Aurora Champion
Creature — Elf Warrior
Whenever this creature attacks, if your team controls another Warrior, tap target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battlebond
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #26728
Aurora Champion is a 3/1 that blanket-silences every opponent's triggered abilities on your turn — a meaningful disruption effect stapled to an aggressive body. The cost is two mana and a creature slot, which is a fine trade in dedicated white aggro or hate-bear shells, and a dead card everywhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aurora Champion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Commander it fills a narrow hate-bear role — shutting off triggered abilities on your turn punishes staples like Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study, and Wayfarer's Bauble triggers, but only on your turn, which limits how much pressure it actually applies across four players. Pauper is the format where Aurora Champion is most likely to see genuine play, since common-legal hate pieces at two mana are scarce and the effect is harder to ignore in a faster, more symmetrical game. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly more powerful disruption, so Aurora Champion won't make those lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Aurora Champion is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a situational hate piece. Bulk rares with narrow effects rarely climb unless a format shift makes the ability newly relevant, so don't expect this to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.