Aysen Crusader
Creature — Human Knight
Aysen Crusader's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Soldiers and Warriors you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Homelands
- Price
- $0.90
- EDHREC rank
- #28762
Aysen Crusader is a 2/2 for four mana that grows based on the number of Heroes and Farmers you control — a payoff so narrow that outside of dedicated Homelands-themed builds, it never clears the bar. The cost in both mana and deck-building constraint is too steep for what amounts to a situational beater.
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 |
Aysen Crusader is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, the creature type support it demands — Heroes and Farmers — barely exists as a functional tribal axis, so it reads as a vanilla 2/2 for four in nearly every real game state. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana creature whose power ceiling depends on obsolete creature types when the formats offer far more efficient threats. Oathbreaker inherits the same problem.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.90 bulk tier
At $0.90, Aysen Crusader sits at the high end of bulk — collectible curiosity pricing rather than competitive demand. It holds that price purely as a Homelands artifact; nothing about its mechanics drives value upward.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.