Dawnhart Wardens
Creature — Human Warlock
Vigilance
Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20165
Dawnhart Wardens enters as a 2/3 with ward 2, and if you control a coven — three or more creatures with different powers — it becomes a 4/5, which is a meaningful body for five mana. The ward 2 does real work against spot removal, but the baseline rate without coven is unplayable in any format that prizes efficiency.
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 |
Dawnhart Wardens is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside of Commander, where slower games and token-wide boards make coven marginally easier to assemble. In Commander, it fits narrowest in green creature decks that deliberately vary power across their board — Hamza, Guardian of Arashin or Rishkar, Peema Renegade shells where a mix of counters creates the spread naturally. Competitive formats like Modern and Legacy simply have no interest in a five-mana creature that requires a board state to meet vanilla benchmarks.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Dawnhart Wardens is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for the cost of a pack of gum. That price is a ceiling, not a floor; nothing on the competitive horizon changes the demand curve for a conditional five-mana beater.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.