Battle Menu
Instant
Choose one —
• Attack — Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.
• Ability — Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.
• Magic — Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
• Item — You gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #9219
Battle Menu gives you a reusable, modal ability that generates immediate board presence or card advantage the turn it resolves — the payoff is real and the ceiling scales with your creature count. The cost is that it competes for enchantment slots against higher-ceiling engines, so you run it because Dion, Bahamut's Dominant specifically rewards the kind of incremental advantage it produces turn after turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant pulls Battle Menu into nearly half its lists because the repeatable modal choices map directly onto what Dion wants — fodder, tempo, and incremental advantage stacked across every turn cycle.
Aerith Gainsborough
Aerith Gainsborough shows up in about 16% of builds, where Battle Menu's recurring utility feeds the kind of soft, grinding card-advantage engines that Aerith decks lean on when they can't close in one swing.
Cecil, Dark Knight
Cecil, Dark Knight runs Battle Menu in roughly 10% of lists, using the modal flexibility to shore up the deck's tension between its two modes — the menu's options line up with whichever half of Cecil you're leaning into on a given turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Battle Menu is legal across every major Constructed format except Pauper, but Commander is where it actually earns a slot. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, the enchantment is too slow and too low-impact to compete — you're paying mana each turn for incremental value that faster decks ignore entirely. Commander's slower clock and multiplayer dynamics are what make the repeatable modal structure worthwhile; the longer the game goes, the more activations you extract. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could see fringe play, specifically in shells that want sustained grinding over a 20-life axis.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Battle Menu is deep bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in or out of a common box, not making a meaningful financial decision. Bulk enchantments with narrow commander synergies don't tend to climb unless a flagship commander breaks out, so treat this as a cheap role-player, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
- Aerith Gainsborough
- Cecil, Dark Knight
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.