Companion of the Trials
Creature — Bird Soldier
Flying
: Untap target creature. Activate only if you control a Gideon planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #28527
Companion of the Trials is a 2/2 flier for three mana whose entire value proposition is the activated ability: tap it to untap your planeswalker, effectively doubling that planeswalker's loyalty activations per turn. The body is irrelevant — you're here for the untap, and that ability only pays off if you're already deep in a planeswalker-heavy shell.
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 |
Companion of the Trials is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's only worth discussing in Commander and Oathbreaker. In Commander, planeswalker-centric decks — particularly superfriends builds — can extract real value by untapping a high-loyalty walker and activating its ultimate a turn early. Oathbreaker is the most natural home: your oathbreaker is always available, and Companion of the Trials turns any planeswalker into a repeatable engine. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, a three-mana 2/2 with a tap ability is too slow and too fragile to see play.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Companion of the Trials is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a common box rather than buy deliberately. The price reflects narrow demand and low power ceiling; it won't appreciate unless a future planeswalker makes the untap ability broken, which is not a position worth banking on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.