Archon of Valor's Reach
Creature — Archon
Flying, vigilance, trample
As this creature enters, choose artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker.
Players can't cast spells of the chosen type.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battlebond
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #9429
Archon of Valor's Reach lands as a 5/6 flying, vigilance, trample body that locks one spell type out of the game for the rest of the table — instants, sorceries, artifacts, enchantments, or planeswalkers, your choice on entry. Six mana is real, but Kathril, Aspect Warper wants it in the graveyard anyway, so the tax on casting it is lower than it looks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kathril, Aspect Warper
Archon of Valor's Reach is a keyword buffet for Kathril, Aspect Warper — flying, vigilance, and trample all transfer to Kathril or your other creatures, and the Archon's graveyard value means you're happy to bin it rather than cast it.
Mayael the Anima
Mayael the Anima hits Archon of Valor's Reach off a power-5-or-greater dig, and dropping a global spell-type lockout for free off Mayael's ability at end of turn is exactly the kind of tempo swing that ends games.
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 |
Archon of Valor's Reach is a Commander card through and through — the global lockout effect matters most in a four-player game where shutting off instants or artifacts affects three opponents at once. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with faster, cheaper hate pieces and a six-mana creature is not where those formats want to be. Oathbreaker allows it and the effect can be backbreaking in that format's more spell-heavy environments, though the smaller player count dulls the multiplied value. Outside those formats it doesn't exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Archon of Valor's Reach is bulk — you're picking up a legitimate game-warping effect for the cost of a sleeve. Bulk rares with this much Commander demand tend to stay in this range unless a reprint or spike event shakes things up, so buy as many as you need without thinking twice about it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.