Embereth Paladin
Creature — Human Knight
Haste
Adamant — If at least three red mana was spent to cast this spell, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25994
Embereth Paladin enters as a 3/1 first strike for four mana — respectable in combat but nothing that demands a slot. The body undersizes quickly in Commander, and four mana for a vanilla-adjacent threat is a tough sell when the format's power floor keeps rising.
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 |
Embereth Paladin is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only home where it sees any real consideration is Pauper, where the common card pool makes a 3/1 first strike for four mana marginally more competitive. In Commander, four mana for a 3/1 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no immediate board impact is almost always the wrong choice — the format punishes vanilla-adjacent creatures at this cost harshly. Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have long since moved past this power level, and Legacy and Vintage don't give it a second look.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Embereth Paladin is deep bulk — the kind of card that gets thrown into trade binders and forgotten. There's no meaningful demand driver that would push this off the floor, so it holds its price the way all bulk commons and uncommons do: by simply not being worth the effort to sell.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.