Dovin Baan
Legendary Planeswalker — Dovin
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0 and its activated abilities can't be activated.
−1: You gain 2 life and draw a card.
−7: You get an emblem with "Your opponents can't untap more than two permanents during their untap steps."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Kaladesh Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #12164
Dovin Baan locks down one permanent per turn with his minus and slowly draws cards with his plus, but four mana for a planeswalker that doesn't affect the board immediately is a hard sell in any competitive context. He's a niche include in dedicated planeswalker or control shells — not a staple, not unplayable, but firmly in the 'earn your slot' category.
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, Dovin Baan is best suited to superfriends builds or stax shells that want incremental disruption — his ability to repeatedly neuter a single problematic permanent is real, even if it doesn't scale to a four-player table. In Oathbreaker, he's a legal commander option, and his minus becomes more impactful when you're consistently targeting one opponent's key piece. Pioneer and Modern have long since moved past four-mana planeswalkers that don't close games, so he sees virtually no play there. Legacy and Vintage don't want him either — the formats are too fast and too threat-dense for a do-nothing-immediately walker at this cost.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Dovin Baan isn't currently available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given his limited competitive play across all formats, he tends to sit in bulk-rare territory and is unlikely to demand a premium.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.