Benalish Knight
Creature — Human Knight
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24409
Benalish Knight is a two-mana 1/1 with flash and first strike — serviceable as a combat trick in Limited, but nowhere near the power floor Commander or competitive formats demand. The stat line is too small and the effect too narrow to justify a slot anywhere outside of a draft.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Benalish Knight sees essentially no play in Commander — a 1/1 first striker for two mana does nothing at a table where a single Craterhoof Behemoth ends the game. Pauper is the most plausible home, where cheap flash creatures occasionally find defensive roles, but even there Benalish Knight competes against more impactful common white creatures and rarely makes the cut. In Legacy and Vintage it's a non-starter; the formats move too fast and the effect is too small. The card's natural habitat is Limited, where flash and first strike combine to make it a passable combat trick that trades up.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Benalish Knight at the moment, but as a decades-old common with no competitive demand it almost certainly sits in bulk penny territory. Not worth tracking down for any constructed purpose — if you need it for a casual build, it'll be in any bulk box at your local game store.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.