Benalish Honor Guard
Creature — Human Knight
This creature gets +1/+0 for each legendary creature you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25144
Benalish Honor Guard taxes your opponents' creatures by -1/-0 for each legendary creature you control — a passive anthem in reverse that scales with the legends on your board. The cost is a 2/2 for two mana with no evasion, so you're running it for the effect, not the body.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Benalish Honor Guard is a niche inclusion — it only pulls weight in dedicated legends-matter decks where you can stack three or more legendary creatures on the board consistently. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; the format doesn't support a legends-density payoff shell. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no competitive home for it — the effect is too slow and too conditional to matter in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it could see fringe play, since your oathbreaker is a permanent legendary on the board by default, giving you a free increment on the penalty from turn one.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Benalish Honor Guard is bulk — you're picking it out of a common box or padding a TCGPlayer order to hit free shipping. It's unlikely to appreciate; it's a narrow build-around with a small audience, and supply is high.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.