Elspeth, Undaunted Hero
Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth
+2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
−2: Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Sunlit Hoplite and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
−8: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X, where X is your devotion to white.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #19616
Elspeth, Undaunted Hero hits the board and immediately threatens to end the game — a five-loyalty planeswalker that creates two 2/2 Knights with vigilance the turn she arrives is an enormous amount of board presence for six mana. The cost is that six mana is a real ask, and she folds to any removal spell before her next upkeep.
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, Elspeth, Undaunted Hero earns a slot in any white token or Knight tribal build — the combination of immediate token generation, a +2 that digs for Knights, and an ultimate that ends games on the spot is exactly what those strategies want from a six-drop. She's legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, but she doesn't see meaningful play in any of them; six mana is too slow for those formats' threat density, and she doesn't interact with the board the turn she arrives outside of adding bodies. Oathbreaker is her best non-Commander home, where she can serve as the planeswalker herself with a signature spell that fetches Knights to maximize her +2.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Elspeth, Undaunted Hero is deep bulk — a zero-risk pickup for any white token or Knight deck. Bulk rares at this price point rarely climb without a reprint-driven spike or a format breakout, neither of which is on the horizon here, so treat it as a cheap include rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.