Camel
Creature — Camel
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
As long as this creature is attacking, prevent all damage Deserts would deal to this creature and to creatures banded with this creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Arabian Nights
- Price
- $5.65
- EDHREC rank
- #24844
Camel is a 0/1 for one white mana that prevents damage to Walls and prevents damage from Dunes — a hyper-specific ability with almost no relevance outside dedicated Desert-tribal or Wall-heavy builds. It is one of the narrowest creatures ever printed, and outside those fringe cases, it does nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Camel is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, the only plausible home is a Desert-matters build where the Dunes damage prevention has even theoretical relevance — a population so small it barely registers on EDHREC. In Legacy and Vintage, a 0/1 with no ETB and no offensive capability is not seeing play at any competitive table. Pauper is the one format where budget constraints make fringe creatures worth a second look, but Camel's ability still doesn't map onto anything Pauper decks are trying to do.
Key Combos
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Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There is no meaningful budget alternative to Camel because there is no meaningful role Camel fills — you are not cutting a better card to run it. If the goal is a cheap white creature to pad a curve, nearly any common one-drop with a relevant keyword or ETB outperforms Camel on pure utility.
Price Context
Current price
$5.65 mid tier
At $5.65, Camel sits in mid-tier pricing driven entirely by collector and novelty demand — the card's gameplay value does not support this price. It holds that value only as long as the curiosity market does; treat it as a collectible, not a competitive inclusion.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.