Dauntless Bodyguard
Creature — Human Knight
As this creature enters, choose another creature you control.
Sacrifice this creature: The chosen creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #9518
Dauntless Bodyguard earns its slot by trading itself to save a more important creature — a one-mana investment that can protect a five- or six-mana payoff from targeted removal. In tribal shells like Dion, Bahamut's Dominant where your commander or a key lord is the entire game plan, that asymmetric exchange is exactly what you want.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant builds around a single powerful creature — often Dion itself — and Dauntless Bodyguard is one of the cheapest ways to keep it alive through a removal spell or sacrifice effect.
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir rewards first strike and Knights synergies, and Dauntless Bodyguard is a one-mana Knight that doubles as a protection piece for Jabari when opponents try to end the combat math.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dauntless Bodyguard fills a niche role in creature-centric decks that live or die by one keystone: attach it to your commander on entry and you get a free counterspell stapled to a 2/1 body. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in aggressive white strategies alongside Collected Company packages, where its enters-the-battlefield trigger can be replayed for recurring protection. Legacy has cleaner options for creature protection, so Dauntless Bodyguard rarely makes the cut there. Across formats, the ceiling is the same: it's a cheap insurance policy, not a threat, and it's only worth running when you have a specific creature worth protecting.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Morophon, the BoundlessBuried AliveCorpse KnightDauntless BodyguardHaakon, Stromgald Scourge
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifeloss; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Dauntless Bodyguard is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay at this price floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Morophon, the Boundless
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
- Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
- Buried Alive
- Corpse Knight
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.