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Alaborn Veteran

Creature — Human Knight

{T}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Portal Second Age
Price
$0.95
EDHREC rank
#29400
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Alaborn Veteran card art
Alaborn Veteran pumps an entire attacking team by +0/+2 for one white mana at instant speed — that's a legitimate combat trick that also enables the Necrotic Ooze loop where the ability matters more than the body. The four-mana 2/2 body is unplayable on its own, so this card lives or dies by its activated ability in a combo shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Alaborn Veteran is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's the full list worth discussing — it's absent from Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper. In Commander it shows up almost exclusively as a combo piece, not a fair card; a four-mana 2/2 with a tap ability doesn't make fair creature decks. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card quality to make Alaborn Veteran's combat trick irrelevant outside of engineered situations, so it doesn't see meaningful play there either. Oathbreaker is the one other format where a narrow combo enabler might sneak into a focused build.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.95 bulk tier

At $0.95, Alaborn Veteran sits at the top of bulk pricing — technically under a dollar, but not a throw-in. Given how narrow the demand is, that price is driven almost entirely by combo interest rather than any broad appeal, so it's unlikely to climb without a new combo breakout.

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