Aradesh, the Founder
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)
Whenever a creature you control attacks, if it enlisted a creature this combat, the creature that attacked gains double strike until end of turn. If that creature's power is 4 or greater, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #12944
Aradesh, the Founder puts a token-generating engine on the board that rewards you every time you swing with a crowd — the kind of snowballing effect that ends games if unanswered for two or three turns. The cost is a creature that dies to every removal spell in the format, so you're investing in a threat that needs protection or immediate payoff to justify its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
Caesar, Legion's Emperor already wants a wide board of attacking tokens, and Aradesh, the Founder layers directly on top of that plan — every swing that Caesar rewards also feeds Aradesh's trigger, compounding the token count and pulling the deck toward a critical mass that's hard for opponents to race.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Aradesh, the Founder belongs — the multiplayer environment gives it multiple combat steps worth of value before the table can answer it, and token strategies have the critical mass of synergy pieces to make the effect devastating. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; neither format has any interest in a slow, creature-based token engine that doesn't impact the board on the turn it enters. Oathbreaker is the one fringe context where it could function, assuming your signature spell triggers enough attacks to make the investment pay off.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Aradesh, the Founder isn't available at time of writing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rate before picking one up. Given its narrow home in token-focused Commander decks, it's unlikely to command a premium, but verify before buying.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.