Crusading Knight
Creature — Human Knight
Protection from black
This creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp your opponents control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $1.12
- EDHREC rank
- #22304
Crusading Knight can become an enormous attacker for just four mana — in the right matchup, it hits the table as a 6/6 or larger on turn four. The catch is that it does nothing against decks not running Swamps, making it a meta-read card rather than a universal include.
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 |
Crusading Knight is a Commander card first and foremost — the format's multiplayer nature means at least one opponent is likely running black, and in black-heavy metas it routinely enters as a double-digit creature for four mana. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it sees no competitive play; dedicated hate pieces in those formats are either cheaper or more reliably impactful than a creature that blanks against non-black decks. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamics at a smaller table, which makes the payoff slightly less consistent but still workable in the right build.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.12 cheap tier
At $1.12, Crusading Knight sits in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to throw into any white Commander deck targeting black-heavy pods without second-guessing the cost. It's unlikely to appreciate meaningfully given its narrow application, but it's also not a card you're overpaying for.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.