Commander's Authority
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Human creature token."
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #16978
Commander's Authority lands on a creature and starts generating a 1/1 Human token for you at every upkeep — the payoff is real, but the five-mana enchant-a-creature cost means you need a reason to spend that much before it snowballs. Commanders like Esix, Fractal Bloom that copy or care about tokens entering make that investment worthwhile; slapping it on a vanilla beater in a non-token shell is a trap.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Commander's Authority is genuinely at home — the repeating token generation plays well over long games, and there are enough token-synergy commanders to give it a real home. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a slow enchantment that doesn't interact with the stack or the graveyard doesn't compete with those formats' threat density. Oathbreaker is legal and a reasonable place to run it if your planeswalker strategy wants a token drip, though the 20-life clock keeps games short enough that "every upkeep" may only trigger two or three times.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Esix, Fractal BloomTimestream NavigatorCommander's Authority
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Commander's Authority is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk enchantments at this price rarely move unless a commander suddenly makes them a staple, so don't expect it to appreciate, but there's zero financial risk in picking up a copy.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Esix, Fractal Bloom
- Timestream Navigator
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.