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Combat Celebrant

Creature — Human Warrior

If this creature hasn't been exerted this turn, you may exert it as it attacks. When you do, untap all other creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Foundations Jumpstart
Price
$0.71
EDHREC rank
#1011
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Combat Celebrant card art
Combat Celebrant turns a single attack into two — exert it, untap your creatures, and take another combat step before your opponents can respond. The cost is a fragile 4/1 body that dies to a stiff breeze, but Helm of the Host removes the exert restriction entirely, and Gornog, the Red Reaper turns every extra combat into an escalating damage multiplier.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gornog, the Red Reaper

Gornog, the Red Reaper

85.5% of decks · synergy 0.78

Gornog, the Red Reaper scales on opponents losing life, so Combat Celebrant isn't just adding attacks — it's doubling the triggers that fuel Gornog's own power, creating a feedback loop that ends games fast.

02
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

79.8% of decks · synergy 0.72

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden rewards attacking with multiple creatures on multiple occasions, and Combat Celebrant delivers exactly that — an extra combat step means another full wave of attack triggers off a single turn.

03
Winota, Joiner of Forces

Winota, Joiner of Forces

74.2% of decks · synergy 0.65

Winota, Joiner of Forces fires her ability on each attacking non-Human, so Combat Celebrant's extra combat is really a second Winota trigger avalanche that can dump an entire library of Humans into play.

05
The Master, Multiplied

The Master, Multiplied

51.1% of decks · synergy 0.49

The Master, Multiplied copies himself each combat, so Combat Celebrant's extra combat step means an additional copy entering the battlefield — more tokens, more pressure, compounding ahead of schedule.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Combat Celebrant is a Commander card at heart — the extra combat synergies it enables are powerful enough in a 40-life, multiplayer context that the fragile body barely matters if you're winning on the spot. In Modern and Pioneer it sees fringe play in dedicated extra-combat combo shells, typically alongside Splinter Twin-style enablers or tap-untap loops, but a 4/1 for three is too soft for those formats' removal suites without an immediate payoff in hand. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more resilient win conditions, so Combat Celebrant is a curiosity there rather than a staple. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamic closely enough that the card translates cleanly if your planeswalker is fueling attack-step abuse.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Combat CelebrantHelm of the Host

Combat CelebrantHelm of the Host

Infinite combat phases; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite tapped creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.71 bulk tier

At $0.71, Combat Celebrant is firmly bulk despite being the centerpiece of multiple infinite-combat combos in Commander. The price reflects its narrow application — it doesn't do anything useful outside of combat-step abuse — but that same narrowness means it's unlikely to spike unless a new pushed commander makes extra combats a mainstream strategy.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.