Cho-Arrim Legate
Creature — Human Soldier
If an opponent controls a Swamp and you control a Plains, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Protection from black
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #27239
Cho-Arrim Legate is a free 2/1 lifelink creature — zero mana if an opponent controls a Plains or a white permanent, which in Commander is almost always true. The payoff is real and the cost is nothing; run it in any white deck that wants an early body or incidental life gain.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Cho-Arrim Legate does its best work — white permanents are ubiquitous in multiplayer pods, so the alternate cost fires consistently as early as turn one. In Legacy it's technically legal but competes with a far more powerful field of free spells and one-drops, making it fringe at best. Vintage is the same story: legal, irrelevant. Outside those formats it isn't legal, and it wouldn't move the needle if it were.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Cho-Arrim Legate is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. A free lifelink creature with no meaningful reprint pressure should stay in this range indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.