Deathless Knight
Creature — Skeleton Knight
Haste
When you gain life for the first time each turn, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #21464
Deathless Knight is a recursive two-drop that returns to your hand whenever you gain life, making it effectively unkillable in any deck that generates life regularly. The cost is real — it demands a dedicated lifegain shell to function as anything more than a vanilla 2/2.
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, Deathless Knight finds its best home — 99-card decks built around lifegain commanders provide the steady triggers it needs to become a recurring nuisance, and in a multiplayer game, opponents burning removal on a card that just comes back is a real resource drain. In competitive constructed formats like Modern and Legacy, the two-mana 2/2 body is too modest and the recursion too conditional; dedicated lifegain synergy decks exist, but they have better payoffs. Pioneer lifegain shells are similarly uninterested — Soul Warden effects can fuel it, but the card never clears the power threshold to make cuts. Oathbreaker follows Commander logic: pair it with a lifegain planeswalker and it performs the same role at smaller table counts.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Deathless Knight is firmly bulk — grab a playset without thinking about it. Supply is high enough that the price has no realistic floor to fall through, so there's no urgency either way.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.