Capashen Templar
Creature — Human Knight
: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #30878
Capashen Templar is a 1/3 for three mana that taps to give a creature +1/+1 until end of turn — a negligible combat boost stapled to a body that blocks once and does nothing else. The activated ability costs two mana per use, meaning you're spending five mana total to add one power to an attack, which is not a trade any competitive deck needs to make.
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 |
Capashen Templar is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, the card competes against hundreds of three-drop creatures that actually change the board state, and a tap-to-pump ability that costs two mana finds no home in any archetype. Pauper is the format where commons get their closest look, but even there the bar for a three-mana creature is a relevant enters-the-battlefield effect or a free ability — Capashen Templar clears neither bar. Legacy and Vintage don't register it at all.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Capashen Templar is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely leaves it. That price won't rise; there's no sleeper potential here, just a floor that reflects what the market already knows about the card's power level.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.