Bladed Ambassador
Creature — Phyrexian Soldier
This creature enters with an oil counter on it.
, Remove an oil counter from this creature: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20364
Bladed Ambassador hands you a free Goad on each combat attack — keeping opponents' creatures swinging at each other instead of you — stapled onto a two-mana 2/1 body. The effect is real, the cost is negligible, and any Commander deck built around political pressure or evasion-based aggro wants it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bladed Ambassador is a cheap political tool that taxes opponents' attack math every single combat, making it a reliable piece in Goad or aggressive red strategies. Constructed formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage — offer no shell where a 2/1 that Goads on attack competes with existing aggressive or combo options, so it sees no meaningful play there. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where a low-cost creature with a board-wide political effect could find a home, but only in the narrowest Goad-centric lists. The card is a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Bladed Ambassador is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought. Bulk Goad pieces rarely spike unless a popular Commander printing drags them along, so don't expect movement, but at this price floor there's no reason not to own copies.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.