Candlelit Cavalry
Creature — Human Knight
Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, this creature gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #26244
Candlelit Cavalry is a five-mana 3/3 with trample that gives your whole team trample until end of turn — a battlefield-wide effect stapled to a forgettable body. The cost is too high for what amounts to a one-shot anthem in a format where you can run Beastmaster Ascension instead.
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, Candlelit Cavalry is fringe at best — the effect is real, but five mana for a one-turn team-wide trample on a 3/3 body is slow, and the slot almost always belongs to a permanent that grants trample repeatedly. Pauper is the format where it has the most credible home, since the card pool for mass trample enablers is shallow and a single alpha strike can close a game. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, Candlelit Cavalry never sees play; those formats demand more efficiency than a five-mana sorcery-speed body can provide.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Candlelit Cavalry is pure bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. There's no meaningful price floor to protect here; it's a pickup you grab out of a bulk bin if a token deck needs a trample finisher and nothing better is on hand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.