D'Avenant Archer
Creature — Human Soldier Archer
: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #20979
D'Avenant Archer is a 1/2 that pings flying creatures for 1 damage each time it attacks — useful in theory, too slow in practice. Three mana for a 1/2 with a conditional tap effect is a bad rate at any table above kitchen-table play.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, D'Avenant Archer is too fragile and too expensive to matter — a 1/2 body dies to nearly every form of incidental damage, and the flying-pinger ability requires attacking, which means waiting a full turn cycle just to trade with a token. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the card simply doesn't do enough for any competitive shell. Pauper is its most plausible home, where the card pool is constrained and every creature gets a closer look, but even there D'Avenant Archer struggles to justify the slot over creatures with unconditional bodies or removal stapled to them.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, D'Avenant Archer is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand, which is minimal. There's no constructed home on the horizon that would move this needle.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.