Champion of Rhonas
Creature — Jackal Warrior
You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13441
Champion of Rhonas lets you exile a creature from your hand and put it onto the battlefield at the end of combat — no mana cost, no questions asked. The setup cost is real (you need a 4/4 attacker and a willing blocker target), but the payoff is cheating out an Eldrazi or a Blightsteel Colossus on turn four.
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 |
Champion of Rhonas is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and oversized creatures make the cheat ability worth building around, and green creature-based decks have no shortage of targets. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too fragile; a 3/3 for four that requires an attack step to do anything is well below rate in those formats. Legacy and Vintage have more efficient cheating options and wouldn't touch it. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton, battlecruiser energy, so Champion of Rhonas finds a similar niche there with the right signature spell.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available at the moment for Champion of Rhonas, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. Given its narrow competitive appeal and Commander-only relevance, it tends to stay affordable — worth picking up without overthinking it if you're building the right deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.