Dauthi Warlord
Creature — Dauthi Soldier
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Dauthi Warlord's power is equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield with shadow.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16012
Dauthi Warlord scales directly with the number of creatures your opponents control that have shadow — and in a dedicated shadow-tribal shell headlined by Gonti, Night Minister, that count climbs fast enough to make it a credible threat on its own. Two mana for a creature that can swing for four or more unblocked is the floor; the ceiling is a one-shot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gonti, Night Minister
Gonti, Night Minister's entire engine is built around opponents losing creatures to your shadow attackers, and Dauthi Warlord gets bigger every time one of those creatures ends up in shadow — making it the natural payoff for the damage Gonti's triggers are already incentivizing.
Rev, Tithe Extractor
Rev, Tithe Extractor cares about opponents sacrificing permanents, and the shadow-attack pressure Dauthi Warlord generates forces those sacrifice decisions while growing into a finisher as the shadow population on board increases.
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor rewards connecting with combat damage, and Dauthi Warlord's shadow evasion makes that connection reliable — each hit draws cards off Gix while the Warlord itself keeps getting larger as the game progresses.
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 |
Commander is where Dauthi Warlord actually lives — shadow-tribal has enough redundancy in the format to hit the critical mass the card needs, and 100-card decks can afford the setup cost. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with a threat density it can't match; shadow creatures in those formats want to close games on turn one or two, and a payoff that needs multiple shadow creatures in play is too slow. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable if you're pairing it with the right black planeswalker, but the smaller deck size makes consistent shadow counts harder to achieve.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Dauthi Warlord isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest number. Given its narrow application — almost exclusively shadow-tribal Commander — it's unlikely to command a premium outside that niche.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.