Blazing Blade Askari
Creature — Human Knight
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
: This creature becomes colorless until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28808
Blazing Blade Askari is a 3/2 first striker for three mana that can gain flanking, swampwalk, or trample by paying one mana each — a ceiling that never justifies the floor. A vanilla-adjacent three-drop with no enters-the-battlefield effect and a pump mode that costs additional mana every time it attacks is not competing for a slot in any powered list.
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 |
Blazing Blade Askari is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that legal status is mostly academic. In Pauper, where efficient commons define the format, a three-mana 3/2 with conditional abilities that require additional mana investment on attack is too slow and too costly to see play. In Commander, Blazing Blade Askari lacks the immediate board impact or combo utility that justifies a slot in a 99-card deck — it neither advances a game plan nor protects one. Legacy and Vintage offer no context where this card becomes relevant.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Blazing Blade Askari sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — low demand and wide availability ensure the price has nowhere to go. Pick it up if a specific nostalgia build calls for it, but don't expect the price tag to be the reason you're running it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.