Is Court of Embereth good in Commander?

Court of Embereth

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 3/1 red Knight creature token. Then if you're the monarch, this enchantment deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of creatures you control.

CMC: 4
Mana cost
Color identity: R
Rarity: rare
Set: Wilds of Eldraine Commander
Price: $6.09
EDHREC rank: #3490

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Court of Embereth enters and immediately deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of creatures you control — that's often 10+ damage on the spot in a token deck before the monarch text ever matters. The upkeep trigger scales absurdly with creature count, and Obeka, Splitter of Seconds can force it to fire every turn without ceding the monarchy, turning what looks like a Storm Herd payoff into a repeatable burn engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

69.6% of decks · synergy 0.66

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds runs Court of Embereth as a core win condition: ending the turn on command resets the upkeep trigger without giving opponents a chance to steal the monarchy, so the damage clause fires as often as Obeka can untap.

Jared Carthalion, True Heir

35.5% of decks · synergy 0.35

Jared Carthalion, True Heir is a monarch commander by design, and Court of Embereth slots in as both a creature-count payoff and a way to punish anyone who tries to take the crown — the damage on entry alone justifies the slot in a token-heavy build.

Aragorn, King of Gondor

33.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Aragorn, King of Gondor generates the monarch naturally through combat, so Court of Embereth arrives in a shell already built to hold the crown and fill the board with creatures to maximize the upkeep trigger.

Queen Marchesa

32.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

Queen Marchesa runs a tight monarchy-politics engine, and Court of Embereth adds a damage clock that pressures opponents into not attacking for the crown — a tension that slots perfectly into Marchesa's gameplan of making aggression costly.

Mishra, Claimed by Gix

15.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Mishra, Claimed by Gix often runs wide with artifact creatures across both main phase and combat steps, giving Court of Embereth a high creature count to convert into immediate damage the turn it lands.

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 Court of Embereth earns its slot — a 99-card singleton format with four-player tables means the enter-the-battlefield damage hits three opponents simultaneously, and a loaded board can close games outright on cast. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically true but practically irrelevant; no competitive list in either format is building around monarch enchantments. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth noting: the faster games and lower starting life totals make the immediate damage spike proportionally more threatening, and the format's focus on a single planeswalker can struggle to contest the monarchy consistently.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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