Crowd-Control Warden
Creature — Centaur Soldier
As this creature enters or is turned face up, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of other creatures you control.
Disguise 
(You may cast this card face down for as a 2/2 creature with ward 
. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21100
Crowd-Control Warden taps down an opponent's entire team at instant speed — a one-sided pseudo-Fog stapled to a creature body. The setup cost of keeping mana open is real, but the ceiling on a surprise combat blowout or a stolen attack step is high enough to justify it in the right shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Crowd-Control Warden earns a slot in any deck that wants to protect its own attacks or blank an opponent's best swing at instant speed — particularly in blue-white control or tap-themed builds where it doubles as a political tool. Outside of Commander, the card is legal across every major format but sees essentially no play in competitive 60-card contexts, where opponents running fewer creatures and the higher opportunity cost of a three-mana creature make the effect too narrow. Pauper is the one competitive outlier worth watching, since that format's slower, creature-dense metagames occasionally have room for mass-tap effects at common.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Crowd-Control Warden is pure bulk — you'll spend more on shipping than the card itself. Bulk commons with niche Commander applications rarely climb in price unless they land in a precon or combo spotlight, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.