Etched Champion
Artifact Creature — Soldier
Metalcraft — This creature has protection from each color as long as you control three or more artifacts.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #9495
Etched Champion becomes flat-out unblockable in a three-player game — protection from all colors means it connects through virtually every blocker in Commander's multicolor-saturated tables. The three-mana cost is the entire upside: you're getting a consistent evasion threat that doesn't care about board state, as long as Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut or any other buff is strapping a sword to it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut
Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut turns every artifact creature into a 5/3 trampler, and Etched Champion is the ideal vehicle for that buff — protection from all colors makes it nearly impossible to chump-block or kill in response, so Graaz's power lands guaranteed damage every swing.
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog wants a dense historic artifact roster to keep untapping, and Etched Champion slots in as a cheap historic threat that also pulls its own weight in combat — protection from all colors means it swings freely while Traxos is still tapped down.
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 |
In Commander, Etched Champion earns its slot in any artifact-matters deck that needs a reliable damage vector — three opponents means metalcraft is trivially online by the midgame, and protection from all colors makes it nearly unkillable by conventional removal. In Modern, it saw real tournament play as a sideboard finisher against removal-heavy fair decks, particularly in Affinity lists where metalcraft was always active. Legacy has access to faster, more broken artifact payoffs, so Etched Champion appears only in dedicated metalcraft shells where the protection clause specifically beats the format's interaction. Vintage is theoretically legal but the card simply isn't fast enough to matter in that environment.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Etched Champion is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up without thinking twice when building an artifact deck. The price reflects low demand outside Commander rather than low power, and it's unlikely to move significantly unless a new high-profile artifact commander drives a sudden spike in metalcraft builds.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.