Dragonsoul Knight
Creature — Human Knight
First strike
: Until end of turn, this creature becomes a Dragon, gets +5/+3, and gains flying and trample.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27823
Dragonsoul Knight becomes a 5/5 flying, first strike, trample, haste, protection from all colors beater the moment you spend one mana of each color — a legitimate threat stapled to a 2/2 body for three mana. The activation is the whole game: without reliable five-color mana, it's a vanilla speed bump.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dragonsoul Knight is a niche inclusion in five-color decks that can consistently produce WUBRG on demand — think Jodah, Archmage Eternal or Ramos, Dragon Engine shells where the mana base does the heavy lifting. In Pauper, it's a common with a genuinely powerful ceiling, but the five-color mana cost on the activation is nearly impossible to assemble consistently in a format defined by taplands and two-color decks, so it doesn't see real play. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient threats at every point on the curve, leaving Dragonsoul Knight firmly in the bulk bin of eternal formats.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Dragonsoul Knight is deep bulk — buy a playset for the price of a coffee without a second thought. Bulk rares and uncommons with niche applications rarely move unless they spike from a Commander precon or sudden combo discovery, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.