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Crovax, Ascendant Hero

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Other white creatures get +1/+1.
Nonwhite creatures get -1/-1.
Pay 2 life: Return Crovax to its owner's hand.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Planar Chaos
Price
$0.46
EDHREC rank
#15001
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Crovax, Ascendant Hero card art
Crovax, Ascendant Hero lands and immediately pumps every white creature you control while strangling every non-white creature on the board — a one-card anthem and soft wrath stapled together for five mana. Commanders like Maha, Its Feathers Night or Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart that go wide with white creatures get the full value of both halves at once.

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Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart builds around Avacyn's influence and white creature synergies, so Crovax, Ascendant Hero functions as a standing anthem that also neuters any opposing creature without white in its color identity — exactly the kind of persistent, no-upkeep-cost pressure the deck wants.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Crovax, Ascendant Hero occupies a legitimate slot in any mono-white or heavily white aggro or tribal build — the static anthem is real, and the continuous -2/-2 to non-white creatures can lock out entire strategies in the right pod. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively invisible; five mana for a creature-based effect is far too slow for those formats when the payoff isn't breaking the game open. Modern sees it just as poorly — the rate doesn't compete at that mana cost when the format moves faster. Commander is its home, and specifically white-heavy decks that can protect a five-mana creature and leverage both halves of the card simultaneously.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.46 bulk tier

At $0.46, Crovax, Ascendant Hero sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it easy to slot into a deck without any financial second-guessing. The price reflects low demand rather than low power — it's a narrow card that shines in specific builds, so it's unlikely to spike, but it's also unlikely to get cheaper.

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