earns its seat in any superfriends or planeswalker-dense build — the minus hits every walker simultaneously, which scales well in a format where you're routinely controlling three to five planeswalkers at once. Outside Commander, the picture is more modest: it's legal in Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, but competitive planeswalker decks in those formats run leaner curves and rarely want a four-mana walker whose floor is a modest static anthem. Oathbreaker is the other sweet spot — as a signature spell or main planeswalker target, the loyalty-pump effect can be decisive in a format where protecting your commander-planeswalker is the entire game.

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Price Context

Current price

$4.66 cheap tier

At $4.66, Ajani Steadfast sits in the comfortable budget tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation in any superfriends build that can use it. The price reflects real casual demand with limited competitive pull, so it's unlikely to spike but equally unlikely to fall much further.

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