Dread Rider
Creature — Spirit Knight
, 
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target opponent loses 3 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #26168
Dread Rider is a seven-mana 4/4 that forces each opponent to sacrifice a creature — solid board impact stapled to a body, but the cost is brutal for what you get. At this price on the curve, most Commander tables expect a game-ending effect, and Dread Rider doesn't deliver one.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dread Rider sits in an awkward spot: the sacrifice effect hits all opponents simultaneously, which is genuinely useful against token swarms and indestructible threats, but seven mana is a steep ask when Dictate of Erebos and Grave Pact generate the same pressure for far less. In Pauper, Dread Rider is actually one of the more impactful common finishers available at this effect type, and the format's slower clock makes the mana cost more forgivable. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage don't want it — the effect isn't close to rate.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Dread Rider is deep bulk — buy a copy without thinking twice if the effect fits your deck. Don't expect the price to move; seven-mana sorcery-speed sacrifice effects at common don't develop secondary market demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.