Eiganjo Free-Riders
Creature — Human Soldier
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a white creature you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #26127
Eiganjo Free-Riders bounces a white creature you control at the start of each upkeep — a repeatable flicker trigger stapled to a 3/4 flyer for four mana. The cost is real: you have to return a creature every upkeep or the engine stalls, so it only earns its slot in decks built to abuse that mandatory bounce.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Eiganjo Free-Riders is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable flicker trigger is too slow and too conditional to compete in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where four mana buys threats that end games rather than grind value. In Commander, it earns a seat in dedicated blink and ETB-abuse decks where the mandatory upkeep return becomes an engine rather than a liability. Outside that narrow archetype, a 3/4 flyer for four is underpowered and the drawback becomes a genuine downside rather than a feature.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Eiganjo Free-Riders sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire as a throw-in or dime-bin pickup. Bulk rares with narrow applications like this rarely climb in price, so treat it as a cheap enabler for the right deck rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.