Defender of Chaos
Creature — Human Knight
Flash
Protection from white
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #28406
Defender of Chaos gives a 2/2 pro-white body that blanks the most common removal color in Commander, but three mana for a vanilla-statted creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion beyond a protection keyword is a poor rate. It earns a slot only in narrow builds that specifically punish or exploit white creatures.
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, Defender of Chaos is a niche inclusion — protection from white dodges Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile, which matters, but three mana for a 2/2 with no added text is a steep ask in a 100-card singleton format where bodies need to do more. In Pauper, the common-card constraint makes the protection keyword more meaningful since removal options are narrower, but even there a 2/2 for three without further utility sits at the edge of playability. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the format speed makes Defender of Chaos irrelevant before it can ever swing. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: playable only if you're specifically engineering a protection-from-white theme.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Defender of Chaos is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no meaningful demand driver to push the price, so grab it from a bulk bin rather than a singles order.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.