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Aspiring Champion

Creature — Astartes Warrior

Menace
Ruinous Ascension — When this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest into your library. If that creature is a Demon, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9883
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Aspiring Champion card art
Aspiring Champion is a coin-flip payoff that can put Blightsteel Colossus directly into play for free — the ceiling is game-ending on the spot. The cost is real variance: you need the flip to land, which means it earns its slot in decks that can reset or copy the trigger rather than those banking on a single roll.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

41.2% of decks · synergy 0.40

Delina, Wild Mage is the natural home — her ability creates non-legendary token copies of Aspiring Champion, each triggering additional coin flips, which means a single lucky roll can cascade into a chain of free Blightsteel Colossus hits before the turn ends.

02
Be'lakor, the Dark Master

Be'lakor, the Dark Master

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.27

Be'lakor, the Dark Master cares about Demons entering the battlefield, and Aspiring Champion's flip can drop high-end Demons for free — every successful roll generates the kind of raw board presence Be'lakor wants to tax opponents with.

03
Abaddon the Despoiler

Abaddon the Despoiler

22.1% of decks · synergy 0.21

Abaddon the Despoiler rewards chaos and cascade-style value, and Aspiring Champion fits that gameplan as a cheap threat that occasionally cheats a game-ending creature into play off a single attack trigger.

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

Aspiring Champion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice Commander is where it actually sees play — the multiplayer environment gives you more attacks to fish for the flip, and the free-creature payoff is most devastating when a single Blightsteel Colossus can threaten an entire table. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal but the coin-flip mechanic is too inconsistent for those formats' demands, and the card sees no meaningful presence there. In Commander, it's a niche include rather than a staple, suited specifically to decks that can copy, recur, or otherwise multiply the trigger.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Aspiring Champion isn't available in our records — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its niche application and dependence on specific commanders like Delina, Wild Mage, expect demand to be narrow and the price to reflect that.

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